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Curious City

The Haunting Of East Pilsen

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

Society & Culture, Education, Public, Chicago, Arts, City, Radio, Curious, Investigation

4.8642 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Curious City asked listeners for their paranormal experiences, and it turns out Chicago is pretty spooky. We explore the supernatural in one family’s home in Pilsen. Is that the sound of a house settling, or could it be spirits?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Curiosity reporter Adriana Cardona Maggiagad.

0:03.8

Halloween is a pagan holiday celebrating the end of the harvest season.

0:08.7

It's a period of transition when some say the veil that separates the physical world from the spirit world is lifted.

0:18.4

This week, we're going to dive into the mysterious world of unexplained phenomena like feeling a presence when no one is there objects randomly falling off the shelves whispers in the distance

0:35.2

Curious City asked listeners to share their scary or mysterious encounters.

0:40.8

Many of you had chilling stories about ghosts in college dormitories,

0:45.1

a mountain lion in a Chicago alley, and seeing Resurrection Mary,

0:50.9

a well-known hitchhiking ghost on Archer Avenue. But one story really stood out to us.

0:59.0

Could there be spirits in this one home on South Canalport right in the heart of Chicago?

1:05.7

One night, it had to be about five in the morning, and it was me, my husband, sleeping in the bed,

1:10.7

and I had the crib up against our bedroom window.

1:14.3

My bedroom door was flapping.

1:17.3

I never opened my bedroom window because of the baby.

1:20.2

She sits up at the crack of dawn, and she says, stop it, Papa.

1:25.0

And I jumped up.

1:26.9

I went, what?

1:28.8

In this episode, we follow Estelle Lozano and her mother Margo as they walk us through strange

1:35.6

happenings in their East Pilsen home.

1:38.5

My first Beagle, he would just randomly at like, you know, 3.30 at night, not every night,

1:43.8

but every once in a while, he would just go into like, you know, 3.30 at night, not every night, but every once in a while,

1:45.9

he would just go into the hallway at night. His hair would stand up on the back of his back,

1:51.9

and he would start ferociously barking into the hallway, and he would, like, back up as he was barking.

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