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The Green Lady of Wahiawa: A Ghostly Guardian of Hawaii’s Rainforest

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Covered in leaf and seaweed, the Green Lady of Wahiawa is said to haunt the forest on O’ahu Island in Hawaii. Once a mother who lost her children, she is still searching for them. 

Visitors to the lush and enchanting rainforest of Wahiawa, Hawaii, should tread carefully, for the Green Lady of Wahiawa might be watching, though to especially in the gulch in Wahiawa, a town on the on the plateau or “central valley” between two volcanoes on O’ahu Island. Lakes and reservoirs are rare in Hawaii, and Wahiawā is unique in being surrounded on three sides by Lake Wilson (also known as Wahiawā Reservoir or Kaukonahua). This is the type of environment as well as in the greenery of the forest where the Green Lady is said to reside. 

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Cloaked in leaves, moss, and grass, with green skin and seaweed tangled in her hair, the Green Lady of Wahiawa is a spectral figure who has haunted these verdant landscapes for centuries. Her presence, while tied to the natural beauty of the region, brings an eerie and unsettling air to the forest.

The Green Lady of Wahiawa: The legend talks of a green lady, wandering through the lush forests in Wahiawa and through the waters. Here from Wahiawa Botanical Garden – shady park view. // Wikimedia

The Tragic Legend of a Mother’s Grief

The Green Lady of Wahiawa’s story is one of sorrow and loss, seemingly rooted in Indigenous Hawaiian folklore, however, with a modern twist as most legends mention her deep fear of cars and that she would often cross the gulch instead of crossing the bridge because of it. 

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According to legend, she was once a loving mother who ventured into the forest with her children. However, a tragic turn of events led to the loss of her children amidst the dense foliage, some claimed they disappeared in the gulch. Heartbroken and desperate, she spent countless years wandering the woods in search of them. 

Over time, her grief transformed her into a creature of the forest, forever intertwined with the greenery around her. In some variations she was mad about no one helping her find her child, so she went deeper into the forest and was never heard from again.

A Mother’s Eternal Search

In her eternal quest to find her lost children, the Green Lady of Wahiawa has become a part of the forest. Her appearance, now as green as the leaves she is draped in, mirrors the foliage of her surroundings. She is also sometimes described with green and fish-like scales and her hair covered in seaweed. Her smell of rot comes from the rotted plant covering her body.

Yet, her transformation has rendered her a desperate and sorrowful figure. Legend has it that in her unending search, she will grab any child she comes across, hoping to find her own lost offspring. This tale has instilled a sense of caution and fear among those who venture into the Wahiawa forest, particularly those with young children. The legend of the Green Lady has also spread to Wahiawa’s elementary school not too far from the gulch.

Background for the Legend of the Green Lady of Wahiawa

Where does this legend come from? Is it simply a legend told to help children away from the gulch? It is seemingly a pretty new legend as the mention of cars are a big part of the lore. It is pretty different from the Green Lady of Europe, where she most often is a noble woman in Scotland. But is it really a Hawaiian creature? 

It looks more like the Japanese mythological creature called the Kappa, and some sources even call the Green Lady of Wahiawa the Hawaiian Kappa. This water creature is a child snatching a turtle-like humanoid. Japanese folklore and mythology has influenced a lot of the modern Hawaiian ghost stories because of immigration and there are plenty of quintessential Japanese ghost stories found in Hawaii, or merged with Hawaiian culture like the story of the Green Lady.

Kappa: In traditional Japanese folklore a kappa (河童, “river-child”) s a reptiloid kami with similarities to yōkai. Kappa can become harmful when not respected as gods. Accounts typically depict them as green, human-like beings with webbed hands and feet and turtle-like carapaces on their backs. A depression on the head, called a “dish” (Japanese: sara), retains water, and if this is damaged or its liquid is lost (either through spilling or drying up), a kappa becomes severely weakened.

The sighting of the Green Lady of Wahiawa goes at least as far back as 1957, when some children were questioned by the police after claiming to have seen her in the gulch behind the school gymnasium. 

Is the legend of the Green Lady of Wahiawa a dying legend though? The last reported sighting is sad to have happened in the mid or perhaps late 1980s. But still, children and teens keep challenging each other to run across the bridge that runs over the gulch where she is said to roam. 

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The Green Lady Of Wahiawa – Information

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Haunting Tales from Fort Laramie National Historic Site

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Several ghosts are said to linger at Fort Laramie in what was the beacon of civilization when Wyoming was a prairie in the wilderness. Soldiers that ended their days in the many wars from this time to a Lady in Green seen riding on her black horse every seven years, the historical site has more than old buildings to offer. 

