The Ghosts of Chicago

The Ghosts of Chicago
Author: Adam Selzer
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0738736112

From Resurrection Mary and Al Capone to the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln, the spine-tingling sights and sounds of Chicago's yesteryear are still with us-- and so are its ghosts. Selzer pieces together the truth behind Chicago's ghosts, and brings to light dozens of never-before-told firsthand accounts. Take a historical tour of the famous and not-so-famous haunts around town. Sometimes the real story is far different from the urban legend ... and most of the time it's even gorier ...

Chicago Haunts

Chicago Haunts
Author: Ursula Bielski
Publisher: Lake Claremont Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780964242678

Bielski captures over 160 years of Chicago's haunted history with her distinctive blend of lively storytelling, in-depth historical research, and insights from parapsychology. 29 photos.

Haunts of the White City: Ghost Stories from the World’s Fair, the Great Fire and Victorian Chicago

Haunts of the White City: Ghost Stories from the World’s Fair, the Great Fire and Victorian Chicago
Author: Ursula Bielski
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2019
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467139653

"At the close of the nineteenth century, Chicago offered the world a glimpse of humanity's most breathtaking possibilities and its most jaw-dropping horrors. Even as the White City emerged from the ashes of the Great Fire, serial killers like H.H. Holmes stalked the sparkling new boulevards and tragic accidents plagued the factories, slums and railroads that powered the churn of industrial innovation. Demons, mesmerists and birds of ill omen preyed on the unwary from the shadows. Ship captains spoke to the dead, while undertakers discovered reanimated corpses no longer requiring services. From posh mansions built on massacre grounds to the drowned quarries of a forest preserve, Ursula Bielski follows the dark undercurrents beneath the electric lights of the World's Fair."--

Graveyards of Chicago

Graveyards of Chicago
Author: Matt Hucke
Publisher: Lake Claremont Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780964242647

Cemeteries are in the metropolitan Chicago area.

Haunted Chicago

Haunted Chicago
Author: Troy Taylor
Publisher: Whitechapel Productions
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2002
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781892523297

Chicago's Haunt Detective

Chicago's Haunt Detective
Author: Raymond Johnson
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780764337185

Take a fresh look at Chicago's ghosts, legends, and psychics from the viewpoint of a retired West Chicago criminal investigator and local historian. Read favourite legends as well as little-known stories. Who was the fun-loving, hitchhiking, dance-hall phantom known as Resurrection Mary? What mysterious circumstances surround the tragic murders of Patricia and Barbara Grimes? Did Teresita Basa solve her own murder? How was a long-time Chicago city employee, who lead séances out of his home, responsible for the death of a Cook County Sheriff's Deputy? Are psychics able to help law enforcement solve crimes? Read the answers to these questions and others in a fact versus fiction supernatural investigation -- "Chicago Style".

More Chicago Haunts

More Chicago Haunts
Author: Ursula Bielski
Publisher: Lake Claremont Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2000
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9781893121041

A collection of legends and ghostly stories about hauntings and paranormal phenomena in the city of Chicago.

Creepy Chicago

Creepy Chicago
Author: Ursula Bielski
Publisher: Lake Claremont Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781893121157

True Tales of Chicago's Famous Phantoms, Haunted History, and Unsolved Mysteries for Young Readers Chicago's history is full of scary stories, terrible fires, hard times, and the toughest gangsters ever known. What's more, Chicagoans have always loved to tell of terrifying events that happened and still happen to ordinary people. Hitchhiking phantoms, mysterious handprints, perfectly preserved corpses: tales of these and other oddities are told every day in each of the city's neighborhoods, making Chicago's supernatural folklore some of the strangest in the world. But this folklore tells more than mere ghost stories; it tells a lot about the many kinds of people that have lived and died in this endlessly intriguing city.

Haunted Gary

Haunted Gary
Author: Ursula Bielski
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2015-10-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1625850956

“Highlights the most infamous and spine-tingling haunted places scattered throughout Northwest Indiana” (The Times of Northwest Indiana). In 2014, the story of Gary’s “Demon House” shocked the world, drawing millions into the terrifying tale of a contemporary exorcism. For many residents, however, ghosts are just part of the community. From the haunting of the Jackson Five to the ghost ship Flying Cloud, local legends abound. Ghostly echoes may linger from a fiery 1918 train wreck that claimed the lives of eighty-six circus performers. A young murderess, said to have drowned her children in the Little Calumet River, reportedly haunts the Cline Avenue freeway. And the spirit of Alice Gray, the most famous of myriad recluses, is said to remain in Duneland. Meet these and other eternal inhabitants of “America’s Ghost Town” with author Ursula Bielski. Includes photos!