The owners and
guides of the Weird Chicago
Tours bring more than 30 years
of combined experience with tours in
Chicago, Illinois and across America! As
authors on subjects of the unusual,
Chicago historians and just all around
strange people, your guides will offer
you a weird experience that you won't
get anywhere else! The owners of the
Weird Chicago Tours
(Troy Taylor, Ken Berg & Adam Selzer),
along with some of our staff, are actual
ghost hunters with years of experience
with hauntings and the paranormal.
Actively researching the strange and the
unusual, all three of the owners /
guides are authors and historians with
hands-on experience with the
supernatural. You won't find a more
qualified ghost tour in Chicago -- or a
more authentic one! We don't just tell
you about ghosts, we take you to
Chicago's most haunted sites and allow
you to experience them!
Make your
Reservations Today!
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(Left) Troy
Taylor
(Right) Ken Melvoin-Berg |
TROY TAYLOR
Troy Taylor is a co-owner and creator of the Weird Chicago Tours and the author of
Weird Illinois, Haunted Chicago, Haunted Illinois,
Bloody Chicago, the Chicago Murder & Mayhem
Series and nearly 70 other books
about hauntings and the unexplained in Illinois and
America. Along with writing about the weird and unusual,
Taylor is also a public speaker on the subject
and has spoken to literally hundreds of private
and public groups. He has appeared in newspaper
and magazine articles and has also been
interviewed hundreds of times for radio and
television broadcasts about the supernatural.
He has also appeared in a
number of documentary films, several television series and
in one feature horror film called "The St. Francisville Experiment".
Critics called him the "best actor in the film", which
wasn't saying much since he was playing himself.
When not pounding away on a
typewriter and chasing ghosts, Taylor is also the owner of
the American Hauntings Tour Co.,
which operates ghost tours (and the Weird Chicago Tour) all over the state. He
began his career with ghost tours in high school, where he
was well known for his interest in "things that go bump in
the night", by taking his friends on informal tours of
haunted places all over Illinois. Troy went into the ghost
tour business in 1994 and in 2006, started the Weird Chicago Tour with
Ken and Adam.
Troy and his wife,
Haven, who also works in the office, currently
reside in Chicago.
Send Email to
Troy |
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KEN MELVOIN-BERG
Ken Melvoin-Berg is a
co-owner of the Weird Chicago Tours and a
Chicago-area psychic detective, author,
lecturer and ghost hunter who is frequently
consulted by the media on numerous TV shows,
radio, newspapers and podcasts for advice on
all things paranormal. He has been used as a
Psychic Detective by law enforcement
agencies around the globe with murder
suspect identification cases in which he has
assisted with 29 convictions, including 2
serial killers.
Ken is a medium that
regularly performs séances including his
famous Houdini séance he attempts every
October 31st. Ken is the official psychic of
the American Ghost Society and the Illinois
Director of State Operations for Everyday
Paranormal for the Discovery channel show
Ghost Lab. Although Ken's background had
taken him across the globe as a World
traveler, medic in the Air Force and a
Biologist, his true love is ghost
investigations and telling the stories about
them on his tours. As a professional
Psychic, Ken has a private practice in
Chicago which he guides both celebrity
clients and folks from all walks of life,
either helping them in person over the phone
using tarot, palmistry and astrology. Ken
has developed a love for gaming, all things
steampunk, pirates and zombies.
Ken currently lives
in Chicago with a black cat born on
Halloween named Lilith and a dog rescued on
Xmas day named Lolita.
Send Email to Ken
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ERICA
BEHRINGER
Erica Behringer is a
tour guide for Weird Chicago Tours and ghost
hunts, with over ten years of ghost hunting
experience thus far. She immerses herself
into the history and hauntings at locations
nationwide - from private residences to
historic landmarks. |
This work has taken her across the country
and even brushes with fame on television,
yet she still seeks the elusive "evidence
and validation" of life on the other side.
A professional filmmaker by trade - having
worked on movies, documentaries, music
videos, and a common addition to most of the
Chicago sports teams' locker rooms for all
those interviews you fans love to see.
Along with
video and editing work, she is also an
amateur photographer, learning the ways of
ghost photography. You may have also seen
her in several feature films, as that is
where her roots in "the industry" truly
started - in front of the camera, before she
found her love of directing behind the
scenes. You may also have seen her small
stint in the famed Second City of Chicago at
Piper's Alley (hmm... there may be a few
ghost stories from there as well, you'll
just have to ask her about though!) In 2005
she started her own production company
called Templar Pictures to pursue her love
of making films. Ghost Hunting was pretty
hard to come by in the small town where she
was raised, so she took it upon herself to
start her own group which grew very quickly.
Now she has left the team in capable hands
and freelances her talents to teams across
the country looking for her area of
expertise in video and documenting. She
co-founded a team of other free-thinking
ghost hunting individuals called
ParaNocturne
When
not working in the locker room with the
boys, editing from the office, or spending
the night in a haunted asylum - she enjoys
teaching and practicing Reiki as a Reiki
Master / Practitioner throughout the Chicago
area. She combines this with her practice
of crystal therapy and has begun teaching
classes in that as well. Some may point the
finger and call her "witch"... she neither
confirms nor denies these claims. Erica
currently resides in the suburbs of the
Chicago area, though quite nomadic in her
travels to wherever work and ghost hunting
might take her. |
Haven Taylor
Office Staff |
Willie Williams
Driver (And Employee of the Month for 2008) |
Brant McRea
Driver |
Happy Dave /
Driver
Visit
Happy's Website |
Not Pictured:
William "Wild Bill" Griffith (Historian)
Greg Hanigan (Part Time Driver)
Adam Selzer
(Co-Owner, Author, Consultant)
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