In 1904, a man who called himself “Mr. Dove” went to the desk at the Auditorium Hotel (above the still-operating Auditorium Theatre) and told a concierge that he wanted to rent an automobile for a few hours to drive to Joliet. After some hemming and hawing, he agreed to rent one at a rate of…
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The Hitchhiking Flapper Ghost of Waldheim Cemetery
Resurrection Mary isn’t the only “vanishing hitcher” in the world; she’s not even the only one said to haunt Chicago. The south side has a vanishing girl who appears on CTA busses around Evergreen Park, for instance. And Forest Park is home to vanishing “flapper” who was said to hitch hike from the Melody Mills…
Resurrection Mary: Other Marys at Resurrection
One day soon I need to put up a proper database of all the possible “candidates” for who Resurrection Mary could be the ghost of. The internet is just LITTERED with pages that get a lot of the information wrong. Multiple people having the same name tends to create some confusion, and maybe just having…
Podcast: Resurrection Mary Roundtable
New Episode!Resurrection MaryRoundtable Chat.or archive.org (itunes link willstart leading to the episode by the endof 12/19)More Podcasts above: Mary Bregovy, from the Trib. article about her death. above: the famous bent bars. Last night I met with Ray Johnson, the Haunt Detective, and Dale Kaczmarek from the Ghost Research Society for a roundtable discussion about…
Resurrection Mary and the Eastland Disaster
While we’re looking up possible candidates for the “real” Resurrection Mary, why not look back a few years further than we normally do? In 1915, when the Eastland capsized in the Chicago river, killing more than 800 people, it was the worst tragedy in Chicago history. The dead had come from all over the city, though…
Resurrection Mary: Mary Bojacz?
The great scavenger hunt (or wild goose chase) for the true identity of Resurrection Mary, Chicago’s famous vanishing hitchhiker, continues. Just to re-iterate, what we’re looking for here is a woman, roughly in her late teens, and probably a blonde named Mary, who died circa the 1920s or 30s and was buried at Resurrection Cemetery,…
Resurrection Mary: Mary Petkiewicz?
The Haunt Detective recently put forth another possible candidate for the identity of Resurrection Mary: Mary Petkiewicz. Mrs. Petkiewicz was only 17 when she was killed in an auto wreck on Christmas, 1932. In an accident at 55th and Cicero (the northeast corner of Midway airport), she was crushed to death when a car (driving by the…
The “Resurrection Mary” Gates
They’re gone now, but for about thirty years an important part of Chicago ghostlore was the bent gates at Resurrection Cemetery. Two of the gates were bent, as though someone had tried to pry them apart, with scorch marks where the hands would have been. The story went that a man had been driving past…