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woman in white

Term 4 stories, 1867 to 1991

A pale female figure, glimpsed among graves and gardens. The woman in white turns up again and again in this archive's ghost crowds. Late May 1867, Bloomsbury. Talk spread of a ten foot spectre draped in a sheet in Woburn Square, said to cross from St Pancras Old Church. In Golden Lane in 1880, watchers including a policeman reported a bright red mark on her temple. March 1884, Miamisburg, Ohio. Several hundred armed people fired on a floating woman in white in the Village Cemetery. Bachelor's Grove counts one among its legends too.