A Date with a Ghost
Aside from harried motorists who encountered Mary along Archer Avenue, one of the first people to ever meet her face to face was a young man named Jerry Palus. His experience with Mary took place in 1939 but would leave such an impression that he would never forget it until his death in 1992. Palus remained an unshakable witness and appeared on a number of television shows to discuss his night with Resurrection Mary. Regardless, he had little to gain from his story and no reason to lie. He never doubted the fact that he spent an evening with a ghost.
Palus met the young girl at the Liberty Grove dance hall. He had apparently seen her there on several occasions and finally asked her to dance one night. She accepted and they spent several hours together. Strangely though, she seemed a little distant and Palus noticed that her skin was very cold, almost icy to the touch. When he later kissed her, he found her lips were also cold and clammy.
At the end of the evening, the young woman asked Palus for a ride home and when they got to his car, she directed him to drive down Archer Avenue. Palus admitted to being confused. Earlier in the evening, the woman had told him where she lived and he was puzzled why she wanted to be dropped out so far out of the way. When he asked her about it, she simply told him again that she wanted to go down Archer Avenue.
As they drove down Archers Avenue, they approached the gates to Resurrection Cemetery and she asked him to pull over. She had to get out here, she told him. Again, Jerry was confused, not being able to understand why she would want to get out at such a spot. He agreed that he would let her out, but only if she allowed him to walk her across the street. She refused to allow this though. The beautiful girl turned in her seat and faced Palus. "This is where I have to get out," she spoke softly, "but where I'm going, you can’t follow."
Palus was bewildered by this statement, but before he could respond, the girl got out of the car and ran toward the cemetery gates. She vanished before she reached them - right before Jerry's eyes! That was the moment when he knew that he had danced with a ghost.
Determined to find out what was going on, Palus visited the address the girl had given him on the following day. The woman who answered the door told him that he couldn't have possibly been with her daughter the night before because she had been dead for several years. However, Palus was able to correctly identify the girl from a family portrait in the other room.
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