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Chicago Ghosts
by Rachel Brooks
Presents a collection of stories describing sightings of ghosts and haunted places found in Chicago
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Chicago Haunted Handbook : 99 Ghostly Places You Can Visit In and Around the Windy City
by Jeff Morris
"Chicago Haunted Handbook is the newest book in the Haunted Handbook collection within the popular America's Haunted Road Trip series and is written with the ghost enthusiast in mind. All 100 chapters contain information on the history as well as the haunting surrounding each location, as well as detailed directions on how to locate each site. Many of the chapters also contain insider information that only a local would know, making it easier for ghost hunters to investigate. Each two page entry includes directions from downtown, an historical overview of the haunted place, the story of ghostly doings in that place, and advice on visiting the place yourself--if you dare. "
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Chicago Haunts : Ghostlore of the Windy City
by Ursula Bielski
Offers a collection of legends, tales, and stories of hauntings in Chicago, Illinois. Author Ursula Bielski captured 160 years of Chicago's haunted history in the first volume ever devoted to this intriguing subject. Combining lively storytelling with in-depth historical research, exclusive interviews, and insights from parapsychology, Bielski penned a unique and fascinating exploration of the region's supernatural folklore.
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Chicago's Haunt Detective : A Cop's Guide to Supernatural Chicago
by Raymond Johnson
Take a fresh look at Chicago's ghosts, legends, and psychics from the viewpoint of a retired West Chicago criminal investigator and local historian. Read favorite legends as well as little-known stories. Who was the fun-loving, hitchhiking, dance-hall phantom known as Resurrection Mary? What mysterious circumstances surround the tragic murders of Patricia and Barbara Grimes? Did Teresita Basa solve her own murder? How was a long-time Chicago city employee, who lead seances out of his home, responsible for the death of a Cook County Sheriff's Deputy? Are psychics able to help law enforcement solve crimes? Read the answers to these questions and others in a fact vs. fiction supernatural investigation "Chicago Style."
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Ghosthunting Illinois
by John B. Kachuba
From cemeteries, inns, and hotels to libraries and museums, explores more than thirty of the spookiest haunts all over the Prairie State
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Ghostland : An American History in Haunted Places
by Colin Dickey
Explores some of the United States' most infamously haunted places, including old mansions and hotels, abandoned prisons, empty hospitals, and other locations, and reveals the repressed history they represent
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Ghosts : A Natural History : 500 Years of Searching for Proof
by Roger Clarke
Describes the history of ghost-hunting and searching for proof of spectres, spirits and ghosts in some of the supposedly most-haunted sites of the past 500 years, drawing upon folklore, religion, neuroscientific advancements and the technology of paranormal explorers.
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The Ghosts of Chicago : The Windy City's Most Famous Haunts
by Adam Selzer
From Resurrection Mary and Al Capone to the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln, the spine-tingling sights and sounds of Chicago's yesteryear are still with us-- and so are its ghosts. Selzer pieces together the truth behind Chicago's ghosts, and brings to light dozens of never-before-told firsthand accounts. Take a historical tour of the famous and not-so-famous haunts around town. Sometimes the real story is far different from the urban legend ... and most of the time it's even gorier ...
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Grave's End : A True Ghost Story
by Elaine Mercado
When Elaine Mercado and her first husband bought their home in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1982, they had no idea that they and their two young daughters were embarking on a thirteen-year nightmare.
This book is the true story of how one family tried to cope with living in a haunted house. It also describes how, with the help of parapsychologist Dr. Hans Holzer and medium Marisa Anderson, the family discovered the tragic and heartbreaking secrets buried in the house at Grave's End.
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Haunted Homeland
by Michael Norman
A comprehensive compilation of ghostly tales, based on oral tradition, personal experience, and lore, chronicles tales of hauntings, phantoms, ghostly apparitions, and other mysterious phenomena from the wilds of Alaska to the Southwest and the eastern coast of North America. 20,000 first printing.
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How To Clear Your Home of Ghosts & Spirits : Tips & Techniques from A Professional Ghost Hunter
by Debi Chestnut
How to Clear Your Home of Ghosts & Spirits is a guide to everything you need to know to get rid of ghosts. Providing a brief history of haunts and delving into her own personal experiences, paranormal researcher Debi Chestnut sheds light on the different types of ghosts--from harmless spirits to destructive entities--and gives tips and techniques for clearing them.
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The Little Book of True Ghost Stories
by Echo L. Bodine
A psychic and spiritual healer introduces readers to an assortment of ghosts she has personally met, explains why they were still on Earth, and offers tips on how to determine if ghosts are present and advice on how to get rid of unwanted ghosts
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