Tonight, we’ll be recording a podcast about Resurrection Mary – a roundtable discussion with some notable Chicago ghost hunters. In the process of studying up and refreshing my memory, I found some new info on one of the most popular candidates for the “real” Mary: Mary Miskowski. According to info given to Troy Taylor, Mary…
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Back to Doing Tours
As of last night, I’m back to running tours for Chicago Hauntings. Took two groups around last night, figuring out a new route and seeing how the lay of the land had changed since my last bus tours two years ago. A few things have changed around town, the tour business itself has changed, as…
New podcasts coming soon!
All through October, Chicago Unbelievable will be back with a new, all-ghost season of our podcast! We’ll be visiting some of the “suggested scores” from our new Chicago Ghosts ebook, with higher-tech equipment than I normally use. Look out for videos, pictures, and more from our explorations of under-investigated “hot spots” around Chicago. These are…
What the Heck was the Capacity of the EASTLAND?
There are a couple of things that you can never get a reliable source on – body counts following disasters are one. Capacities of places like the Iroquois Theatre and the Eastland, the ship that capsized in the river in 1915, is another. No two sources have the same number. In the run up to…
New Ebook: The Smart Aleck’s Guide to Grave Robbing
Did you enjoy Grave Robbing Week? Well, the Smart Aleck Staff has put the research to work in a new FULL LENGTH ebook: The Smart Aleck’s Guide to Grave Robbing. It’s everything you need to launch YOUR career as a 19th century resurrectionist – the Smart Aleck Way! The idea of being a textbook for…
Regarding “The F— Saw” Demonstration at Northwestern
Regarding Ken Melvoin-Berg’s demonstration of a power tool/sex toy at Northwest University that’s gotten enough media attention to draw people here…I was not involved. I don’t work with Ken anymore. I can’t comment on things he does and I don’t vouch for the accuracy of anything he says on tours. I’m just a smart-ass historian…
Perfect Strangers on the Ghost Tours
Many tours that feature the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre site then point out the building on the nearby corner of Clark and Dickens, which features the restaurant (currently Mello’s) where Bugs Moran is said to have ducked in for a bagel and coffee when he saw the stolen police cars outside of SMC Cartage on…
How Unpopular Was Levi Boone?
In 1855, Chicago had a mayor who was neither a Whig nor a Democrat – Levi Day Boone was a member of the Know Nothing Party. The Know Nothing Party was sort of the Tea Party of their day – a movement that sprang up over frustration with the way the world was changing and…