From time to time, newspapers have been publishing accounts of local haunted houses for well over a century. Many of the best Chicago ghost stories relate to buildings that are now lost and gone forever – for instance, the Robey Tavern on Robey (which is now Damen) and Washington was said to be haunted by…
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Belle Gunness Update!
Rich Vitton of the Forest Park Historical Society has sent us an update on Belle Gunness, the murderess about whom we blogged earlier in the week. Belle, if you’ll recall, was exhumed from her resting place at a cemetery in Forest Park to see if the headless corpse was actually hers. According to Andrea Simmons,…
Don’t poke the bear.
I would like to share with you all a very funny and personal moment from one of our tours last night. Now let me preface this by saying that Adam is one of the funniest guys I have ever met and has an intrinsic need to be a smartass. In fact “professional smartass” is on…
That “Haunted” Feeling
Some places just SEEM haunted. When we go to haunted places on the tour, we can usually tell right away whether any given spot is “active” that night or not – it’s a sort of feeling. Ken describes it as a form of psychic ability; I’d describe it more a something similar to telling whether…
Rising from the Suburbs….Belle Gunness!
Belle Gunness, the female blue beard, has finally been dug up. We usually think of Gunnesss as an Indiana serial killer; we have plenty of our own around here, so we don’t mind letting them have this one. Sort of throwing them a bone, if you will. It was in Indiana that Belle set up…
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…
Will Roosevelt’s Ghost Endorse a Candidate for 2008?
A few days before Super Tuesday, we ran a miniature investigation in the Florentine Room of the Congress Hotel, a hotel reputed to be haunted by Theodore Roosevelt himself, to see if we could get his ghost to endorse a presidential candidate. While Roosevelt may or may not haunt the hotel, he does have a…