Haunted Chicago

Chicago is a fine destination for architecture buffs, deep-dish pizza lovers, Magnificent Mile shoppers and Cubs fans, but ghostly presences also blow through the Windy City.

[Louise]

In the suburbs of Pennsylvania there used to be and probably still is a haunted hayride where Jason the scary guy with the hockey masks climbs around the cage that of the wagon revving up his chainsaw. I was 12 at the time but I was scared.

[AFS]

I drank at the Red Lion several times during my five years in the Windy City, and suffice it to say, the scariest things there were the staircase (hence the renovation) and the ladies' room. Never any toilet paper. Never.

[MadelineC]

You won't get any cooperation from the people at what was once the Biograph Theater. It's my understanding they have obliterated every vestiage of the Dillinger connection, including the seat where he watched his last move. Last summer, we contacted the public relations person because we had people from out-of-town who wanted to see the Biograph and didn't even get a reply. I found this ironic since it is the Dillinger connection which gives the building its historical status.

[Ken]

Well this is certainly going to change the way I look at some of these places on my next visit. Nice feature. And how timely, a few weeks ahead of Halloween.

[Uri]

I don't believe in ghosts. Are you guys for real?

[Count Floyd]

Oooh! That's scary stuff! Ah-ooooo!

[Bibliophilist]

There's this large structure at 1060 W. Addison St. that's been haunted for almost a century now...

Oh Wait, not haunted. Just cursed.

Never mind.

[Blasphemer]

New York is way scarier than Chicago...way scarier.

[Kate D]

I agree with Blasphemer. Chicago has a decent ghost hunting scene, but if you're a true ghost hunter, NYC is the place to be.

[say what]

Try Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas! I know someone who was heading out to western Ne. and saw a pioneer woman dressed in black walking in a wheat field. This is in the middle of nowhere!

[Mary]

Hotel Nichols in South Haven is haunted. Goggle them. Their rooms are awesome.

[Schmitzie]

Isn't Wrigley Field haunted by a goat ?

[Bobby]

The Tribune just did a slideshow of the 10 most haunted places in Chicago. Here's the link:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-haunted-chi...

[Adam Selzer]

The Tribune slideshow is off; the Excalibur was never used as a morgue. Stories that it's haunted are, like many of these, just stories someone made up in the 1970s that became a marketing gimmick.

[RocketLeopard132 7]

i believe in ghosts. a lot of people don't, but i do. maybe i'm crazy or something, i dunno, but the idea of ghosts seems very real to me.

[RocketLeopard132 7]

and no, Schmitzie, Wrigley field is not haunted by a goat. a ghost, maybe, but certainly not a goat.

[RocketLeopard132 7]

Uri should shut up. ghosts exist.

[SpiritWalker]

I have yet to go to any of these places, but, I can say this, I am called SpiritWalker for a reason.
And I have experienced mant Spirits with in my years on this earth.
I can tell you now if I visit a place that they say is haunted, I wlll tell you if it is or not.

All these make shift equipment that they use on these paranormal shows are gobblety gook, for you and experience a spirit and it not even read on one of these so called meters.

[Janet]

Resurrection Mary makes for a great ghost story. I'd like to learn more about her.

[Lulu]

SpiritWalker wrote:

I have yet to go to any of these places, but, I can say this, I am called SpiritWalker for a reason.
And I have experienced mant Spirits with in my years on this earth.
I can tell you now if I visit a place that they say is haunted, I wlll tell you if it is or not.
All these make shift equipment that they use on these paranormal shows are gobblety gook, for you and experience a spirit and it not even read on one of these so called meters.

Did you give yourself that name, Spirit Walker?