>> REALLY FLY OVER O'HARE AIRPORT.

WHOLE HOUSE HAUNTED.

AND WHILE CHICAGO PUT KETCHUP ON THEIR HOT DOGS.

WELL, DETECTIVE JEFFREY BEAR SETS OUT TO TRY AND SOLVE THESE PUZZLER IS IN THE NEW W T TW SPECIAL CHICAGO MYSTERIES.

THAT'S PREMIERING TONIGHT.

HERE'S A LOOK.

>> EVERYONE LOVES A GOOD MYSTERY.

AND CHICAGO HAS ENOUGH OF THEM MY >> I'M JEFFREY LET'S SEE IF WE CAN SOLVE SOME CHICAGO'S MOST PERPLEXING MYSTERIES.

ANYBODY HERE THAT WANTS TO COMMUNICATE.

WHERE DID COME I SOLVE THE MYSTERY.

THIS IS PRETTY MUCH A DEAD END RIGHT HERE.

LIKE USING THE WORD >> AND JOINING US NOW WITH MORE IS THE PROGRAM'S HOST, CO-WRITER AND PRODUCER JEFFREY THERE.

JEFFREY, GOOD TO SEE YOU.

AND THE PRODUCERS, SHAWN KEANE A HAND RIGHT.

DID A GREAT JOB AND WE'RE HAPPY TO HAVE HIM WITH US.

OK, BEFORE WE GET INTO HOW THE SHOW CAME ABOUT, DID WE JUST SEE A GIANT POTATO?

>> WELL, LOOK LIKE A GIANT.

IS ACTUALLY A THAT WOULD SOMEONE ATTEMPTED TO ROLL ACROSS LAKE MICHIGAN IN WIND POWER VEST WAS PART OF A MY FAVORITE STORY OF THE SHOW, WHICH IS ABOUT THE FULL KILLER.

>> WHICH IS THIS SUPPOSED SUBMARINE?

>> THAT WAS FOUND ON THE BOTTOM OF THE CHICAGO RIVER IN 1915.

SO THE FULL COACH ON THE RIGHT THERE, THE SUBMARINE VESSEL.

THIS WAS DISCOVERED BY US SELF-PROMOTING DEEP SEA DIVER THERE NAMED WILLIAM FRENCHIE TO STUB HIS TOE ON THIS THING AND IT WAS MARITIME LAW.

THEY SAID HE COULD KEEP IT SO HE PUT IT ON DISPLAY IN A SKEE-BALL RK.

THIS IS THE FELLOW WE INTERVIEW ABOUT MARK CHRYSLER PODCASTER.

HE PUT IT ON DISPLAY IN A SKEE-BALL ARCADE AND YOU COULD YOU COULD GO INSIDE FOR $0.10 IF YOU DARE.

OKAY.

I LOVE THE MARITIME LAW BOILS DOWN TO FINDERS CHICAGO SCOTT HISTORY OF MYSTERIES LIKE MANY OLD CITIES.

HOW TO PICK WHICH ONES TO INVESTIGATE FOR THIS PROGRAM?

WELL, YOU KNOW IT.

WE WANTED A RANGE OF MYSTERIES.

SO THERE'S, YOU KNOW, TRUE CRIME.

THERE'S THE PARANORMAL IN IN THE SHOW THERE.

I AM GHOST HUNTING WITH THE GOT THE IN THE SHOW OVER HERE.

>> AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS ALSO AS WE WORKED ON IT MORE AND WE REALIZE THERE'S THIS ELEMENT OF FUND.

SO, YEAH, THERE'S A THERE'S MURDER THAT HAPPENED, BUT IT WAS 100 YEARS AGO.

AND AND SO WE REALLY DIDN'T PUT ANYTHING LIKE TO MODERN DAY OR 2 GRIM IN THE SHOW.

AND WE REALLY KIND OF SORT OF LEANED INTO THE FUND.

IT'S THE MOST FUN SHOW I'VE EVER DONE.

LOVE THAT.

