The Paranormal Stories of Julia Buccola's Haunted Grave at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, IL

[@StrangeandSinister1]

📽Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:51 Julia Buccola's Life and Death 2:10 Filomena's Nightmares 2:47 Julia Buccola is Exhumed 3:11 Julia In Her Open Casket 3:51 The Paranormal Stories 5:27 Was She Really A Saint? 6:52 Was She Buried Alive? 7:22 My Thoughts on the Story 8:35 Outro

[@heatherlawson3437]

So very sad that She, and her Baby died. I thought that you were going to say that there was scratch marks in the coffin. Brilliant video, with great creepy music.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you! 🙂

[@irenarobh6058]

wow such a sad story.creepy at the same time..i love this channal it gets me every time.from uk...

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you! 🙂

[@kerprice]

This was very engrossing. Both my husband and I have family members buried there. We will havr to go visit her grave

[@StrangeandSinister1]

It's a beautiful moment. And the creepy photo is there too.

[@madtrucker0983]

Hey I've been here and Al Capone's grave when I visited Chicago.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Nice. I did a whole video on his grave and others.

[@madtrucker0983]

@@StrangeandSinister1 Yeah I commented on it. I was saying that I had been too his grave and made mention of this one being in the cemetery. You replied back about this video coming out in a week are so. We are from Alabama and my wife wanted to see Capone's grave and I wanted to see her's the next time we were up there. Great video Sir.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

I remember now lol. Thank you 👍

[@rgarlinyc]

Another beautiful cemetery - I mean in the sense of its architecture and layout. The story of Julia Buccola and her mother is spine-tingling, and that photograph of her lying in the open coffin looks both believable and achingly sad. I'd never heard of 'corpse wax' before so I looked into it; there is apparently an entire such corpse currently displayed in the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia! I agree, the story of her being buried alive is very doubtful given that when disinterred she presented as supine and not prone, or repositioned in any way - her mother's very plausible nightmares notwithstanding. Masterful recounting as ever, thank you sincerely.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thanks for watching. It's a creepy photograph for sure and a sad story. Yeah from what I read that substance can preserve a corpse for centuries in some cases.

[@m.y.o.b.724]

Interesting story! She looks too peaceful to have been buried alive. I'm sure she would've tried to claw her way out of the coffin, had that been the case. I've heard of this tale before, but on another channel. I think the mother wanted peace of mind. Imagine the horror if it had been true, though. It would've been better not to know. The scientific explanation makes the most sense in regard to why Julia's body was so well preserved. Due to her sudden and unexpected death, her 👻 might still be roaming the cemetery. Let's hope she found 🕊in the afterlife.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

I don't believe she was buried alive. The coffin interior would be torn apart in the photo.

[@melanieiwasko6010]

Yesssss! I knew you were going to cover this!😮

[@StrangeandSinister1]

🙂 It's such an interesting story.

[@randyhebbebusche3644]

It's a sad case. Feel sorry for the whole family. Poor husband losing both like that. Thank you for your hard work.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

It's a sad case for sure. Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching.

[@ThepupsnameisBrian]

I love your channel! I'm fascinated by the paranormal happenings around IL!

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you! There are quite a few haunted places.

[@leonardciavarella7515]

Never heard this one before! I love it!!! I’m so surprised my family never told me about this one. Especially considering, half my family is buried at this cemetery!!! Very cool man! Love it!

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Awesome, thank you! It's kind of a lesser known story, but I thought it was perfect for my channel.

[@verasandin3599]

Amazing story.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you. This story has always fascinated me. It's sad and creepy at the same time.

[@JeanetteYeast]

I love your voice when you are telling these stories I look forward to your next strange and sinister adventure

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you Jeanette. I'm working on a new video now.

[@redjar43]

I’ve always wondered how she would look now/today if exhumed.

[@Dave-bj3pq]

Probably like a skeleton 🤷‍♂️

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Probably, but if corpse wax was involved it can preserve the body for a long time.

