The Haunting of Hull-House: Halloween Folklore Tours

Join the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for a nighttime folklore tour that engages stories from the settlement’s past. In the late nineteenth century, many newly arrived immigrant neighbors responded to the rapid transformations of industrialism with tales of imagination and horror. From its inception, the Hull-House settlement was a center of urban legends and supernatural stories, an oral tradition kept alive by those who imagined unearthly inhabitants who lived at the settlement. On this tour, visitors will learn about Chicago as a place of great hardship, plagued by a history of tragic events that left countless ghost stories in their wake. You’ll hear about Hull-House's Infamous Devil Baby, the Fountain Girls, the neighborhood mortician, the resident Lady in White, and more. You will also be invited to share folklore and ghost stories from our own life! Join us this October for some nighttime history fun.