i saw this segment for the first time today....
i could not help but almost laugh at Stack's closing words:
"if you are riding through the city at night, and you see a woman in bright white, you might think twice about giving her a ride..."
:lol:

"...just ask Eddie Murphy."

"...just ask Eddie Murphy."

:rofl:

That's always a great segment, especially the part when you can't see the face.

This is the subject that should have 500 or 600 posts and thousands of views. Greatest segment in UM history. I'm still determined to hang out in that cemetery for a few weeks.

I saw it for the first time yesterday too. The part about the guy looking for the girl at her house the next day about killed me. What probably happened was, she told him to drop her off somewhere far away from her house because she didn't want him to know where she lived. Then she happened to see him walking up to her house, so she told her mom to tell him she was dead. That's why the mom opened the door without him knocking.

What a joke. I didn't believe any of it.

I've been to Chicago before, but I don't know If I was in this area or not.

This is the subject that should have 500 or 600 posts and thousands of views. Greatest segment in UM history. I'm still determined to hang out in that cemetery for a few weeks.

I wouldn't mind visiting the cemetary myself.....

But, even more, I would like to go drinking at the St. James Hotel in New Mexico even better! Maybe get a room for a night lol :lol:

What a joke. I didn't believe any of it.

Oh yeah? What if I told you that I'm a ghost? And that Resurrection Mary and I are close friends? Beware....BEWARE, MR. FUJI!!!

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This is the subject that should have 500 or 600 posts and thousands of views. Greatest segment in UM history. I'm still determined to hang out in that cemetery for a few weeks.

Of course I'm always dissing ole Mary on the board mainly because Lifetime used to constantly show it and I got sick of seeing it. They haven't done that too much lately. The first part of the segment is interesting then it turns out to sound too much like one of those ghost stories we used to tell each other when we were kids. :rolleyes:

We looked up where the actual cemetary was before our trip to Chicago and its actually in a town called Justice in Illinois. I've never heard of the town but I'm assuming its a suburb of Chicago.

Off topic here for a second but "Happy Birthday Awsi!!" :birthday:

Hey, no kidding! Happy Birthday! (But shouldn't this be on the D.B. Cooper board? *snicker* )

Off topic here for a second but "Happy Birthday Awsi!!" :birthday:

Many thanks Heather and CRicci! My birthday was Sunday. One of these years I'll spend it at a UM site, maybe the Resurrection cemetery or paddling away from Alcatraz. That would be the most fitting venue since the Alcatraz escape happened on June 11, my birthday.

:wave: The one about Ressurection Mary was pretty cool. It would be freaky to walk or drive by a cemetary and see that!

Digging up an old thread again....wanted to let everyone know that I actually drove by Resurrection Cemetery at night with a friend of mine while we were in Chicago last year. (Yes it's actually in Justice near Alsip off I-294 south of the city). Surprisingly it's on a well-lit main road. On the show it depicts it as being a dark lonely road--hardly that today. I didn't see anything but there was nothing really scary about it. I pulled up to the main gate to turn around and sat there a second hoping to see something, but nothing happened. While I was in Chicago, I did drive down the street where John Wayne Gacy lived---kinda creepy, and I think the house that was rebuilt in its place was the one that had the For Sale sign in the yard...creepy.

I saw it for the first time yesterday too. The part about the guy looking for the girl at her house the next day about killed me. What probably happened was, she told him to drop her off somewhere far away from her house because she didn't want him to know where she lived. Then she happened to see him walking up to her house, so she told her mom to tell him she was dead. That's why the mom opened the door without him knocking.

What a joke. I didn't believe any of it.

There is an urban legend that I heard when I was a kid (it supposedly happened to a friend of my parents) where a person is driving along late at night and picks up a hitchhiker (a nun in the case of my parents' friend). After driving a bit with this stranger, there is a period of silence and then the driver looks towards the passenger's seat that is now mysteriously empty. Of course, the hitchhiker had told the driver where they were going and so the driver subsequently drives to this location (a convent in the case of my parents' friend) at which point they are told that the hitchhiker died a few years ago. The beginning of the Resurrection Mary story sounds suspiciously like this urban legend.

Yeah thats a pretty common old ghost story, the Resurrection Cemetary isnt supposedly the only place where that happens, I've heard of tons of places where it happens.

The classic "vanishing hitchhiker" story. But I will say Resurrection Mary has always been one of my favorites and the recreation was creepy!

According to the research I've done, the only Mary that died in Chicago around that time period was Mary Bregovy, who is NOT Resurrection Mary. She died in 1934 in a car crash in downtown Chicago and she was a brunette and not a blonde. I can't seem to locate any other Mary's who died in that time period. Also, wouldn't you think that she would still have some relatives out there somewhere who have heard the story and come forward with a name?

I'm still determined to hang out in that cemetery for a few weeks.

I would love to do that as well.

According to the research I've done, the only Mary that died in Chicago around that time period was Mary Bregovy, who is NOT Resurrection Mary. She died in 1934 in a car crash in downtown Chicago and she was a brunette and not a blonde. I can't seem to locate any other Mary's who died in that time period. Also, wouldn't you think that she would still have some relatives out there somewhere who have heard the story and come forward with a name?

There's always been debate about who the actual "Mary" may have been. I'm not a diehard believer in the paranormal, but I like the actual history behind the folklore. The cemetery is just a nice, unspooky place (my uncles are buried there), but the staff won't discuss any alleged haunting and the general area is patrolled pretty well in late October due to past problems with culties, vandals and ghost hunters.

Ursula Bielski writes about some of the history in "Chicago Haunts" and
talks about another possible Mary candidate online: http://www.ghostvillage.com/resources/2007/features_03232007.shtml

I can tell you this. In the UM episode, they portray the cemetery as being on a lonely dark street. It may have been years ago, but not today. While I was in Chicago, I drove out there to Justice one night to check it out. It's on a 4 lane, well lit street. My friend and I didn't see anything other than some fake battery powered red "candle lights" on graves (similar to those you put in your window at Christmas). Alot of the graves had those on them. Otherwise it was a non-eventful trip over there.

In case you want to know where it is, It's right off I-294 in Justice near Alsip. It's south of the city and not hard to get to off the interstate.

Is anybody here familar with the song " Laurie" By Dickie Lee? This story was also used in a Ep. of the old " Maverick series.

Is anybody here familar with the song " Laurie" By Dickie Lee? This story was also used in a Ep. of the old " Maverick series.

The story of the vanishing hitchhiker has been around for centuries.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/vanish.asp

I remember seeing the Resurrection Mary story when it first aired and feeling somewhat surprised that UM actually portrayed this guy's account seriously. This was a story my buddies and I used to tell at sleepovers and here someone was claiming that it actually happened to them. :rolleyes:

I can tell you this. In the UM episode, they portray the cemetery as being on a lonely dark street. It may have been years ago, but not today. While I was in Chicago, I drove out there to Justice one night to check it out. It's on a 4 lane, well lit street. My friend and I didn't see anything other than some fake battery powered red "candle lights" on graves (similar to those you put in your window at Christmas). Alot of the graves had those on them. Otherwise it was a non-eventful trip over there.

In case you want to know where it is, It's right off I-294 in Justice near Alsip. It's south of the city and not hard to get to off the interstate.

If I ever happen to be in that area someday, I'll probably check it out. ;)

I'd still like to see it where the supposed hauntings happen, being a believer in the paranormal myself...............