Resurrection Cemetery
In the 1940s, a young lady lived across the street from the cemetery. After becoming infected with tuberculosis, the girl died and was buried in a white party gown. It is said that on dark nights, one may see a bright, illuminating figure of a young girl walking along the side of the road. It is said that if one stops, she will ask him for a ride home because she is lost. Once they get past the cemetery�s property line, however, the girl disappears.
omg that is sooooo scary !!! i would freak out if i saw that!!!!!!
Comment by Amanda | 10.14.2005 | 10:25 am
Oh my gosh that is so scary. I would freak out if i saw that!
Comment by Amanda | 10.14.2005 | 10:26 am
Oh wow, that is so cool. I would so wanna go out with that hot ghost. Can you send me a picture of that hot ghost girl so I can imagine her in my imagination.
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Comment by Naim | 10.15.2005 | 9:26 pm
That sounds a lot like the story of Resurection Mary from Illinois. I live right there and its pretty much the same story except the girl was killed by a car when she was coming back from prom. I’ve never actually seen her but a person who is a very reliable source for me claims to have seen her.
Comment by Anna | 11.6.2005 | 12:44 am
That’s the same thing I thought of. It sounds like a combination of the old hitch hiker ones, and that one. If that’s the one I’m thinking of…Does Mary ask them to stop/disappear when they pass the graveyard?
Comment by Julia | 11.24.2005 | 4:39 pm
I drive right by this cemetary once a week for work. I recognized the name from hearing it on Unsolved Mysteries, but I didn’t know that this one, as well, was haunted.
Creepy.
Comment by Eric | 12.13.2005 | 4:01 am
AAAAAAAAA! TAKE ME AWAY
Comment by lily | 01.14.2006 | 1:59 pm
Dear eric,
i too saw this on unsolved mysteries. while it still remains to be seen i think that it could be possible. i’m not messing with this s##t.
Comment by marie | 03.17.2006 | 9:16 pm
That is really crazy, my dad is burried there!
Comment by Jenny | 06.18.2006 | 2:53 pm
I thought of unsolved mysteries when i read this too! Is it the same one?
Comment by rebecca | 07.3.2006 | 2:05 am
WOW THIS IS A REALLY SCARY STORY..I HEARD ABOUT THE LADY IN WHITE WHEN WAS YOUNGER I JUST NEVER HEARD IT LIKE THAT..I THINK IT MIGHT HAVE A LITTLE FACT TO IT.
Comment by RAIDEN | 08.8.2006 | 6:09 pm
This stroy is not true. People would know if a ghost asked them for a ride. And even if the girl dissappeared when they got to the border line of the cemetery wouldn’t theghost say “Thank you” if she so politely said “May I have a ride”?
Comment by luc | 08.10.2006 | 10:02 pm
Ressurection cemetary is in Illinois not Pennsylvania. The same story is told in Illinois. The girl is known as Ressurrection Mary, and she died in a car accident. She was walking along Archer Ave. after leaving the O’Henry ballroom, now Willbrook ballroom, when she was hit by a car and killed right in front of Ressurrection cemetary. She has been known to be picked up at night while she is walking along Archer Ave. During the forties she would jump on the running boards of cars that were going down Archer Ave., only to vanish when the car approached Ressurrection cemetaries main gates. She has also been sene dancing at the Willowbrook Ballroom (use to be O’Henry Ballroom), and a number of men have danced with her. Jerry Paulus danced with her in 1939 and she asked him to take her home. He did so, but when they got to the cemetary gates she asked him to stop the car. He told her that it didn’t seem to be the right thing to do because it was late at night. She told him that where she was going he couldn’t follow. She got out of the car, walked to the main gates of the cemetary; walked through them, and then vanished.
Comment by Terry | 08.22.2006 | 11:49 am
Sometimes if I look out my window I see a bright light. If I yell down to it ,it runs away.
Comment by Ariel Kershner | 08.22.2006 | 12:13 pm
I heard about that on unsolved mysteries. I never really knew if it was true or not but that would be kind of freaky if it was!
Comment by jackie | 08.26.2006 | 3:01 pm
There is a resurrection cemetary in Trexlertown, however I never heard the story referred to (exception of general lore elsewhere). Used to live up the road from it on Lone Lane.
Comment by J | 09.7.2006 | 5:56 pm
Hey J,
I used to live right across from Air Products. Now I live in SW FL - small world! I never heard this one though… and it isn’t in the “Ghosts of the Lehigh Valley” that was published a few years back.
