Windy City Spooks: The Neighborhood of Terror

April 28, 2022 Rick Hale 0

Dunning, on Chicago’s NW side, has been the sight of a poor house, a mental asylum, a mass unmarked grave and many ghosts. […]

Windy City Spooks: Steak and Spirits

April 25, 2022 Rick Hale 0

That Steak Joint, formerly located at 1610 N Wells St, was a place where spirits were behind the bar in more ways than one […]

Windy City Spooks: Beverly Unitarian Church (aka The Irish Castle)

April 19, 2022 Rick Hale 0

The Irish Castle in Chicago has been a private residence, a school, and a church. Throughout all these caretakers, once thing has been a constant: ghosts. […]

Windy City Spooks: The Curse, and Ghosts, of Wrigley Field

March 22, 2022 Rick Hale 0

Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs, is a ballpark that carried a curse resulting from a goat, but is also haunted by three well-known phantoms […]

Windy City Spooks: James M. Nederlander Theater

March 18, 2022 Rick Hale 0

The Iroquois Theater (now the James M. Nederlander Theater) had a horrific fire that killed hundreds of theater attendees…and their ghosts remain. […]

Windy City Spooks: Beer, Wings and Hooters

February 22, 2022 Rick Hale 0

Hooters is a theme restaurant in the US that features, well, hooters. At the Near North Side location, you might just get a side of ghosts with your wings. […]

Windy City Spooks: Sweating with Ghosts at the Edgewater Athletic Club

February 20, 2022 Rick Hale 0

The former Sovereign Hotel in Chicago now hosts an athletic club and apartments complete with mysterious hauntings. […]

Windy City Spooks: Ghosts Of The Fort Dearborn Massacre

February 18, 2022 Rick Hale 0

The Fort Dearborn Massacre in Chicago during the War of 1812 lead to the death o many innocents and the soldiers may still be fighting that battle today. […]

Towers of Death at Chicago's Marina City Complex

Chicago’s Towers of Death, 300 N. State St.

January 27, 2022 Rick Hale 1

The Chicago Marina Complex is home to two oddly shaped residential towers that have become colloquially called the Towers of Death with good reason. […]

5 Final Lesser-Known Chicago Haunts

December 22, 2021 Tim Woolworth 0

In this final survey of lesser known haunts in Chicago, Rick takes you through some haunted locations known only by the locals. […]

Blood Sucking Fiends Part 3: The Return Of Peter Blagojevic

September 9, 2020 0

The magic of the silver screen has taken the vampire and turned it into an anti-hero of sorts. Ever since Bela Lugosi appeared in the film adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, this creature that lurks in [...]
Haunted Stays XII: The Charlesgate Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts

January 30, 2021 0

The Charlesgate Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, a location haunted by dark entities, was built by a man who practiced the dark arts. […]
Nina Kulagina: Tank Driver, Housewife and Psychic Spy

August 24, 2020 1

Down through the ages there have been people endowed with abilities that allowed them to do extraordinary things. The Oracle at Delphi in ancient Greece had an impressive precognitive record. In the Victorian era, Daniel [...]
The Madame’s House of Horrors

October 4, 2020 0

If there is anything history has taught us, it’s that monsters do indeed exist. They walk among us in human form and rather than fangs and talons, they possess sinister intent and a murderous disregard [...]
Restless Graves Part V: St. Louis Cemetery No.1 in New Orleans, Louisiana

October 27, 2020 0

In our final stop in this macabre exploration of haunted burial grounds, we come to the Big Easy, New Orleans, Louisiana. Located in this most southern of American cities, we find St. Louis Cemetery No. [...]