Haunts of the White City: Ghost Stories from the World’s Fair, the Great Fire and Victorian Chicago - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Haunts of the White City: Ghost Stories from the World’s Fair, the Great Fire and Victorian Chicago write by Ursula Bielski. This book was released on 2019. Haunts of the White City: Ghost Stories from the World’s Fair, the Great Fire and Victorian Chicago available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "At the close of the nineteenth century, Chicago offered the world a glimpse of humanity's most breathtaking possibilities and its most jaw-dropping horrors. Even as the White City emerged from the ashes of the Great Fire, serial killers like H.H. Holmes stalked the sparkling new boulevards and tragic accidents plagued the factories, slums and railroads that powered the churn of industrial innovation. Demons, mesmerists and birds of ill omen preyed on the unwary from the shadows. Ship captains spoke to the dead, while undertakers discovered reanimated corpses no longer requiring services. From posh mansions built on massacre grounds to the drowned quarries of a forest preserve, Ursula Bielski follows the dark undercurrents beneath the electric lights of the World's Fair."--
Haunted Detroit
Haunted Detroit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Haunted Detroit write by Nicole Beauchamp. This book was released on 2022-08. Haunted Detroit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This chronicle of ghastly frights from the Motor City is not for the faint of heart. Founded on the legend of the Nain Rouge, Detroit has haunted hotspots aplenty, each with its own blood-curdling tale. Music from pianos that play by themselves and crying apparitions echo throughout The Whitney mansion. Beginning at the time of its construction, the Leland Hotel has been the site of an unusually high number of murders, suicides, and freak accidents. It has even been described as Detroit's portal to Hell. Various shadowy figures have been spotted darting throughout the former Detroit Police 6th Precinct building, including a mysterious boy. Join Michigan-based author and paranormal investigator Nicole Beauchamp as she leads you down some of Detroit's darkest corridors and into its tragic past.
Haunting Experiences
Haunting Experiences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Haunting Experiences write by Diane Goldstein. This book was released on 2007-09-15. Haunting Experiences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.
Haunted Bachelors Grove
Haunted Bachelors Grove - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Haunted Bachelors Grove write by Ursula Bielski. This book was released on 2016-10-10. Haunted Bachelors Grove available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A terrifying exploration of “the most historic haunted cemetery in the Chicagoland area, and most likely one of the most known in the world” (Chicago Now)! Slumbering beneath a shroud of deep forest and deliberate secrecy, Bachelors Grove Cemetery still exerts a powerful pull on paranormal pilgrims and curiosity-seekers around the world. Shielding the orphaned burial ground from ritual and idle vandalism has also buried the rich history of this magical place. Still, its eerie presence has dominated the folklore of the southwest side of Chicago for every generation since 1838. Brave the woods with Ursula Bielski to unearth decades of mysteries and myriad ghost stories, from the Magic House to the Madonna of Bachelors Grove. Includes photos! “Historian and paranormal investigator Ursula Bielski says Bachelors Grove, a cemetery located on the edge of Rubio Woods in Midlothian, is among the most haunted places in the world. Her book . . . is the culmination of years of research at the site.” —Chicago Tribune “Bielski ascribes the site’s high level of activity to ‘an ancient force, something malevolent,’ as well as a spate of occult activity in the ’60s and ’70s that may have involved unsettling practices like animal sacrifice and grave desecration.” —Time Out Chicago
Chicago's Street Guide to the Supernatural
Chicago's Street Guide to the Supernatural - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chicago's Street Guide to the Supernatural write by Richard T. Crowe. This book was released on 2000. Chicago's Street Guide to the Supernatural available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
