More Chicago Haunts: Scenes from Myth and Memory

by Ursula Bielski

Chicago. A town with a past. A people haunted by its history in more ways than one. A "windy city" with tales to tell... Critics called Ursula Bielski's Chicago Haunts: Ghostlore of the Windy City a "must-read," "a masterpiece of the genre," and "an absolutely first-rate book," and readers agreed. Now she s back with more history, more legends, and more hauntings, including the personal scary stories of Chicago Haunts readers. More Chicago Haunts brings you the Ovaltine factory haunts, the Monster of 63rd Street's castle of terror, phantom blueberry muffins, the ghosts of Wrigley Field, Al Capone's yacht, and 45 other glimpses into the haunted myths and memories of Chicagoland.

Genres: Nonfiction, Ghosts, History, Paranormal

312 pages, Paperback

First published August 13, 2000

Reviews

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

More Chicago Haunts is a collection of ghostly lore compiled from conversations and letters. As such, the facts aren't the attraction, the mood is. The tales within touch upon real life fires, killers, and cemetery shenanigans. Some of the stories are your typical "I felt a presence" encounters, but some of them cut deeper and get under your skin. A great read if you're headed to Chicago and want to set the tone.

[Melissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

The follow-up is just as well written as the original, and it includes many stories I’d never heard before. Ursula Bielski is THE expert on this subject.

[Jeremy Stephens · Rating 2 out of 5]

If I were to grade this book, I'd give it a "D" for disappointing. The premise of this book had so much potential- various haunted places around Chicago were discussed including specific places such as individual homes and modern places such as a Walmart store. Where this book fails is that it is extremely lacking in details. After every chapter I'd think to myself, is that it? I can see that research was done regarding the hauntings of these various places but lack of elaboration made it difficult to become interested. It almost felt like there was a limit of four to seven pages per haunted place profiled since that was about all that was allotted to each chapter. The basic outline of each chapter was this:

1st page: The name of the haunted place.
2nd page: picture of the place
3rd page on: Brief history of the place,followed by a small part of a witness's account and lastly a few closing thoughts.

This almost formulaic method of presentation became repetitive and boring after a while.
What would have made this book better is if fewer place were discussed, yet were discussed in considerably more detail. Overall, I didn't find this book very interesting.

[Robert Kiehn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another great, informative and well written book
by author Ursula Bielski!

As always, it is very interesting to read, hard to put down
and contains eyewitness accounts of hauntings and a rich History
of the Windy City and it's surrounding Suburbs like the first book
in the series.

Another great read :)

[Susan Polcz/Volbrecht]

read this even if you don't believe.

[Lauren]

Can't wait to read my autographed copy:) Saw the author speak and she was really good, so had to buy the book!

[Hugo Mejia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Just as good as the original. I would recommend it