[@SaginawCareerComplex]

Exposing the body to fresh air during the exhumation probably accelerated decomposition.

[@lynnflynn5591]

It is said among some Catholics that when someone dreams of a deceased individual, it's the deceased individual's soul requesting prayers from beyond the grave.

[@HereNThereCronicles]

This is a very interesting story.... and Mount Carmel is such a beautiful cemetery. I love going there to roam around and look the headstones and mauseleums.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you. It's a cool cemetery. I might go back sometime and make another video there. I believe there's another grave in there with a story similar to this one.

[@critterscute3642]

Another fine video! I was unfamiliar with this story. Good one, though tragic. The monuments in that cemetery are absolutely beautiful. Thanks again for all your hard work putting these together for us.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

My pleasure. Thank you! 👍

[@veronicacomoe]

WOW! this was a pretty trippy story. I agree, if this truly is a photo after Julia was exhumed, corpse wax. Tysvm for sharing this. New to me. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@StrangeandSinister1]

🙂 I'm glad you liked it. Thank you.

[@lisanewman6065]

Love watching as always.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

🙂 Thank you!

[@mombradshaw5528]

Just found your channel...I am completely in love with History. This is why I can't get enough of cemeterys...When I look at a cemetery, I see countless years lived, first breaths, first steps, first birthdays, first kisses, best and happiest memories..last words and memories and getting married and raising children...I see all of this stuff.. oh, if these tombstones could talk, because fact is always more exciting than fiction...A really good channel..I like it very much. Thank you for sharing all these wonderful and awesome stories from these peoples lives! 🥀

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you for checking out my videos. I'm glad you enjoy them. I love history as well. I thought this story was really interesting.

[@jared1870]

I never heard this story before and it's a nice break from Resurrection Mary. A very interesting story, but if Julia came to her mother because she had been buried alive, six years was a bit late to dig her up. Thanks once again.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you, it's an interesting one for sure. The dreams began not long after she died, but apparently the mother was unable to get approval for the disinterment until six years later. Who knows how much of this story has been distorted over the years, but we do know that she was in fact dug up, which is weird.

[@corymotta17]

Very, very interesting, never ever heard of this story , sad though

[@StrangeandSinister1]

It's sad and creepy at the same time.

[@brucemoriarty9964]

In Chicago there are far more scary things going on today then in it's entire history.😢

[@evelyna_paula1747]

For example? I have never been to the usa.

[@Bob-dc6bo]

Totally fascinating story. Your stories always leave me pondering different parts of the story, many times days later. Nicely done!!

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you!

[@DarthSparhawk]

Very eerie story.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Very eerie indeed. And sad.

[@rosiemcnaughton9933]

Fascinating! Creepy too. Haven't heard this one before. Thank you. 😨

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thanks for listening

[@Alexchachula]

This story is one that is retold in the italian community when I was a kid. The stories were all similar in the fact that she looked perfect. Most of the community was on the fence about being incorruptible, as there were no known miracles associated with her. That was a long time.ago, and I know folks that still talk about as a saint. Do you remember the name of the cemetery where the bars are on the main gate were either bent or twisted ? This was a long time ago They never did fix the bars as the story goes. I remember driving by when I was younger. One bar of the gate was twisted, and the meter part of the bar was painted a darker color. That would e something to look into

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Are you referring to the bent bars at Resurrection Cemetery? Richard Crowe made ridiculous claims that Resurrection Mary bent the bars and her fingerprints were burned into the metal, but cemetery officials later said a truck hit the fence and the "fingerprints" were from a welders glove lol.

