The Old Joliet Prison cemetery is unidentifiable today by anyone but a trained expert in abandoned cemeteries. But the overgrown expanse, hidden in preserves, hides hundreds of bodies of former convicts of one of the world’s most notorious penitentiaries.

The story of a horrific disaster on the Chicago-Alton railroad line . . . and the ghosts it left behind.

On a misty summer morning long ago, Chicago met the worst disaster in its tragic history. Each evening, the cries of its dead still echo along the bank of its dark, remembering river.

In Chicago, as everywhere in the U.S., Memorial Day weekend is a time of remembrance. But along with the dead of war, we here also tell, again, of the end of Flight 191—as do the ghosts it left behind.

Only one building remains standing on the old 1893 Fairgrounds in Chicago’s Jackson Park today: the former Palace of Fine Arts. It now houses the spectacular Museum of Science and Industry—and a whole bunch of ghosts.

As I researched it, I discovered that this little sledding hill I'd loved as a child growing up in the not-far-off Chicago neighborhood of Northcenter had somehow become a mecca for seekers of the spiritual across ages, races, ethnicities and cultures

While the Rouse Simmons—the famed “Christmas Tree Ship”—, the Lady Elgin and the Eastland have all found a welcome home in Chicago ghostlore, there’s another fascinating waterborne ghost story that I only discovered a handful of years ago: the story of the Chicora. Not only did the Chicago vanish, but one enterprising captain tried to find it using . . . unconventional (and supernatural) means.

Down a crumbling path through an ancient preserve just outside Chicago lies one of the world’s most haunted places. Step inside.

It’s a familiar sight on Chicago’s north Lake Shore Drive, but is Chicago’s famous “Thunderbird” totem pole more than just a monument?

Like so many places in Chicago, you’d never know anything had ever happened at the unassuming vaduct. But the ghosts still tell the tale of labor’s deadly day.

In 1888, a band of Chicago boys, none of them older than ten, formed an impromptu “vampire-hunting gang” to find and destroy the Lake View Vampire. This strange Chicago ghost story is one like no other.

For nearly a century, drivers on Chicago’s famed Archer Avenue have reported wee hour encounters with the city’s delusive vanishing hitchhiker, the “deathly dancer” called Resurrection Mary. Ursula Bielski shares her forty years of research into the city’s most famous ghost.