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Does your area have a Grey Lady myth?

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QuestionableMouse · 28/07/2021 19:03

Working on my thesis which is folklore based and keep seeing various versions of the Grey Lady myth pop up.

Does your area have one, and if so, what is it? 😁

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Flaunch · 29/07/2021 11:20

Haden Hill House in the Black Country has one too. I got married there and was most annoyed that she didn’t show 👻

ProfYaffle · 29/07/2021 11:21

I think it was pub tour we heard it on! Also here www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/heritage/weird-norfolk-ghost-tombland-norwich-1366182

ProfYaffle · 29/07/2021 11:23

@SophieB100 - it's the same one! She's supposed to haunt Tombland alley. She allegedly lived in the wonky house/Samsons

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parietal · 29/07/2021 11:25

I was at a boarding school in the 80's - big dorms with rows of beds. the story was that the grey lady came into the dorms at night & went along a row going 'over - under - over - under - over - under - kill'.

it was mainly a way to scare the new girls and have an excuse to jump from bed to bed as you count out who will die.

Bighorriblemirror · 29/07/2021 11:31

Yes, she's sometimes known as the white lady.
On what is now a lane that used to be a main thoroughfare many years ago. Apparently she was looking for her lover (I think) and got ran over by a carriage and four. Got her name from the long white dress that may appear grey after being flattened by 4 horses and a carriage 🤷🏼‍♀️ she only shows up when it's raining apparently too, because it was raining that night.

I used to walk that lane a lot, in the dark, and honestly never saw anything, though I've experienced other unrelated things. People who don't believe in it think it's something to do with the reflection of headlights on a wet road.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 29/07/2021 11:48

I have never come across a Grey Lady myth, but I used to be a nurse, and I trained at Manchester Royal Infirmary, and there were a number of ghost myths, passed down from one set of student nurses to the next.

One was a lady who stood at the end of someone's bed.

Others included a preternaturally cold sluice, two children playing in an adult ward, the ghost of Sir Jasper, who haunted the corridor near the Renal Unit, and a helpful spirit who used to pull the crash trolley out from the wall, on one of the medical wards, right before a patient had a cardiac arrest.

We even apparently had a whole ghost ward. The hospital was laid out over three floors, and on both the medical and surgical sides, each corridor had wards going off both sides - so the ground floor of the medical side had M1 Male and M1 Female opposite each other, and M2M and M2F further down the corridor on the ground floor, them M3M and M3F above M1M and M1F, and the M4 wards above the M2 wards, then M5 and M6 wards above those - if that makes sense.

But on the surgical side, there were the S1 and S2 wards on the ground floor, S3 and S4 on the first floor, but only S5 on the second floor. Hospital lore had it that S6 ward had taken a direct hit during WW2 and was completely destroyed - but that sometimes, at night, people on the S4 wards (directly below the missing S6 wards) could hear trolleys moving around above them.

AdoptedBumpkin · 31/07/2021 12:57

@Hdhdjejdj

The Grey Lady lived in the toilets of my primary school. Apparently. Scared the shite out of me.
Sorry, but that made me giggle. Grin
2catsandhappy · 31/07/2021 13:42

An explanation I read about the prolific amount of 'grey' or 'white' ladies, is that the spirit starts off say, 500 years ago as 'red' or 'blue' and over the centuries the spirit fades to grey then white then fades to nothing.

RobinHumphries · 31/07/2021 14:09

Berry Pomeroy Castle in Devon has a white lady and a blue lady but no grey lady

LonelinessIsACloakYouWear · 31/07/2021 14:26

Christ! I did not go to the toilet at school for a full year in first year Juniors (Yr3) because we were told The Grey Lady was in there.
When i was a bit older, I plucked up the courage to go in, and "The Grey Lady" was just a small head in profile, scratched on the cubicle wall.

LonelinessIsACloakYouWear · 31/07/2021 14:28

@Hdhdjejdj Cumbria??

Redannie118 · 31/07/2021 14:44

Hi OP im from Northumberland and there are several Grey/white lady myths.
One of the most famous is the grey/white Lady of Seaton Deleval hall co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/the-white-lady-of-delaval-hall/
They Grey lady of Langly castle near Hexham is supposed to be the inspiration behind JK Rowlings moaning Myrtle ghost as JK stayed in the hotel while writing the book.
Grey lady of the The Theatre Royal in Newcastle
Grey/blue lady of St Andrews church Gallowgate Newcastle
Have a look at some of the haunted Newcastle/Northumberland/Sunderland books by Darren Ritson. They are short and have loads of info and you can buy them for pennies on Amazon

yogafairy · 31/07/2021 14:58

Yes one nearby at Pevensey castle.

Hdhdjejdj · 31/07/2021 19:15

@LonelinessIsACloakYouWear Not Cumbria and nowhere posh. Just an ordinary primary school with kids with big imaginations.

Boobahs · 31/07/2021 22:20

There's a few around here, but the most well known is The Grey Lady of Dudley Castle, Dorothy Beaumont.

serith.com/article/the-grey-lady/

MsAdoraBelleDearheartVonLipwig · 31/07/2021 22:50

The Anne Boleyn grey lady isn’t up north, she haunts Blickling Hall in Norfolk. It’s built on the site of her childhood home or something.

SmidgenofaPigeon · 31/07/2021 22:55

@MsAdoraBelleDearheartVonLipwig that’s right- she was thought to be born there but probably didn’t come back at all in adulthood. It’s actually mostly quite intact from the time period, with a few more recent additions.

rocketpower · 31/07/2021 23:16

We have a white lady!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraceDieuu_Priory

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