#haunted chicago

[windycitylibrarian]

I didn't dress up or go to any Halloween parties this weekend, but I did visit a haunted grave.

[spectrewavesllp]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hmUkI6K2oE) 

This is More CCTV video from Fowler Theater, while we were still inside doing our Investigation Dwight, of the Fowler Theater, came across this anomaly outside the theater. Dwight has also enhanced this capture to show the anomaly isolated on screen to ensure no animal or person was present.

Spectrewaves Paranormal at Folwer Theater in Folwer, Indiana USA

Spectrewavesllp

[thebestpeoplearefree]

TAYLOR SING HAUNTED TONIGHT OR TOMORROW, I’m not there but I will die anyways

[bizknapp]

“Don't worry, Mom. I know all about cannibalism. I saw it on TV.”

-Danny Torrence, The Shining

[whatsyourghoststory]

Talking Horror Movies & Chicago Ghost Stories!

We chat horror movies, how you define a horror movie and some haunted places around the Chicago area.

Talking Horror Movies & Chicago Ghost Stories! Thanks to Wonderfully Weird and Horrifying (https://wonderfullyweirdandhorrifying.com/) for lining up such a fun interview with Jackson Schreiber! Also, I just started a new weekly series called “Positively Paranormal,” which you can catch right here. The next episode comes out tomorrow morning! Time Stamps:0:00 – Intro 0:33 – Doing voices for New…

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[booksellergothic]

31 Days of Halloween Reading (more or less) - October 27th and 28th

Pretty much everywhere in the world has a few haunted locations. It is a given that if there is a weird house, an abandoned factory, a historic hotel, a famous murder site, or really anything from an open field to a dense forest to a deep cave, someone eventually is going to get scared and blame the restless spirits of the dead.

My beloved city is no different.

Ursula Bielski has written three books on the subject, Chicago Haunts, More Chicago Haunts, and the beautifully subtitled Chicago Haunts Three : Locked Up Stories from an October City.  (She also wrote the wonderful Graveyards of Chicago, which for me is the best guidebook ever written of the city, but that’s just me).  

While not exactly an elegant writer, Bielski is a true believer and her own enthusiasm and chills come across on the page.

From our beloved Resurrection Mary, to wonderfully disturbing Batchlor’s Grove cemetery, to Dillinger's spirit running away from the Biograph Theatre, to the haunted upstairs bathroom at the utterly perfect Red Lion Pub (I am one of the countless people who has been mysteriously trapped in it and then just as suddenly released), the first book covers all of the classic stories known by any Chicagoan with a taste for the supernatural.  The second and third volumes are based more first hand accounts and family legends dug up by Bielski during her decades as a ghost hunter.   

If any of you have a favorite ghost story from your home town I would love to hear it.

Let me know if you want to be added to my tag list for book reviews and recommendations.  

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[hauntsofmissouri]

Chicago, Illinois

Louisa Luetgert disappeared on May 1, 1897. The wife of sausage king Adolph Luetgert, no one knew where she had disappeared to. Circumstantial evidence seemed to show that Luetgert killed his wife and boiled her in the sausage vats to dispose of the body. He was convicted of her murder and sentenced to prison for her murder. He died in 1899.

The sausage factory stood empty for years, looming over the neighborhood as a grim reminder of the horrors that had visited there. The windows of the place became a target for rocks thrown from the nearby railroad embankment and it often invited forays by the curious and the homeless. In 1999, though, around the 100th anniversary of the death of Adolph Luetgert, the former sausage factory was converted into loft condominiums and a brand new neighborhood sprang up to replace the aging homes that remained from the days of the Luetgerts. Fashionable brick homes and apartments appeared around the old factory, and rundown taverns were replaced with coffee shops.

According to legend, Louisa Luetgert’s ghost returned not only to haunt the old neighborhood where she died, but also to exact her revenge on the man who killed her. Stories claim that toward the end of Adolph Luetgert’s life, he told stories about Louisa visiting his cell at night. His dead wife had returned to haunt him, intent on having revenge for her murder. Was she really haunting him or was the “ghost” really just the figment of a rapidly deteriorating mind? Based on the fact that residents of the neighborhood also began reporting seeing Louisa’s ghost, one has to wonder if Luetgert was seeing her ghost because he was mentally ill —- or if the ghost had driven him insane. Luetgert died under what the coroner called “great mental strain,” so perhaps Louisa did manage to get her revenge after all.

And Louisa, whether she was murdered by her husband or not, reportedly did not rest in peace. Not long after her husband was sent to prison, her ghost began to be seen inside the Luetgert house. Neighbors claimed to see a woman in a white dress leaning against the fireplace mantel. Eventually, the house was rented out but none of the tenants stayed there long. The place became an object of fear, the yard overgrown with ragweed, and largely deserted. Legend has it on the Northwest Side today that Louisa Luetgert still walks. If she does, she probably no longer recognizes the neighborhood where she once lived. They say though, that if you happened to be in this area on May 1, the anniversary of Louisa’s death, there is a chance that you might see her lonely specter still roaming the area where she lived and died.

Louisa Luetgert Chicago, Illinois Louisa Luetgert disappeared on May 1, 1897. The wife of sausage king Adolph Luetgert, no one knew where she had disappeared to.

[unmaskedmissionary]

The Most Haunted Places of Chicago: Walking Tour Guide Style

The Most Haunted Places of Chicago: Walking Tour Guide Style

Welcome to the freakin’ cold Windy City, where the town takes a nickname for all the blustering windbags in the governor’s house, with a convenient location on the lake where we pull in that lake effect wind.

For the next several blocks, we’ll be taking a walk through some of the creepiest, weirdest, and, in my opinion, most haunted places in Chicago. So, grab that pea coat closer and huddle…

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