I live right by this cemetary in allentown. This place does exist and it is called RESSURECTION CEMETARY. I’ve heard stories about it, but I was never there….yet.

Hi i know this has nothing to do with baker mansion but… You see i live in pennslyvannia and there is no haunted places around me that i know but when i was little my parents went out to see a horror movie and i was asleep and new nothing about them going. I remeber seeing a little girl in a white dress sitting on the edge of my bed and asking me odd questions …. which i cant remeber. Something she did just made me scream (i dont remeber what exacly) I woke my mom up from screaming so load (they where back from the movies now)and it freaked her out because she saw a movie with a little girl. when i went back to sleep i saw her again and she asked me why i did that. i answerd “i dont know i was scared” she said not to be scared and walked through my door and went away. I’m 12 now and it still gives me chills.

Opps sorry i was reading about baker mansion just take the first sentence out

Sounds a little like the tale Of Ressurection Mary, who is actually in Illinois At *that* Resurrection Cemetary. (Which was on unlsolved mysteries). Except she was killed in a car accident, and it was before 1940.

I grew up in Nottingham Park Illinois, which is right next to Bridgeview, only about a mile from Ressuraction Cemetary! When I was 19, I was driving home from work at about 11:30 pm, driving past the cemetary. I was driving down the road, and all of a sudden, a lady in all white jumped out on front of me! I got out of my car to check the damage, and there was none, and I looked back to see if she was behind me hurt, and no-one was there! I went home to inspect my car a little better and there were no dents or scratches anywhere on my car, but there was a piece of white lace hanging under my front bumper! So the next day, I drove down the same stretch of road to see if anything had happened, and there was no sign of anyone being hit! Was it Mary? That question has been haunting me since it happened, now both of my parents are buried at Bethania cemetary right next to Ressurection cemetary!

Terry and Anna are both correct. Ressurection Cemetary is in Chicago, Illinois, being born and raised an hour north I have heard all of these stories all of my life,,and my mother was a personal friend of Richard Crow, who did the ghost tours in Chicago. These stories are very true and to those who do not believe,,,you need to open you mind.

There is indeed a Resurrection Cemetary in PA – not in Allentown nor Trexlertown, but in Wescosville which is right between the two. It’s located on the old Krocks Road (not the new one where the bypass is)right off of Route 222. I grew up in this area and have driven past there many times, I’ve never seen anything though I have heard the stories.

Why is such a difficult concept that there is more than one Resurrection Cemetary in the US? It’s a common name for a cemetary. And whether these are urban legends or actual hauntings – why couldn’t it happen in or be linked to both the PA one, the IL one, or any of the others anywhere in the US?

Did it ever occur to anyone that there might actually be more than one Ressurection Cemetary…..It is a big country after all and seems that would be a fitting name for any cememtary. Just curious. I know the story of Ressurection Mary from Illinois, and I know some one who lived there and has seen her.

OK. FIRST THINGS FIRST.. YOUR INFORMATION IS NOT TRUE ABOUT Resurrection Cemetery. THAT GIRL IN YOUR STORY…YEAH LOCALS CALL HER WALKING ROSIE! AND RESURRECTION CEMETERY IS LOCATED BY THE AIRPORT AND IS INFAMOUSLY KNOW FOR THE SITE OF DAMIANS GRAVE!!! YOU WOULD KNOW THAT IF YOU WHERE REAL GHOST HUNTERS! DAMIANS GRAVE IS HEAD STONE THAT APPEARS TO HAVE A UPSIDE DOWN CROSS ON IT. IF YOU GO TO http://WWW.REALHAUNTS.ZOOMSHARE.COM OR REALHAUNTS.WETPAINT.COM YOU WOULD FIND OUT THE TRUTH. THOSE GUYS ARE AWSOME THEY TAKE YOU ON TOURS OF THE LOCATIONS, NOT JUST TALK ABOUT THEM. THE PROVIDE HISTORY AND LET YOU MAKE YOU OWN DECISION!!!

I seem to recall this taking place near Chi-town and hearing a similar story that takes place in CA (I’m thinking San-something… Diego, Francisco…?) But really, doesn’t every town have an urban legend similar to this? The people who think this story is specific and unique to Trexlertown are probably still trying to find out what really happened to Mikey and hoping they won’t wake up in a tub full of ice with a missing kidney. Have a Happy and Haunted Halloween everyone. And remember – don’t mix your Pop Rocks with Coca-Cola!

this is so not true-I drive past that cemetery every day at all hours of the day and night–NEVER have I saw this–no one I know that lives around me has seen this girl-I live about one mile away–nobody has ever seen anything around here

Resurrection Mary is the Chicago area’s best-known ghost story. Of the “vanishing hitchhiker” type, the story takes place outside Resurrection Cemetery in Justice, Illinois, a few miles southwest of Chicago.[1]

Since the 1930s, several men driving northeast along Archer Avenue between the Willowbrook Ballroom and Resurrection Cemetery have reported picking up a young female hitchhiker. This young woman is dressed somewhat formally and said to have light blond hair, blue eyes, and wearing a white party dress. There are other reports that she wore a thin shawl, dancing shoes, that she carried a small clutch purse, and/or that she was very quiet. When the driver nears the Resurrection Cemetery, the young woman asked to be let out, whereupon she disappeared into the cemetery. According to the Chicago Tribune, “full-time ghost hunter” Richard Crowe has collected “three dozen . . . substantiated” reports of Mary from the 1930s to the present.[2]
The story goes that Mary had spent the evening dancing with a boyfriend at the Oh Henry Ballroom. At some point, they got into an argument and Mary stormed out. Even though it was a cold winter’s night, she thought she would rather face a cold walk home than spend another minute with her boyfriend.

