User:Lar/ToDo/The white lady
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The White Lady is a ghost story. There are many settings and variants for it.
- The White Lady of Branch Brook Park' - Local legend [1] about Branch Brook Park in Newark, New Jersey. There are actually two different and conflicting stories that have been recounted. In one version the lady is a ghost of a newlywed who was killed. along with her husband, on her wedding night, when her car, skidding out of control, impacted a tree in the park.
In another version the couple are on their way to prom and their limo crashes. There are also allegations that (as with other ghost stories) there has been some blurring or borrowing, and in particular that Annie's Road is a rehosting of this legend.
- The Ghostly Sphinx of Metedeconk by: Stephen Crane [2] recounts a tale of a white lady spirit whose lover was drowned in 1815.
- White Lady of Durand Eastman Park is a ghost story in the Rochester, New York area, supposedly the spirit of a mother who believes her daughter was kidnapped and raped. [3]
[edit] References
- ^ as documented in http://www.weirdnj.com/stories/_ghosts05.asp
- ^ as recorded here http://www.njhm.com/metedeconk.htm, which sources it from Stephen Crane: Uncollected Writings Edited by: Olov W. Fryckstedt Uppsala, 1963
- ^ as recounted here: http://www.americanfolklore.net/folktales/ny6.html
