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The Six Days of Helloween – #1. The Legend of Resurrection Mary

Today is Halloween and the last stop on our tour of Chicagoland's most haunted locales. If you're still with us today that means that you've survived any encounters with the disturbing and paranormal you may have had thus far, but will you make it through this last one? This is the legend of Resurrection Mary, Chicago's most famous ghost. Picture yourself driving down Archer Avenue in the small suburb of Justice, just a few miles southwest of Chicago. It's been a long day and you're just trying to make it home without falling asleep. Suddenly, out of nowhere, you see a gorgeous...

The Six Days of Helloween – #2. The Devil Baby of Hull House

If you've stuck with the tour this long I commend you, for you are a brave soul. On today's stop we visit an unassuming home on the near west-side. Welcome to Hull House, now meet the Devil Baby who resides there. This is an account of how the legend began. The doctor stopped and stared. The horror that filled his eyes was enough to startle anybody in any situation. The height of this horror is a scene that places the doctor at the wide-open legs of a pregnant mother. His hesitating hands reaching forward to remove a baby the mother...

The Six Days of Helloween - #3. The Murder Castle of H.H. Holmes

Welcome to day 4 of our countdown of the most frightening places in Chicago. Today we take a tour of The Murder Castle. Chicago's 1893 Columbian Expedition World's Fair presented the world with a number of modern marvels: electricity, the Ferris wheel, Eadweard Muybridge's moving pictures, ragtime, the hamburger...and the nation's first high-profile serial killer, hotelier H. H. Holmes. In 1889, Holmes (born Herman W. Mudgett) arrived in what is now Chicago's Englewood neighborhood and began working for Dr. and Mrs. Holden as a pharmacist. He seemed to be the perfect assistant and neighbor: able and industrious. His new acquaintances...

The Six Days of Helloween - #4. The 80 Acres of Hell

For day three of our Helloween tour of Chicago's most haunted areas we visit what what once called Camp Douglas. Camp Douglas which was located on the south side of Chicago became a place of brutal misery to the Confederate prisoners imprisoned there. Stories of rat infested over crowded conditions circulated through the southern newspapers during the Civil War. And the camp soon earned the name it would later come to be known by, The 80 Acres of Hell. It is now estimated that 6000 plus men died at Camp Douglas of scurvy, smallpox, and starvation. The camp was closed...

The Six Days of Helloween - #6. Bachelor's Grove Cemetery

The first stop in our tour of the scariest urban legends and ghost stories of Chicago is Bachelor's Grove Cemetery. Located in section 8 of Bremen Township (just southeast of Chicago), lies a small, abandoned graveyard. This cemetery has seen many years since the last body was buried here, but this eerie place is still very active. In the paranormal sense, that is. Over the Years Bachelor's Grove has become known as one of Chicagoland's most haunted locations. The first claims of unusual activity peaked in the 1970s and lasted until the early 1980s, but locals are still witnessing things that they find hard to explain around...

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The Six Days of Helloween – #1. The Legend of Resurrection Mary

The Six Days of Helloween – #2. The Devil Baby of Hull House

The Six Days of Helloween - #3. The Murder Castle of H.H. Holmes

The Six Days of Helloween - #4. The 80 Acres of Hell

The Six Days of Helloween - #6. Bachelor's Grove Cemetery

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