Creepy story from my college days.
In Coles County IL. there was an abandoned children's asylum located just east of the campus on private property. I went there twice, right before Halloween with two ROTC guys and a buddy. We heard stories of it being haunted, so we decided to check it out. It was generally creepy, looking like an old limestone mansion style boarding house built in the early 1900s. There was no power, no gas, no water and everything was covered in a fine layer of dust. There were dolls in the basement, as well as an old elevator and a large Bible open. We thought we heard a raccoon, and being late at night we decided to just leave. We went back two weeks later, and it was as if we had never visited, even our footsteps in the building had been covered with much too much dust for just two weeks to have passed, though they were still faintly visible. The creepy part though, we went upstairs this time, and found offices, bedrooms and the elevator, which was in the basement. There is no power to this building, so how did a five hundred pound elevator car get from the basement of a building to the top floor? We didn't stick around to try and figure it out.
Creepy.