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Chicago, Illinois, is a historic city filled with mystery. In these
pages, you will learn about some of the most famous Chicago
mysteries that, to this day, still have no answer. Who caused the
Great Chicago Fire of 1871? Read about Al Capone and the
Valentine's Day Massacre, the Smiley Face Murders, and the many
people who have gone missing. From the very beginnings of the city
to today, mysteries abound within the Windy City. People disappear,
UFOs are spotted over O'Hare International Airport, pranksters
interrupt television broadcasts, and the bodies of a notorious
serial killer's victims are still being sought. All of these tales,
and more, are here to tantalize your mind, haunt your dreams, and
keep you guessing.
Whether the disasters came from the earth itself, from fire, air,
or water, Chicago has paid its dues in blood, sweat, and tears.
Discover events that led up to one of the greatest sea disasters in
U.S. history. Learn about a tragic school blaze that changed fire
codes across the country. Read about the Great Chicago Fire and the
myths that surround it, and how, without it, the city may not have
achieved new levels of greatness. Feel the terror and shock that
gripped the city and the nation during an airline disaster that
took the lives of over 200 people, just minutes after takeoff from
O'Hare Airport. You will be amazed at the courage, senselessness,
shock, and horror of Chicago's disasters.
Discover the most notorious criminals and crimes in Chicago's
history. Meet psychopath and criminal mastermind Silas Jayne, a
stone-cold killer even the mob seemed to fear. Read about the
"Trial of the Century," the case that made the names Leopold and
Loeb famous, and legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow a household name.
Explore the mind of the Tylenol Terrorist who paralyzed the country
with fear. You've heard about Capone, Gacy, and Speck; now learn
about the rest of Chicago's worst.
St. Louis is a modern metropolis still rich with legends dating
back to the early Native Americans, and a history that lives on
through many spirits that refuse to die. Visit the infamous Lemp
Mansion and discover its scandalous history; a tragic tale of a
wealthy family plagued by multiple suicides, madness, depression,
and public ridicule. Read about the Gehm House, if you dare, where
footsteps fall where no man walks and visitors are attacked as they
sleep. Learn about Building 28 at the haunted Jefferson Barracks.
See spirits of children floating on the lawn of the haunted Rock
House. And dont forget to peer back into the past to see the
ghost-infested McDowell Medical College!A ghost-lovers paradise,
these and other tales will haunt you.
"MAYDAY, MAYDAY, MAYDAY, PLEASE HELP US " Rig 42, the largest and
most advanced oil rig the world has ever known, has just hit
something. The airwaves fill with the sounds of screaming, terror,
and torture, and then there is silence. Now, the biggest oil rig in
the world sits quietly. But something evil has infiltrated the
massive structure. The company is desperate to find out what's
happened. A team of mercenaries and oil rig experts is dispatched
to determine what the danger is and if it can be eliminated. They
find that the rig hit something that had been buried for
centuries...something older than evil itself...something that
leaves only the unbearable screams of the tortured
behind...something that hungers. It is a terror that can take any
shape. It is a terror that will destroy a man's body and tear apart
his soul.
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Gone (Paperback)
Bryan W. Alaspa
bundle available
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R453
Discovery Miles 4 530
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A group of employees trying to have a weekend of bonding in the
woods. What they get, however, is a weekend of unrelenting terror.
What is making them disappear one at a time? Why can't they leave?
Will any of them make it back or will all of them end up "Gone?"
Read all the books in the WRAPPED Series *Wrapped In Red: Thirteen
Tales of Vampiric Horror *Wrapped In White: Thirteen Tales of
Spectres, Ghosts, and Spirits Tragedy begets terror, then circles
back on itself, and a cycle is born that ripples through the worlds
of the living and dead eternally, until satisfied by love,
tears--or blood... The creators of Wrapped In Red have struck
again, unfurling thirteen gossamer shrouds of woe and weirdness,
laying bare the faces of fear that watch and wait in the shadows of
cemeteries, the corners of ancient structures, the thoughts we wish
we didn't think . Some will crawl under your skin, some will batter
you senseless with limitless otherworldly power, others will walk a
line as thin as the veil between us and them. Leave the lights on
for this collection--but know that no precaution will keep its
tales from haunting you even into the noonday sun...
