Resurrection Mary: Chicago’s Most Elegant Ghost Still Searching for One Last Dance
In the moonlit streets that wind through Justice, Illinois, a lonely figure waits near the gates of Resurrection Catholic Cemetery. She’s young, quiet, and dressed in an ethereal white gown—her features soft, her manner polite. She waves down passing drivers, usually young men, and asks for a ride home. But that journey never ends the way it should.
Just as the car pulls up to the cemetery gate…She vanishes.
This is Resurrection Mary, perhaps Chicago’s most beloved and chilling ghost story, a tale that has persisted for nearly a century and continues to captivate residents, skeptics, and ghost hunters alike. She is a tragic phantom with a penchant for swing music, dance floors, and old-fashioned chivalry—and her story, though clouded in legend, strikes an eerily human chord.
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