Sightings of Mary during the 1970's
In 1973, Mary's ghost was said to have shown up at least twice at a nightclub called Harlow's on Cicero on the southwest side. She danced alone in a faded white dress and despite the fact that bouncers checked the I.D.'s of everyone who came through the door, no one ever saw the girl enter or leave. Later that same year, an annoyed cab driver entered Chet’s Melody Lounge, located across Archer from the gates to Resurrection Cemetery, looking for a fare that had skipped off without paying. The young blond woman that he reportedly picked up was nowhere to be seen. The manager explained that no blond woman had entered the bar.
During the middle 1970's, the number of Mary sightings began to increase. People from many different walks of life, from cab drivers to ministers said they had picked her up and had given her rides. It was during this period that Resurrection Cemetery was undergoing some major renovations and perhaps this was what caused her restlessness.
On August 12, 1976, Cook County police officers investigated an emergency call about an apparent hit and run victim near the intersection of 76th Street and Roberts Road. The officers found a young female motorist in tears at the scene and they asked her where the body was that she had allegedly discovered beside the road? She pointed to a wet grass area and the policemen could plainly see a depression in the grass that matched the shape of a human body. The girl said that just as the police car approached the scene, the body on the side of the road vanished!
In May 1978, a young couple was driving down Archer when a girl suddenly darted out in the road in front of their car. The driver swerved to avoid her but knew when he hit the brakes that it was too late. As they braced for impact, the car passed right through the girl! She then turned and ran into Resurrection Cemetery, melting right past the bars in the gate. Another man was on his way to work in the early morning hours and spotted the body of a young girl lying directly in front of the cemetery gates. He stopped his truck and got out, quickly discovering that the woman was apparently badly injured, but still alive. He jumped into his truck and sped to the nearby police station, where he summoned an ambulance and then hurried back to the cemetery. When he came back, he found that the body was gone! However the outline of her body was still visible on the dew-covered pavement.
On the 31st of January 1979 on the south side of Chicago. A taxicab travels along Archer Avenue as rain and sleet pelt the windshield. The driver reaches over to crank the heater up one more notch. It is a very cold night and Ralph the driver cant wait to finish his shift.
As the car rolls past the Willowbrook Ballroom, a pale figure, blurry though the wet and icy glass of the window, appears along the roadside. The driver cranes his neck and sees a young woman walking alone. She is strangely dressed for such a cold and wet night, wearing only a white cocktail dress and a thin shawl over her shoulders. He remembers that she was wearing dancing shoes.
She stumbles along the uneven shoulder of the road and the cabbie pulls over and stops the car. He rolls down the window and the young girl approaches the taxi. She is beautiful, he sees, despite her dishevelled appearance. Her blond hair is damp from the weather and plastered to her forehead. He notes that she is about the same age as his daughter at most 21 years of age.
He invited her into the cab and she opened the door and sat next to him in the passengers seat. Ralph asked the girl where she wants to go, he tells her not to worry about the fare, It's the least that he can do in this weather. The girl simply replies that he should keep driving down Archer Avenue.
He notices in his mirror that the girl is shivering so he turns up the heater again. He comments on the weather, making conversation, but she doesn't answer him at first. He wonders if she might be a little drunk because she is acting oddly, just staring out the window. Finally, she answers him, although her voice wavers and she sounds almost fearful. The driver is unsure if her whispered words are directed to him or if she is speaking to herself. "The snow came early this year," she murmurs. Ralph agreed with her that it did and attempts to make more small talk with the young girl. He soon realizes that she is not interested in conversation. Finally, she does speak, but when she does, she shouts at him. She orders him to pull over to the side of the road, this is where she needs to get out!
The startled driver jerks the steering wheel to the right and stops in an open area in front of two large, metal gates. He looks up and realizes where they have stopped. "You can't get out here," he says "this is a cemetery!"
When he looks back towards the young girl, he realizes that he is in the cab alone... the girl is no longer in the passenger seat beside him. He never heard the door open or close, but the girl has simply disappeared. He then realised who he had taken for a ride in his cab. She is known all over the Chicago area as the region’s most enigmatic and sought after ghost. Her name is "Resurrection Mary".
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