A ghost called Resurrection Mary haunts the city of Chicago.
In January of 1979, a Chicago cab driver stopped to pick up a female passenger at the front gates of Resurrection Cemetery, the final resting place of more than 150,000 souls. But before he could let her in, the mysterious woman disappeared. The cab driver had just met Chicagos most famous ghost, Resurrection Mary.
Richard Crowe was a local historian and folklorist at the time of the sighting:
I think that of all the ghost stories worth believing in, Resurrection Mary is the one with the best documentation. The witnesses that Ive found are remarkably level-headed. And theyre primarily blue collar, middle-class types who have steady jobs and who have no other major claims to psychic encounters in their lives.
As the story goes, the first person to ever encounter Resurrection Mary was Jerry Palus. The year was 1939. The placea Chicago dance hall where Jerry was a regular.
Jerry was captivated by a young blonde woman and immediately asked her to dance. He learned little about her, except that her name was Mary and she lived on the south side of town. He danced with the young woman all night. When it was time to leave, Jerry offered Mary a ride home.