She left the ballroom and started walking up Archer Avenue. She had not gotten very far when she was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver, who fled the scene leaving Mary to die. Her parents found her and were grief-stricken at the sight of her dead body. They buried her in Resurrection Cemetery, wearing a beautiful white dancing dress and matching dancing shoes. The hit-and-run driver was never found.[3]
Jerry Palus, a Chicago southsider, reported that in 1939 he met a person who he came to believe was Resurrection Mary at the Liberty Grove and Hall at 47th and Mozart (and not the Oh Henry/Willowbrook Ballroom). They danced and even kissed and she asked him to drive her home along Archer Avenue, of course exiting the car and disappearing in front of Resurrection Cemetery.[4]

Burned section of the front gate bars.In 1973, Resurrection Mary was said to have shown up at Harlow’s nightclub, on Cicero Avenue on Chicago’s southwest side.[5] That same year, a cab driver came into Chet’s Melody Lounge, across the street from Resurrection Cemetery, to inquire about a young lady who had left without paying her fare.[6]

There were said to be sightings in 1976, 1978, 1980, and 1989, which involved cars striking, or nearly striking, Mary outside Resurrection Cemetery.[7] Mary disappears, however, by the time the motorist exits the car.

She also reportedly burned her handprints into the wrought iron fence around the cemetery, in August 1976,[8] although officials at the cemetery have stated that a truck had damaged the fence and that there is no evidence of a ghost.

In a January 31, 1979 article in the Suburban Trib, columnist Bill Geist detailed the story of a cab driver, Ralph, who picked up a young woman – “a looker. A blonde. . .she was young enough to be my daughter – 21 tops” – near a small shopping center on Archer Avenue.

“A couple miles up Archer there, she jumped with a start like a horse and said ‘Here! Here!’ I hit the brakes. I looked around and didn’t see no kind of house. ‘Where?’ I said. And then she sticks out her arm and points across the road to my left and says ‘There!’. And that’s when it happened. I looked to my left, like this, at this little shack. And when I turned she was gone. Vanished! And the car door never opened. May the good Lord strike me dead, it never opened.”
Geist described Ralph as “neither an idiot nor a maniac, but rather [in Ralph's own words] ‘a typical 52-year-old working guy, a veteran, father, Little League baseball coach, churchgoer, the whole shot’. Geist goes on to say: “The simple explanation, Ralph, is that you picked up the Chicago area’s preeminent ghost: Resurrection Mary.”[9]
by the way i live in chicago and ressurection mary does come where i live because she comes on the south side of chicago thats where i live! and i have been to archer avenue where ressurection mary got hit by a car

To all the people who say it’s not true: How do you know? The truth is, you don’t … you’d just like everybody to “think” you know. It’s OK though, most people just skip right by your comments.

This has a possibility to be real. And it does seem (to what you guys have told me) to bare a resembilence to this story in Illinois. But there have many people who have died over the many many many years 2 are bound to be the same. but why a party dress? was she not able to afford better? And why would she say she is lost when she lived across the street from it? It could be myth or it could be real. IDK!

ii liive not 10 minutes from that cemetery ii constantly pass iit going baqq and forth from AMC and Kmart i never knew there was a story behind iit!!!

wow tat is so scary

this isnt where it is. its in moon township pa. i live by it and have gone a few times. the story is a lot different. there is a black grave with the name damon on it with an upside down cross.

Ressurection cemetery is in moon township pa. its a different story. i live by it. the story is there is a black grave with the name damon on it and it has an upside down cross. and if you tamper or disrespect the grave that bad things will happen. one time a 4 boys went to see if the legend was true. when they got to the grave 3 of the 4 boys were saying bad things about the grave and they actually peed on it. and when they left they go in a car accident and only the one who did nothing survived. and the few times that i have been there and left a few of my friends that accompanied me got into car accidents. but nothing life threatening.

i have allready experienced her… she asked me to stop at the end of the sementary n when she got out of the door she desapeared… but before she left the car her face turned white n she had no eyes nor face… it was my only experience with the paranormal n it got me interested ever since!

So I just read this and actually got in my car and drove to the cemetery. While we did not see anything we weren’t screwing around and stopping our car to find out if anything would come out. We actually went in the cemetery because the creepy gates were open at 2a.m. Does anyone know where I can get more info on this? I want to go back next weekend and actually stop the car and wait around for a bit.