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    The Italian Bride

    The Italian Bride

    [ranking: 1]
    Although Mt. Carmel cemetery is home to Al Capone and other notorious gangsters, the burial ground is more well-known for another famous resident, the mysterious Italian Bride. 
    Her real name was Julia Buccola-Petta and she died during childbirth at a very young age in 1921. After she was buried in the cemetery, her mother started getting really strange dreams where Julia would say she was still alive and needed help. After six years of these dreams, her mother finally had the body exhumed. When the casket was opened, everyone was shocked to find that Julia's body had not decayed one bit since she was buried. No explanation has ever been given. With those mysterious circumstances, it's not surprising that many have reported seeing a ghostly woman in white haunting Julia's grave. 

    The Eastland Disaster

    The Eastland Disaster

    [ranking: 5]
    The capsizing of the Eastland steamer in Chicago is one of the worst boating disasters of all time. As the gigantic ship made its way toward Michigan City, a horrible accident caused the ship to tip over. Out of the estimated 2,500 people who were on board, the death tally reached nearly 850. The mystery of why exactly the boat tipped over was never solved. But the story was far from over. 
    The armory building where most of the dead were taken during the disaster eventually was taken over by Oprah Winfrey and her studio. A lot of the crew who worked on the show claimed that the ghosts of the dead passengers often haunted the building. They heard strange noises like children's laughter and the clinking of phantom glasses, and even saw apparitions, the most popular being one they dubbed the Gray Lady. Even the site of the actual disaster is supposedly haunted, with reports of people passing by the spot hearing bloodcurdling screams of the doomed passengers. 

    The Sausage Vat Murder

    The Sausage Vat Murder

    [ranking: 11]
    In the 1870s, a successful German meat packer named Adolph Luetgert moved to Chicago to open up his own sausage-making factory, which was a huge hit and he became very rich. He married Louisa Bicknese, but their marriage was constantly plagued by arguments and fights. One day, Louisa just disappeared, and after a lengthy investigation, police put together that Luetgert had killed Bicknese and hid her body by boiling her in acid and burning her remains. They checked the boiler in the factory and found human remains along with two of Louisa's rings. Luetgert went to jail, but apparently his wife's spirit wasn't happy just seeing him locked away. 
    Soon after he was imprisoned, Luetgert started to claim his wife was haunting him and he was driven insane. He died in 1900, still proclaiming that he was innocent of the crime. It also wasn't long before reports started to come in of people seeing her ghost at her old house and at the sausage factory. Nowadays her house and the factory have been torn down, so apparently the only time to see her is on the anniversary of her death in May 

    The Devil Baby of Hull House

    The Devil Baby of Hull House

    [ranking: 13]
    The Hull House in Chicago started with such good intentions. It was to be a beacon of hope, a community house with the goal of educating and helping newly arrived European immigrants back in the late 1800s. But its legacy would soon be overshadowed by something far more sinister, as it was believed that the Hull House was harboring the Devil Baby. 
    The legend goes that a baby was born to a devout Catholic and her supremely atheist husband. It was said to have pointed ears, horns, and a tail. Unable to do anything about it, the couple was forced to lock the baby up in the attic at the Hull House. The story quickly spread and soon the Hull House was turning away crowds of people who knocked on the door looking to catch a glimpse of the Devil Baby. Although the legend isn't as strongly believed today, it's still a widely-held thought that there was a deformed child being held in the attic of the house and sometimes at night, you can see a deformed face looking out the attic window. 

    The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

    [ranking: 9]
    Anybody who has taken a history class has at least heard of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. It was a bloody attack that both wiped out any gang opposition to Al Capone's criminal empire and was also the start of his downfall, as it convinced the public that Capone needed to be stopped. Seven people lost their lives in a violent execution on Clark Street and their spirits supposedly still haunt the spot to this very day. 
    People claim to hear screams and machine gun fire as they pass the site of the massacre, and can't help feeling immense fear when they are in the area. It also affects pets, who bark or whine when they walk by the place.

    The Haunted Water Tower

    The Haunted Water Tower

    [ranking: 2]
    The Great Fire of 1871 still stands as one of the worst events to ever happen to Chicago. It left more than 300 people dead and over 100,000 people without homes. One thing that miraculously stayed standing amongst the destruction was the water tower, mostly thanks to the work of one brave worker. The man stayed behind as the fire raced toward the tower, manning the pumps instead of fleeing. Just before the fire consumed him, he hanged himself to avoid being burned to death. Now his ghost haunts the very water tower he tried to protect. Tourists and locals report seeing a shadowy figure of a hanging man from the tower's upstairs windows. 

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Chicago is a city with its own fair share of tragedy and pain. Natural disasters, horrible accidents, and bloody massacres are deeply ingrained in the city's culture and past, creating a series of terrifying urban legends and ghost stories. The ghost stories about Chicago are some of the creepiest in the United States, but they also highlight just how much the city has been through since it was formed. Below you'll find a list of some of the most haunted places in Chicago and a few Chicago ghosts you never want to run into.

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