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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. […]

View of Grant plaza and Congress hotel in Chicago summer day

Haunted Stays XVII: Congress Plaza Hotel in Chicago, IL

April 3, 2021 Rick Hale 0

The Congress Hotel is an opulent hotel in Chicago where both the living, and the dead, stay nightly. […]

Colorful sunset afterglow at the historic Hotel del Coronado

Haunted Stays XV: Hotel Del Coronado in Coronado, California

March 12, 2021 Rick Hale 0

The Hotel Del Coronado has a resident who never checked out in 1892. She remains there and is witnessed to this very day. […]

Haunted Stays XIV: Hotel Baker in St. Charles, Illinois

February 17, 2021 Rick Hale 0

Hotel Baker haunts include a vanishing maid, disembodied crying and bedding being pulled. […]

Haunted Stays XII: The Charlesgate Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts

January 30, 2021 Rick Hale 2

The Charlesgate Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, a location haunted by dark entities, was built by a man who practiced the dark arts. […]

Haunted Stays XI: Goldfield Hotel in Goldfield, Nevada

January 25, 2021 Rick Hale 0

The Goldfield Hotel in Nevada has the perfect mix of opulence, violence and ghosts thereby making it a Haunted Stay. […]

Haunted Stays X: Chelsea Hotel in New York, New York

January 21, 2021 Rick Hale 0

The Chelsea Hotel has witnessed its share of tragedy. Find out which famous persons are said to still haunt its halls. […]

Haunted Stays IX: Brumder Mansion B&B in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

January 19, 2021 Rick Hale 0

Like the rest of the United States in the 19th century, the state of Wisconsin welcomed a massive influx of immigrants, most of them from Germany. These immigrants who sought the American dream were attracted […]

Haunted Stays VIII: Haunted Hotels of The French Quarter

January 17, 2021 Rick Hale 0

Welcome to New Orleans, the Crescent City, the Big Easy, whatever you prefer to call it. This unique city in the deep south has long been believed by many in the paranormal field to be […]

Haunted Stays VII: Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois

January 13, 2021 Rick Hale 0

If you were to ask any Chicagoan, paranormal enthusiast or not, “what is the city’s most haunted hotel?” chances are they would say The Congress Plaza Hotel. For decades, this elegant Michigan Avenue hotel has […]

Testing for Telepathy in Connection with E-mails

October 15, 2019 1

The following abstract is from the peer-reviewed Perceptual and Motor Skills journal article Testing for Telepathy in Connection with E-mails (2005, 101, 771-786) by the eminent psychical thinker, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake and Pamela Smart. In [...]
Demons in Seattle: The Washington State Poltergeist Case

July 23, 2020 0

We were sent this case study written by the Scientific Establishment of Parapsychology (SEP) by its author for publication on this site. The Washington State Poltergeist: The ‘Demons in Seattle’ Case is the official case [...]
Red Lion Pub: A Piece of Old England in Chicago

December 5, 2020 0

Ghost seekers in Chigaco often spend the day patiently waiting to see John Dillinger’s ghost outside the Biograph Theater. When a break is needed, a short walk across busy Lincoln Avenue lies The Red Lion [...]
Chicago’s Cursed Club: The Liar’s Club, 1665 W. Fullerton Ave.

November 27, 2020 0

Taken from my book, Bullets, Booze and Babes: The Haunted History of Chicago and Illinois In order for a curse to work, the intended victim must not only believe in the power of the curse. [...]
Restless Graves Part III: Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois

October 16, 2020 0

When I was a child, I grew up between two very different worlds. My parents were divorced, and my mom lived in northern Illinois near the Wisconsin border. While my dad resided in the various [...]