The Lansdowne Ghost

This is something of a local legend in Lansdowne, PA. I am still doing research to try and find out the identity of the spirit referred to as the Lansdowne Ghost, and whether I saw her or another spirit! If you have any information regarding this (these) spirits, please contact us.

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I heard about this ghost when I first started seriously researching ghosts as paranormal phenomena. A former member told me that the spirit of a young girl haunts the area of the intersection of Lansdowne Ave. and Providence Rd. in Lansdowne. The story he gave was that a girl was walking home with her bike down the hill of Providence Rd., coming from Lansdowne Ave, when she was struck and killed by an automobile.

I have, since that time, heard the story from other local people, and have attempted to see this spirit for myself. Ofcourse, the local legend is that you have to drive down the road (Providence) at midnight. Well, I can tell you that was an exercise in futility, because I have driven that road countless times at midnight and I have never seen anything unusual. I was beginning to think there was nothing to this story until the night of September 19, 1998.

It was 10:45 pm, and I was on my way home from a friend's house. I was stopped at a red light at the intersection of Lansdowne Ave. and Baily Rd. going towards Providence Rd., which is at the next light. This is one of those intersections with the delayed green to allow people to turn, so I was waiting for my light to turn green and watching oncoming cars make their turns onto Baily Rd.

Then I noticed a woman standing in the middle of Lansdowne Ave. on the other side of the intersection, standing just on my side of the yellow line. She was facing my car, but I could not distinguish facial features. I saw the outline of her hair, which looked like a puffy '80's do, and her clothes, which also seemed very 80's. She had the acid-wash jeans, big puffy socks pulled up over the bottom of her jeans, and high top white sneakers. I was struck by the fact that she was so perfectly 80's...and she was standing in the street, arms crossed over her stomach. I started thinking, "Oh, great! Just my luck. I want to go home, and there's some drunk standing in the road in front of my car! probably suicidal, and wants to jump in front of my car!" As I was thinking this, she vanished. It was so odd; she was there, then she wasn't there. My mind still struggles to accept what I saw, yet I know that I saw this occur.

The next day, when I told that former member about my experience,he immediately said, "You saw the Lansdowne Ghost!!" I don't know about that. It was a block away from the traditional spot,and this image was definitely a woman, not a girl. Also,the intersection where I had that experience is at the edge of a hospital and two blocks from a huge graveyard. As far as I am concerned, I still haven't seen the original Lansdowne Ghost.

The following was submitted by R. Foley:
My sister urged me to write to you. I moved into my house in October of 1999. As I was making a left turn from Lansdowne Avenue onto Providence Road late during the first week or so that I lived here I almost ran over a female who was standing in the middle of Providence Road looking towards me but appeared to cross towards my house. She was looking right at me. I slammed on my brakes. I pulled into my drive and was very shaken and angry and the car was packed with stuff that I was moving from my old house and the stuff preceeded to slide and fall, etc. I parked the carat the end, got out and walked up to the road very shaken to make sure that the girl was ok. I felt bad that I had come so close to hitting her and I was some what angry that she seemed to be looking right at me from the middle of the road. It's a dangerous hill.
She was gone. I crossed the road and looked up the hill and down and there was no one there. I stood there for a few seconds knowing it was impossible for anyone to walk away that fast. I would have seen her pass me if she went into a neighbors house. I told my son I either needed sleep or I saw ghost with big hair and socks who likes to stand in the middle of the road. I have over the last several years mentioned this to a few people who have told me of this girl.
Any information you could share on her? I am still living in the same house. I haven't seen her since then but I would love to know her story.

So would we!

Have you seen either of these spirits? Have you seen anything in this area or heard anything about this area? Let us know!

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