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The Tacoma Times Newspaper

Corpse Alley

24 W Randolph St


In the early 1900's there was a doomed playhouse located at the front of this alley, the famed Iroquois Theater. It burned down during a holiday show in 1903, while hundreds of children and their families watched a Vaudeville act on-stage. By the end of the devastating tragedy, firefighters and volunteers had pulled over 600 victims’ bodies out into the alley.  It is said that on certain nights, you can hear the faint cries of these poor souls wailing in the night. Want to see more? Sign up for a tour with Chicago Hauntings.

On a cold winter night in 1934, Mary Bregovy went out dancing with a young beau at Oh Henry Ballroom. As the moon shone high and the hour grew late, the couple got into a heated argument and Mary angrily stormed out of the dance hall. Unfortunately though, she never made it home and instead became the victim of a gruesome hit-and-run accident along a dark road. Local legend maintains that the young woman’s ghost haunts the area to this day, dancing in her flowy white dress or hitchhiking along the surrounding highway.

Want to know more about ghostly haunts in Chicago? We’ve gathered four places where you can commune with the dead while you’re in town. For more on Mary click here.


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