Accounts of this Williamsport supernatural being very. It was a woman like figure, some say dressed in all white like a bride, some say she wore black as if in mourning, some stories claim the figure had claws.,Some tales suggest the spirit was angry at her husband for cheating on her. a few stories claim the lady was simply scaring children inside at night to keep them safe. One tale recounts the veiled lady being a spirit that would go to African American neighborhoods and torment them specifically.



In 1943, the first report came to police. A woman dressed in black with a veiled face was walking the streets of Williamsport in the dead of night. The officers who responded found nothing upon arrival. The police were notified of the figure nightly for some time after the initial appearance. The local newspaper began running stories. A mob formed in search of the dark figure haunting the streets at night.



Some time passed with no sighting of the lady and she was presumed gone, but that is not how spirits work. The veiled lady appeared around Halloween, nights at a time, every year. Each time tormenting the locals and scaring them into staying inside at night. The lady was never seen by the police. It was as if she would scare the citizens and vanish. Not a soul had a reasonable explanation for the yearly appearance of the veiled lady until the police finally caught up to her.



The moon was faint behind the thick clouds as the young girl made her way home from a late girl scout meeting. The street lights lit up only what was beneath them and that just wasn’t enough. Along the sidewalk stood a waist-high ancient wall made of stacked stone, the rest of the area was open to her.



She hadn’t heard of any sightings as of yet that year, but the girl knew the veiled lady would show any night. A block away the girl could see a shadow stalking through the night.



As she grew nearer she became more nervous that it would be the lady, until she saw the clear outline of a black dress. The girl was standing just near a streetlight and decided she would hide behind the stone wall.



She sat, pressed to the wall, all was silent. She took deep breaths trying to suppress her panic. Then came the footsteps. Loud clocking of high heels just on the other side of the wall.



Once again the night was silent. The girl heard light scratching, the dull dragging of claws on the stone. The Lady was searching. The girl held her breath, she couldn’t move.



At last a saving grace, red flashing lights their way over the stone wall and so did the officers voice telling the lady not to move. The girl jumped to feet to see the ladies veil had been removed. Underneath was a boy a few years older than herself.



For the first time in years, the community had an answer. The terror that was the Veiled Lady was just a hoax. That boy and a group of others had been dressing up and scare the town. But no one knows where it started. It couldn’t have been the boys from the beginning and there’s still no explanation for the original ghost. From time to time the people of Williamsport still claim to see The Veiled Lady.