The ballrooms of the Congress Hotel are not a regular stop for me these days – I can’t guarantee that we’ll be allowed in when we go there, for one thing. But last night one of our usual stops was definitely a no-go, so I took a chance and was able to bring a group…
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Ghosts at the H.H. Holmes body dump?
My, but there’ve been a lot of ghost shots here, lately, haven’t there? I’ll have to get some historical stuff going soon just to balance it out! I started taking people to the HH Holmes “glass bending factory” site (click for podcast and more info) in 2008 as a historical curiosity on Holmes tours –…
Another Ghost Pic From the Vaults
Here’s an odd shot from a July, 2009 tour by Christy Jackson – a shot from the Florentine Ballroom at the Congress hotel. Doesn’t look like much on its own. Here’s a close-up, though, of the thing on the left. Dude with an old-timey mustache? Odd, huh? My first though on seeing it was to…
Ghost Picture from the Alley of Death and Mutilation
Only hours from the anniversary of the Iroquois Theatre disaster (which I just posted about a few days back), Brandon L got this nifty shot on one of my tours. He says there was no one there when he took the picture, and the person who was standing next to him said so, too; I…
Archer Avenue’s OTHER “Woman in White”
Resurrection Mary isn’t the only woman in white reported along Archer Avenue. Indeed, as you can hear in our podcast, similar ghosts have been reported around the vicinity at various times, including Ray’s story about a ghost at Fairmount Cemetery. Long before stories of Mary began to circulate, the original vanishing hitch hiker was the…
Podcast: Resurrection Mary Roundtable
New Episode!Resurrection MaryRoundtable Chat.or archive.org (itunes link willstart leading to the episode by the endof 12/19)More Podcasts above: Mary Bregovy, from the Trib. article about her death. above: the famous bent bars. Last night I met with Ray Johnson, the Haunt Detective, and Dale Kaczmarek from the Ghost Research Society for a roundtable discussion about…
The Shrieking Mummy of the Field Museum
On night, during roughly the 1930s, a museum guard at the Field Museum heard a blood curdling scream coming from the Egyptian wing. He found no one there, but one of the mummies had fallen from its base and was lying face down inside of its case. When the story is repeated today, it’s usually…
Resurrection Mary: Mary Petkiewicz?
The Haunt Detective recently put forth another possible candidate for the identity of Resurrection Mary: Mary Petkiewicz. Mrs. Petkiewicz was only 17 when she was killed in an auto wreck on Christmas, 1932. In an accident at 55th and Cicero (the northeast corner of Midway airport), she was crushed to death when a car (driving by the…