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Sapphire (Paperback)
Bryan W. Alaspa
bundle available
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R419
Discovery Miles 4 190
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Jimmy Parker is a typical high school student. Unpopular with the
girls and picked on by the boys, he's just trying to survive long
enough to escape the tiny Pennsylvanian town of Knorr. With Jimmy
and his friend, George, heading to the school dance, they expect
nothing but the usual ritual humiliation from their peers. But when
a girl in a brilliant blue dress enters their lives at the side of
a lonely old bridge...everything changes. Her name is Sapphire, and
she is the most alluring girl that Jimmy has ever met. Yet, there
is something strange about her; something different. Why has he
never seen her at school? Why does she only want to meet up near
the bridge? And why does everybody keep warning Jimmy to stay away
from her? Before long, Jimmy is plunged into a decades-old mystery.
The town of Knorr has many secrets; some held by powerful men. Men
that would do anything to keep them from getting out. Something
dark happened one night in Knorr, and now Jimmy is a part of it
whether he likes it or not. And Sapphire holds the key to
understanding it all. Jimmy discovers that his bond with the
mysterious girl creates a unique power between them. A power that
bridges time, space, and even dimensions. It is the one thing that
could save them both. Because sometimes the most powerful force on
Earth is love.
In October of 1933 a plane carrying seven people exploded and
crashed over Chesterton, Indiana, on its way to Chicago, killing
all on board. The crash shocked the small community of Chesterton,
but what really shocked the country was the revelation that it was
a bomb that brought the plane down. The airline industry was new,
and the news of a bomb was potentially disastrous to an industry
that was still trying to prove itself safe to a skeptical public
and that was also experiencing labor problems with its pilots and
mechanics. The man in charge of the investigation as none other
than Melvin Purvis, the G-man in charge of the Chicago FBI office
and the man who would become a superstar for bringing down John
Dillinger. However, what no one knew was that pressure from J.
Edgar Hoover to capture bank robbers and gangsters, plus Hoover's
petty jealousy over the increasing popularity of Purvis, made life
in the Chicago FBI office a living hell as Purvis and his men
juggled dozens of cases while also trying to find a culprit in the
Chesterton plane bombing. It is a mystery that remains to this day,
but hardly anyone knows about it. For the first time, author Bryan
Alaspa explores the FBI files, presents the evidence the
investigators found, and presents the story of what was happening
behind-the-scenes at the FBI. For the first time, the story of the
Chesterton Crash is told. Today, we would say that the incident was
the first case of terrorism against a commercial airliner. Back
then, they just called it SABOTAGE.
Deklan Falls is a broken man in a corrupt city. Once he was a cop
in Oldtowne, a small city in eastern Ohio that most people don't
know about, and those who live there wish they could forget. Then
he become a corrupt cop. Then he became a crusader private eye, and
then, when his world blew apart, he crawled into a bottle to die.
Then, one day, a filmmaker walks into his office because Deklan can
be bought cheap. The documentary filmmaker wants to find the star
of a famous adult film from the late 70s who vanished. The film was
financed by the mob, made in Oldtowne, and is one of the biggest
mysteries in the adult film industry. If Deklan can find out what
happened to Faline Forest, star of the world-famous film The
Cheerleader, he'll get a million dollars. That's enough to get
cleaned up, but it means possibly facing off against the mob that
rules Oldtowne. He's been warned twice about that. But maybe, just
maybe, if he can figure out what happened to Faline, he can redeem
himself. The entire city is against him, but maybe, just maybe, he
can fix himself and Oldtowne. One broken man in a corrupt city. One
very cold missing persons case. One shot at redemption.
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