Adam Selzer

Adam Selzer

Author and historian Adam Selzer has spent over a decade running hundreds of tours per year for companies such as Chicago Hauntings, Shoreline Sightseeing, and Weird Chicago. Early in his career, he began fact-checking the stories commonly told on such tours and found that they were a mess! With painstaking research, he rebuilt the stories he was telling from the ground up, spending hours poring through reels of microfilm, piles of paper from thearchives, and drawers full of long-forgotten photos and documents. This gave him material to make his tour different from any others, and he now runs tours privately for a variety of companies, including his own Mysterious Chicago. With years of practice, his tours are the most entertaining in town, often showcasing the humor that he used in his acclaimed novels for Random House and Simon and Schuster, including Just Kill Me, Play Me Backwards, and the cult favorite I Kissed a Zombie and I Liked It. He is also the author of several nonfiction books, including as Ghosts of Chicago (Llewelyn 2013), Flickering Empire: How Chicago Invented the US Film Industry (University of Columbia Press 2015), The Smart Aleck's Guide to American History (Random House 2015), Ghosts of Lincoln (Llewelyn 2015), and, of course the Mysterious Chicago book, released in 2016 by Sky Horse, who also published his mammoth HH Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil. Watch for his upcoming book, Graceland Cemetery: Stories, Symbols and Secrets (Univ of Illinois Press, 2021). He regularly appears on TV shows, including American Ripper (four episodes), Mysteries at the Museum (five episodes), Haunted History, Monumental Mysteries, Hotel Secrets and Legends, Dark Places, and more. Most recently he appeared in the Scary Stories documentary.
Adam Shalzi

Adam Shalzi

Adam Shalzi grew up in a suburb of Chicago and found his love for acting when his high school's theater director encouraged him to audition for the school play and cast him as the lead. He continued to act in plays, musicals, sketch comedy, and even made his own films. He made his way to the city where he began his professional acting career on Chicago stages and in front of the camera and became recognized for his versatility and comedy. Most recently, Shalzi plays supporting roles in the upcoming feature films The Crusades and The Windigo. He will also be appearing in the new Amazon series Paper Girls. His previous work includes Showtime's The Chi (2018) playing the role of Skokie, NBC's Chicago Fire (2012) as Patrick, Utopia (2020), Betrayal (2013), Janie Jones (2010) (Toronto International Film Festival), NightLights (2014), The Onion's "America's Best", dozens of independent films, and various TV and web commercials. His theater credits include Lord of the Flies (Steppenwolf Theatre), Eugene in The Original Grease (American Theater Company), Buddy Layman in The Diviners (Organic Theatre Company), the title role in The Stinky Cheese Man (Griffin Theatre), the title role in the touring Australian show, Dr. Egg and the Man with No Ear, and a season at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. He studied improv at The Second City Chicago, The Annoyance, is a graduate of the improv program at iO Chicago, and is a member of the Cirque du Soleil casting pool for comedic actors.

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