Dallas, tell us: What’s your favorite ghost story?
Posted on October 28, 2014 by Brentney Hamilton Follow @brentneyh
Boo.
Last week, Joy Tipping compiled a phenomenally fun photo collection of Eight Eerie Spots in D-FW. Brides beware: Most of them involved saying yes to the dress and no to … living.
Some were surprising — apparently, those apparitions weren’t entirely born of what you ingested prior to a show at the Lizard Lounge. Some were stuff of Dallas legend, like the ghost of Snuffer’s. (Those cheddar fries are still haunting your digestive system.)
No Haunted Dallas list be complete without the story of The Lady of White Rock Lake. She’s said to appear late at night on East Lawther Trail and request from passersby a ride to her home on Gaston. As the story goes, she is a young woman dressed in drenched 1930s-era clothing who drowned while boating. Upon arrival at the address given, she disappears, leaving behind nothing but a water-soaked seat.
The Lady of White Rock Lake is rumored to have inspired the 1960s hit “Bringing Mary Home,” now considered a bluegrass standard. But, she definitely inspired an intense biere de garde from Lakewood Brewing Company, 2013′s dry and complex limited release, La Dame du Lac.
Strangely enough, or perhaps not, she’s not the only Lady of White Rock Lake. Actor Kevin Sorbo, recently in town for Comic Con, claims he saw a “ghostly bride” around a much less well-known White Rock Lake in Minnesota.
Hey, man, she haunted us first…
Indiscriminate spirit beside the point, we’re feeling spooky. So what’s your favorite scary story? Give us your headless-iest horsemen, your creepiest Conestoga wagons. Even better if it’s got a local bent.