Product Description
In 1895, investigators realized that the building H.H. Holmes operated in Chicago was a chamber or horrors, full of trap doors, secret passages, and everything you could need to dispose of a body. Here, Chicago Unbelievable collects eyewitness accounts of the building and its evil designer, along with photos, diagrams and ephemera. If DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY made you curious, this e-booklet will take you inside the building from the time it was built to its destruction in 1938 (yes, it was still standing in 1938 - and rumored to be haunted!), as seen by many of the people who rented rooms, worked on the building, or assisted with investigating its secrets - and lived to tell about it! Includes an active table of contents, an introduction, a timeline, several eyewitness accounts of life in the castle, reports from the 1895 excavation (as well as an account of the police's first encounter with the secret rooms in 1893), diagrams, photos, and more!
Sections include:
-Accounts of the interior of the castle from reporters and tenants.
-A account of the crowd that gathered around the castle on the day of Holmes' execution.
-Pictures, drawings and diagrams from both Holmes' heyday and following its 1896 renovation.
-Reprinted interviews with witnesses describing near-miss encounters with Holmes
-Ads, artwork, and emphemera.
Sections include:
-Accounts of the interior of the castle from reporters and tenants.
-A account of the crowd that gathered around the castle on the day of Holmes' execution.
-Pictures, drawings and diagrams from both Holmes' heyday and following its 1896 renovation.
-Reprinted interviews with witnesses describing near-miss encounters with Holmes
-Ads, artwork, and emphemera.
