Author: Adam Selzer
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0738736112
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Lake Claremont Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781893121157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →True Tales of Chicago's Famous Phantoms, Haunted History, and Unsolved Mysteries for Young Readers Chicago's history is full of scary stories, terrible fires, hard times, and the toughest gangsters ever known. What's more, Chicagoans have always loved to tell of terrifying events that happened and still happen to ordinary people. Hitchhiking phantoms, mysterious handprints, perfectly preserved corpses: tales of these and other oddities are told every day in each of the city's neighborhoods, making Chicago's supernatural folklore some of the strangest in the world. But this folklore tells more than mere ghost stories; it tells a lot about the many kinds of people that have lived and died in this endlessly intriguing city.
Author: Ursula Bielski
Publisher: Lake Claremont Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780964242678
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bielski captures over 160 years of Chicago's haunted history with her distinctive blend of lively storytelling, in-depth historical research, and insights from parapsychology. 29 photos.
Author: Ursula Bielski
Publisher: Lake Claremont Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781893121041
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of legends and ghostly stories about hauntings and paranormal phenomena in the city of Chicago.
Author: Raymond Johnson
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing Limited
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764337185
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780964242647
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cemeteries are in the metropolitan Chicago area.
Author: Ursula Bielski
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1467139653
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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: Richard T. Crowe
Publisher: Carolando Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780940542068
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Loerzel
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2024-03-18
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 0252055934
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On May 1, 1897, Louise Luetgert disappeared. Although no body was found, Chicago police arrested her husband, Adolph, the owner of a large sausage factory, and charged him with murder. The eyes of the world were still on Chicago following the success of the World's Columbian Exposition, and the Luetgert case, with its missing victim, once-prosperous suspect, and all manner of gruesome theories regarding the disposal of the corpse, turned into one of the first media-fueled celebrity trials in American history. Newspapers fought one another for scoops, people across the country claimed to have seen the missing woman alive, and each new clue led to fresh rounds of speculation about the crime. Meanwhile, sausage sales plummeted nationwide as rumors circulated that Luetgert had destroyed his wife's body in one of his factory's meat grinders. Weaving in strange-but-true subplots involving hypnotists, palmreaders, English con artists, bullied witnesses, and insane-asylum bodysnatchers, Alchemy of Bones is more than just a true crime narrative; it is a grand, sprawling portrait of 1890s Chicago--and a nation--getting an early taste of the dark, chaotic twentieth century.