{"id":2316,"slug":"manteno-state-hospital-manteno-illinois","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Manteno State Hospital was the cottage-plan asylum — the 1930 Illinois institution that peaked at 8,272 patients, the farm colony where the typhoid epidemic killed eight in 1939. It closed in 1985; the veterans' home and the golf course are what's left.","The hospital was the alternative — the Georgian cottages instead of a Kirkbride, the farm therapy that grew the hospital's food, the tunnel system that connected them. The overcrowding made it the warehouse; the typhoid made the headlines.","The site is still there — the Morgan Cottage that's abandoned, the cemetery east of the grounds, the municipal golf course where the cottages were. The file keeps Manteno: the 1930 opening, the 8,272 peak, and the asylum that's mostly demolished.","Manteno is the archive's cottage file — the Illinois asylum, the typhoid epidemic, and the site that's a veterans' home and a golf course."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Manteno is the archive's cottage file — the 1930 asylum, the 8,272 patients, and the site that's redeveloped.","An asylum that was cottages keeps its farm — the file's suggestion being that Manteno's hold is the plan: the cottages instead of the Kirkbride, the farm therapy, and the site that's a golf course."]}],"name":"Manteno State Hospital","aliases":[],"type":"HOSPITAL","type_label":"Hospital","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","HAUNTED_PLACE","HISTORIC_HOSPITAL"],"groups":["dark-history","hauntings","institutions"],"desc":"The 1930 Illinois asylum whose town absorbed its patients—and whose tunnels still run.","full_desc":"Manteno State Hospital is a hospital in Manteno, Illinois, built in 1930. The 1930 Illinois asylum whose town absorbed its patients—and whose tunnels still run. The archive files it under haunted places, historic hospitals and dark history. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact — documented record and retelling kept side by side. Access is restricted — check current rules before planning anything.","address":null,"city":"Manteno","county":null,"state":"Illinois","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":41.24785,"lon":-87.844308,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"HISTORIC_SITE","access":"RESTRICTED","access_notes":"Former or operating state hospital grounds; verify access before visiting.","ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1930,"year_opened":1930,"year_closed":1985,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"State hospital batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1735,"type":"REPORTED_ANOMALIES","description":"Reported voices in the tunnels and figures in the wards. The institution's reports concentrate where the confinement was worst — the building's own floor plan supplies the map. The claim comes from paranormal investigation work: suggestive results, no accepted proof. Sources including 'Manteno State Hospital' keep the claim in circulation. Small phenomena, steadily reported: the file's most honest kind of haunting.","evidence":"PARANORMAL_INVESTIGATION_CLAIM","evidence_label":"Investigation claim","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Manteno State Hospital","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manteno_State_Hospital","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"Opened 1930; closed 1985; parts demolished or reused. Manteno State Hospital's operational history is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath the asylum lore. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Manteno State Hospital' documents the entry. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1930","date_end":"1985","confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Manteno State Hospital","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manteno_State_Hospital","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access is restricted; check with the managing agency or landowner before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Manteno State Hospital","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manteno_State_Hospital","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":{"title":"Manteno State Hospital","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manteno_State_Hospital","desc":"Hospital in Illinois, United States","extract":"Manteno State Hospital (formerly Manteno State Mental Hospital) was a psychiatric hospital located in rural Manteno Township in Kankakee County, Illinois.","img":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Manteno_State_Hospital%2C_Manteno_IL.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled","score":104,"lat":41.232533,"lon":-87.804764},"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}