Every urban legend we hear has different variations of the story but the mean remains the same. So as with the ghost of stow lake or also known as the ghost of white lady.

The stow lake ghost is one of the oldest and most told urban legend for over a century now. The story rests in Golden gate park (San Francisco) which is known to have really creepy stuff happening there. The earliest incident sighted was on Jan 6, 1908. A drive allegedly named as Arthur Pigeon was pulled over by the police for over speeding limit. For what he said was terrifying or was just a story made up by him to get through the police. He saw a lady in the park bare footed with wet hair and dirty clothes. In a very strange voice she asked him

“Have you seen my baby?”

He was running far away from the park by car. So this is the earliest heard off sighting that gave prominence to the white lady ghost.

Like every other urban legend, this one also has many rumors around. We don’t know which one is true but most of them comply the same meaning.

Rumor 1: The most popular legend has been told over for more than 100 years.
The legends has it that a lady with her 3 children (1 in the stroller) was in the golden gate park for regular walk. While she was a bit tired so she sat across the bench in the park. There was already sitting another lady. They both started talking and the mother almost lost herself in the conversation that she forgot about the baby in the pram.

Suddenly the stroller got rolled out into the lake. When she turned only 2 babies were there and the 1 in stroller was not there. She tried searching every edge of the lake in a thought that the baby was abducted or something. She didn’t find the baby anywhere.

A sudden random thought came across her mind and she decided to check in the water of the lake. Last she was seen to walk into the lake water by her 2 other children in complete despair.

Was she searching for her baby or did she commit suicide?

After the investigation from the police, the baby was recovered from the lake immersed, but the lady was never found.

It is also said that the white lady had several sightings looking for her baby. Many have reported that they have seen the white lady asking for her baby.

Rumor 2: Another rumor has it that there was an unwed pregnant girl. She wanted to get through the baby and decided to murder him by sinking in the lake’s water.

Rumor 3: This rumor suggest that the lady has only one child and she was in the lake with her old friend. They decide to try boating as there was a beautiful environment there. While they reached the bridge, there was a group of young people who carelessly threw cigarette down and it fell into the pram.
The pram got fire. The lady tried to put water of the lake to the fiery pram but the boat turned upside down and mother and child along with her lady friend fell into the lake.

The lady didn’t know to swim but her friend did. She swam and saved her life. The lady yelled for help. Neither her friend nor the guys on bridge helped her.

The lady and her child sank into the water.

It is also said that, if you want to summon the ghost of white lady of the stow lake, you just use the following phrase 3 times-

“White lady white lady, I have your baby”

After that the white lady’s ghost will appear. She will ask you-
“Have you seen my baby?”

If you say yes, she will haunt you for your entire life. If you No, then she’ll kill you.

This phrase part seems funny though and doesn’t scare me at all. You can try it if you want to.

There is one statue in memory of Pioneer mother which is very near to the lake where this incident happened. This statue is the only statue of a female in the entire park.

The people has rumor to have sighted the statue moving face directions, facial expressions, crying and looking at the lake as its searching for something.

One strange thing across the whole story is Pioneer statue in the Golden gate park in stow lake.

In the statue, the lady is seen with 2 babies. The strange thing is, when you search pioneer mother online you will see the pioneer mother with 3 babies at many statues but here are only 2 babies while it is clearly visible in the statue that there is more than enough room for the third baby. Look yourself.

Even if we consider this a rumor, the white lady was left with 2 babies only. Did the white lady took the pioneer mother as a striking resemblance with 2 babies along and 1 missing as seen from the picture? Did she possessed or too homage or something to the statue of the pioneer mother.

There may be many rumors across the internet, but the 1^st is common and seems to be most ideally realistic but second rumor has also some valid possibilities. What do you think? Share your comments in the comment section below. 

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