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The Haunting of Joliet Prison: The Brutal Past & Paranormal Present of One of the World's Most Notorious Penitentiaries

2020

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From Ursula Bielski, winner of the Chicago Public Library Foundation award for outstanding contributions to Chicago's literary culture, comes the first-ever volume about haunted Joliet Prison. For more than a century and a half, Illinois' Old Joliet Prison state penitentiary hosted some of America's darkest perpetrators of crime, from notorious outlaw Frank Rande to Chicago gangsters like "Bugs" Moran and "Baby Face" Nelson to mass murderer Richard Speck and serial killer John Wayne Gacy. Behind the limestone walls of this castle-like fortress---immortalized in The Blues Brothers--the chaotic lives of Joliet's inmates continued even after incarceration. Stabbings, shootings, suicides and disease took the lives of hundreds of imprisoned men and women within the prison compound. Do these inmates still walk the cell blocks, solitary chambers and burial ground of this infamous penitentiary?Step inside Old Joliet Prison with Chicago's renowned ghost hunter and historian Ursula Bielski and the Joliet Hauntings Crew, who conducted the first-ever authorized paranormal investigations at the prison in 2018. Within these pages, you'll trace the chilling history of Joliet's brutal past and investigate its abandoned spaces in search of lingering phantoms, from the "Singing Ghost" of the Old Convict Cemetery to the ghost of Odette Allen--the warden's wife found murdered and burned in her bed--to the spectral and eternal inmates of the prison hospital, Death Row and more. As you meet the ghosts of Joliet's inmates--and those of their tragic victims--the dark tales of Old Joliet Prison will hold you captive indeed.

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