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Haunted Naperville

Author: Diane A. Ladley

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780738561226

Established in 1831, Naperville is one of the oldest settlements in the Greater Chicago area. The city's rich and fascinating heritage has been carefully passed down from one proud generation to the next; however, nowhere has Naperville's ghostly oral tradition and haunted history been preserved until now. Most of Naperville's unique legends--compiled for the fi rst time ever in these pages--arose from accounts of actual historic events and from the lives of notable personages in the city's long history. As the tragic events and persons faded from living memory, all that might remain of them would be ghost stories whispered by fi relight and, later, by fl ashlight tucked under a teenager's chin at slumber parties. Some eerie legends in these pages have origins that are lost in time, and still other hair-raising ghost stories included in this work are chilling contemporary, firsthand accounts of paranormal encounters within Naperville's sprawling boundaries . . . perhaps from even just down the street.

Haunted Aurora

Author: Diane A. Ladley

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2010-10-01

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1614234124

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The fascinating ghost stories behind Illinois’s “City of Cemeteries”—photos included! Aurora was the first Illinois city to have electric streetlights, but a dark history has resisted illumination as stubbornly as the chilly corner of the old roundhouse repels the summer heat . . . Learn why Aurora counts “City of Cemeteries” among its nicknames as Diane Ladley describes the nineteenth-century doctor suspected of trading bodies between his cancer center and a neighboring graveyard. Other eerie legends and strange stories revealed in this book include the marauding brave brought to justice in the Devil’s Cave by his own tribe, the sweet legacy of NFL great Walter Payton, and the elephants that saved a circus from a tornado.

Haunted by History

Author: Katharine Kendzy Gingold

Publisher:

Published: 2008-10

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 9780979241932

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Katharine Kendzy Gingold mixes fact with fiction in five ghost stories set in Naperville, IL.

Chicago Haunted Handbook

Author: Jeff Morris

Publisher: Clerisy Press

Published: 2013-09-24

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1578605288

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Chicago Haunted Handbook is the newest book in the Haunted Handbook line within the popular America's Haunted Road Trip series. The Haunted Handbooks are city-specific travel guides to nearly one hundred places within a major city. Chicago Haunted Handbook is written with the ghost enthusiast in mind. All 100 chapters contain information on the history as well as the haunting surrounding each location, as well as detailed directions on how to locate each site. Many of the chapters also contain insider information that only a local would know, making it easier for ghost hunters to investigate. Ghost hunters Jeff Morris and Vincent Sheilds explore all the best haunted locales Chicago has to offer, including Resurrection Cemetery, Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Murder Castle, St. Valentine's Day Massacre Site, and even Wrigley Field. Each two page entry includes directions from downtown, an historical overview of the haunted place, the story of ghostly doings in that place, and advice on visiting the place yourself--if you dare.

More Chicago Haunts

Author: Ursula Bielski

Publisher: Lake Claremont Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9781893121041

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A collection of legends and ghostly stories about hauntings and paranormal phenomena in the city of Chicago.

Naperville, Chicago's Haunted Neighbor

Author: Kevin Frantz

Publisher:

Published: 2012-05-08

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781475291155

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In this follow up edition to the original, Kevin Frantz updates original tales, adds additional stories, more pictures, and a bonus chapter: How to NOT become a Ghost. This is a must read for every ghost enthusiast.

Naperville: A Brief History

Author: Bryan J. Ogg

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 1

ISBN-13: 1467139165

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Since Naperville sprang from the northern Illinois prairie, it has maintained an unmistakably fascinating heritage. The settlers who followed the Napers to the DuPage River had to endure the hardships of felling trees and plowing prairies to make a place to call home. The campuses of the Research and Technology corridor might seem far removed from the travails of those early years, but both are part of the same community. That shared tradition holds surprises such as the location of the Stenger Brewery or the legacy of Peter Kroehler, furniture tycoon, mayor and philanthropist. Bryan Ogg takes stock of the people and events that shaped Naperville from its founding through its current state.

Haunted Homeland

Author: Michael Norman

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-09-16

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780765321596

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Covering the places, the people, and the things that belong to the earthbound realm of the fantastic, this latest volume of the Haunted America series contains supernatural folklore that has been passed down for generations.

City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris

Author: Holly Tucker

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2017-03-21

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0393248844

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“Tucker writes with gusto . . . high drama.”—Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to Paris after the brutal deaths of two magistrates. Reynie, pragmatic and fearless, discovers a network of witches, poisoners, and priests whose reach extends all the way to the king’s court at Versailles. Based on court transcripts and Reynie’s compulsive note-taking, Holly Tucker’s engrossing true-crime narrative makes the characters breathe on the page as she follows the police chief into the dark labyrinths of crime-ridden Paris, the halls of royal palaces, secret courtrooms, and torture chambers.

Haunted Illinois

Author: Troy Taylor

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-07-15

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1493045776

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Hauntings are believed to be created from violence and bloodshed. And from the beginning, the Prairie State was a place where death thrived, and mysteries became commonplace. Illinois was the home of ancient peoples know as Moundbuilders whose only legacy is silent graves and many unsolved mysteries. The French left behind their own ghostly stories after their displacement by the Americans in the 1700s and countless slaughters such as the Dearborn Massacre gave birth to tales of horror that live on in the history of Illinois. Eerie occurrences, spooky events, unsolved mysteries, and terrifying specters haunt Illinois. Tales of headless horsemen, haunted castles and a penitentiary occupied by ghosts chill the spines of visitors. Haunted Illinois explores the Prairie State’s paranormal side and serves as a guide to its haunted places.