Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-05-07
THE WHITE LADY.
The Reappearance of the Famous
Ghost of the House Of HOhen-
ZOllern,

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A strange story is making the
rounds of the German press, being
an account of the appearance of the
white lady, who is supposed to make
her appearance as ghost at certain
times to announce the death of some
member of the HohenZnliern family.
Very recently the cable brought US
| the announcement of the death of
the young Prince Waldemar, of
Prussia. the third son Of the Crown
Prince of Germany. and now we
learn from an account telegraphed by
an English correspondent from Ber-
lin that the mysterious lady in white
made her appearance on the eve OF
the young princes death. at may
interest those who happen to be
learned in Berlin legends to know
says the correspondent, "that accord
ing to report the white lady, whose
visits always precede the death of
some member of the royal family of
Prussia, WAS seen on the eve of Prince
Waldemar's death. A soldier on
guard at the Old Palace was the wit
ness of the apparition, and he in his
fright fled to the guard-house when
he was at once arrested for deserving
his post" No further particulars are
vet to hand, and it will probably be
found that the sentinel had been
listening to stories of the occasional
appearance of the mysterious lady
just before he mounted guard, and
that the "apparition was something
very human after all Legendary
history does, however, tell us of many
visits of the white lady to the Hohen.
zollern castles at Bayreuth, Ansbach
and Berlin. She made "a great stir
about the commencement of the
present century on tine occasion of
the French occupation of Bayreuth,
when she took great delight in an
noyiDg the foes of the Hohenzollerns.
She Is also reputed to have paid
visits to Napoleon l. while he resided
in the old castle at Bayreuth; and
Bayreuth Margravc was once so IN
gallant as to pitch lady over the
bannisters of the stairs to find next
morning that he had MANNED one of
his female domestics for life. The
legend of the appearance OF the
woman in white as premonitress OF
! death has long been connected with
the Hohenzollern family history.
Old Merriam declares that she was
frequently seen in the Old Palace at
Berlin in the years 1862 and 1858,
and Shilling, the mystic, and friend
of Goethe, was firm believer in the
phantom. The last appearance of a
white lady in Europe was in 1878, in
the Imperial castle in Vienna. But
the white lady being a Hohenzollern
spectre, the Hapsburg visitor was in
all probability an impostor. We are
inclined all the more to this belief
from the fact that the sentinel to
whom she appeared tried the effect of
his bayonet upon the phenomenon
and there WIS IA gentle rumor whis-
pered about Vienna at the time that
somebody had been wounded-some
lovely lady, whose white dress shone
| in the mOOnlit corridors. The Ber-
lin "apparition p" will probably be
found to have a different explanation
namely, that the sentinel had al
ready been greatly excited in his
mind by the ghost stories he had
heard and that his imagination was
Just in the condition necessary to
transform any fluttering white into
the phantom form of the White Lady
of the HoheDzollerns.