Ghost Stories from Mid-West Ghost Stories

The Midwestern States are west of the Rocky Mountain States and north of the Southwestern and the Southern States. There are twelve Midwestern States. They are North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan.

 

The Rise Of Resurrection Mary — Chicago, Il

## Section 1: Spirit in white

The Rise Of Resurrection Mary — Chicago, Il

The accursed, battered streets of Chicago widened as the city insomniac danced in the eerie darting of translucent moonlight. The year was 1931 and the bustling city pulsated beneath its blanket of looming sooty skyscrapers and dim-lit salty taverns. Among its countless inhabitants resided a radiant damsel named Mary; a sapphire-eyed lass, with hair spun from the purest golden silk.

She was the belle of every gathering, garbed in her signature white dress that shimmered under the flickering show lights. On this ill-fated night, Mary found herself dancing away in the O’Henry Ballroom; a vaulting citadel of mirth and laughter where joy bubbled like champagne in a glass tower.

With her dancing shoes on, Mary whirled amidst the infectious rhythm steaming from the jazz trumpet’s throat. Oblivious then, of the uncanny shadow inching its way into her life’s cataclysmic trajectory.

## Section 2: An unbearable farewell

The Rise Of Resurrection Mary — Chicago, Il

Post the midnight’s ecstatic waltz, it was a lonely walk to the house. The temperature had plummeted, nudging Mary to hitch a ride back home. Alas! Fate had decreed a more sinister turn of events. A reckless driver, blindsided by the welling mist, smote her delicately petite form, sealing the poor maiden’s untimely rendezvous with death.

The news of her demise was a chilling memento of life’s impermanence, echoing through the concrete veins of the city. She was mourned and duly buried in the Resurrection Cemetery, her cold body adorned by that white dress and the dancing shoes that held remnants of her last joyous night.

What could have ended there as another isolated incident in Chicago’s daily litany of tragedies, proved to open a new doorway into the realms of the unknown, turning exponentially macabre.

## Section 3: The haunted rides

The Rise Of Resurrection Mary — Chicago, Il

Years turned into decades, but the city of Chicago could never quite purge its soul of Mary. Numerous motorists frequenting Archer Avenue reported strange encounters that sent bone-chilling jolts down their spines. They spoke of a hitchhiking woman in ethereal white, who bore a striking resemblance to the deceased Mary. Stories ran rampant of these drivers who conveyed the spectral woman close to the Resurrection Cemetery, only for her to vanish abruptly, much to their heart-stopping disbelief.

Was Mary still reluctant to part from the city she loved, or was she trapped as an unwilling player in the grand cosmic scheme, doomed to wander the lonely roads of Chicago, searching for an elusive escape? No one knew.

## Section 4: Resurrection Mary, the unforgotten

Nine long decades have passed since Mary’s cruel Curtains-Fall, but her legend lives within the city’s pulsating heart, a perennial noir across generations. Resurrection Mary, an ageless phantom, continues her lonely auto-stops on Archer Avenue, her story a chilling testament to those fateful Chicago nights. It had been transformed into a spine-tingling urban legend, right out of a Stephen King novella.

In the same city where Al Capone reigned supreme and the phantom notes of jazz still haunt many a lonesome night, Mary’s melancholy echoes float invisible amid the cacophony of life. Her restive spirit continues to roam Chicago’s chilling winters and spectral moonlit roads, forever searching, apparating, and disappearing within the sinking sadness of Resurrection Cemetery. Mary’s soul seemed to have been woven into the very fabric of the city, an eternity of silent whispers and hushed wails — a dirge, a requiem, a lament, and… an ever-enduring ghost story.