[@Alexchachula]

@@StrangeandSinister1 yes the very same, I have gone to that gate on more than one occasion. Something twisted that iron, and the bar is squewed to the left a bit. Now Mary, I think not. It did make a good story and could have made him a buck or. Two. The odd thing for.me,is that this solid bar was twisted. I am sure someone could have done it. However I think someone would have seen that happening, or if at night could made noise enough to someone calling the cops. Still, it is a cool story to think about.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

The bent bars at Resurrection were definitely caused by a truck. I was just reading the 1992 Chicago Tribune article about it. A cemetery employee was interviewed in the article and said a groundskeeper backed into it.

[@Alexchachula]

@@StrangeandSinister1 very interesting indeed. It is amazing how quickly people will attach an urban legend to almost anything. I have investigated many cemeteries in Chicagoland where I grew up. And a number of pioneer graveyards in AZ.. the ones here are very interesting. Many do not have the names of the person buried they. Out here almost every graveyard has a really weird vibes

[@bdpage2023]

No mortal flesh is incorruptible. Sounds like Catholic man-made doctrine.

[@yvettevitacaponigro]

😔🙏🏻🥀 Thank you for the post!

[@StrangeandSinister1]

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[@heathermanning5368]

Interesting story! Thanks for Sharing!

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@kevin_736]

Nice video!

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thanks!

[@djtigerstripes]

If she had been buried alive the inside of her coffin would have been a mess.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Agreed. It would have appeared torn apart in the picture.

[@imtheitchyouneedtoscratch]

Indeed​@@StrangeandSinister1

[@PRHILL9696]

​ @StrangeandSinister1 For some reason I cannot reply to your question about the camp Dearborn location, so I will post it here. ​ I believe it happened in the late 70s. From what I recall The entrance is on Higgins Road, just east of River Road. I heard about the event growing up, and Ursula Bielski in her book More Chicago Haunts talks about it as well The entrance was along the river across the street from a graveyard

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Thank you. I'll check it out.

[@zipshed]

Even if she was buried alive she wouldn't last that long in that condition. Lack of oxygen would have killed in in a very short time anyway. The photo was apparently taken a few paces back but not that far. Who knows...very strange

[@StrangeandSinister1]

It's a strange story for sure.

[@PRHILL9696]

Have you ever heard about the Dearborn campsite in the woods near O'hare? Where the boy scouts used to camp, Until one night a strange thing happened. They were in a clearing when all of the woods all around them started to shake and sound like they were breathing, then got louder and shook harder as if an intense wind was doing it except there was no wind. And then it sounded like a choir chanting. And they all checked the woods expecting to find hundreds if not thousands of people in the trees doing this, but saw nobody They freaked and ran back to the camp in another clearing for the night, and returned the next morning. They found signs of a ritual like a bonfire and candles and incense and painted symbols. So someone was there, but they saw nobody making all of that happen at the time. Speculation is maybe they summoned something that did that or that it who knows. I know there are storys of the forest Preserves around Chicago where that happens a lot, sudden invisible breathing or chanting or trees doing that. I hears the scouts stopped going there. I took a trip there ten years ago and saw the entrance to the driveway near the river and graveyard was blocked off and the driveway over grown with weeds now. The whole area seemed long abandoned.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

No I've never heard of the story but it sounds interesting. When did it happen? I'm not familiar with the woods you're referring to. What's the nearest intersection?

[@Bh-jf2bu]

A lot of mobsters also buried there.

[@melanieiwasko6010]

Yep, and he already covered it. :)

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Yes, I did a whole video on over 10 mobsters buried there.

[@JamesAnderson-nz1ro]

I would be so interested to see what she would look like today.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

It does make you wonder. If she was being preserved by the corpse wax I mentioned in the video, then she probably looks the same.

[@Glenboi]

That’s where Al Capone is buried too.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Yes, I did a whole gangster video if you want to check it out. I went to his grave and several others. I covered the history and stories with each one.

[@johnryder1713]

There was that time in the UK a lady suffering from a narcolepsy like condition woke up in her own wake once, and had a bell installed in her own crypt, and rang long after she actually was dead until they removed it

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Crazy. Some graves here in the US once used bells and gadgets for that purpose. Being buried alive was a big fear back then.

