Here is the story of the lady in white aboard the Eliza White ship as adapted from Frederick Stonehouse’s Haunted Lakes II. For more information, on this story and other occurrences of the ghostly lady in white, please see my previous blog post.
The Ghostly Lady
One night after the old double masted schooner known as the Eliza White anchored onto shore, a strange occurrence happened. This ship was taking some cargo to Hamilton, Ontario. It was a Canadian boat that regularly travelled with freight throughout the ports of the Great Lakes. The captain left the dock so that he could advise his customers that their products had arrived and that they needed to unload it. It was evening and starting to darken. When the old captain returned, he found the ship’s mate he had left behind to guard the ship running from it as fast as he could. He stopped him and asked him what he was doing, and what he was running from.
The ship’s mate told the story of what had happened to him while the captain was away. While he was sitting inside the ship’s quarters enjoying a pipe, a woman appeared to him out nowhere, seemingly coming through the walls of the room. She did not speak to him but looked terribly frightened and disturbed by something. He describes her as wearing a white dress and having big black eyes which conveyed a desperate sense of fear. She was wringing her hands over and over again, further reinforcing the fact that she was worried about something. Well, after the man had told his story, he ran off and was never seen or heard from again. The captain completed the journey by himself, noticing nothing strange or peculiar in his surroundings. However, more strange appearances were reported by others on this ship of seeing this ghostly lady in white.
The Toronto Telegram, in an article from 1943, reported on the strange occurrences that had been witnessed aboard the Eliza White. Among these were a woman in white, and potentially another ghost lady who was said to be the cook on the ship who had been murdered by an unknown assailant. In both cases, the newspaper stated that the ghost was some woman who was killed aboard the ship and “had some violence done to her.” She continued, to haunt the halls and passageways of where she been seen last, as long as the Eliza White boat existed.
Do you think that the unknown ghostly woman in this story could have some unfinished business that she needed to tell the sailor about?
Or is she just a wandering ghost looking for her lost husband?
A Winter's Dream 
l enjoyed very much this second part.
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