In southeast Wyoming in Goshen County, Fort Laramie National Historic Site stands as a spectral testament to the bygone era from 1834 when it started as a trading post and diplomatic enclave. The originally known as Fort William was an important trading post in the 19th century originally meant to oversee the fur trade.

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It was then bought by the American Army and was also often used as a stopping place for migrants on the Oregon Trail on their way west for a new home, people going the California Trail for the Gold Rush, The Mormon Trail, armies stationed there for a time or fur traders coming and going. It was not necessarily a place you were meant to stay on for, but it looks like that some of the souls passing through are still lingering here.  

Fort Laramie: In 1815 or 1816, Jacques La Ramee and a small group of fellow trappers settled in the area where Fort Laramie would later be located. He went out alone to trap in 1819 or 1820 and was never seen again. Arapahoe Indians were accused of killing La Ramee and burying his body in a beaver dam. The river was named “Laramie” in his honor, and later settlers used this name for the Laramie Mountains, the fort, and the towns of Laramie, Wyoming and Fort Laramie, Wyoming.

Old Bedlam and it History

Old Bedlam, with its timeworn walls and creaking floorboards, has become a focal point for visitors seeking a glimpse into the spectral mysteries of Fort Laramie. Old Bedlam is Wyoming’s oldest documented buildings from 1849.

Why this building was called Bedlam though is uncertain. In England at this time, Bedlam was a word for insane asylum. This was not an asylum though, but first and foremost office quarters for the bachelors. Although it was really far from everything else and quite isolated. 

The furnishing was sparse and meant to be practical for communal living. Native American artifacts from trading and the oncoming wars were hugely popular though and were often used to decorate with. 

Old Bedlam: Built in 1849, Old Bedlam is the oldest standing building in Wyoming. It got its name from the days when it was home to boisterous bachelor soldiers at the fort. It is also said to be one of the more haunted places on the historic site.

The Haunting of Old Bedlam

Numerous reports have surfaced of encounters with an apparition clad in the regalia of a cavalry officer, who silently roams throughout the building. Companies of Cavalry has been stationed at Old Bedlam since its time as a Frontier Army Post from 1849 and fought in the Civil War, the Bozeman War and the Great Sioux War. The last soldiers left Fort Laramie in 1890.

Did one of these officers stay behind in his afterlife? Witnesses describe a commanding presence that, despite its ethereal nature, seems to assert authority over the living. The whispered admonishments to “be quiet” echo through the corridors of Old Bedlam, as if the phantom officer is enforcing a long-forgotten order. 

George in The Old Captain’s Quarters Building

Old Bedlam is not the only haunted building though. The old Captain’s Quarters Building from 1870 is also said to be haunted by a ghost. This haunting has reportedly gone on for years, all the way back to when the Fort was in use as a military presence and has been reported on by many former military men.

Strange things like doors opening or the sound of footsteps when no one is coming are said to happen there. There have also been lights inside of the facility, even without electricity. By the staff working there, the spirit has been nicknamed George. 

Other Ghosts Haunting the Fort

The Cavalry Barracks from 1874 that housed hundreds of soldiers at once is also said to be haunted. Early in the morning, when it would have been time for the soldiers to answer the reveille to have been played, you could hear the sound of heavy boots over the boardwalk.

There is also said to be a young man in a raincoat looking to talk to someone even there is no one there. Although not much is known about him, he is considered a ghost. 

Something looking like a surgeon in a blood stained uniform from the U.S Army looks irritated around the area where there once was an old hospital. There is not much left of the hospital but a shell, but it is said that many men died and their bones are still around there.  

A small creek known as Deer Creek is behind the Old Bedlam and jail. It is said to have the ghost of a man throwing rocks into the creek in the early hours. He is said to be unfriendly and should be avoided as well as it is said he is headless. 

Another ghost left alone is the Civil War ghost acting erratically southeast of the fort in a place called Bovee Draw past the visitors center that comes out at midnight. If he was a union or confederate is unknown. 

By the Detention Dam there is a man with a bloody sword said to be standing still, staring into the water around midnight. 

According to reports and staff there are also those that claim to have seen the ghost of Portugee Phillips riding on horseback across the fields. This was a famous rider who brought the news of the Fetterman Attack to Fort Laramie in 1866.

The Lady in Green

There is not only one ghost haunting this historic site. Perhaps more known is the story of the Lady in Green haunting Fort Laramie. This story is from the time when the place was known as Fort John and was a trading post for fur in the 1830s. 

