Ghostly Ladies in White

But like, check this out. Ugh, what a horse. It's a horse woman. It's Sarah Jessica Parker. Welcome to Scary Mystery Surprise, where we talk about scary things that surprised us around the Internet. I'm Edwin, I'm Michelle Edwin. Yes, are you ready? Always what? You're driving down a winding country road late at night, listening to country music? Oh yeah, dude, the day eat the dirty truck, boots under the bed, fishing tractors, drinking in the back of the truck. Anyway, it's well after midnight on a foggy night, and your eyelids are growing heavy. As you make the track back to town through the rainy mist and windshield wipers, you barely see the figure of a pale woman in a white dress, standing beneath a bridge and waving her long, thin arm in the air to get your attention. She's soaked and her car must have broken down. You pull over. It gives the mysterious hitchhiker a ride. As you would, I would you make small talk with the woman? You get that her name is Lydia. Okay, let me read the first version. So you make small talk with the woman? Uugh, so have you ever seen that show The Office who answers your question in a solemn whisper, No, Anne seems hauntingly sad. This launches you into impersonating your favorite bits from the show for the rest of the drive. Then Michael says, parkour, Parkour, parkour, and he jumps around and everyone's knowing Michael Michael. But anyway, here's the other joke, and this was an assist from Greg. You make small talk with the woman, so you watch The Office? Or are you like a Big Bang Theory guy, guy who answers your questions at a solemn whisper big Bang theory and seems hauntingly sad? I would be sad too. I would also be sad. Bazanga that's what they say, right, Oh bazinga? Oh, I don't know. Is it a bazanger or basinga? I didn't watch that show. When you arrive at her home, you get out of the car and come around to open her door, But when you get to the passenger side, she's gone. Assuming she had rushed into her home, you knock on her door to ensure that she got in safely, knock knock instead of the ethereal Lydia a very old woman answers the door. Confused, you ask is Lydia inside? And the woman answers, Lydia has been dead for years, her eyes filling with tears. She was my daughter, and it's it seems like she's still trying to get home. But this is an example of the phenomenon all over the world of the lady in white, which is what we will be talking about today. Is the phenomenon and the example. I'll be giving a bunch of examples of ladies in white all over the world because I think of it is more of a phenomenon than like an individual ghost. I think it's actually just the ghost. It is the ghost story, yeah, but it is the like it's a type. It's like it's a type of ghosts that happens when like a woman has been wronged or something like that. But I'll get into that. But that story that I just told is particularly based off a lady in white story in North Carolina, and it's based off a true story from about this woman named Annie L. Jackson who died underneath a bridge. She was killed in a car accident and the driver ran away hoping to escape any sort of trouble. And so after he was arrested, people started seeing a woman in white underneath the bridge where she died. So that's like, that's the true story. And they think that Elle stands for Lydia, So Annie L. Jackson it's the real name, and so they think Elle is Lydia. I think I've heard of that. I think I've heard of that. Yeah, it's a famous one. It's a pretty famous one. She's I always think of, like, imagine a twist to that story where like the old lady is like, oh, yeah, that's me, How can I help you. I think I've seen that twist before where it's like, oh, yes, young man, come in, I'm ready for you. Come on in. I'm all dry now, nice and dry. So we were all familiar with the Woman in White. They pop up all over the world. She's usually described as a type of female ghost dressed in all white, associated with some local legend or tragedy. Her story is fluid, changing to fit the circumstances of each local history. Common to many of these legends is the theme of loss betrayal from a husband or lover. Also common as the story the woman in white is a restless spirit who killed her children or lost her children in some way. She may also be a young woman who died before her time, before her marriage. She could be in a wedding dress, or a woman who is murdered and seeks vengeance. Whatever the reason may be, the results the same. She walks the earth long after her death, searching for her lover, her children, her murderer, or anything else she needs before she can move on to the afterlife. And there are definite similarities between I think they are different categories. The weeping woman like a banshee or a light yourna and just a woman in white. I think they're close but separate because the lady in white isn't a crying and I mean, it's interesting because the woman in white seems to be a phenomenon that like contains has incorporated a lot of things of like local ancient goddesses, spirits and demons from all over the world, like depending on where you're