Update 2013: the number of axe murders said to take place in this bar seems to go up every Halloween. Only one can actually be verified, though. If you watched Ghost Lab tonight, you caught them talking about the two axe murders and one pop bottle bludgeoning that took place in The Liar’s Club, a…
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Ghost Lab and “Era Cues”
“Ghost Lab,” a new program on Discovery, premiered tonight – these guys have interesting theories and a lot of cool gadgets. I especially like their “era cues,” which we do ourselves sometimes (playing music popular at Bull Moose party rallies on the piano in the Florentine Ballroom to see if it generates any activity is…
And ANOTHER radio interview!
Weird Chicago is all over the media this month – Ken will be on Last Call with Carson Daley soon, and this Saturday I’ll be chatting for a couple of hours with The Paranormal View!
Radio interview
I recently sat in for an hourlong chat about my book about my life in the ghost tour/investigation business with The Darkness Radio. The interview is now available for download!
All Points Bulletin: Do You Have Queen Elizabeth’s Fireplace?
A 500 year old fireplace is thought to have been moved to Chicago in 1907, but has not been located. It is described as “fancy.” The mantelpiece should include a coat of arms with three lions and the words “Semper Eadam.” The Chicago Tribune has the story. I’ll be interested to see if this thing…
Disco Inferno
This week marks the 30th anniversary of the infamous Disco Demolition Day at Comiskey Park, at which admission to the double-header game cost 98 cents and a disco record to be demolished between the games by a local DJ – it’s somewhat odd to stop and think that the days of local radio personalities pulling…
More and more ghoulish…
The Sun Times reports today that one of the finds at Burr Oak Cemetery was the original (empty since a 2005 exhumation) casket of Emmit Till, an accidental martyr of the civil rights movement, rotting away in a shed, surrounded by garbage and inhabited by a family of possums. It should be noted that Till’s…
The Grave Scandal of the Day
Yep – graves have been dug up at Burr Oak Cemetery in the suburb of Alsip and stashed in a pit. Usually when graves are dug up, it’s a case of vandals (like, say, Bachelor’s Grove, where cops caught kids digging up bodies for kicks at least a couple of times in the 1960s and…