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Resurrection Mary

For a number of years motorists driving along Archer Avenue in Chicago’s South Side have reported giving rides to a beautiful young hitchhiker, a blonde wearing a white gown that seems to date from the 1920’s or 1930’s. The drivers are said to be mostly single males, and the girl often jumps into their cars uninvited, saying that she needs a ride home. Home turns out to be the Resurrection Cemetery, at 7200 South Archer Avenue, and when the car draws level with it, the hitchhiker gets out (sometimes opening the car door, sometimes passing right through it), walks up to the closed wrought_iron gates, and passes through them, disappearing into thin air once inside the cemetery.

Resurrection Mary, as the specter has been named, is said to be the ghost of a young Polish girl who was killed in an auto accident while being driven home from a dance at the 0. Henry Ballroom (now named the Willowbrook Ballroom) on Archer Avenue in 1931 and buried in her party dress and dancing shoes in Resurrection Cemetery. One night in December 1977 a motorist noticed a young woman dressed in white standing inside the cemetery gates. She was looking out and holding onto the iron bars of the gates. Thinking that the girl had been inadvertently locked inside the cemetery, the motorist called the police, but by the time the patrol car appeared the girl had vanished. The officer beamed his searchlight into the cemetery but saw nothing. He and the motorist did notice, though, that two of the iron bars in the gate were bent apart and that at the point

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