THE HAUNTED ATLAS / CITY FILE5 RECORDS

5 Haunted Places in Chicago

Chicago · graded case files, legends and skeptic reports

Every case file on record in Chicago — each with the full legend, the documented sightings spine and the skeptic’s file.

  1. H.H. Holmes' Murder Castle Site — Englewood's PlainFacade Legacy

    A · Chicago, Illinois, United States — The corner of 63rd and Wallace where America's first serial killer ran a murder hotel during the 1893 World's Fair — the castle is long gone, but a New Deal post office stands over part of its foundat…

  2. Hull House — The Devil Baby of Halsted Street

    A · Near West Side, Chicago, Illinois, United States — The settlement house Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr founded in 1889, the birthplace of American social work — where in the autumn of 1913, for six weeks, thousands of Chicagoans besieged the doors …

  3. Bachelor's Grove Cemetery

    B · Chicago, IL, United States — Chicago's small abandoned cemetery, famous for the 1991 'ghost snapshot' and a woman in white sometimes seen with a child.…

  4. Congress Plaza Hotel

    B · Chicago, IL, United States — Chicago's 1893 'most haunted hotel': Peg Leg Johnny, a self-operating elevator, and an unnerving 12th floor.…

  5. The Drake — Opening Night's Woman in Red

    B · Magnificent Mile, Chicago, Illinois, United States — The pink-neoned 1920 grand hotel at the top of Michigan Avenue — haunted from its first night: a woman in a red dress who, at the New Year's Eve opening gala, found her fiancé with another woman and w…