Chicago has its fair share of legends — but some stories never made it onto the postcards.
Long-time investigator Tony Szabelski has walked the alleys, theaters, and hotel hallways where the city’s ghosts still linger. And few places hold as much residual fear as the Iroquois Theater, where a single night of chaos left spirits with nowhere left to run. Then there’s the Congress Plaza Hotel — a place so charged with unexplained activity that even seasoned investigators refuse to wander certain floors alone.
In this conversation, Tony doesn’t just recount history; he brings you into the echo of it — the footsteps that shouldn’t exist, the whispers that travel down century-old corridors, and the sense that in Chicago, tragedy doesn’t just fade… it settles in.
If you’ve ever wondered what truly haunts the Windy City after dark, this is the doorway.
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