On a late September evening in 2011, between 8.30 and 9pm, a woman and her teenage daughter were driving along the Banbridge Road just outside Waringstown when they saw a young girl in white on the grassy verge. She wore an old-fashioned long white gown, with blonde curly hair and delicate ballet pumps that were spotless despite the damp mud. She seemed to glide, slightly above the grass, with a faint glow around her.
As the car passed she turned her head and gave the daughter a soft smile. The driver had not noticed, but the daughter urged her to turn round, saying there was something strange about her. With another car close behind they could not turn at once, and when they came back the road was empty and there were no footprints. Both women were convinced they had not seen a living person.
When they told locals, several recognised it. A young woman had walked that route every day decades earlier, known to people but with a name that had faded, and had died young in circumstances long forgotten. Sightings of the white-gowned girl are said to continue, especially in the fading light of early autumn, and to bring a feeling of calm.
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