Oct 26 2011
Top 10 Most Haunted Cities in the U.S. – Chicago, Illinois
Top 10 Most Haunted Cities in the U.S.
Chicago, Illinois
With its history of violent crime and murder, Chicago, Illinois is renowned for also being the home of many ghosts and spirits – and some of them can get really creepy. At Bachelor’s Grove Cemetery, there have been sightings by forest of a phantom horse walking out of the pond and toward the cemetery. There are also numerous reports of a ghostly house that appears out of nowhere. It’s a two-story white house, with a porch and a swing. A light shines in the front window, and local legend says that those who enter don’t come back. The most famous ghost at Bachelor’s Grove is the White Lady, the spirit a woman who lost her infant child and is buried beside him. She has been seen wandering around, and photographs have been taken allegedly showing her perched on a tombstone with the baby at her chest.
Another haunted cemetery is called Mount Carmel, and it is home to something that isn’t just ghostly, but also quite a scientific mystery. Julia Buccola Petta was a housewife who died while giving birth. She was buried in her wedding dress, and a picture and monument are placed at her gravesite. Soon after her death though, Petta’s mother began to have dreams that Petta was saying she was still alive and needed air. Six years after her death, her body was exhumed and found to have not decomposed at all. She can now be seen walking through the cemetery, and there is one story that she helped reunite a lost boy with his parents. However, Chicago’s most famous ghost story is far more compelling than the tale of Julia Petta.
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In 1939, Jerry Palus was at a party where he met a woman with blonde hair and a white party dress. He began to dance with her, remarking that she felt ice cold to the touch. She told him that her name was Mary, and asked him for a ride home. He obliged and started driving her to where she said she lived. However, on the way, she asked if Jerry could go by Resurrection Cemetery on Archer Avenue.
When they drew close to the entrance, Mary began to behave in a strange manner and demanded that Jerry pull the car over. As soon as he did, she got out and told him not to follow. Then, just as she was approaching the main gates, Mary vanished. Jerry later went to the neighborhood where she originally told him to go and discovered that Mary had in fact died on the way home from a party in a hit-and-run accident some years earlier. He quickly realized why Mary was ice cold and where she went when she vanished. Ever since then, dozens of people from all social backgrounds have witnessed Resurrection Mary on Archer Avenue, and some of them have even given her a ride. Others have reported accidentally hitting her.
In August 1976, a driver was passing by Resurrection and saw a girl peering through the gate, grabbing the bars. He called police and the officer that arrived on the scene found that two of the bars had been pulled apart and had scorch marks on them. Not only that, but there seemed to be signs of human skin texture and fingerprints where the scorch marks were found. Even after the bars had been straightened out and painted over, the hand prints remained and the bars were eventually removed.
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