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.

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.