from. Yeah, I don't know. I just thought it was so interesting. I always thought it was like associated with like a road or a path or like, yeah, there is usually a road or hitchhiking, but not always. What started me down this is that on my podcast, the new podcast, tell me a ghost story. Someone called in Greg, who's been on our show before as our game show host, and he saw a woman in white in his house where there was a murder suicide. Hi, this is Greg from Echo Park and I have a ghost story my house growing up. We moved into it when I was five, and my parents let all of us know. My two brothers and I know that they're was a murder suicide in the house before we moved in there, and the husband blew his brains out with the shotgun in the yard and the wife was dead in the house. Anyway, they let us know that and told us that this particular bedroom was haunted and they would lock us in that room if we were in trouble. And my little brother is the one who saw this goes the most. But I also saw it, and everyone called it the lady in white, and the whole family had different times where they saw the lady and wife. One time, when I was maybe eight or nine, I was alone in the room that we were all sleeping in. My brothers and I slept in the same room till I was like tent and I was in there. It was during the day. Everyone was outside in the back, and there was this bathroom that went through two rooms. It was like room room and then another room and have opened both rooms and the doors are open, and I looked in there with the lady and white just standing there in this white dress, just looking at me. And I was terrified. And I was sitting on the bed and I put the sheet over my head, but it was very bright. It was daytime. I could see through the sheet and I could see her stare at me, and I just stared at her, and she just stared at me. And this happened for I don't even know how long. It would have been a half hour, an hour. And then I just close my eyes and stay under the sheet, and then I eventually fell asleep, and when I woke up, it was still daytime and she was gone. And you can listen to the rest of the story and other ghost stories that people have called in and told me about, and you can call in and tell me your ghost stories and tell me a ghost story. But this set me down the rabbit hole. And I was just like starting to research women in white, and like, what's the deal? Because every culture has a woman in white, every single culture. It is the most common ghost story, but anyway, the earliest Western recorded story of a woman in white was in Germany in sixteen twenty five. There was a woman in white, first reported to have been seen in the City Palace in Berlin, linking to the guilt ridden Countess cooneye Gunda or Lamanda, who, according to legend, Cooney Gunda fell in love with Albert the Fair, son of Frederick the fourth of Numenberg Nurmanberg, which I tried to look that up, but I only found the Numanberg trials like it. Wouldn't let me go any deeper than I didn't care to. He proclaimed that he would marry her if four eyes did not stand in their way, referring to his parents, who did not approve of the match. That thought her glasses No, yeah, she had glasses. In sixteen twenty four, four eyes work glasses. No, cooneye Gunda mistook his message and thought the eyes referred to her two chill a son and a daughter. She stabbed their eyes out with a needle, killing both children. So you know, Albert was horrified by her actions and refused to marry her. Devastated, she made a pilgrimage to the Vatican to obtain absolution for her sins from the pope. As penance, the pope ordered her to build a monastery and then enter it into a consecrated life. Some versions state that she was sentenced to life in prison for murder. Others say that she died of exhaustion on the way to the on her pilgrimage. The legend ends with her ghosts in like she haunts multiple places so they think it's her, But historians have refuted this legend because Cooney Gunda was childless. But that's supposed to be the first legend of the woman in white. Wow, yeah, isn't that random? I mean, at least the Western woman in white. I'll just put Western women in white because in Japan there's it's almost always a woman in white because their ghosts are usually appear as they were when they died, and when they are buried, they're usually buried in like a white kimono because white is like the color of death in Asian countries, so that they're always it's always a woman in white. I didn't know that. That's kind of cool. Yeah, it's very cool. But like in Slavic mythology, there's a young woman dressed in white who roams roamed field boundaries, assailing working people in the middle of hot summer days, causing heat strokes and sometimes madness. She often took the form of whirling dust clouds and carried a scythe to stop people in the field, to ask them difficult questions or engage them in conversations. So are you a fan of the office or are you a big bang theory guy? My mind went to, like a TikToker is coming up to you, saying, what do you do for a living? What do you do for a living? How much you pay for your