Ghost Stories of Illinois

Enjoy 75 accounts of ghostly visitations--among them spirits from the Great Chicago Fire, the curse of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, a spectral steamboat on Fulton County's Spoon River and the wandering ghost of Abe Lincoln.

Acknowledgments

7

(2)

Introduction

9

(3)

Historically Haunted

12

(34)

Abraham Lincoln and the Spirit World

14

(6)

The Great Chicago Fire

20

(4)

Capone's Bloody Valentine

24

(3)

Chicago's Haunted Gangster

27

(2)

Haunted Dug Hill

29

(3)

The Hull House Devil Baby

32

(5)

The Sorrow of Angels

37

(2)

Dillinger's Last Show

39

(4)

The Watseka Wonder

43

(3)

Ghost Riders

46

(19)

Resurrection Mary

48

(9)

The Sneering Specter of St. Casimir

57

(1)

The Stowaway

58

(3)

The Vanishing Nun

61

(2)

The Evergreen Teen

63

(1)

The Flapper

64

(1)

River Wraiths

65

(16)

The Eastland Tragedy

67

(3)

A Devilish Spot on the Mississippi

70

(2)

The Spectral Steamboat

72

(3)

The Sad Spirit of Lizzie Clark

75

(2)

The Shrieking Wraith

77

(2)

The Boatman

79

(2)

Ghostly Revenge

81

(19)

Spirits from the Slaughter

83

(4)

Mrs. Gray's Curse

87

(3)

Justice for Louisa

90

(3)

The Vengeful Ghosts of Canton

93

(4)

The Unstoppable Charles Vaughn

97

(3)

Eternally Restless

100

(27)

Bachelor's Grove

102

(4)

The Silent Cortege

106

(3)

The Italian Bride

109

(2)

In a Rush to Rest

111

(1)

Monumental Mysteries

112

(3)

Misplaced Souls

115

(4)

The Joliet Crooner

119

(3)

Miracles and Roses

122

(1)

St. James of the Sag

123

(4)

Haunted Houses

127

(34)

Hickory Hill Slave House

129

(9)

Voorhies Castle

138

(3)

The Stickney Mansion

141

(3)

The Faceless Gray Phantom

144

(3)

Haunted on Old Homestead Road

147

(4)

The Irish Castle

151

(2)

A Shared Spirit

153

(3)

The Persistent Presence

156

(2)

Ghostly Gold

158

(3)

Tales From Adams County

161

(15)

A Phantom in the Fire

163

(2)

John's Reward

165

(1)

The Haunted Cabin

166

(3)

``Pray for Me''

169

(2)

Spirits in Crisis

171

(3)

The Ghost's Bedroom

174

(2)

Public Phantoms

176

(26)

The Phantom of the Woodstock Opera

178

(3)

The Country House Restaurant

181

(2)

The Dedicated Librarian

183

(2)

The Red Lion Pub

185

(2)

All Souls' Day at St. Rita's

187

(2)

The Presence of Pemberton Hall

189

(3)

The Spooky Speakeasy

192

(2)

Harriet Haskell's Haunt

194

(2)

A Happy-Hour Afterlife

196

(1)

The Ghosts of Millikin University

197

(3)

The Meridian Coffee House

200

(2)

Assorted Mysteries

202

(35)

Bloody Mary Worth

204

(3)

The Shoveling Ghost of Rock Island

207

(1)

One Ghost or Two?

208

(2)

A Promise Kept

210

(1)

The Snowball-Throwing Spook

211

(2)

Louis Boston Returns

213

(2)

The Running Woman

215

(3)

Galena's Ghostly History

218

(8)

The Headless Horseman of Illinois

226

(2)

The Hancock Hanging

228

(2)

Frank Leavy's Haunted Handprint

230

(3)

The Silver Bullet Process

233

(2)

In the Nick of Time

235

(2)

The Seneca Cremation

237

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