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The owners and
guides of the Weird Chicago
Tours bring more than 40 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,) 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,
both of the owners / guides are authors
and historians with plenty of
time spent gaining hands-on
experience with the supernatural.
Whether you are staying in the finest
Chicago hotels or you're a local
windy city native, 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
famous
haunted sites and allow you
to experience them!
Make your
Reservations Today!
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(Left) Troy
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(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 more 80 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.
Troy currently
resides 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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PAUL BARILE
Paul Barile is a
writer/actor who enjoys sharing and hearing
stories about the greatest city in the
world. His personal GPS is focused on
Chicago's finer culinary establishments and
he finds Al Capone, Leopold and Loeb, and
Harold's Chicken Shack equally intriguing.
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CLARENCE GOODMAN
Clarence Goodman has been a professional
musician for 30 years. The only other thing
that comes close to writing a new song is
designing a new tour for Weird Chicago.
Though disappointed that there was no fifth
star added to the flag to celebrate his
birth, he nevertheless loves the work and
finds his hometown infinitely fascinating.
His favorite quote about Chi-Town is by Alex
Wolcott: "Germany was the cause of Hitler
just as much as Chicago is responsible for
the
Chicago Tribune." |
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SUNNY MEGATRON
Sunny Megatron is a former 17 year ad
industry veteran with a passion for all
things weird. Growing up the
granddaughter of an acclaimed author and
historian, half of her formative years were
spent attending lectures, hanging out at the
Chicago Historical Society and toddling past
old gangster haunts still in diapers.
The rest of the time she spent with her
mother who was the famed “Balloon Lady” of
Lincoln Park during the 1980s. Sunny's unique childhood experiences left
her with a penchant for the odd, humorous
and bizarre.
When not giving tours or researching
anecdotal Chicago history, Sunny enjoys
ghost hunting, composing and recording indie
style music, humor writing, frequenting
local thrift stores and making everyone
around her laugh.
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Greg Hanigan - Guide
Layla Kelly -
Office Staff |
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