Haunting Underwater Display French Quarter New Orleans "Lady In White"

This fictional underwater photo was made just before Halloween weekend and could have been on one of the many haunted tours through the French Quarter or some other spooky part of the city. There are haunted houses up town, in the Garden District and elsewhere. And then, of course, there are the world-famous cemeteries where the dearly departed are buried in tombs aboveground. Hundreds of stories abound in which the ghosts of these “Cities of the Dead” make their presence known, some of which have actually been documented and visually captured as in this photo of “The White Lady”.
Everybody loves a good ghost story. Some are classics. We first heard them around a campfire or at a sleepover, the storyteller’s features distorted by the light and shadow caused by a Sears flashlight. Or we read them in a book in the school library when we were supposed to be studying the Declaration of Independence. Or we overheard our older sisters or brothers talking about them when we were way too little to hear such stories. Either way, certain ghost stories are burned into our memories forever. Often the most poignant feature a beautiful or wrathful woman. Submitted for your approval, we give you the most famous, most frightful, most terrifying female ghosts.
Many, many, MANY cultures have a White Lady figure in their mythology. In medieval times in England, The White Lady would act as a harbinger of death – appearing night and day in a home where someone is about to die. The Scottish version of the White Lady is said to be the ghost of a young disgraced girl who got stuck up in a high tower and flung herself out of said high tower, and since then she haunts the grounds of the castle and the room of her banishment.

England, full up with White Lady stories; also has a haunted castle in Cumbria that has its own White Lady. The ghost in question is one of Mary Bragg, who was hanged by a bunch of drunken guys. The name is supposed to be sort of ironic, because Mary was sort of, well, course with her language.

Here in the US there are plenty of other White Lady legends. Many stories are variations on the same theme – a bride who died, either accidentally or because of murder, on her wedding night. Hence the white dress, hence the name. One of the most famous White Lady stories in the US is the White Lady of Durand-Eastman Park in New York.

Legend has it that the lady who became the Lady in White had a daughter who vanishes. The lady went out every night with her two dogs, German Shepards, searching for her daughter. Discouraged and distraught over weeks of no word about her daughter, the woman threw herself off a cliff. To this day, her spirit can be seen walking around, still searching for her missing daughter.

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