Just to follow up on the above post. Paw, I think the police station they were referring to on the news story was the railroad police station for the Clearing Yards. I am not sure if there was a Chicago Police outpost there at that time. I challenged everyone to try and guess what accounted for at lease some of those ghost lights seen at Maple Lake. These lights are reported by some to ap
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I'll respond to Chris's response first. Again, I am not going to validate Resurrection Mary either way - though one of the old timers I worked with saw something one night out on Archer past Fairmount that is very similar to the stories we have heard about the prom dressed ghost. The Mary ghost story is very similar to another ghost story that was printed in a book that came out of the East Co
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It's Halloween time, and though I don't really get into the whole Chicago ghost hunter thing, I do have some interest since I am a local historian and researcher. I while back I came across a book on Chicago haunts by Ursula Bielski that mentioned a new discovery on Resurrection Mary. I've tried to contact her through E-mail, but have yet to get a response. In any case, I have a few ghost cases
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