Some researchers have attempted to link Resurrection Mary to one of the many thousands of burials in Resurrection Cemetery. Geist goes on to say: "The simple explanation, Ralph, is that you picked up the Chicago area's preeminent ghost: Resurrection Mary." Identity of Mary Geist described Ralph as "not an idiot or a maniac" but rather, in Ralph's own words, "a typical 52-year-old working guy, a veteran, father, Little League baseball coach, churchgoer, the whole shot". May the good Lord strike me dead, it never opened." I looked to my left - like this - at this little shack. And then she sticks out her arm and points across the road to my left and says 'There!'. I looked around and didn't see no kind of house. "A couple miles up Archer there, she jumped with a start like a horse and said 'Here! Here!' I hit the brakes. she was young enough to be my daughter - 21 tops" – near a small shopping center on Archer Avenue. In a Januarticle in the Suburban Trib, columnist Bill Geist detailed the story of a cab driver, Ralph, who picked up a young woman – "a looker. She also reportedly burned her handprints into the wrought iron fence around the cemetery, in August 1976, although officials at the cemetery have stated that a truck had damaged the fence and that there is no evidence of a ghost. Mary disappears, however, by the time the motorist exits the car. There were said to be sightings in 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1989, which involved cars striking, or nearly striking, Mary outside Resurrection Cemetery.
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That same year, a cab driver came into Chet's Melody Lounge, across the street from Resurrection Cemetery, to inquire about a young lady who had left without paying her fare. In 1973, Resurrection Mary was said to have shown up at Harlow's nightclub, on Cicero Avenue on Chicago's southwest side. They danced and even kissed and she asked him to drive her home along Archer Avenue, exiting the car and disappearing in front of Resurrection Cemetery. Jerry Palus, a Chicago southsider, reported that in 1939 he met a person whom he came to believe was Resurrection Mary at the Liberty Grove and Hall at 47th and Mozart (and not the Oh Henry/Willowbrook Ballroom). They buried her in Resurrection Cemetery, wearing a beautiful white dancing dress and matching dancing shoes. Her parents found her and were grief-stricken at the sight of her dead body. She had not gotten very far when she was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver, who fled the scene leaving Mary to die. She left the ballroom and started walking up Archer Avenue. At some point, they got into an argument and Mary stormed out. The story goes that Mary had spent the evening dancing with a boyfriend at the Oh Henry Ballroom. The Willowbrook Ballroom, formerly the Oh Henry Ballroom, in Willow Springs, Illinois substantiated" reports of Mary from the 1930s to the present.
According to the Chicago Tribune, "full-time ghost hunter" Richard Crowe has collected "three dozen. When the driver nears the Resurrection Cemetery, whereupon she disappears into the cemetery. There are other reports that she wears a thin shawl, dancing shoes, carries a small clutch purse, and possibly that she is very quiet.
This young woman is dressed somewhat formally in a white party dress and is said to have light blond hair and blue eyes. Since the 1930s, several men driving northeast along Archer Avenue between the Willowbrook Ballroom and Resurrection Cemetery have reported picking up a young female hitchhiker. Resurrection Mary is considered to be Chicago's most famous ghost. According to the story, the ghost resides in Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, a few miles southwest of Chicago. Resurrection Mary is a well-known Chicago area ghost story, or urban legend, of the " vanishing hitchhiker" type, a type of folklore that is known from many cultures. The main gate of Resurrection Cemetery on Archer Avenue in Justice, IL
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