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Resurrection Mary is a well-known Chicago area ghost story, of the "vanishing hitchhiker" type, a type of folklore that is known in many cultures. According to the story, the ghost resides in Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, a few miles southwest of Chicago. Resurrection Mary is considered to be Chicago's most famous ghost. [1] [2] [3]
"About Boston" by Ward Just. pp. 12–39 in Legal Fictions edited by Jay Wishingrad, 1992, reprinted from 21 Selected Stories by Just (1990). The story contrasts Boston and Chicago. "Big Boy," pp. 97–99 in Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris begins "It was Easter Sunday in Chicago....", 2000; Chicago Stories: 40 Dramatic Fictions by ...
Homey the Clown was an urban legend (specifically Chicago) surrounding a killer clown, predating the "Creepy Clown Craze" by several years, originating in Chicago, Illinois in 1991. [ 58 ] The Honey Island Swamp monster is a sasquatch-like creature that can allegedly be found living in the Honey Island Swamp of Louisiana .
There's plenty of White House hauntings on the list -- with a few former first ladies still roaming inside America's most famous house. Former U.S. president John Adams and his wife Abigail were ...
[2] [3] In his book, Brunvand suggests that the story of The Vanishing Hitchhiker can be traced as far back as the 1870s." [4] Similar stories have been reported for centuries across the world in places like England, Ethiopia, Korea, France, South Africa, Tsarist Russia and in America among Chinese Americans, Mormons and Ozark mountaineers. [5]
Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov, The White Eagle (A Ghost Story) (1880) Ira Levin, Rosemary's Baby (1967) and The Stepford Wives (1972) Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk (1796) and The Castle Spectre (1797) Thomas Ligotti, Vastarien (1987) George Lippard, The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall (1845) Frank Belknap Long, So Dark a Heritage (1966)
Early 1990s horror series were based on classical horror figures such as a blond-haired Count in Dracula: The Series and She-Wolf of London. [5] Series in the 1990s were often either based on their locations such as Shades of LA, Eerie Indiana, and Twin Peaks or focused on vampires with Geraint Wyn Davies playing an undead cop in Forever Knight ...
Release Date Ep # Additional Information Ghost Stories, Vols. 1-6: October 10, 1997: 6: Individual VHS releases. Ghost Stories: Video 6 Pack: October 14, 1997: 6: Box set containing all 6 videos. Ghost Stories 1-5: April 14, 1998: 5: All new VHS set containing first 5 episodes. Also available individually. Ghost Stories: DVD 3 Pack: December 22 ...