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Posted on August 20, 2017September 1, 2017 by adam

HH Holmes and Jack the Ripper: The Chicago Evidence (with podcast)

  Listen to the audio above; or check out the podcast on archive.org or iTunes!  Or check out the video version on youtube.  My massive new book, HH HOLMES: THE TRUE HISTORY OF THE WHITE CITY DEVIL is out now from Skyhorse Publishing, on the heels of starred reviews in Booklist and Library Journal!  In Read More…

Posted on September 21, 2016 by adam

Podcast: Thomas Neill Cream – Antique Serial Killer

Listen in above or on iTunes or archive.org! A few months ago I had to take a quick trip to Madison, WI and made a side trip along the way to Garden Prairie, IL, searching for the grave of Daniel Stott, which lies in a quiet little graveyard surrounded by farmland. Most of the gravestones there are faded Read More…

Posted on September 4, 2015December 31, 2017 by adam

Did Dr. Thomas Neill Cream Kill Alice Montgomery?

Could a Chicago mystery from 1881 have been the work of one of our early serial killers? (See an update from 2017 at the bottom of the post!)  Dr. Thomas Neill Cream. On April 9, 1881, 22 year old Alice Montgomery checked into a room at the Sheldon House, a west loop-area hotel on West Read More…

Posted on January 28, 2014November 16, 2015 by adam

Chicago Serial Killers: Dr. Thomas Neil Cream

The most commonphoto of Dr. Cream. H.H. Holmes is often advertised as “America’s First Serial Killer.” Really, though, he wasn’t even the first one in Chicago – or the only Chicagoan whose name has been floated as a suspect for the true identity of London’s “Jack the Ripper.” Long before anyone seriously* thought to connect Read More…

Posted on December 26, 2013November 16, 2015 by adam

Murder Castle of HH Holmes Ebook EXPANDED!

Our first ebook, THE MURDER CASTLE OF HH HOLMES, has now been expanded to a FULL LENGTH book. Re-organized with tons of new info, new diagrams, and more to tell a more complete picture of the famous “castle” through eyewitness accounts from people lived and worked in the building. Now over 55,000 words to tell Read More…


Adam Selzer is a tour guide and Atlas Obscura field agent with 10+ years experience in Chicago and New York. The author of more than 20 books, he is frequently seen on The History Channel, The Travel Channel, and more. Check out the new Cemetery Mixtape podcast!   Email

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We haven't restarted in-person tours yet, and don't plan to this year. But these virtural tours and lectures will run on the Mysterious Chicago Facebook page, and most will be archived on the new Patreon. Free, with suggested donations. All times CDT.

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Virtual Tour: Antique Serial Killers in Chicago History


Sun, Jan 17, 10am
Virtual Tour: Health Scares in History


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Virtual Tour: Rosehill Cemetery


Sun, Jan 24, 10am
Virtual Tour: Treason! Camp Douglas and the 1864 Chicago Insurrection


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