🧱 Tucked away in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood once stood the SMC Cartage Company garage, the site of one of the most infamous murders in American history: the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929.

Seven men were gunned down by Al Capone’s hit squad, lined up against a wall of red bricks that would become accidentally sacred, soaked in fear and betrayal. The garage is long gone, but the bricks live on—literally. Preserved and displayed in places like Las Vegas’s Mob Museum, and allegedly in private collections, their original power didn’t fade with demolition.

But here’s the twist: some bricks never left Chicago.

Stories circulate about a back room in a bar near Clark Street, where a section of the wall remains hidden behind a velvet curtain. Patrons report chills when passing the spot, glasses shattering without cause, and muffled screams at 2:30 AM—the time of the hit.

One bartender claimed he saw a bloodied man in a fedora sitting at a table one night after close. When he approached, the man simply said, “We were set up,” and vanished, leaving behind the scent of gunpowder and cigars.

Another tale? A tourist supposedly tried to chisel a brick loose from a preserved foundation fragment—he fell down a flight of stairs minutes later and cracked his skull. Locals say it wasn’t the fall. “The wall pushed back.”

Vacation Tip: Visit Lincoln Park and pay your respects. But don’t go looking for the bricks. If they want to find you, they will.