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Woman Shot - Thought to be a Ghost!

At times I get asked to look into the origins of urban legends and one that was asked about was a woman in white that has been haunting some roads in Alabama, US.

There seems to be a number of locations where a woman can be seen walking the back roads out in the rural areas, dressed in a nightshirt, to disappear when help is offered to her. These legends exist everywhere, just about every country, so finding an origin to a particular one was hard. Instead I found the following - no road is given - it is just an interesting story set in Alabama, the death itself made the newspapers in 1928 - here is an excerpt:

"The wife of a dairy farmer in Alabama, U.S.A., has been found shot dead clad only in a nightdress by the roadside, a suit of small boy's clothes in her arms.

The police think that the woman, who was a sleep-walker, was driven by her sub- conscious mind to go to her little boy, who was spending the night at the home of a relative.

She was walking along the road when a passing motorist, in a superstitious terror, drew a revolver and fired at her in the belief that she was a ghost."

I certainly hope this is not a typical reaction by someone driving along to see something fairly unexpected...

As for the story... could the shot woman be one of the many reported roadside ghosts?

That I can not tell you, but it does read like the beginning of a classic ghost story - a mother killed on a lonely road in the snow while trying to get to her child...

Quick question for you - How would you have reacted if you were in the drivers set, driving along to see what you think is a ghost at the side of the road?

As always leave your comments and the best place to do that is over at the blog: http://www.theparanormalguide.com/blog/woman-shot-thought-to-be-a-ghost