The Hull mansion concentrates among its walls, not only numerous paranormal phenomena, but a whole interesting story worth knowing.Today, it is a peaceful and distinguished house located in the number 800 of the South Halsted Street in Chicago , there where every pedestrian cannot avoid stopping for a moment to look at their windows, hoping to see something, hoping to intuit some of those presences, which, according to the legend inhabits this house that served as a residence for all those immigrants who arrived in Chicago in the early twentieth century.
Hull House, charity center
Hull House was built in 1856 by Charles Hull, a rich tycoon who built his mansion to gather his friends and the most exquisite of Chicago society, but after bad financial decisions, went bankrupt, having to give the building to Jane Addams and Ellen Gates. The two women, I decided They were then to orientate the mansion to a more altruistic purpose: to serve as a reception center for all immigrants recently arrived in the US, just over twenty years ago, the house grew in several more buildings and even in facilities that served as summer camps for the children of every foreigner who tried to realize his "American dream".
The purpose was good, no doubt, but did they get it? The truth is that not at all.The neighborhood where Charles Hull stood was the most violent in Chicago. Around it were concentrated from brothels, betting centers, opium halls, clandestine distilleries...The murders , crime, beatings and rapes were somewhat constant.Hull House was intended to exalt the values of philanthropy, but every person who gathered within its walls, ended up committing some misfortune.
It was said that Jane Addams came from trying to raise a similar center in the London neighborhood of Whitechapel, but in view of his vain attempts, he tried the same in that dark corner of Chicago.Both women put all their efforts into offer help, education, and shelter to many of those lost souls, and although they were not always failures, misfortunes weighed heavily on the souls of these ladies.
Hull house was a clear example of « social reform » in the city of Chicago, a project that remained for 20 years, in which it is known, as the worst time in this city, two decades of effort and dedication that ended with the death of Jane Addams on the top floor of the mansion.Later, the house was acquired by the University of Illinois to continue its social assistance and assistance project.
It was then that all the paranormal phenomena began.
The ghosts of Hull House
As you can imagine, one of the first presences that were noticed (and that are still manifesting) in the house was that of Jane Addams herself. Her image, sad and dejected, usually roams the upper floor , where he died after an illness.Those who have seen it, declare that in his expression, he can read the dejection of who has suffered a lot and who has tried I have to give everything for others.
Another very particular phenomenon is the lights and sudden fires that appear in the house, like igneous flares that are suspended in the air and disappear within a few seconds.The experts associate them with simple poltergeist phenomena, as a result of all the negative energy that in the past, could inhabit these walls.
A third presence is what She is known as the woman in white or the languished lady .She is a young woman who appears on the second floor, has an emaciated expression and, according to some historians, she may be perfectly one of the prostitutes who found refuge in Hull House.
The last phenomenon that characterizes this mansion, is undoubtedly the most disturbing and the one that, perhaps, hardest to believe.Even so, we have to talk about it.ta of «called son of devil ».It tells the story that in 1913 a woman gave birth to a deformed creature in Hull House.The father was an immigrant who picked up in the center and who continually reneged on the Catholic religion, even destroying a statue of the Virgin Mary that stood in the house.
It is said that what he actually did was invoke the demon, causing his wife to give birth to a horrible being: the Devil's own son, neither more nor less.A creature that, because of its unpleasant appearance, chose to raise it in the house taking care that it never left those walls; nevertheless, he died a few years later, raising the legend...or the curse.Well it is said, that often, the specter of a demonic creature appears, small and horrendous crawling down the stairs and rooms of Hull House. Chilling.
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