A few months after his capture and death, John Wilkes Booth was sited in McVicker’s Theatre, the Madison St. theatre where he had performed a couple of stints in Chicago. No one said it was a ghost, though – they simply said that it was evidence that he hadn’t really died at all. Conspiracy theories Read More…
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The Lincoln Funeral Train in Chicago
For many years, people across the country reported seeing the ghost of the Lincoln funeral train at points where it passed by. This is a good way to illustrate some of the theories that seek to explain ghosts as a scientific phenomenon – in theory, the extreme mental energy exerted by the people watching the Read More…
My thoughts be bloody or nothing-worth!
Across the street from Couch Place (alias Death Alley), a regular tour stop, is The Goodman Theatre. It’s an unlikely place to find a body, but tucked away in some guy’s desk is the skull of comedian Del Close, who left his skull to the theatre in his will so that next time they do Read More…