The White Lady of Easton is the name given to a recurring phantom figure or Lepke sighted in and around Union Cemetery at the intersection of Sport Hill Road and Route 59, Easton, Connecticut, U.S.A. Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, who have captured images of the White Lady on video, claim in their book, Graveyard, that the White Lady was a murder victim from the 1800s, whose body was dumped behind the Easton Baptist Church. Fellow investigator Donna Kent, founder of the Cosmic Society, Donna Kent, believes that it could be Ellen Smathers, wife of John Smathers, whose body was found in a sink-hole behind the Easton Baptist Church, weighed down with iron in his pockets. Another body was found in the sink-hole around the turn of the century, that of a Mrs. Knott, allegedly murdered by her lover, Elwood Wade.
Jeff Belanger reports that the ghost "has darted in front of passing cars, has vanished when motorists pull over to offer help, and, according to some witnesses, she has been struck by cars, in one instance in 1993 actually causing physical damage to the vehicle. The driver, a local fireman, was stunned, believing he had just run over a person, but as he looked around he found no body, not of a person and not of an animal. But there was an unexplainable dent in the hood of his car."
Sources
- Warren, Ed and Lorraine Graveyard: True Hauntings from an Old New England Cemetery (St. Martin's Press, 1992) ISBN 0-3120-8202-9
- Ledwell, Joy Does Easton's 'white lady' still haunt? FairfieldMinuteman.com Retrieved 26 December 2008.
- Belanger, Jeff Encyclopedia of Haunted Places: Ghostly Locales from Around the World (New Page Books, 2005) ISBN 1-5641-4799-1
External links
- Union Cemetery at Creepy Connecticut
- Union Cemetery at the Cosmic Society
- Union Cemetery at the Paranormal Research Society of New England
- Union Cemetery at Haunted Connecticut
- Union Cemetery at Darkoutside.com
- Union Cemetery at New England Paranormal Video Research Group
- The White Lady at Tangled Forest