Today on The Grave Talks, a conversation with Chicago paranormal investigator, Tony Zabelski.

Tony is a longtime Chicago paranormal investigator.

He's worked with several paranormal groups in the area and loves sharing the haunted history of the city.

He also hosted the Chicago hauntings video series for CBS Chicago.

I'm Carol Hughes, in for Tony Brewski,

and on this episode of the Grave Talks,

we're going to talk about some of the windy city's most haunted locations

with Chicago hauntings tour guide, Tony Zabelski.

Tony, I would love to start with the Iroquois theater because on December 30th, 1903,

it had only been open for a few weeks. They had a fire, a huge fire. The theater had been

advertised as absolutely fireproof.

Obviously, that wasn't the case.

The real claim was that it had this theater-length fireproof curtain,

which theoretically, if like a fire broke out in the theater,

the curtain would have divided the theater in half if it came down, hung from the ceiling initially.

And then because it was fireproof, the belief was that the fire would have just been contained on one side of the curtain.

It wouldn't have spread to the other.

So that would have made it easier to put it out.

So those are the reasons why they were saying this theater was fireproof. And the fireproof

curtain, by the way, was made of wood pulp and asbestos. That was the combination they used to make

that. So yeah. Getting the theater open on time, it really was not ready to be opened on November 23rd.

The building was still far off from being completely constructed.

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