apartment? Can we go take a look at it? Can you give us a tour? I don't pay ret I don't have an apartment. I live in a street sewer. Yeah, of course you can come take a look at it. Or like some like she's just like a game show hose just popping out saying like do you want to win twenty five million dollars right now? And it's like, oh rat, no, whatever annoys the poor serfs who are just trying to work. It's just it's hot, it's mid day. Stop asking me questions like if anyone failed to answer or change the subject, she would cut their head off or strike them with illness, which is valid because like the Office or Big Bang theory, there's only one right answer the office. Yeah. This woman is only seen on the hottest part of the day and was the personification of sunstroke. Legends about her were told to scare children away from valuable crops. So that like kind of sounds like a right, Like that's like a demon goddess there. But then like the Lady in White in Bedford, Virginia is an apparition thought to be Mary Francis Burwell. The legend has it that she stayed on the front porch waiting for her husband to come home from the Civil War, but he never did. So that's another lady in White that they have that just hangs out on the porch waiting for her long lost hobby. There is this song, Michelle. I highly doubt you've heard it because it's in Spanish. It's called La Locha de San Blass. In case anybody's understands that the crazy Woman of some blasts, it's like this. It's a song. It's very haunting, like I want to play where you can't play it here? Uh huh, Well, give me some notes, give me some bars what it sounds like. It's just like I like the the undertone of it, which is just like ding dinging ding dingdingding tinging. It's like a rock little alternative thing. And it tells the story of this woman who was waiting for her husband, who was a fisherman, and she waited for so long that she basically grew old, and like her clothes were already being bitten by the crabs, and like she was just deteriorating. She wanted to look the same, like she wore the same stuff, so that he would return, he would find her the same, like would recognize her eventually that they would try to take her away to like an asylum, and she would just come back and just be there. This is a true story, and they have actually they have the port where like the area where she would wait, and I think they have like a little and I don't know if it's like a statue or something. I like tell the story that that's where it took place. So it's very haunting. In England, there's a lady in white who runs across there's a stretch of road between East Yorkshire and resides on the Beeford Strait, a straight road between Beeford and Brand's Brandy Burton. Why Brandon's Burton. Motorists have reported her apparition running across from the Beeford Straight toward the injunction of North Foddingham. She runs across. Yeah, she's called the running Lady, but she's a lady in white and so yeah, like people have seen her, just anecdotal. Yeah, she just like runs across and makes people yeah, like or like it's more like swinging, like they go all the way around like wush, whosh whosh. But yeah, anecdotal tails report motor motorcyclist picking up a female hitchhiker on the same stripe of road. A few miles later, the motorcyclist turns around notices the passenger is vanished. And in one instance, a car crashed into a tree kill six people, and it's rumored to be the White Lady's curse. Yeah, like a Karen which I titled this originally White Lady's the original Karens. And then there's this one tale in the Philippines which I guess they have a lot of lady in white there, white ladies. I don't know how to plural it because there are It should be pluraled because they're all over. But this is the capa rosa, which I think means a white lady in the Philippines, a female ghost wearing a white long dress with long black hair. The coppa rosa is a female who committed suicide because of hatred or being betrayed by her husband or fiance, murdered, or others said they are souls that have unfinished business. There's a famous ghost of a long haired woman in a white dress in Caesun City in the Philippines. According to legends, she died in a car accident, and her story usually involves a taxi driver who was driving late at night and picked up a beautiful woman who asked him for a ride, and along the way, the taxi driver tries to strike up a conversation. However, the woman seems disinclined to chat. So do you do you like the office? Or is this? Or you are you? Are you? Are you a big bang theory guy? However, the woman seemed disinclined to chat. At one point, the driver looked behind and saw that the woman's face was full of blood and bruises, causing him to abandon his taxi in horror. Well it's moving, Yeah, that's what I mean, Like it jumps out the window. Kepa. Rosa's aren't actually like that bad. They're like more mischievous than regular women in white. So she's not like evil, she just looks She's not evil. It's more of like a surprise factor. She's like surprise. But also she wouldn't answer his question about which show she liked tomorrow, so