McPike Mansion

Reported encounters

Overnight visitors at the McPike Mansion in Alton say the second floor is the loud part of the house. They report knocking from rooms that are empty, a woman seen at an upper window, and footsteps on the stairs when the caretaker has already counted the people inside. Lights are said to come on in the Italianate rooms after the house has been shut for the night.

The stories name no single documented death that explains all of it. What repeats is the same short list: a figure on the landing, a cold patch in a bedroom, and the sense that someone has just left a room you are walking into. Ghost Map has not tested any of it.