Behind Ursula Bielski's outgoing and friendly personality is over 20 years of experience researching, writing and lecturing about our haunted traditions in addition to a lifetime of experience with the paranormal. A real Chicago treasure!

http://weirdchicago.com/

Ken Berg, Psychic and paranormal expert has teamed up with Troy Taylor, paranormal historian and prolific author (see below) and Adam Selzer, Chicago historian and rock star, to produce a tour incorporating gangsters, ghosts and all that is strange and wonderful about Chicago.

Giving tours since 1982, Dale Kaczmarek has years of experience in the field investigating local haunts. He has also penned a library of books on the subject. Check out our text section for more details.

A fellow Illinoisian has put together this beautiful and well researched virtual guide to our local collective "masks of night."  Excellent job on citations and references in the bibliography. In addition, he and Ursula Bielski co-wrote the definitive work on Chicago's necropoleis.

Sancho's back! But in a new form. Some old stories mixed with new and an expanded format covering more of the mid-west. An impressive collection from an impressive collector!

Two hours from anywhere that's out of site of a corn field. That's where I spent the better or worse of my adolescence. The winter fields are akin to the Sahara for finding nothing more than the absence of all. Within those fields rest the brief history of what was once the American west now long passed over and often regarded as nothing more than the mid-point between two shores. The lives of those although now dust rise a bit from the prairie sod now and then, telling tales with a Midwestern sensibility, bleak, short, tragic, but also with a humor dry, cold, and to the point. These are the tales I like best. And this fellow Illinoisan has done a hell of a job capturing them.

Bielski, Ursula, Chicago Haunts: Ghostly Lore of the Windy City, First Edition, Chicago, Lake Claremont Press, 1997.

A second edition is out with more stories and photos. This book has been indispensable. A definitive work on area hauntings. You'd be hard pressed to find better.

Taylor, Troy - Various - Whitechapel Productions Press

http://www.prairieghosts.com/whitechapel.html

One of the most prolific writers on Midwestern and Illinois hauntings and ghost stories. He also stretches into the southern regions as well. Having had a chance to work with Troy has been a rare treat. Weaving tales and other worlds is Troy's stock and trade. The above site has a list of his currently available and soon to be released material.

Huyser, Barb. Small Town Ghosts, Whitechapel Productions Press

http://www.prairieghosts.com/whitechapel.html

Having had the chance to tag along on an investigation with Barb Huyser and meeting her team was one of those experiences that borders the real and the ideal. There were enough coincidences to make a skeptic blush. Her love for these places and the souls that may reside there shines through in combination with well done research and theories.

Kaczmarek, Dale, Windy City Ghosts, Oak Lawn, IL, Whitechapel Productions Press, 2000.

http://www.prairieghosts.com/whitechapel.html

A prolific author, Chicago native and supernatural scholar, Dale Kaczmarek has the ability to sift the plausible from the impossible while never depreciating a good story.