A Tour To Remember!

[Goodwin 1st MRB]

The lady setup a surprise 'date night' for us last night - a ghost tour of chicago!

Our tour guide was hilarious - made it a lot of fun for everyone. Our guide doesn't do many of the tours anymore - so it was cool to get the owner of the tour himself giving us the info... Here's a little bio on the guy:

Ken Melvoin-Berg is a Chicago-area psychic detective, author, lecturer and ghost hunter who is frequently consulted by the media on numerous TV shows, radio, newspapers and podcasts for advice on all things paranormal. He has been used as a Psychic Detective by law enforcement agencies around the globe with murder suspect identification cases in which he has assisted with 29 convictions, including 2 serial killers.

Ken is a medium that regularly performs séances including his famous Houdini séance he attempts every October 31st. Ken is the official psychic of the American Ghost Society and the Illinois Director of State Operations for Everyday Paranormal for the Discovery channel show Ghost Lab. Although Ken's background had taken him across the globe as a World traveler, medic in the Air Force and a Biologist, his true love is ghost investigations and telling the stories about them on his tours.

This was the back alley behind the theater where over 600 people died. At the time the building was allowed to pass code without fire escapes, and the front doors opened in - instead of out, so when the wave of people hit the doors because a fire broke out inside, there were too many pushing from behind to open them. The balcony doors up top were chained and locked shut (so the poor folks in the cheap seats couldn't sneak to the good seats downstairs). The fire escape door was still up there and unlocked, and when a teacher went to open it, she fell out and to her death in this alley. When everyone else saw the open door, they followed suit. Over 130 were found dead, stacked about 6ft. high right where this picture was taken. The door was 6 stories up.

Also, the parking garage on the left? In the past 50 years +, 80 or so people have jumped to their death in this alley. Many reasonings as to why are because of the fact that the courthouse where custody cases and divorces are handled is across the street (I've actually parked in that garage!). This was the only picture that came out clear, of the 8-10 pictures we took in the alley. Others had similar issues with their cameras.

This was where the lady of Guadalupe appeared on a street wall. When it first showed up, thousands of people flocked to see it. The memorial is still there, with a picture of how it looked originally. It was cool to see - and I never knew about it.

This was in the Liars Club - a really divey small bar where some celebs come to stay outta the eyes of the paparazzi and to just chill. There have been 4 murders in the room where we were - for a while it was Joe Walsch's studio, while he lived upstairs. Dee took a picture of me sitting down (3 in rapid succession actually), is that an orb above me!??! It sure looks like it!

Number 1:

Number 2:

Number 3:

And the murders occurred right in the general area where the pinball machines reside now. We noticed what looks like another orb over his face in this picture. Here is our guide talking about it a little bit:

I would agree that more times than not, it's dust/pollen/shit in the air, or lense flare that causes many 'orbs', but who knows... there are some out there that are just unexplainable.

Overall, it was a complete blast. If you guys are ever in Chicago - I highly recommend this tour, you can drink on the bus during the 3-hour tour, the guides are hilarious, and you learn a LOT of really cool historical info - regardless if you're there for the ghosts or not. It was a great time.