📙📖 📙 The Bayport Lady In White (Stand Alone)-editing

                                                          The Bayport Lady In White

All over the world, there are stories about the infamous ladies in white. The story of the love-scorned woman who wanders the roadways or waterways looking for a ride or, in some cases, causing an accident after being in the car with the driver. These women had taken their own lives and, in some cases, murdered their children. From most accounts and research, most of the men targeted are somehow unfaithful to the woman they're with, or she'll appear as a beacon of hope for women who are going through a similar situation that she had gone through. Let me tell you the story of my encounter with a woman in white.

For today's story, our 'Lady in White' is a complete mystery. After years of research, I still have not yet found evidence of who she was or how she passed and became a lady in white. Our woman could have been a girlfriend from the mafia that was in the area, part of the vagabond camps that were in the area, or a woman who was dumped in the area by her spouse or significant other.

A woman in white normally appears in the area where they had spent their final moments. As I grew up, I checked old newspapers and historical documents to find out where this woman could have been killed and could not discover who she was. Some have asked, How do I know she really existed?"

I know she exists because my children and I saw her that night. When I mean saw her, I mean hit her. The lady in white ran in front of my truck, and I could have sworn I hit her because not only my children, who were with me, but the couple in the car behind us heard the impact.  

 I was talking to an acquaintance, and he suggested that the lady in white could have been part of the migrant or homeless population at the time. From the turn of the century until the 1980s, there were very few roads; it could be hard to travel to some of the locations. From the 1900s to the 1980s, there was also a large migrant and homeless population in the area. I do know from newspaper articles that unmarked graves had been found around the area where this incident happened, but who this lady in white is could be anyone's guess.

As someone who keeps track of local ghost stories, I didn't know about our mysterious lady until I had my run-in with her. My ex-husband and I were separated ten years ago, and my children and I have been having a rough time with it. We would have night drives when we were restless. What we would do is drive to Hernando Beach and go to Bayport docks as a way to relax. 

 

Well, one night, as we did our drive-thru at Bayport and we were heading back home when the incident happened. We were less than 30 ft from the exit, and there she was running, from one side of the road to the other clear as day. I slammed my brakes because I thought she was a human, and I thought I had hit her. The man driving behind me also hit his brakes. He jumped out of his car and ran up to my truck. He asked if I was alright and put my SUV in the park position as I was frozen. He told me to stay put. He went to the front of my truck, shook his head, and bent down to look under my SUV. He popped back up and said, "Where is she?" I was out of my SUV faster than you can imagine and ran around the car and looked for her. We then looked at both sides of the road and searched for this woman we thought I hit. We were confused that we had missed seeing her go to the side of the road. Everyone thought we heard the sound of my truck hitting her.

 

The man's wife, who was in the car behind us till this point, got out of the car and asked if we were alright. The man told his wife there was nothing there, and she said we all saw her. She made the sign of the cross as she said that the woman we saw must have been a ghost. As she said the words, it dawned on me that she could have been a lady in white or an apparition. It has been over ten years since I have seen her, and I honestly think she was reaching out to me because of the rough time I was going through. I hope for her she is now in a better place.