Chicago Unbelievable: The Podcast 2.0
Summary: Author Adam Selzer and comedians Hector Reyes and Erin Pieshke investigate history and folklore in Chicago.
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- Artist: Adam Selzer
- Copyright: Copyright 2007
Podcasts:
Follow us to Mysterious Chicago
Is there really a revolutionary war vet buried here?
"Little Hell's" worst intersection had a murder a week - and a gumacco craze.
Adam, Hector, and Erin meet with Rachel Williams, 3rd great granddaughter of Ira Couch, whose tomb still stands in Lincoln Park, and sort through old documents and articles trying to solve the riddle of the tomb.
Adam, Hector, and Susan Sherman let their inner 12-year-olds giggle about gravestones that say "butts" on them.
On the trail of a detective from the HH Holmes case
From Daniel Burnham to Charles Dickens's no-good brother Augie, Graceland Cemetery has it all
Outside of Chicago sits the long-abandoned Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, long rumored to be one of the most haunted sites in the world. Hector decided to return the lump of coal he took from thre in 2013. It just MIGHT be cursed.
New findings on a classic piece of Chicago folklore
Audio from the basement below the HH Holmes Murder castle site
Ever heard of an abandoned insane asylum that wasn't haunted?
The mystery of Chicago's vanishing hitch-hiker!
Goofing off and playing with gadgets.
The crew investigates the location of a "glass bending factory" once operated (more likely as a body dump than a glass works) by the notorious H.H. Holmes, ten miles from his famous "murder castle." Includes an interview with Jeff Mudgett, Holmes' great great grandson, who believes that Holmes may have also been Jack the Ripper - and that he may not have really been executed in 1896....
A general lack of ghosts inspires the crew to joke around and pull a prank.
