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.
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 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-The lady and her child sank into the water.
“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.
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 1st 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.
For more info, check this:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTC0fa6SS6M
For more info, check this:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTC0fa6SS6M