First of all, know this: Naperville is literally seething with ghosts.  Ghostly appearances and visitations are rampant throughout the entire city.  There are even reports that the dieing in Naperville are visited in the night by Native American spirits.

In downtown Naperville (on Jefferson Avenue, Washington, & Chicago), some of the buildings are over 150 years old, and most of them have ghostly stories attached to them also.

These are the same streets our founder Joe Naper sketched out by candlelight, on a survey back in February of 1842, over 150 years ago.  He and the city fathers walked these very streets.  And although we can’t always sense their ghosts, they are here.

There are countless spirits, of this city’s founders, who can’t let go of this city and the memories they are so attached to: perhaps peeking out of an upstairs window is a gentle ghost still adorned in her Victorian party dress. On the corner of Washington and Jefferson may be a shopkeeper, adorned in top hat and tails, checking his pocket watch.  A small boy looks on while attempting to master his new yoyo.  They are all here on these streets and in this town. Count on it. They are watching us all the time.

Naperville’s founders loved this city.  They fought the Black Hawk War to keep it.  They poured their hearts and literally their souls into these streets and quite frankly they are attached to every inch of it.  And although they’re long dead, many of them have decided to stick around for a while and enjoy the city they worked so hard to build.

But just because they want to stay, doesn’t mean they can.  Spirits need a particular type of energy in order the remain earthbound…   And that leads us to the reason Naperville is such a hub of paranormal activity.  The reason is Geology. 

Believe it or not, the rock Naperville sits on has a lot to do with the intensity of its paranormal activity.  Naperville, especially the downtown area, sits on limestone.  There are a few limestone quarries right in downtown. (The Paddleboat Lake and the Centennial Beach are two of them).

At this time we do not know exactly why, but limestone seems to act as a “magnet” of-sorts for paranormal activity.  It may be because of the way it vibrates, or its moisture content, or the quartz material around it, or another unknown reason.  Often paranormal investigators find limestone in the ground under haunted locations.  Limestone-constructed buildings are especially susceptible to haunting.  Naperville has more than its share of limestone – both in the ground and in its buildings.

Now, a byproduct of Limestone is Quartz.  And there is a very rare form of quartz known as Memory Quartz.  Memory Quartz has been used by Mystics for thousands of years – but not for seeing future events as a crystal ball would - Memory Quartz has been used to see the past.

Memory Quartz as the ability to RECORD EVENTS. 

The Mystics can hold the stone and actually see past events play out as they had happened!  The mineral actually "records" the atmosphere!

This may sound like drivel to some.  But know this: Memory Quartz is now being used on new computer hard drive systems because of its massive, unprecedented, capacity for moving and storing data.

The Naperville area was very fertile ground for Native American reservations.  In downtown Naperville, along the DuPage River, scientists have found evidence that points to the habitation of over 30 different tribes!  The Native Americans were very sensitive to the “power” in the ground in this area.  They probably didn’t know why – the limestone – but they knew that the ground was special.  This is why they stayed here.  This is why they fought for it in the Black Hawk War.  This area was, is, and will always be, unique. 

Naperville ground seems to provide an energy or something the spirits need in order to remain earthbound.  It is this perfectly-balanced combination of Spiritual Attachment and Geology that makes Naperville so very haunted indeed.