The Lady in White

Do you like ghost stories? Well here is one of many that I have and know it to be true. This is an incident that occurred to me while on duty working the graveyard shift. I don't remember the date that this occurred since it happened probably around the year 2003 or 2004. But I do remember the details very well.


I was on routine patrol, in an area that my department calls the Valley. In the Valley is a small town with roughly around 300 or so people. The town has existed since the mid 1800's and is a farming community. On the outskirts of the town is a medium size cemetery. Part of my job at night when patrolling in the area, is to provide some patrol through the cemetery and possibly prevent thefts and vandalisms to the property. Cemeteries do not bother me in the least bit, while there are many Deputies that work for my Department that will directly refuse to even enter one at night.

I guessing that is was around 10 PM or so, maybe closer to midnight, when I drove through the cemetery for a routine patrol. It was dark, but you can make out all the old head stones, and even the newer ones. The roads in the cemetery are old, narrow, and made of loose gravel. So I stopped near the public restrooms, which is a building that to me almost resembles a mausoleum, and the entrances are blocked by iron gates, no doors. Usually the gates are open, for some reason the gates to the restroom were locked and I had to pee. So I stood behind my vehicle and urinated on the dirt near my car, when I saw the female walking on the far end of the cemetery. I could see her clear as day, she was a white lady, wearing a long white bulky type dress, and walking at a normal pace.

This did not scare me, but put my senses on alert. It wasn't uncommon for the locals that live nearby to ride their horses or take night time strolls in and around the cemetery. But the cemetery is closed after dusk, so I jumped back in my vehicle to make contact with this lady. As I drove near the location that the female was seen walking, she had disappeared. There was really no where for her to go because on the opposite side of her was a fence line, and the only other directions she could have gone was toward my car or toward the front entrance, and I should have encountered her. I drove around slowly checking the area but did not locate her. I was stumped by her disappearance, but made no issue about it.

Months had passed by since my sighting of this lady. Yes, I believe in ghosts, but never speculate as to a haunting unless I know that it was for sure, but contacted a local that lived in the town nearby. We got to talking about different things, and the subject came up about old homes built in the 1800's that were haunted and places in the county that were considered haunted as well. Then the local guy tells me, "You ever patrol in that cemetery?" I told him, "Sure I patrol in there all the time at night." The local guy says, "You know that place is haunted, right?" I said, "Oh really, what sightings have been seen in there?" The local guy says to me, "Well the most famous ghost sighting is that of a woman dress all in white, wearing a dress!" My heart dropped, and I thought to myself, that is the lady I saw.

A couple of years went by, and I talked to the caretaker of the cemetery, again sharing ghost stories. She shares with me stories that she has of the cemetery after I had mention to her that locals say that the cemetery is haunted. The caretaker confirmed that the cemetery is haunted, and repeated a similar story about the lady in white that is seen walking along the dirt roadway not far from the entrance, which is the same road way that I seen the lady. After she told me her story, I got shivers down my spine.

I still go in there though, late at night, patrolling the area, but haven't seen anything since. I hope you enjoyed the story, and yes it is true.