she just didn't want to make him feel bad. And now, finally for my concluding line that I was working on when we logged on today, I know you're not supposed to wear white after labor day, but I guess we found the exception to the rule. Oh that's why I was like, what now, I get it, because you might be wearing white for eternity. No bumba bum short and sweet baby, and I have heard a lot of those stories. It's cool because it's it goes along with the hitchhiker story. Yep, it's like but it's its own thing, like you said, so cool. Yeah, it's like a I think it really is a phenomenon, like it's a type of ghost that people see. Whether that's a type of demon or what. It's a collective thing that a woman in white. Yeah, there's a I think we talked about a highway. I think it's one fifty eighth or something a long. Let me see anyway, that road I used to travel on. I used to go there because I used to study up in NorCal So I used to go through there at night, the most relaxing time to drive for me, and I get you know, I get Jack in the box on the way and I'm just eating and that's like sweeping time for me, like a highway hypnosis. Will I make it if it's nighttime? But people talk about that haunted stuff man, like it's very creepy, and actually I might. One of my cousins had an encounter with somebody like a direct contact that had a that saw them. What happened? My dad has seen the haunted like a not a haunted person, a ghost. Okay. For my cousin, she got picked up by a tow truck or a driver that took her back to safety or whatever to get their car car fixed, and she said that the driver said, almost didn't come here because I get some calls about a woman being here, and usually everybody has said that there's this this ghost that asked for a ride and I don't want to get into that or whatever. I don't I don't want her in my car or whatever. But multiple people, like of his friends have said yeah, like one of them picked up picked her up, and she says she seemed like a normal girl, like not even in white, just a normal girl, and they took her to her house and that, and it turns out like on the along the drive, she disappeared and nobody can explain how, like how that happened unless he just imagined it too much, fumes from the engine or whatever or something made him imagine it. But there's some set stuff too, like when you mentioned Japan. Mm hmm, there's the Ghosts of the Tsunami. I don't know if you saw the documentary. Oh no, tell me, tell me more. I haven't seen it. There's there's this one, but it's a very interesting document It's on Netflix at least, that's where I everybody should watch it. There's this taxi driver, actually there's multiple taxi drivers that report them picking up people that seem lost and they get in the car and along the ride they disappear and the people that passed away. Yeah, and they're confused. They're like lost, they don't know where, like they need to get somewhere, and they're just like because they're disoriented, that's the theory, Like they're just they don't know where they're going, right, Well, they probably don't know that they're dead either. Yeah, they're very very interesting shows. It's an episode in one of the series. I forgot the series name. I'm gonna look it up and if I find it, I'll tweet about it or something. But honestly, those taxi drivers they need more money now they got Uber's ruining their career. Yeah, they gotta like gotta deal with all these dead people. They got to give these dead people rides? Who signed on for that? No one's signed on to give dead people rides when you're just like, I'm going to be a driver. But what happened to your dad? I used to drive for Coca Cola back in the day, and he obviously used to get the late shift, like he was starting out, and he at one point like he was driving, he had a part like a co pie what do you call him? Like a co driver, like a person sitting next to you so you switch off for breaks or whatever, and he stops out of like he just he sees this woman crossing the street, so he stops. The driver the guy next to him is like, why'd you stop? And he's clearly looking at this woman crossing the street and there's out The guy couldn't see her. When he's like, he tried to look for her again, there was nobody there. Nobody was crossing the street. Yeah, it's it's weird because and I always I'm a skeptic when it comes to back to something like dad, did that really happen? Oh? I think it definitely happened to your dad when you were telling that story about your dad for my podcast or whatever. Yeah, guys, check out that story. Check out that story. It's on the podcast Tell Me a Ghost Story. Find it. Find it on your app, Spotify or Apple podcasts. But if you listen on Spotify and leave a comment, just do what you want. It's fine. Yeah, hunt run across the street, terrorized children. What we've learned is it's all okay because we're gonna end up doing it after we die anyway. Yeah, just get free rides, take advantage of it. Yeah, it's the op of the future. Anyway, what are we gonna talk about next week, Edwin? I don't know, but I think it'll be a surprise. Mmmm. Alright, bye guys, Bye,