Chicago Ghosts Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Great Chicago Fire

Legend has it that this structure is haunted today by the ghost of a man who stayed on the job during the fire, continuing to pump the water as the fire got closer. The story goes that this heroic city worker waited until the last possible minute and then took his own life rather than be engulfed in the flames. His ghost has reportedly been seen hanging through an upper window of the tower.

Answer: Resurrection Mary

Although stories of "vanishing hitchhikers" in Chicago date back to the horse and buggy days, Resurrection Mary's tale begins in the 1930's. It was around this time that drivers along Archer Avenue started reporting strange encounters with a young woman in a white dress. She always appeared to be real, until she would inexplicably vanish. The reports of this girl began in the middle 1930's and started when motorists passing by Resurrection Cemetery began claiming that a young woman was attempting to jump onto the running boards of their automobiles.

Answer: Bachelor's Grove Cemetery

The Most Haunted Place in Chicagoland --- There are more ghost stories and eerie legends told about Bachelor's Grove cemetery than any other place in the Chicago area. Ask any ghost chaser where to go to find a hauntings and chances are, this cemetery will be very high on the list!

Answer: Mt. Carmel Cemetery

Besides being the burial place of Al Capone and a number of other of Chicago's greatest gangsters, Mt Carmel cemetery is also the final resting place of Julia Buccola Petta. She has also become known over the years as the "Italian Bride" and she has also become famous because of the fact that over the course of six years...her body never decayed!

Answer: A handprint on a glass window

On April 18, 1924, a firefighter named Frank Leavy was washing a window at the fire station. For some reason, he paused in his work, his hand resting against the pane of glass, and he told a friend who was standing nearby that he had the strangest feeling he was going to die that day. Just then, the station received an alarm call and the fire fighters were sent to a fire that had broken out at Curran Hall, an office building in Chicago.

While fighting the fire, a wall collapsed and killed eight of the firemen... Frank Leavy was one of those killed.

Answer: Red Lion Pub

One ghost is said to signal her presence by the strong smell of lavender and she is said to be the spirit of a young mentally challenged girl who died in the building. Other ghosts include a strong presence in the upstairs women's restroom, a man in cowboy clothing, a man who sometimes walks up the stairs then through the downstairs bar, a blond-haired man and a bearded man wearing a black hat

Answer: Country House Restaurant

Customers and staff members complained of strange voices, slamming doors, and windows that opened by themselves. A witness was arriving at the bar one day when he noticed that a woman was beckoning to him from an upstairs window. He was surprised to learn later that there was no one in that room at the time.

Answer: Adolph Luetgert

His attorney, Lawrence Harmon, believed that his client was telling the truth and that he did not kill his wife. He was sure that she had simply disappeared. In fact, Harmon was so convinced of Luetgert's innocence that he spent over $2,000 of his own money and devoted the rest of his life to finding Louisa. Eventually, he also went insane and he died in a mental institution.

Answer: Leopold and Loeb

Over the course of the four years, they committed robbery, vandalism, arson and petty theft, but this was not enough for Loeb. He dreamt of something bigger. A murder, he convinced his friend, would be their greatest intellectual challenge.

Answer: Oprah Winfrey

Staff members hear whispering voices, the laughter of children, sobbing sounds, old-time music, the clinking of phantom glasses and marching of invisible footsteps. The footsteps (which sound as though they belong to a large group) are frequently heard on the lobby staircase and nearby doors often slam shut without assistance. A large number of the staff members believe this to be a very haunted place!