Hello friends, how has your weekend been?
Yesterday we went car shopping, as matt and I have two dilapidated cars that put together probably don’t really even equal one fully functioning car. He has no heat in the winter, mine has no air in the summer and in chicagoland weather these things are very important. Last week we had temperatures of a high below zero degrees Fahrenheit, I think the high was -7! It was no problem for him though because his car was dead in the garage all week. We looked at a couple places locally and then a couple places in the city.
One car lot we went to was only a few miles away from Resurrection Cemetery. If you haven’t heard of it before, it is one of the country’s, and definitely chicago’s, most haunted story locations. It is a catholic cemetery located right outside chicago and the home of “Resurrection Mary“, a girl who was supposedly killed in a car accident driving home from a dance, and who now appears in white gown walking alongside the roads near the cemetery and the location of the ballroom. Some have even claimed to pick up a hitch-hiking young woman and when they go to drop her off, she has vanished from the backseat. The story and location has always been a topic of conversation amongst my friends when we talk about ghosts and hauntings, but none of us had ever actually seen it. While searching for the location of the car lot I saw the cemetery was nearby and as it turns out, Matt’s grandma, great-grandparents and great-great grandparents are buried there, so we drove through. It was actually really cool because, unlike most modern cemeteries, they still allow upright headstones and statues, and since it is a catholic cemetery in chicago, all the headstones have very Polish names on them. We did not see any apparitions, which was fine with me.
Afterward we did more car shopping, went to a bohemian restaurant and then headed home. We saw a few potential cars and hopefully Matt will be the new owner of one of them by the end of the week. There is one car leading the race, but we are waiting to hear back from one salesman to see if he can find us a better deal by midweek.
Here is one last image I wanted to share. Saturday night we went over to a friends house and played balderdash while listening to records. Records, people! I have a very small record collection, but haven’t actually listened to a record probably since I was a little kid. I’ve wanted to get a player before, but it’s just not a necessity is it? I can understand the novelty, but I just can’t understand when people say that an album sounds better on vinyl. It sounds better fuzzy, and with blips and pops as well as the potential for skips, etc.? Maybe someone can explain it to me.
we have the exact same story when I was growing up in Mexico, only the girl asks for your sweater when she gets in the car because she’s cold and she asks to be dropped off in a house and tells you to come back the next day for the sweater. so the person in the story always goes to pick up the sweater the next day, only to find that the one who answers the door is the mom of the girl, who obviously died like 15 years ago, she takes you to her gravestone and hanging from it is your sweater!