Tragedy and Terror in Chicago, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC

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🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This is a Grave Talks CLASSIC EPISODE!

Join us for another haunting exploration of Chicago’s dark past with Tony Szabelski, a dedicated tour guide for Chicago Hauntings and long-time paranormal investigator. In this classic episode of The Grave Talks, Tony unravels the heartbreaking tragedy of the Iroquois Theater—the site of one of America’s deadliest theater fires—and shares the lingering spirits rumored to roam its halls. We then venture into the eerie corridors of the Congress Plaza Hotel, widely considered Chicago’s most haunted hotel, where guests and staff alike have encountered inexplicable events. Brace yourself for chilling stories and hidden history from the depths of The Windy City. This is Part Two of our conversation.

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0:00.0	Today on The Grave Talks, we continue our conversation with Chicago Paranormal Investigator,
0:07.6	Tony Zabelsky.
0:09.8	Tony's a longtime Chicago paranormal investigator and works with Chicago hauntings.
0:15.3	If you missed the first part of our conversation, make sure you check that out.
0:20.1	Today on this episode of the Grave Talks,
0:22.7	we're going to talk about some of Chicago's most haunted locations with Chicago hauntings
0:28.0	ghost tour guide, Tony Zabelsky.
0:32.7	And Tony, Chicago has such a rich history, and you can't talk about Chicago's history without talking about the gangster history.
0:42.8	And probably the most famous site, the one that everyone's heard about, is a St. Valentine's Day massacre site.
0:49.4	And I wanted to talk about that today.
0:51.4	When you go there, you don't see a lot these days, but apparently
0:57.0	it's haunted. Oh, definitely. And thanks again, Carol, for having me on. And going back to that
1:03.3	point, you mentioned about how you can't really, for one, be a tour guide in Chicago without
1:07.5	knowing about the gangster history.
1:13.5	It does come up on almost every tour.
1:18.2	We do tours that go out to the suburbs, and it comes up on suburban tours.
1:25.4	I did a combined two years in a row tour with the Chicago Pizza Tour guy.
1:31.3	It's like pizza and ghost hunting. We go to a couple of pizzerias and then a couple of haunted stops. And he even talked about prohibition era gangsters and their ties to some of what
1:37.7	eventually became to pizzerias in the city. Definitely, you know, this is all very tied in to Chicago
1:43.8	and its history.
1:45.5	But yeah, the same Valentine's Day massacre, I mean, you think about one of the reasons why, at least I personally believe that site to be haunted, is you have seven people that were brutally murdered that morning gunned down by, you know, Tommy gun fire.
2:02.6	And it is still, to this day, an unsolved mystery as to who shot these men.
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