Paranormal Story Archives
February 2001 – Page 29

The Mary Visions
by Jackie A.

I live in Joliet, Illinois about 35 miles south of Chicago. In July, 1999 my life would start to change. My sister called and said there was an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe in an attic window. We were raised Methodist and really knew nothing of Mary. She told me there were at least 200 people in the street looking at this window of an unoccupied house. A young boy saw it while playing on the sidewalk and went to tell his grandmother. I went over there and my agnostic sister said to me with a serious face, "I saw it." We went there together and I saw immediately what the others were seeing. We would spend a lot of time at this window, in the day and in the evening. There were hundreds of flowers and candles. I overheard people talking and there I learned of Clearwater, Florida and Hannover Park, Illinois. I was curious, so I called the library in Hannover Park and they told my what they knew. About three years ago, in an apartment complex, every night when the outside lights go on, the shape of the Virgin appears on the bricks. Well, I just had to go. My sister and I went there with her video camera and it was just like they said. A blue tent-shrine was erected to hold the flowers and candles. A few weeks later, it was on the 10 p.m. news that there was a tree in Chicago where the shape of the Virgin appeared in 3-D. With sister and cameras in tow, I drove to Chicago. It was about midnight when we got there and there were a few people still there. I didn't really see what they were looking at, but respected it all the same. It was here that I first realized that the address was similar to the window. The window was 611 and the tree was 811. A few weeks later, I learned of a tree in Chicago from a friend of mine. It was only three blocks away from the first tree! I went at 11 p.m. and when I walked around the front of the tree, I was amazed to find that it was very similar to the first one and also 3-D with water covering it. All this happened within a few months and I started studying the Bible, Nostradamus - anything that might give me answers. One day, at Barnes and Noble, my sister and I were looking at books and I was reading the indexes and I said out loud, "...Seven. The significance of the number." My sister's pager went off, and she said, "What did you say?" I repeated it and she turned her pager to me and all that was on it was 77. That is when I started reading Revelation, and that scared the heck out of me! So, at this point, I am confused and feeling alone. A priest called me a "shrine chaser." I heard on the news that an image of Jesus was seen the the steel support of a bridge near North Ave. and Milwaukee Ave. It compelled me to go there, and I found it right away! I looked out my passenger window and there it was! I got out to take pictures, and I knew then that I didn't have to search anymore. This is what I was looking for. Mary had led me to Jesus and changed my life. Just a few more things: The address of the second tree is 611 and in Streator, Illinois there is a Catholic church, St. Stevens, where someone photographed a statue of Mary with a Polaroid, and Jesus is seen next to her. The address there is 711 Lundy. There is a flower growing out of a dead tree across that street from the window. I thought someone just stuck it up there, but it opened and bloomed for a week! All of these are visible 24 hours a day.

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