WELL, SPEAKING OF THAT 100 YEAR-OLD MURDER MYSTERY NOT TO BE TOO BLEAK, BUT THIS IS KNOWN AS THE LOOK SAUSAGE THAT INTO A SORT OF A GHOST HUNT.

LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT A CLIP.

>> SO THIS ACTUALLY HAS A TEMPERATURE PROBE RIGHT HERE WE COULD ENCOUNTER WITH CALLED THE COLD SPOT.

HE SAYS THEY COULD HELP US TRACK DOWN.

EVIDENCE OF LOUISE IS SPIRIT.

>> THAT IS THE ACTUAL DETECTION DEVICE.

I FOR TAX SOMETIMES CALLED PUMPS WERE KIND OF FEEDING THE GHOST.

LOOK AT ACTUALLY HAD SOME OF THESE DEVICES GO OFF ON COMMAND.

ONCE WE WERE FULLY EQUIPPED, OK, LET'S DO IT.

AND WE CANVASSED THE PREMISES.

JUST SAID ANYBODY HERE THAT WANTS TO COMMUNICATE.

>> ALL RIGHT, JEFFREY, WHERE IS THAT THAT YOU ARE TRYING TO TRACK DOWN?

IT GOES TO WHAT DID THAT SEEM LIKE?

A GOOD WELL, ACTUALLY, WE WERE ONLY CAMERA CREW THAT'S EVER BEEN ALLOWED IN THIS IS NOW WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DISCLOSE THE LOCATION PRIVACY, BUT IT'S NOW A CONDO ON THE IN THE LAKEVIEW NEIGHBORHOOD.

>> AND BUT IT IN THE IN THE 18 90'S, IT WAS A SAUSAGE FACTORY BIG CHICAGO SAUSAGE KING WAS ACCUSED OF MURDERING HIS WIFE AND DISPOSING OF HER BODY IN RATHER GRIM IN THE BASEMENT OF SAUCERS, NOT OF SWEENEY TODD STORY.

OK, I WANT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR, DULY BUT IT WAS AND IT WAS, YOU KNOW, THE TRIAL OF THE CENTURY WAS A BIG 3 RING CIRCUS.

AND HE WAS EVENTUALLY CONVICTED, OK?

WELL, THERE'S A SEGMENT THAT HITS VERY CLOSE TO HOME FOR YOU.

THIS DATES BACK A PRE-DATING.

THE CITY OF CHICAGO'S FOUNDING BACK WHEN THIS WAS LAND OCCUPIED BY INDIGENOUS AMERICANS.

TELL US MORE ABOUT THAT.

THIS IS INDIGENOUS LAND THAT WE ALL LIVE ON.

AND THAT WAS ACQUIRED BY THE UNITED STATES LESS THAN HONORABLE MEANS AND SO WHEN I WAS GROWING UP IN NORTH SUBURBAN DEERFIELD, THERE WAS THIS TREE IN A LITTLE WOODLAND LIKE A BLOCK FROM MY HOUSE AND IT WAS A TREE THAT WAS BENT OVER AND THAT THIS IS HOW THE NATIVE AMERICANS DO THIS.

THESE WERE CALLED TRAIL MARKER TREES.

SO THE HUNDREDS OF YEARS LATER, HE GROWS UP TO LOOK LIKE SOMETHING LIKE THIS.

AND IT'S A CLUE THAT NATIVE AMERICANS, YOU KNOW, LIVED THERE.

THEY USE THESE BENT TREES TO MARK THEIR TRAILS.

AND THEN WE GO ON IN THE SHOW TO EXPLAIN THAT MANY OF THE DIAGONAL STREETS IN CHICAGO ARE THE LIVING REMINDERS THAT NOW THESE ARE FORMER INDIAN TRAIL WHERE THE ROADS IN CHICAGO WHICH HAVE SINCE BEEN OVERLAID BY THAT FAMOUS CHICAGO STREET GRID.

VERY WELL, SOME OF THE MYSTERIES ARE FAR MORE RECENT THAN THAT, INCLUDING AN ALLIGATOR THAT WAS FOUND IN HUMBOLDT PARK CAME TO AFFECTIONATELY BEING HARNESSED CHANCE.

