Author Adam Selzer and comedians Hector Reyes and Erin Pieshke investigate history and folklore in Chicago.
Updates, new podcast, Iroquois Theater ghosts, and Mrs. Hull's poetry
Adam and Ray investiate a supposed revolutionary war vet at Rosehill Cemetery
"Little Hell's" worst intersection had a murder a week - and a "gumacco" craze.
Who's in the Couch Tomb? Sorting through papers with a Couch family descendent.
Adam and Ray hunt the grave of a Victorian detective from the HH Holmes case.
Adam and Erin explore Chicago's Graceland cemetery
Hector returns a lump of coal he took from Bachelor's Grove
Adam, Hector and Erin discuss new findings on Julia Buccola, the "Italian Bride" at Mt. Carmel cemetery
Audio from the infamous HH Holmes "murder castle"
The abandoned pauper's cemetery on the northwest side
Discussing Chicago's most famous ghost with Ray Johnson and Dale Kaczmarek
Goofing off and playing with gadgets!
The crew investigates the location of a "glass bending factory" once operated (more likely as a body dump than a glass works) by the notorious H.H. Holmes, ten miles from his famous "murder castle." Includes an interview with Jeff Mudgett, Holmes' great great grandson, who believes that Holmes may have also been Jack the Ripper - and that he may not have really been executed in 1896....
Are there ghosts in the old City Cemtery?
Exploring the studio where the first Oz movies were filmed (it's condos now, of course)
Chicago was briefly the center of the movie world! Few know it, and even fewer know how much cool stuff is left at the building that used to be Essanay Studios, where Charlie Chaplin briefly worked. Listen in as we explore the building and discuss its fantastic history. They even let us into the old vault!
Jane Addams Hull House in Chicago has been rumored to be haunted for over a century. Adam and Hector have been taking tour groups there for years. Here, they journey there to separate fact from fiction. See pictures and the Hull House Ghosts ebook at http://chicagounbelievable.com
FROM THE VAULT: in Sept 2010, Adam and Hector got lost in the woods near a supposedly haunted graveyard. Remastered!
Kicking off Grave Robbing Week at Chicago Unbelievable with a talk about Chicago's "Lost Cemeteries," the 19th century grave robbing business in the city, and chatting with Daniel Kraus, author of ROTTERS, a new grave robbing novel.