Who is the Little Girl in White Dress Ghost

Sisters Susan Shearer and Linda Gregory purchased a lovely Queen Anne house on South Sixth Street a number of years ago. It was in sorry shape, but today it has regained its former grandeur. The wooden house has delicate blue and white shingles and a squat turret on the outside. On the inside, there are gleaming hardwood floors, pocket doors, brass light fixtures, carved fireplace mantels—and the ghost of a Little Girl in a White Dress.

Susan suspected something was afoot when they started restoring the house. Things would disappear and then turn up in other parts of the residence. Radios would turn on and off all by themselves. Strange creaks and groans emanated from the landing at the base of the stairs by the front door. Invisible footsteps seemed to skip across the floor near the entryway. At sunset, loud knocks echoed at the door—but when Susan rushed to answer it, there was never anybody there.

Then one day came an interesting discovery. As they cleaned the wooden mantelpiece in the dining room, a panel gave way and revealed a small, hidden compartment. Susan reached inside and removed an old black and white photograph. It was of a young child—a girl of perhaps eight years old—and she wore a simple white dress of the kind that was worn in the early 1900s. Susan propped the relic on the shelf above the fireplace and went back to work.

When she woke up the next morning and came down to the dining room, the picture was gone. Nobody had a clue what could have happened to it.

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That night, at sunset, three loud raps were heard at the front door. When the door was opened, there wasn't a soul in sight. Unseen footsteps pitter-pattered across the floor, however, and there was a fleeting glimpse of a small girl in a simple white dress on the landing at the bottom of the stairs. One instant she was there and the next she was gone. Over the next several weeks, more than one person reported sightings of the little girl in white. Was it the same little girl whose photograph had been discovered?

Then one day came a knock at the door and when Susan went to answer it, somebody was there. There stood an elderly, spry woman who informed Susan that she and her parents had lived in the house many years before. The woman asked to come inside and see the place, and Susan was happy to oblige, especially since the lady had many memories of the house she wanted to share.

They sat down to coffee, and one story, in particular, made Susan sit up straight and take notice.

It was during the Great Depression and times were tough, and the woman's family had to take in boarders. One of them was a single mother who rented the room at the top of the stairs. She had an eight-year-old daughter, but the girl had behavioral problems and was often locked in the room.

One night, around sunset, somebody came knocking at the front door. The family who owned the house was in the back yard and didn't hear the knocking, so the woman who rented the room at the top of the stairs emerged from her room and came down to answer the door. She forgot to close her own door behind her, though, and her daughter ran from the room and down the stairs, through the opened front door. She ran into the street and was killed by a passing car.

Not too long after the little girl's funeral, residents of the Queen Anne house on Sixth Street started hearing creaks and groans, and the invisible pitter-patter of small near the front door. Soon, her ghost was seen on the landing of the stairs, and Susan and Linda believe her spirit still resides in the home today.

Adapted from "True Ghost Stories and Eerie Legends from America's Most Haunted Neighborhood" by David Dominé, who teaches at Bellarmine University and Indiana University Southeast.

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Source: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/entertainment/2015/10/26/ghost-story-terrifying-tale-little-girl/74462478/

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