Episode 4: Eastland Disaster

High Spirits Chicago

English - September 10, 2016 00:32 - 1 hour - 58.3 MB - ★★★ - 18 ratings
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Next Episode: Episode 5: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Jay walks us through the Eastland Disaster – in Chicago, 844 people lost their lives on Saturday, July 24, 1915.

This story contains:
1. Details of the Eastland Disaster (Clark Street Bridge!)
2. A poem written by outraged journalist/poet Carl Sandburg (Poem!)
3. Temporary Morgues (floating Morgue under Wells St. Bridge!)
4. The ghosts at Harpo Studio (Lady in Gray!)
5. SPOILER ALERT: Excalibur has been debunked as a morgue for the Eastland Disaster (It’s just a nightclub maybe haunted by other old-timey ghosts!)

Sweet Dreams!