This image is the cover for the book Haunted Gary, Haunted America

Haunted Gary, Haunted America

“Highlights the most infamous and spine-tingling haunted places scattered throughout Northwest Indiana” (The Times of Northwest Indiana).

In 2014, the story of Gary’s “Demon House” shocked the world, drawing millions into the terrifying tale of a contemporary exorcism. For many residents, however, ghosts are just part of the community. From the haunting of the Jackson Five to the ghost ship Flying Cloud, local legends abound. Ghostly echoes may linger from a fiery 1918 train wreck that claimed the lives of eighty-six circus performers. A young murderess, said to have drowned her children in the Little Calumet River, reportedly haunts the Cline Avenue freeway. And the spirit of Alice Gray, the most famous of myriad recluses, is said to remain in Duneland. Meet these and other eternal inhabitants of “America’s Ghost Town” with author Ursula Bielski.

Includes photos!

Ursula Bielski

Ursula Bielski is a lifelong Chicagoan with, like many Chicagoans, a soft spot for northwest Indiana. She is the founder of Chicago Hauntings, the oldest ghost tour company in Chicago, and the host of PBS’s “The Hauntings of Chicago” (WYCC). A graduate of St. Benedict High School in Chicago, Bielski holds a BA degree in history from Benedictine University and an MA in American cultural and intellectual history from Northeastern Illinois University.

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