Mysterious Chicago

By Adam SelzerHistory

Mysterious Chicago episodes

October 04, 2020 Girl in Glass: The Inez Statue at Graceland Cemetery
New information about one of our most famous graves
11 min
July 09, 2020 Revolutionary War Grave Found in Chicago
Discovering a confirmed Revolutionary War vet in Chicago
15 min
September 09, 2019 Was John Stone Chicago's First Serial Killer?
Examining early accounts of the 1840 murder of Lucretia Thomson
17 min
March 02, 2019 Make No Little Plans - A Real Quote After All!
No, YOU'RE apocryphal
10 min
February 05, 2019 The Devil and Daniel Elston
One of Chicago's first controversial murder stories
10 min
January 28, 2019 The Cop Who Cried Wolf
Officer Curran faked several attempts on his own life
12 min
October 29, 2018 A "Suicide Bridge" Ghost Story
Looking up ghost stories from Lincoln Park for Halloween
13 min
October 10, 2018 The Black Hole: A Forgotten Vice District
Fear-mongering from 1882
10 min
August 23, 2018 The First Journalist Killed in the Civil War
A forgotten Chicago her
14 min
May 11, 2017 HH Holmes: The Hanging
All the details fit to print
27 min