Lydia is said to have been murdered by an enraged male patron of the saloon while one story explains she was pushed by him down the staircase. She is allegedly seen in the shadows of its basement and the sound of her high heels walk across its floorboards. īlake Street Vault in Denver is said to have a resident Lady in Red, referred to as Lydia, who was a saloon girl from the 1860s. (Via Jett Norlin) Reportedly in the suite named for her, she is known to whisper in men's ears and leave pearls from her broken necklace on guest pillows. Rose's real name, was Evelyn May Johnston. The fifth floor of the Mizpah Hotel in Nevada is known for a Lady in Red known as "Rose" (her prostitute name) who died at the hands of a jealous lover. In Madison, Indiana, the Civil War era Lanier Mansion references on their walking tour a Lady in Red disturbing the grounds. Her reflection is reportedly seen on certain evenings in a full length mirror off the top steps of the second floor where she is preparing herself for a grand ball. The mansion was once owned by the prosperous DeMange family, whose matriarch died only after a year in the house. Ī Lady in Red is said to haunt Illinois Wesleyan University's Kemp Hall. Guests claim to see her in her last steps from the Gold Coast Room, the Palm Court, and on the 10th floor. In Chicago's Drake Hotel, a jealous woman wearing a blood-red dress took her life after jumping from the 10th floor (or the roof, as accounts vary). Visitors of the National House Inn bed and breakfast in Marshall, Michigan have reported seeing a Lady in Red on the front staircase. The Rawls Hotel in Enterprise, Alabama is purportedly haunted by a Lady in Red that was shoved from the balcony to her death. At the age of 25 she was standing in her red dress on the balcony of the hotel during a storm when she was struck by lightning and killed. Philip's Episcopal Church, while visiting the hotel at night. According to legend, she worked as a clerk in the nearby St. In Charleston, South Carolina, near Dock Street Theatre, a Lady in Red is said to be the ghost of Nettie Dickerson, a prostitute who frequented the Planter's Hotel (now the historic French Quarter building). Her ghost is said to linger in the corridors and further inspired an annual run by students called The Red Lady Run.Ī Lady in Red at the Gladstone Inn has been the subject of multiple reports and oral histories in Black Mountain, North Carolina and whose story is included on their local walking tour. The Red Lady of Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama was a former student that mainly wore red. Rocking chairs move on their own and doors open and close. The book Chesterfield County Chronicles relates that the woman is seen sitting on the porch and that her footsteps can be heard. South Ī Lady in Red has been reported haunting Wrexham Hall in Chesterfield, Virginia where it is believed Susannah Walthall, daughter of the original proprietor, died. On Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the Weckesser building is reportedly haunted by a Lady in Red that according to one witness appears real until vanishing. United States Northeast Īccounts of a Lady in Red have been told by actors and guests at the Ghostlight Theatre in Amherst, New York. She is said to typically be friendly in disposition, with a story attached to historic hotels, theatres or other public places, with a higher frequency of reports from old mining communities due to the prostitution trade. In all cases, the Lady in Red is wearing a scarlet or blood red dress. Such a figure is thereby seen as a victim of objectification. A Lady in Red or Red Lady is a type of female ghost, similar to the White Lady, but according to legend is more specifically attributed to a jilted lover, prostitute killed in a fit of passion, or woman of vanity.
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