CHICAGO (CBS) -- The story of Resurrection Mary is easily Chicago's most famous ghost story—dating back at least 85 years, and the subject of all manner of pop culture lore.

Resurrection Cemetery Chicago, Illinois Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A man driving alone at night on a dark patch of road sees a young woman walking along the curb. It’s raining ...

Sometimes, good stories become legends that last forever. A story that took place long ago can be kept alive through retelling, adaptation and other uses. Sometimes attaching the name of a legend t… ...

Now you have Chicago’s most famous ghost story, the tale of Resurrection Mary. At the time I hadn’t heard anything about Resurrection Mary. Neither had any of my friends.

Anna “Mary” Norkus, above, died on the night of her 13th birthday in 1927. Ursula Bielski holds that Norkus is the inspiration behind Resurrection Mary ghost story.

Crowe turned a lifelong interest into a career when he became a full-time ghost hunter in 1979. He has collected reports of Resurrection Mary dating from 1939 to the present, and nearly three ...

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.

Mary’s legend has been the subject of various news articles, ghost tours, and books. Like other urban legends, Resurrection Mary represents a community ghost tied to a public space rather than a ...

Resurrection Mary. Near Chicago’s Resurrection Cemetery, the ghost of Resurrection Mary is seen as a vanishing hitchhiker. According to the legend, ...

Wallace visited Resurrection Cemetery during the day, with Dale Kaczmarek, president of the Ghost Research Society. CBS 2 Kaczmarek claimed that at one point, Resurrection Mary bent the cemetery gate.