“The story goes back to the 1800’s,” says Irondequoit town historian, Patricia Wayne. “She lived near Durand Eastman and she had a teenage daughter and the daughter asked if she could walk down to the lake. As the story goes, she never came home. The mother went out to search and she couldn’t find her. The mother spent the rest of her life looking for her. It’s said on misty nights, she’d glide over the lake, all in white, glided over the waves.”

As the Irondequoit town historian, Wayne says she’s been asked about the White Lady more times than she can recall.

The nameless woman has become a favorite on candlelight ghost tours each Halloween.

It’s rumored that she lived in the so-called castle by the lake, but Wayne tells a slightly different tale.

“She’s the most well known and there are different versions, and there’s no historic evidence that she ever existed either.”