ATHEISTS and BELIEVERS...Do you know about Ressurection Mary from Chicago?

Question

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_Mary

Resurrection Mary" is the best-known ghost story in the Chicago area.

According to the legend, a young Polish girl (between 17 and 22) was killed in a car crash in the early 1930s and buried in Resurrection Cemetery. Her death occurred on the way back from a dance at the nearby O'Henry Ballroom (now called the Willowbrook Ballroom).

She is now encountered as a "Vanishing Hitchhiker". Several people have reported picking her up as a hitchhiker, taking her to or from the ballroom. As the car passes Resurrection, she usually vanishes. She is described as looking like a living person, speaking very little, wearing a 1930's ball gown. Sometimes her flesh is cool to the touch.
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Once on Halloween they had a talk show on the radio and the subject was ghosts in Chicago. As I was listening this Chicago cabby called up and he told a story where he picked her( Ressurection Mary) up. When he looked in his mirror,she was gone.

Answer 1

I live in the area ....and she is very true..... ony single and un-married men can pick her up...

Answer 2

My dad used to tell me about Resurrection Mary when I was a kid. It's an interesting story, and just one of many American ghost stories. When I was a little kid, I was occasionally told that if I stayed out late at night, or didn't mind my parents, ghosts like Resurrection Mary would carry me away to the land of the dead. I didn't even live near Resurrection Mary's stomping grounds, but was still a bit spooked by the whole thing.

Answer 3

I grew up in chicago and I'd never heard this.. interesting. I guess I believe in ghosts, not really sure. Look up the New Jersey Devil..(not the hockey team). I just heard this story and it creeped me out. I think some of these urban legends are based on some sort of truth, but the rest is just perpetuated by people who know about it and start to ge creeped out and see things. When I get scared, but my mind goes a bit out of control and I make up things that aren't really there.

Answer 4

Sounds like someone was drinking and driving. There is no such thing as ghosts. None of these reports are reliable. Anyone could call a radio show and claim anything they wanted just to be on the radio; who would know the difference?

Answer 5

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Answer 6

There are a lot of ghost stories in the world.

Hmm, as bettierage points out, wouldn't the idea of a ghost contradict the Christian idea of an afterlife?

Answer 7

I don't believe ghosts stories. There's no scientific evidence for the existence of ghosts.

Answer 8

Yes i saw the bars that she spreaded apart .What is that about 110th and kedzie or pulaski.Ressurection cemetary.used to ride my bike around dare,Prety cool .She was real but she should go to God know watchya think Thats not to far from Robins and Blue Island and Dan Ryan Forest preserve.and Beverly.Am I right or am I right.

Answer 9

Know the story already, and "yes" ghosts do exist, for this is the place of the "devil" and those who get stuck HERE in his realm for all eternity....

Answer 10

JESUS CHRIST!
That "hitchiker ghost" has been around since I was a kid, and when I first told my parents about it with childish astonishment, my father told me that it had been around since HE was a kid!

Further, the lameassed story wasn't just in new jersey where I grew up, but in every goddamned town in the country, and PROBABLY around the world.

It's all B.U.L.L.S.H.I.T.!!!

THERE ARE NO GODS GHOSTS OR GREMLINS!

Either f'n PROVE they exist or shut the **** up about them.

Update:
Alwaysinquisitive, FYI, It's just called the "jersey devil" not "new jersey devil".

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