Mysterious 'White Lady' Captured on Camera at Building Site in England

The mysterious ‘White Lady.’ (Meg Little / Twitter) — The mysterious ‘White Lady.’ *(Meg Little / Twitter)*

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Meg Little of Leicester, England posted an image to Twitter last Tuesday that has some wondering if a ghost might be haunting the construction site where it was taken.

According to the caption accompanying the photo, "So my dad's building site in Birmingham has a CCTV camera alert which flashes when there’s movement, and this morning it took this photo. 10 [minutes] later security went to check and found NOTHING."

so my dads building site in birmingham has a CCTV camera alert which flashes when there’s movement, and this morning it took this photo. 10 mins later security went to check and found NOTHING. weird as fuck 😕 pic.twitter.com/8AWSx8odrE
— megs (@_meglittle) August 18, 2020

The photo shared by Little shows that the image was captured at 1:53 am, and security declared the area “all clear” at 2:06 am. The woman was not found.

"We provide security for the building site on Sherborne Street, in Birmingham city centre," Adam Lees, managing director of Limitless Security, told Birmingham Live. "In the early hours of Tuesday we had an alert to say a motion-sensored camera had picked up movement on the site. The images come through to my laptop, so I checked and saw that picture. I notified security on site straightaway who did a full patrol but found nothing. It's incredibly strange. I have no idea what it could have been, but I didn't sleep the rest of the night."

The woman’s white dress and sudden disappearance have led many to speculate that there could be a supernatural explanation for the image.

‘The White Lady’ is a popular figure in folklore, with analogues in cultures around the world. For instance, in Hispanic American folklore, La Llorona or “The Wailing Woman,” is the ghost of a woman in a white dress said to have drowned her children and who is now cursed to mourn their deaths for all eternity.

Similar female apparitions in white can be found in stories of Chicago’s Resurrection Mary in the U.S., and the White Lady of Beeford, East Yorkshire in England. Both of those ghostly women are said to wear white dresses while accosting people travelling along roads at night in their respective areas.

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