Ursula Bielski
Author
Language
English
Description
Chicago. A town with a past. A people haunted by its history in more ways than one. A "windy city" with tales to tell... [The author is] back with more history, more legends, and more hauntings, including the personal scary stories of Chicago Haunts readers. [This book] brings you the Ovaltine factory haunts, the Monster of 63rd Street's castle of terror, phantom blueberry muffins, the ghosts of Wrigley Field, Al Capone's yacht, and 45 other glimpses...
Author
Series
Publisher
Haunted America, a division of The History Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Slumbering beneath a shroud of deep forest and deliberate secrecy, Bachelors Grove Cemetery still exerts a powerful pull on paranormal pilgrims and curiosity-seekers around the world. Shielding the orphaned burial ground from ritual and idle vandalism has also buried the rich history of this magical place. Still, its eerie presence has dominated the folklore of the southwest side of Chicago for every generation since 1838. Brave the woods with Ursula...
4) Haunts of the White City: ghost stories from the World's Fair, the Great Fire, and Victorian Chicago
Author
Publisher
Haunted America
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
At the close of the nineteenth century, Chicago offered the world a glimpse of humanity's most breathtaking possibilities and its most jaw-dropping horrors. Even as the White City emerged from the ashes of the Great Fire, serial killers like H.H. Holmes stalked the sparkling new boulevards and tragic accidents plagued the factories, slums and railroads that powered the churn of industrial innovation. Demons, mesmerists and birds of ill omen preyed...
Author
Publisher
New Page Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Why do infants and toddlers seem to have a heightened awareness of the paranormal-and an often marked ability to interact with the unknown? And why do these qualities and abilities seem to mysteriously disappear during adolescence? There's Something Under the Bed! explores the often complex relationships between children and the paranormal, and focuses special attention on the sometimes startling realities behind children's "imaginations." This book...
8) Haunted Gary
Author
Series
Publisher
Haunted America, a division of The History Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Step onto the dark shore of the sand-swept Steel City! For many residents of Gary, Indiana, ghosts are just part of the community. From the haunting of the Jackson Five to the ghost ship Flying Cloud, local legends abound. Ghostly echoes may linger from a fiery 1918 train wreck that claimed the lives of eighty-six circus performers. A young murderess, said to have drowned her children in the Little Calumet River, reportedly haunts the Cline Avenue...
12) You cannot follow: Resurrection Mary & other true ghost stories of Chicago's haunted Archer Avenue
Author
Publisher
Magic Lantern Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Built over an ancient Native American highway, Chicago's Archer Avenue is known as one of the world's most haunted roads. Home to the ghosts of murder victims, gangland rogues and the suffering builders of the Illinois & Michigan Canal, the byway hosts mysterious lights, phantom cars, monks and houses, and Chicago's most famous specter, the deathly dancer known as Resurrection Mary,"--
Author
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
It's past midnight, and there isn't a soul in the library. Moonlight fills the dusty shelves. Suddenly, the lights flicker on and off, and a book flies off the shelf! What unseen force is at work? Get ready to read four spine-chilling stories about spooky libraries! This 24-page book features controlled, narrative nonfiction text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The colorful design and spooky art in the book will engage...