A Ghost on the Highway
The ghost of a hitchhiking girl gets you in a deadly car crash… or just vanishes behind the gates of the cemetery, as Chicago’s most famous phantom: Resurrection Mary.
Here is a video, filmed in a very “Blair Witch Project” style, that was found on the spot of a car accident in Sintra, Portugal… The film starts off somewhat boring with some teens going to a mountain at night to hang out. After getting lost, they are driving through the countryside, discussing things… Then they pick up a strange hitchhiking girl on the side of the road.
As they continue driving down the highway, they begin a little conversation. The girl points out a spot up the road where she was hit by a car… and killed. The teens don’t believe her, but then the girl screams and her face is all scarred and bloody. The camera starts messing up and the car crashes too and lands on its roof…
This guy was driving down Archer Avenue on Chicago’s South Side. There was a young woman walking along the side of the road, wearing a long white party dress fluttering in the cold night air. Maybe she could use a lift home?
Her eyes were distant and hollow, and she had a pretty vacant expression. This guy asked what her name was and what she was doing out so late at night, but she didn’t answer, just stared out the window… until she suddenly called out: “Stop here!” – And there she was running off into the night, vanishing behind the gates of Resurrection Cemetery…
This guy had just met Resurrection Mary, Chicago’s most famous ghost, sighted by dozens of people in recent years. According to legend, she is the ghost of a young Polish girl who in the 1930’s was attending a dance at the O’Henry Ballroom. Becoming angry with her escort, she decided to hitchhike her way home down Archer Avenue… There she was killed by a passing motorist.
This is the trailer of an Indie Movie on Resurrection Mary:
The folklorist Jan Harold Brunvand published some years ago a book, “The Vanishing Hitchhiker”, on American urban legends and their meanings. The tale of the Vanishing Hitchhiker however, is not only an American urban legend, it is with many variations told all over the world and this since Biblical times. Sometimes it’s Jesus asking for a lift, or the Volcano god Pele in the ancient Hawaiian legend. But mostly it’s a man who encounters a girl…
Look her, she is walking along the road again…
If you offer her a ride, she will ask you to be dropped off at her home (which she hasn’t seen in years) and when she suddenly leaves your car, stricken by a strange panic, she forgets her sweater on the back seat. The next day you will return to the house to give back the sweater… and you will be told by her mother that her daughter died and was buried years ago.
You will not believe her. You will go to the cemetery. And you will find her sweater there, draped over her tombstone.
More Haunting Urban Legends:
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Elizabeth Abbott
On July 8, 2009 at 6:56 am
This is scary. That one guy in the second video plays the part of Noah Newman In the soap: The Young and Reckless!
s hayes
On July 8, 2009 at 7:49 am
Fantastic tales – I have read and heard a few of these and they always amaze me.
I watched an old 70’s paranormal TV programme a few months ago – one of the features was two middle aged couples, who were on holiday touring around France, they became lost and stopped in an old French village – they stayed in a little guest house with a bar – where they were served with a meal by the lady owner – had lots of wine, lots of fun and took a few photographs.
They decided to stay there on their way back BUT…… were shocked to find that the place they stayed was derelict – and had been like that for many many years – luckily their photos corroborated their conviction that they were in fact in the right place and were not imagining it or making it up.
This world can be a very freaky place!!
Lauren Axelrod
On July 8, 2009 at 9:47 am
Oh my, the Teresa video was eery. Yikes
lindalulu
On July 8, 2009 at 1:47 pm
Fantastic Patrick!!!! I love these creepy interesting stories.Who knows???
Ruby Hawk
On July 13, 2009 at 8:12 pm
I like these creepy legends.
C Jordan
On July 26, 2009 at 11:33 am
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Dr michal philip
On September 4, 2009 at 7:00 pm
these comments are good but are they real if so arn’t we all in terrible danger from the ghost in the mirror to the hook in the handle? Who knows.
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