There’s some famously scary stuff at Graceland Cemetery, most notably Lorado Taft’s hulking bronze statue, Eternal Silence. It’s been spooking cemetery visitors since it was erected there in 1909, in ...

Selzer rounds out his busy days this month working on his next book, which he expects to be about “antique” serial killers in the city’s history. We joined him as he looked for grave locations in ...

Some say the statue of Inez Clarke disappears from Graceland Cemetery during thunderstorms. As legend goes, that’s because the 6-year-old girl was killed by a lightning strike. It’s one of several ...

Adam Selzer, a prolific Chicago author, historian, tour guide and podcaster, takes us for a stroll through Chicago history, introducing us to its colorful characters in his latest book, “Graceland ...

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For Adam Selzer, spooky season is his Super Bowl. During October, the popular Mysterious Chicago tour guide and prolific author is hard to keep up with due to commitments that take him around the city ...