: A stunningly beautiful marble statue of a young girl encased in glass is one of Chicago’s most visited grave sites and host to one of the cities most popular ghost stories.
A life sized statue carved in her image sits atop the grave site of Inez Clarke who died at only 6 years old. As with many urban legends there are variations to the story but most involve Inez being struck and killed by lightning.
It is said that on tumultuous stormy nights, when lightning is especially terrifying, the statue disappears from its glass encasing to roam the cemetery, returning to her rightful place sometime before morning.
Several cemetery guards are said to have witnessed this phenomena.
One guard in particular was making his rounds in the cemetery one night during a thunderstorm when he noticed that the glass box where the statue resides was empty. This scared the man so badly he ran from the cemetery never to return again.
UPDATE! Since I wrote this more factual information has come to light in this story. It was discovered that Inez Clarks real name is Inez Briggs and she died of diptheria. You can read the details of the years of confusion about who she was , what happened to her and how someone put the pieces together to find the answers here:
All Photos by Wendy Moxley Roe of Tombstone Travels
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