Haunted Gary by Ursula Bielski

Author:Ursula Bielski
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2015-09-17T04:00:00+00:00

Without a doubt, the most talked-about phantom of Reeder Road is a third Gary-area vanishing hitchhiker, believed to have been a girl named Elizabeth Wilson. According to the oft-told tale, the girl was first encountered by a young man who was driving home on Reeder Road after leaving his high school prom sometime in the 1970s. As he peeled through the woods, he slammed on the brakes when a young woman appeared in the road ahead. She was wearing a long gown and had flowing blond tresses. Almost before he stopped the car, the girl opened the passenger side door and climbed in. The girl was frantic, telling the young man that her car had crashed into a ditch in the woods. She directed him to drive on, and when they passed Ross Cemetery, she vanished from the car. According to old accounts, the girl was believed to be Elizabeth Wilson, who drowned in a forest ditch along Reeder Road in 1955 when the car she and her boyfriend were driving in swerved and rolled over in the woods. Elizabeth, it is said, was thrown from the car and ended up facedown in a swampy area, where she drowned before her boyfriend could save her.

Myriad stories are told of drivers encountering this girl in the road—first on Reeder when it was still open to vehicle traffic and today along the boundaries of Ross Cemetery, where Elizabeth was allegedly buried after the accident. Typically, a male driver alone will slam on the brakes when a girl in a white gown appears in the road and immediately runs around to get into the passenger side of the front seat. Sometimes she bangs on the hood of the car, imploring the driver to stop. After a few flustered moments in the car, she simply vanishes.

Despite the long and emphatic history of these stories in Griffith, actual encounters with this mysterious woman are very few and even further between. Rare is the kind of firsthand story shared by “Rob,” who was driving home from a reunion one night in 1983 at about 1:00 a.m., when he swerved to miss hitting a woman who appeared from the side of the road near a wooded area in Griffith. The woman was about twenty years old, with dark hair that was pulled back and wearing a long, shiny dress. “Rob” remembers that she almost seemed to slam into the hood of the car to stop it, and that she was

very upset, hysterical. She was just like that expression “a deer in the headlights,” you know, like people say. I only saw her for about four seconds, but she was so upset, and I just froze with my foot on the brake. She came around the side of the car like she was going to get in, but then she was just gone. I have never told anyone this before. I felt like I should get out and look for her, and I had this feeling that there was someone after her, but I was so scared for some reason.

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