Bell Ringer #10 – 10/30/09

1. Bell Ringer #10 – 10/30/09 Explain one way that West African culture from slaves influenced “Southern culture” (Hint: Check the end of Ch 3, Sn 4 for help)

2. Haunted Halloween It's a frightfully good time!

3. Resurrection Mary • The world-famous vanishing hitchhiker rests at Resurrection Cemetery. This blonde young woman wearing a white dress haunts part of Archer Avenue. • This is said to be the ghost of Mary, a young Polish girl who died in a car accident. Her ghost left handprints on the bars of the cemetery and they are still there. Dozens have witnessed her ghost. • The cemetery is located at 7200 S. Archer Avenue, Chicago.

4. Resurrection Mary

5. Marshall Field’s/Macy’s on State • In December 1903, a fire at the Iroquois Theater (now the Ford Center) took the lives of 602 Chicagoans, many of them children attending a matinee performance at the site.  As the tragedy unfolded, the 8th floor of Field's was converted into a hospital where fire victims were bandaged with dishtowels; those who died during treatment were wrapped in blankets from the bedding dept. • Throughout the mid-20th century, a number of employee suicides said to have occurred from the 8th level of Marshall Field’s (now Macy’s); coworkers claimed the victims all spoke of depression while working on that floor.  • Could the use of the floor as a hospital--and morgue--have left some kind of deadly impression on the building itself?

6. Marshall Field’s/Macy’s on State

7. “Irish Castle” / Beverly Unitarian Church • The haunting here was caused when it was the Chicago Female College. According to story, a young girl became ill with influenza and died in the early 1930's. • The ghost was first encountered in the 1960's, when it became the Church, by a custodian who saw a young girl in a long dress. The two of them chatted for a few minutes and the young girl remarked that the place had changed much since she had lived there. The custodian left the room and then suddenly recalled that the church had been in the building for more than 20 years... the young girl couldn't possibly have lived there! She ran back to the room, but the girl had vanished! She searched the entire building, only to find the doors and windows all locked. She even looked outside and discovered a fresh layer of snow... and no footprints to or from the church. 

8. In 1994, shortly after a new pastor was installed, she saw two small arms embrace her husband's waist. Her husband claimed to feel nothing. The ghost has also appeared in the form of a candle from outside of the building. The light has been observed passing by windows and floating up the staircase... while no one was in the castle. • Occupants of the building have described it as a "jingling" sound, like the tinkling of glasses and silverware at a dinner party. A former pastor stated that he often tried to track down the source of these mysterious sounds but he never could. He said that they seemed to come from everywhere... and yet nowhere... all at the same time! • The Irish Castle is located at 1044 South Longwood Drive.

10. Homework • Read Ch 3, Sn 5 • Answer all questions and key terms on page 95 (due Tuesday) • Complete study guide by Wednesday • Be safe this weekend!