Meanwhile, it's worth revisiting the fact that the Resurrection Mary story fits right into that "vanishing hitchhiker" genre of ghost stories that cross cultures and date back centuries.

Here in Chicago, we have Resurrection Mary, the hitchhiking ghost of Archer Avenue. According to legend: a woman named Mary was killed sometime in the late 1920’s or early 1930’s.

I have never liked ghost stories. But when I heard about Half-Hanged Mary of Hadley ... Soon farmers on their cross-town journey were not able to pass her house. Their horses reared at her ...

I have never liked ghost stories. But when I heard about Half-Hanged Mary of Hadley, I was spellbound ... Soon farmers on their cross-town journey were not able to pass her house. Their horses reared ...