[@richarddemuth7077]

Many of the circumstances of this story seem to be the inspiration for the Chicago urban legend of the similar figure of "Resurrection Mary". She also appeared to sighters in a white dress and according to some accounts I have read, was an Italian bride.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

There could be a connection, although the stories are different.

[@Veronica.A.]

At first I thought that Julia came to her mother's dreams to put an accusation on Julia's husband who might have killed her. But, that wasn't the case and I'm sceptical whether the daughter really paid her mom a vist, or was it just a figment of her imagination.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Who knows, but allegedly she had dreams that compelled her to exhume Julia. She really was exhumed.

[@Veronica.A.]

@@StrangeandSinister1 She was exhumed. But no I don't believe she visited her mom in her dreams ,specifically to instruct her that she was buried alive and to exhume her. That sounds a bit incredulous from the mom's side of the story. Did her coffin bear any claw marks or scratches apart from her bloated arm to indicate her struggle to get out?

[@StrangeandSinister1]

It's unclear, but the coffin fabric doesn't appear to be torn apart in the photograph. And no signs of a struggle. The question then is why was she exhumed? Was her body really incorruptible as the mother claimed?

[@Veronica.A.]

@@StrangeandSinister1 Nah, I think her mom was grieving and obsessed by the fact that she lost her daughter at a very young age.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

I agree.

[@PRHILL9696]

I have taken a Ouija Board to that graveyard a few times. Nothing ever happens though

[@StrangeandSinister1]

I smelled flowers at her grave when no flowers were there. I walked away and returned and the smell was gone.

[@PRHILL9696]

@@StrangeandSinister1 I am not far from there, I should pay a another visit and see if I notice anything. I know so many people that have paranormal experiences, and for some reason I never do.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Leave a comment if something happens.

[@PRHILL9696]

@@StrangeandSinister1 Will do!

[@Rivenworld]

I'm probably going to get slated for this but my belief is she is an incorruptable, just my opinion based on life experiences.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

That could very well be the case. Who knows.

[@mjrchapin]

One of her hands does look very swollen or large; and is the infant still there in the picture?

[@StrangeandSinister1]

I don't think the infant is still visible.

[@rikkiross7691]

If Julia was alive while in her coffin there would of been finger nail marks showing that she was fighting to get out!!..Thats my theory!! 🤷

[@StrangeandSinister1]

Definitely, I agree.

[@coffee-co8gk]

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[@andreajanota6258]

Had she died 300 years before, she probably would have been sainted as an incorruptible body. But by that time they didn’t saint people for that reason.

[@bdpage2023]

No mortal fallible man is a Saint. Likely man-made Catholic doctrine.

[@c3plus192]

Why wasn’t her married name used on her monument? That is highly unusual.

[@StrangeandSinister1]

It was said that the mother did not like her husband and that is believed to be the reason why the name Petta was excluded.

[@GingerKraut]

Just my opinion, but I think that the mother was suffering emotionally from her daughter's (and grandchild's) loss, to the point it affected her mental state. Add in a mix of science and religious fervor, and you have the story. (Not trying to ruin the paranormal fun--I love a good ghost story)

[@StrangeandSinister1]

That could definitely be the case.

[@Joy-TheLazyCatLady2]

If Julia was married, why is she buried under Buccola?

[@StrangeandSinister1]

The mother allegedly didn't like her daughter's husband. That could be why her maiden name was used on the grave.

[@LordoftheSerpents]

Vampire!

[@StrangeandSinister1]

😦

[@martincvitkovich724]

I'd say Julias mother was a nut

[@StrangeandSinister1]

This is possible.

[@damarysdingui]

Thanks for the creepy content as always, Strange and Sinister..💖

[@StrangeandSinister1]

👍🙂 You're welcome! Thank you for watching.