Chicago's most famous phantom hitchhiker still walks Archer Avenue, decades after her final dance.

EPISODE NOTES

● Traces the Resurrection Mary legend from the 1930s through the most detailed modern accounts, including the Palus sighting and the Chet's Melody Lounge tradition.

● Researcher Richard Crowe collected more than three dozen separate accounts by the 1970s, from witnesses with no connection to one another.

● The bent gate at Resurrection Cemetery, with handprint-shaped markings in the iron, is part of the documented physical record.

SOURCES

● Richard Crowe's documented witness accounts of Resurrection Mary sightings, 1930s to 1970s

● Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times archival coverage

● Resurrection Cemetery records and the bent gate incident documentation

● Troy Taylor, Haunted Illinois