Author : Ursula Bielski
Publisher : Lake Claremont Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781893121041
A collection of legends and ghostly stories about hauntings and paranormal phenomena in the city of Chicago.
Author : Adam Selzer
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0738736112
From Resurrection Mary and Al Capone to the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln, the spine-tingling sights and sounds of Chicago's yesteryear are still with us-- and so are its ghosts. Selzer pieces together the truth behind Chicago's ghosts, and brings to light dozens of never-before-told firsthand accounts. Take a historical tour of the famous and not-so-famous haunts around town. Sometimes the real story is far different from the urban legend ... and most of the time it's even gorier ...
Author : Ursula Bielski
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,18 MB
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1625850956
“Highlights the most infamous and spine-tingling haunted places scattered throughout Northwest Indiana” (The Times of Northwest Indiana). In 2014, the story of Gary’s “Demon House” shocked the world, drawing millions into the terrifying tale of a contemporary exorcism. For many residents, however, ghosts are just part of the community. From the haunting of the Jackson Five to the ghost ship Flying Cloud, local legends abound. Ghostly echoes may linger from a fiery 1918 train wreck that claimed the lives of eighty-six circus performers. A young murderess, said to have drowned her children in the Little Calumet River, reportedly haunts the Cline Avenue freeway. And the spirit of Alice Gray, the most famous of myriad recluses, is said to remain in Duneland. Meet these and other eternal inhabitants of “America’s Ghost Town” with author Ursula Bielski. Includes photos!
Author : Ursula Bielski
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 13,3 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1467139653
"At the close of the nineteenth century, Chicago offered the world a glimpse of humanity's most breathtaking possibilities and its most jaw-dropping horrors. Even as the White City emerged from the ashes of the Great Fire, serial killers like H.H. Holmes stalked the sparkling new boulevards and tragic accidents plagued the factories, slums and railroads that powered the churn of industrial innovation. Demons, mesmerists and birds of ill omen preyed on the unwary from the shadows. Ship captains spoke to the dead, while undertakers discovered reanimated corpses no longer requiring services. From posh mansions built on massacre grounds to the drowned quarries of a forest preserve, Ursula Bielski follows the dark undercurrents beneath the electric lights of the World's Fair."--
Author : Raymond Johnson
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,98 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780764337185
Take a fresh look at Chicago's ghosts, legends, and psychics from the viewpoint of a retired West Chicago criminal investigator and local historian. Read favourite legends as well as little-known stories. Who was the fun-loving, hitchhiking, dance-hall phantom known as Resurrection Mary? What mysterious circumstances surround the tragic murders of Patricia and Barbara Grimes? Did Teresita Basa solve her own murder? How was a long-time Chicago city employee, who lead séances out of his home, responsible for the death of a Cook County Sheriff's Deputy? Are psychics able to help law enforcement solve crimes? Read the answers to these questions and others in a fact versus fiction supernatural investigation -- "Chicago Style".
Author : Matt Hucke
Publisher : Lake Claremont Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 16,92 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780964242647
Cemeteries are in the metropolitan Chicago area.
Author : Adam Selzer
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 151071345X
From Chicago historian Adam Selzer, expert on all of the Windy City’s quirks and oddities, comes a compelling heavily researched anthology of the stories behind its most fascinating unsolved mysteries. To create this unique volume, Selzer has collected forty unsolved mysteries from the 1800s to modern day. He has poured through all newspaper, magazine, and book references to them, and consulted expert historians. Topics covered include who really started the great Chicago fire, who was the first “automobile murderer,” and even if there was actually a vampire slaying at Rose Hill cemetery. The result is both a colorful read to get lost in, a window to a world of curiosity and wonder, as well as a volume that separates fact from fiction—true crime from urban legend. Complementing the gripping stories Selzer presents are original images of the crime and its suspects as developed by its original investigators. Readers will marvel at how each character and crime were presented, and happily journey with Selzer as he presents all facts and theories presented at the time of the “crime” and uses modern hindsight to assemble the pieces.
Author : Richard T. Crowe
Publisher : Carolando Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Apparitions
ISBN : 9780940542068
Author : Tom Ogden
Publisher : Globe Pequot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780762791545
Among this country's many treasures is the city of Chicago, an area filled with creativity and culture. Haunted Chicago, a collection of stories of ghosts, mysteries, and paranormal happenings in Chi-Town, will leave readers delightfully frightened.
Author : Rocco A. Facchini
Publisher : Lake Claremont Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 16,90 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Church buildings
ISBN : 9781893121249
"Father Leo then paused with a deep breath before going on. 'There are many problems here, and some very strange things happen late at night that I just can't explain.' "Poverty. Crime. Politics. Scandal. Revenge. . . . And a Ghost.These are the untold stories of the last days of a forgotten Chicago parish by the last person able to tell them: Fresh out of the seminary in 1956, Father Rocco Facchini was appointed to his first assignment, the parish of Saint Charles Borromeo on the city's Near West Side. Adapting to rectory life with an unorthodox, dispirited pastor and attending to the needs of the rough, impoverished neighborhood were challenges in themselves. Little did Rocco know that the rectory was being haunted by a bishop's ghost!Muldoon: A True Chicago Ghost Story dives into Father Rocco's four-year saga at Saint Charles, where his spiritual undertaking becomes a worldly adventure. His supporting cast includes a housekeeper inappropriately involved in her pastor's affairs, and a genius-priest who carries a gun, thwarts neighborhood crime, and teaches Rocco about "loving the poor." And there's the pastor himself. He padlocks the refrigerator, guides young priests only in the weekly ritual of Bingo, and entangles Rocco in the dirty work of a fraudulent shrine.As a backdrop to this chaos, the rectory experiences a host of supernatural manifestations, and Rocco discovers the legend of Bishop Peter J. Muldoon. Are there clues in this story of early stardom and great achievement, clerical competition and revenge, accusations and scandal, a missing ring, excommunication, and possibly murder that explain why the unexplainable is happening all around him?Upon delving into the church history, clerical politics, local folklore, neighborhood sociology, and paranormal activity of Muldoon, you, like Rocco, may be left wondering: Has he been kept alive to tell the story of Muldoon, clear the man's name, and memorialize the bishop's beloved and forgotten parish of St. Charles?
