Chicago Ghosts

Chicago has quite a harrowing history, and not all of it has stayed in the past. Meet the ghosts at Oprah's studios, the strange hitchhikers along Archer Avenue, the frightened souls from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, and the feared La Llorona, who just may steal your children! The devil baby and the haunted Hull house will chill you to the bone, as will Resurrection Mary. By the time you're through reading, you'll know all of Chi-town's greatest supernatural secrets, and you might never look at the city the same way again. Read an excerpt below:

The Other Mary

Resurrection Mary is certainly the most infamous of Chi-town's hitchhiking apparitions, and possibly the most popular ghost in all of Chicago, but there's another ghost who shares her namesake. This other Mary haunts the halls of Pemberton Hall, one of the women's dorms on the Eastern Illinois University campus in Charleston, Illinois. Unlike her classmates, Mary Hawkins, once a student at Eastern and resident of Pemberton Hall, would never graduate. In fact, she would never leave the campus. Her benevolent spirit is always around looking after the residents of Pemberton Hall. Girls who go to sleep leaving their dorm room doors unlocked, wake in the morning to find someone's locked the door for them during the night. Lights, televisions, and radios left on are often turned off by her as well. Although, in the wake of the subsequent silence when everything has been turned off, other unexplained noises become readily audible, such as knocking and scratching sounds on the doors and walls. And sometimes the faint sound of a piano being played can be heard coming from the fourth floor of the dorm, a floor that has long been closed off without inhabitants.