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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]
[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.
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 ...
Read her best ghost stories here. In a recent Dark House podcast interview, D.C. journalist Sally Quinn shared that all her homes are haunted. Read her best ghost stories here.
Image credits: Mlm525k If you are really committed to believing in the validity of these photos as evidence of ghosts, more power to you, but you should probably stop reading now.
National Book Award Finalist Frank Norris: The Pit: A Chicago Story: 1903 Fredric Brown: The Fabulous Clipjoint: 1947 Graham Masterton: Headlines [1] 1986 Halle Butler: The New Me: 2019 ISBN 978-1474612296: Harry Stephen Keeler: The Riddle of the Traveling Skull: 1934 ISBN 1-932416-26-9: James Patterson and David Ellis: The Black Book ...
"The Phantom Brakeman" - 1933". While Mary Alice is recently idolizing a tap dancer and film actress Shirley Temple, mismatched families of local lovers converge on Grandma's house and she uses an old ghost story to aid them. At night time Vandalia Eubanks and Junior Stubbs run away together with the help of "The Phantom Brakeman" (Joey) and ...