Adam Selzer: Ghost Buster

Write-up from the Smart Aleck Staff: Adam's night job is working as a historian, ghost tour guide and ghost investigator in Chicago. He says that he isn't quite sure he BELIEVES in ghosts, but looking for them is a lot of fun, and you tend to find a lot of fascinating things besides ghosts on a good investigation. Every member of the Smart Aleck Staff has been along on the investigations, though only one of us claims to have seen one (and we we're pretty sure it was just swamp gas)!

A book about his adventures in the field, YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD GIVES ME THE CREEPS: TRUE TALES OF AN ACCIDENTAL GHOST HUNTER was published by LLewellyn Press in Fall, 2009. It aspired to be the funniest, most down-to-earth book ever written on the subject of ghost hunting and became a hit with believers and skeptics alike. It also inspired this hilarious, wildly inaccurate write-up in that tabloid The Sun, which we here on the staff tease Adam about mercilessly.

Adam has worked for most of the ghost tour companies in the city, and now gives tours privately. Follow along with his adventures and research by following the Weird Chicago Blog!

And, no, he does not use a proton pack. Those have been outdated since the early '90s; the 4.0 models fit on a keychain, and we've been able to cross the streams since model 2.3 came out in 1994. Get with the times, folks.