Ghostly Women

This episode of 'Philadelphia Weirdness' brings to you brief tales of phantom females haunting the city. The first being that of a servant girl, said to loiter in the Davy Estate, a gorgeous mansion that was built in the 1880s, and is located north of Philly close to Temple University.

The spectre made its presence known as recently as the 1960s, often appearing in the third-floor bedroom and on several occasions spooking William Davy and his family. No one really knows who the girl is, but she is said to wander the corridors dressed in a white dress.

The Bolton Mansion located in Levittown is haunted by a ghostly woman, also. They say that she remains in her own personal limbo, forever searching for a lost child. Whether it's connected to this woman, no one really knows, but a young girl ghost has also been seen in the grounds, appearing at various windows.

The Belmont House, in the Philadelphia suburb of Merion Station, is reputedly haunted by a darkly adorned young woman who may have once worked in the whorehouse that used to function within the vicinity. And one of Philadelphia's eeriest apparitions is known as Amelia, a potent spirit said to inhabit a room at Baleroy, in the Chestnut Hill section at West Mermaid Lane. Amelia is said to have cursed a two-hundred-year-old upholstered wing chair in what is known as the Blue Room, and should anyone perch on the chair then surely they will die. Elsewhere in the building, another sinister shape lurks, that of an old crone said to be holding a cane.

Finally, at Heilbron Mansion, located west of Ridley Creek, in Middletown Township, a tormented ghost lurks, and is said to be the mother of a young girl that was raped there in 1864. The mother hanged herself in the nearby creek and is said to roam the cold halls tortured by her grief.

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