A ghost fondly named "Resurrection Mary" makes appearances near the
Resurrection Cemetery and at the Willowbrook Ballroom in Justice, Illinois. She has been known to dance with men at the ballroom and ask them for a ride home only to disappear from their cars as they pass the cemetery.
One night in the 1940's she was at the ballroom and had danced all night with a young man. The man was very much fasinated with her beauty and was very interested in her. She asked him for a ride to Resurrection Cemetary when the night was over and he asked why she said, "please, take me there don't ask any questions." He drove her there and she got out of the car and walked toward the gates of the cemetary, she disappeared. The man remembered that while they were dancing she had told him where she lived. The next day he decided to go to her home to see her. He found her house and knocked on the door and an older woman answered. He asked for Mary and very much to his surprised the woman said that Mary had been dead for 8 years. Still standing in the doorway he saw a picture of Mary on the piano behind the woman. He said, "that's her, that's Mary." The woman responded, "yes, that is Mary."
She been seen hitchhiking on the nearby roads by many creditable witnesses. In the late 1980's a taxi driving was driving near the Resurrection Cemetary and picked her up. He and Mary were talking but as the cab passed Resurrection Cemetery the she vanished from the cab. Other witnesses have also seen "Resurrection Mary" hitchiking and have stopped to pick her up. She gets into the vehicle and suddenly dissapears. She has also been known to have entered vehicles that were driving near the cemetary, once the occupants of the vehicle notice that she is there, she vanishes sometimes leaving something of hers behind.
"Resurrection Mary" is believed to be Mary Bregavy, a young girl had been killed in a car accident in 1939 while going home from a dance at a local ballroom, now the Willowbrook Ballroom.
