Yes, we do occasionally have weird, ghostly things happen on our tours! The “gunshot” noise we heard a few weeks ago in the Florentine Ballroom came from the service hallway outside of the ballroom. But on Friday night, October 10, we were hearing several loud noises in there – some were big “boom” noises, others…
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Tour Report!
We interrupt this month of historical posts for a report on tonight’s tour…. An interesting night – the loud noise in the Florentine Ballroom was back, but it wasn’t the same noise I heard before – it was coming from the ceiling, and sounded like someone dropping hammers and tools on the roof. However, there…
The Strangest Thing at the Congress Hotel?
And one more entry on the Congress before we move on… In the closets behind the balcony o the Gold Ballroom, on the first investigation we ran of the place in 2006, we came across something that looked like a hand jutting out of the all. There was too much debris in the way for…
Gangs at the Congress Hotel
Few of the older hotels in town have never had a murder – most of them have played host to at least one. The Drake had the “woman in black” murder that we wrote about here a month or so ago. There was a really grisly stabbing at the Palmer House in the early 70s…
And yet ANOTHER Congress Hotel murder story!
Still another murder took place back in 1908, when the Congress was still known as The Auditorium Annex. This one took place out in front of the theatre at 6 o’clock on the evening of January 3rd, as countless Michigan Avenue spectators looked on. The whole thing was the result of a love triangle involving…
Another Congress Hotel murder
The sheer number of people who’ve died in this hotel just baffles me. This one took place in 1950 and involves the Superintendent of Service at the hotel and the credit manager. The two of them went to a guy’s room to ask him about $104 that he owed the hotel. The gues, 25 year…
Yep. The “Gun Shot” Was Back at the Congress.
Ken has confirmed that they heard the infamous gunshot noise in the old ballroom. He was running the tour on Friday while I was in Florida. He says that there was a strange knocking sound in the first ballroom they hit at the Congress, though that could have been any number of things. They were…
return of the “gunshot?”
I’m traveling this morning and will edit this post this afternoon, when I should have more details, but I understand that last night the gun shot noise that was heard at the congress hotel on one of my tours a few weeks ago was heard on a tour Ken was running! Check back here this…