Comment by R | 09.19.2006 | 1:45 pm
this is so fake you guys are fool of it lol now what
Comment by austin | 10.11.2006 | 4:40 pm
This is very true. One night while driving past this cemetary after I got out of work around 12 midnight, me and the person I was with has seen the illuminating light that looked very much like a girl walking along side of the road.
Comment by Lisa | 10.15.2006 | 5:13 pm
This is not true. It is an Urban Legend. Every state has it!
Comment by Carrie | 10.19.2006 | 6:32 pm
WOW !!! That’s really freaky. Has anyone ever tried to talk with her ? Hearing this story makes me want to get in my car and go find her. Maybe she’s lonely and just wants to tell somebody what happened to her. I believe this story and i think calling this an Urban Legend is a good way to deny that things like this really happen ! Does anyone know Ressurrection Mary’s real name and age ?
Comment by Shannon | 01.17.2007 | 12:46 am
Think about it if she lived across the street from the graveyard .do you think she would say i am lost give me a ride Home .i don’t know where i live ,but give me a ride there .hahahah it makes @#$%ing sence
my email is arcane_raven@yahoo.com if you want to argue go for it
Comment by Dustin | 01.23.2007 | 7:12 am
Think about it if she lived across the street from the graveyard .do you think she would say i am lost give me a ride Home .i don’t know where i live ,but give me a ride there .hahahah it makes @#$%ing sence
Comment by Dustin | 01.23.2007 | 7:15 am
I can’t imagine the ghost appearing to anyone. Considering the grave yard is right along BUSY route 100. Maybe she walks (or floats) down to the skating rink on a Saturday night looking to scare someone in the parking lot.
Comment by Lisa | 02.2.2007 | 8:19 pm
I do not believe this is a true story. I have been very active in the field of parapsychology, doing a lot of research and investigations, and it sounds like Resurrection Mary in Chicago.
Comment by jill | 02.4.2007 | 6:54 am
o this is sooooooooo scary [not] like that is even real!!! that shouldnt even be in haunted house stories like a girl would disappear
Comment by KATIE AND GINA | 03.18.2007 | 8:50 pm
This is an Urban Legend and found in almost every ghost story book.
Comment by loco | 06.14.2007 | 9:22 am
HI, A couple people on here have said that The ressurection cemetary is in ILL. Not in PA. In Trexlertown there is a Ressurection Cemetary, whether the story of the girl is true , I don’t know. I go to one of the colleges that are near Trexlertown and the first time I saw the signs for the cemetary I immediatly thought of the Mary from the Ill. area. I thought it was kind of amusing. But yeah, there is a cemetery withht he same name.
Comment by Sean | 07.17.2007 | 8:20 pm
This story is told a thousand different ways in a thousand different countries. There is the White Lady of Buckhorn near my own house in Altoona. There is also the White Lady of Sheperd’s Mountain in Virginia. Same story different cemetaries.
Comment by Pandinus | 10.5.2007 | 8:58 pm
This tale is not true.
There is a Resurrection Cemetery in Allentown, PA, not Trexlertown.
I agree that this tale is a mix of Mary, the ghost Resurrection Cemetery in Chicago and urban legends about the disappearing hitchhiker. The former is a well documented case.
Comment by jill | 10.7.2007 | 7:21 pm
Wow!! My mother in law lives right across the street from the cemetary. I never knew about this story, and asked my husband about it and he said he and some friends have seen the girl. Guess I need to pay more attention and see if i can see her also!!!
Comment by Michelle | 10.19.2007 | 9:56 pm
wowwww B***h Get Out Of My Car ahhhhh!!!!
Comment by Mc Nugget | 10.26.2007 | 1:49 pm
I saw this one on Unsolved Mysteries and it is definitely in ILLINOIS!!!! There are a lot of vanishing hitchhiker stories areound the country and I think they may very well be urban legends. Resurrection Mary however has been called the most documented vanishing hitchhiker (or any other kind of ghost pretty much) around. I am not even going to try to say this one’s fake, there’s too much documentation, however this documentation is for the one in Illinois on Archer Avenue and not in Pennsylania.
Comment by Jen | 11.3.2007 | 3:29 pm
Actually it happened in the Resurrection Cemetery, in Justice,Illinois
Comment by TEnaya | 12.27.2007 | 8:15 pm
We know a person who has picked this “woman” up… it was really creepy… she got out of the car, went straight to the cemetery, and disappeared… just hope that none of you had the same experience that he did!
Comment by Catherine And Hallie | 01.19.2008 | 11:14 am
I am really upset…i went practically my whole childhood thinkin that the ghost of Reserection Mary was a young women who lost her love at a young age on route 507 in PA….damn was i wrong….
Comment by Lynn | 01.28.2008 | 1:08 am