The Devil Baby of Hull-House | A Chicago Legend, 1913

Podcast: The Haunted Bunker: Paranormal Mysteries & the Unexplained · Shane L. Waters, Joshua Waters, Kim Morrow

Opublikowano: 2026-10-27

Chicago, fall of 1913. The Devil Baby legend begins when three Italian women come "with an excited rush through the door" of Hull-House at 800 South Halsted and demand to see the baby. Then comes, in Jane Addams's words, "a veritable multitude." For six weeks people pour in from all over the city and the suburbs, all day and late into the night, and the answer at Hull-House is always the same: "No, there is no such baby." No baby was ever found, and no family or birth record has turned up. So why did thousands of people go looking for...