Resurrection Mary

by Troy Taylor

Overview

Archer Avenue, the famous haunted highway on Chicago's Southwest Side, has been a source of fascination for ghost hunters, history buffs and paranormal enthusiasts for decades. In addition to the haunted houses, graveyards and buildings that line this old road, Archer Avenue is home to the one of the most famous ghosts in America -- Resurrection Mary! She has been the subject of songs and the stuff of legend since the middle 1930s but for the first time, Troy Taylor will recount not only scores of sightings and first-hand accounts with this elusive phantom but will reveal the results of his own investigations into the identity of the young women who is the spirit behind what he calls "his favorite ghost story"!

Taylor's book, Resurrection Mary, is more than just a collection of ghost sightings. It's also the first in-depth account of the history, mystery & hauntings of Archer Avenue, a former Indian trail that is one of the oldest roadways in the Chicago region. Other historical hauntings that are explored in the search for Resurrection Mary are:

* The Hauntings of Chinatown
* The Ghost Stories of the old Lexington Hotel
* History & Hauntings of Bridgeport, from the Devil in the Dance Hall to the Headless Horseman of the 1894 Railroad Riots
* Archer Avenue's Haunted Graveyards, from ghost sightings at Bethania Cemetery to the Weeping Woman of Archer Woods
* Kean Avenue Hauntings
* Mysteries of the Forest Preserves, from Werewolves to the Story of Red Gate Woods
* The True Story behind the Maple Lake Spook Light
* Willow Spring's Haunted Fire Station
* Rico D's: The Haunted Roadhouse
* Farewell to the Grimes Sisters: The Mystery & Hauntings of Chicago's Most Chilling Unsolved Mystery
* Hauntings at St. James-Sag Church & Burial Ground

* And "In Search of Resurrection Mary", the Complete History and Hauntings of this Famous Phantom! Includes Her Mysterious Origins, First Hand Accounts, Ghostly Encounters, Famous Sightings and The Origins of the Story --- "The Girls Who Would be Resurrection Mary"! For the first time, the identity of the young women who spawned "Chicago's Most Famous Ghost Story" are revealed!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015647396
Publisher:	Whitechapel Press
Publication date:	09/27/2012
Series:	Haunted Illinois , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	188
Sales rank:	719,696
File size:	198 KB

About the Author

Troy Taylor is an occultist, supernatural historian and the author of 86 books on ghosts, hauntings, history, crime and the unexplained in America. He is also the founder of the American Ghost Society and the owner of the Illinois and American Hauntings Tour companies.

Taylor shares a birthday with one of his favorite authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald, but instead of living in New York and Paris like Fitzgerald, Taylor grew up in Illinois. Raised on the prairies of the state, he developed an interest in "things that go bump in the night" at an early age and as a young man, developing ghost tours and writing about haunts in Chicago and Central Illinois.

He began his first book in 1989, which delved into the history and hauntings of Decatur, Illinois, and in 1994, it spawned the Haunted Decatur Tour -- and eventually led to the founding of his Illinois Hauntings Tours (with current tours in Alton, Chicago, Decatur, Lebanon & Jacksonville) and the American Hauntings Tours, which travel all over the country in search of haunted places.

In 1996, Taylor organized a group of ghost enthusiasts into an investigation team and the American Ghost Society was launched, gained over 600 members in the years that followed. The organization continues today as one of America’s largest and most honored research groups.

In 1997, Taylor launched the Haunted America Conference, regarded as "America's Original Ghost Conference" in Decatur, Illinois. After a number of years in Alton, Illinois, the conference has returned to its original site at the Lincoln Theater in Decatur. The Haunted America Conference remains the most imitated conference in the country and in 2012, held the 16th annual events in Illinois.


In addition to the tour companies and Haunted America Conference, Taylor is also the founder of Whitechapel Press, a publishing company for books about the supernatural that he started in 1993, and Dark Haven Entertainment.

Along with writing about the unusual and hosting tours, Taylor is also a public speaker on the subject of ghosts and hauntings. has appeared in scores of newspaper and magazine articles about the subject and in hundreds of radio and television broadcasts about the supernatural. Troy has appeared in documentary productions for TLC, The History Channel, A & E, Discovery Channel, PBS, and many more! Troy currently resides in Illinois.