Resurrection Mary

In Chicago there is a curious legend about Resurrection Mary, a strange entity that haunts Resurrection Cemetery beside Archer Avenue. Mary sounds more like a zombie than a wispy ghost. She's a corporeal "Lady in White" type of figure, that looks like any living person except that she's not. 

A particular incident with Mary happened in 1979, a taxi driver noticed a young woman wandering along a road, wearing only a white party dress in the middle of winter. He noticed that she must've been very cold, and as there was going to be a snowstorm, he decided to offer her a lift. The woman wanted to go to the cemetery and that was where she went. Other reports of Mary used to happen more frequently when there was a ballroom along Willowbrook. She's often hitchhiked her way to the cemetery from lonely roads late at night. 

She's also been seen covered in blood. Well known as a "phantom hitchhiker", Mary has been known to appear along the road and has suddenly stepped out into the road in front of cars, seeming to get run over. Mary has been witnessed appearing in nightclubs around the area itself! According to those that saw her, Mary looked deathly pale and didn't speak to anyone. Wearing an old fashioned white dress and slippers, those that touched her said she felt very cold. The most unnerving thing of all was her bleeding eyes.   

In the 1970's the police were called about a blonde woman in a white dress locked inside Resurrection Cemetery. According to the person who saw her, the woman was trying to get out and she was holding the metal iron bars of the fence around the cemetery. When they arrived, the police never found the woman but instead they noticed the bars were bent and her fingerprints burned into the metal. 

It's believed that this mysterious Mary was a girl who died in a road accident on her way home from a party after having a row with her boyfriend. She's buried at Resurrection Cemetery. She's one of the most famous paranormal entities in the United States. But why she continues to walk undead remains a mystery. 

Posted by She Wolf Night