THE WERE YOU ABLE TO FIGURE OUT JUST HOW HE MADE HIS WAY INTO THAT LAGOON?

WELL, SO I LOVE THE FACT THAT SOME OF THESE MYSTERIES ARE NOT YET.

ONE OF THE CLUES TO HOW HE GOT THERE.

THIS IS THE PHOTOGRAPHER WHOSE FIRST SPOTTED CHANCE THERE, SHE WAS SHOOTING A CASE IN YET OF PHOTO SHOOT AND THEY SHE SPOTTED SOMETHING IN THE WATER AND AND DIDN'T SEE YOU KNOW WHAT, IT WASN'T AS YOU ZOOM IN AND SHE WAS LIKE, WELL, IT'S AN ALLIGATOR IN THE MENA BLOOM HERE FROM A BLACK CLUB BROKE THE STORY.

SO THE CLUE ABOUT WHO HE WAS CHANCE IS BEEN SMELL AND THAT SUGGESTS THAT HE CAGED.

AND AS HE GREW BIG FINALLY, HIS NOSE WAS PRESSED UP AGAINST THE CAGE.

AND SO WHOEVER OWNED HUMANS AND ILLEGAL LIKELY DUMPED MARIAH'S, I THINK, IS GOING TO BE BIG GUY.

BUT WHEN THEY RESCUED HIM, USE HIS CUTE LITTLE GUY.

BUT THEN HERE'S ALLIGATOR.

ROBIN RESCUED WE WE INTERVIEW HIM DOWN IN FLORIDA NOW AND THAT'S CHANCE.

TODAY.

HE 6 MORE THAN 6 FEET LONG.

SO HE'S AT LIVING A HAPPY LIFE.

DON'T IN FLORIDA GETTING WELL.

GOOD FOR OKAY.

I THINK I ALSO SPIED A RECENTLY RETIRED BUT STILL MUCH LOVE WGN METEOROLOGIST TOM SKILLING.

IS WHETHER MYSTERY WELL KNOW, ALTHOUGH TONIGHT WOULD BE A GOOD NIGHT FOR TIMES, PROBABLY AT HOME GOING, OH, I WISH I COULD GET BACK WITH THIS WHERE THERE WAS A U F THAT WAS SPOTTED OF AT O'HARE AND THIS IS NOT SOME CRACKPOT WHO SPOTTED.

THIS IS JOHN HILL CAN DITCH THE JOURNALISTS FROM THE TRIBUNE.

HE GOT THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TAPES.

THE CONTROLLERS ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS THERE ON YOUR DID YOU GUYS SEE A U F O?

YOU KNOW, WE THOUGHT WE SAW FLYING DISC SO THEY CLAIMED THAT THE FAA CLAIMED THAT IT WAS THIS, THAT IT WAS A HOLE PUNCH CLOUD.

SO WHO BETTER TO SOLVE THAT MYSTERY?

AND TELL US WHAT A HOLE PUNCH CLOUD IS.

TOM SKILLING'S.

I WAS VERY THRILLED TO GET TO MEET TOM SKILLING AND ASK HIM IF THERE'S ANYTHING TO THIS HOLE PUNCH.

CLOUD.

THINK IF THERE'S ANYBODY WHO'S GOING TO KNOW IT'S GOING LEAVING.

HE JEFFREY, I CANNOT WAIT TO CHECK OUT ALL THE REST OF THESE AND ALL THAT IS LEFT ON THE WEBSITE AS WELL.

I KNOW THIS MUCH MORE TO CHECK OUT THERE AS WELL.

ABSOLUTELY.

THE WEBSITE IS LOADED WITH EXTRA CONTENT INCLUDING 4 MORE MYSTERIES THAT ARE NOT FEATURED IN THE SHOW.

SO FANNED 7 O'CLOCK TONIGHT.

I'M WTW AND WWW DOT COM.

ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

MY PLEASURE.

AND AS WE JUST MENTIONED, MORE BAFFLING TALES AWAIT YOU AT W T TW DOT COM SLASH CHICAGO MYSTERIES.

AND