The man in charge was an agen sent out from a fur trading company to live there. He had a beautiful and sophisticated daughter that he brought with him into the wilderness. She was known to be a good rider and liked it out in the wild with the horses. Although she was only meant to stay for a little while in some versions, she begged to stay on in the Wyoming wilderness she grew to like. 

In some versions though, she was the daughter of the owner of Fort Laramie’s Sutler’s Store, a licensed person allowed to sell supplies to the military. 

Although her father feared for her safety because of robbers on the trail, conflicts with the native tribes and a young woman being so far from “civilized” society, he gave in to his strong willed daughter, promising him that she would never leave the compound without an escort and gave many men the task of protecting her as he wasn’t always around. 

The Lady in Green: Said to be one of the more famous ghost stories from Fort Laramie, the Lady in Green is said to haunt the fort and is said to return every seventh year.

One day he was away from his posts, his daughter slipped away and ran from the trading post on a big black horse. Two men tried to reach her, but she was faster and road through the prairie and never returned. 

When the father returned he sought for her everywhere with a search party, but she was never found and what happened to her remained a mystery. Did she have an accident, was she killed or something else? We will never know except that she never stopped riding.

Although she didn’t return back to the trading post alive, she was still sometimes spotted on the prairie close to it seven years after her death allegedly. It is said that her ghost shows herself east of the Fort Laramie and on the Oregon Trail every seven years. 

The next being in 2025 as she was once spotted in 2011, and perhaps also in 2018? In 1976 the Cheyenne Westerners even held a midnight event at the fort as she was supposed to appear that year. They decided to prank their audience by having a man draped in a blanket riding over the grounds. 

When he got off, he told his friends that he would never ever do that again as he claimed he had heard phantom hooves following him. Could it have been the Lady in Green?

She is alone still riding her stallion. She is wearing a long green riding dress and a veiled hat with feathers on. Her dark hair is tucked up under it, holding a jeweled riding whip. 

The Haunted Fort Laramie

For those who dare to step into this historic enclave, the ghostly encounters serve as a poignant reminder that the past, with its tales of triumphs and tragedies, may not always remain confined to the annals of history. In the moonlit shadows of Fort Laramie National Historic Site, the strange things like smelling rosewater and tobacco and the sound of a rider in the night, continue to puzzle those that visits.

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old bedlam – FORT LARAMIE

Haunted Fort Laramie, Wyoming – Legends of America 

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Haunted 307: Fort Laramie National Historic Site near Guernsey   

Fort Laramie Ghost Story 

 Ghosts of Fort Laramie Haunt Wyoming Historic Site

Historically Haunted – Paranormal Housewife 

Haunted Fort Laramie and Legend of the Lady in Green 

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The Lady in Green Haunting Château de Brissac

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The tragic story of Château de Brissac and the murder of Charlotte de Brézé is a haunting one, but not a rare one as it houses the ghost of a woman murdered by her own husband and is forced to remain as a ghost.

It’s no secret that the Château de Brissac holds centuries of ghostly secrets in the Loire Valley. As one of the highest, grandest and oldest castles in France, it has been home to some of the most mysterious occurrences in all of Europe, including that of the Lady in Green. Unearth the tales about its ghosts, spirits and supernatural activity inside!

Discover the History of Château de Brissac

Château de Brissac has a long, colorful history that provides a backdrop for its resident spirits. Built in the 11th century by the Counts of Anjou but renovated in the 16th century, it stands as an impressive monument to France’s past. Its past inhabitants have left behind a tale of murder and misfortune – one that still haunts the castle today.

Rebuilt in 1611 after the French Wars of Religion, the architecture of the Château de Brissac is unlike any other in France. It features a unique combination of early Renaissance and classic Renaissance styles. It’s surrounded by seven towers and many turrets, windows, and balconies. 

Its main reception hall is one of the largest in Europe, measuring an impressive 80 feet long by 30 feet wide. The walls are actually double-walled to prevent fires and its design includes a mezzanine for extra storage space. Even its natural environment acts as a defensive wall against intruders since it’s located deep in dark forests!

The Ghost of the Green Lady or La Dame Verte

Many ghosts in French ghost story lore are said to be Dame Blanches or Ladies in White. And although the ghost of the Château de Brissac follows in the same pattern, the ghost is remembered and rumored to be a Lady in Green or La Dame Verte. 

The spirits of Château de Brissac are said to still linger in its walls, though sightings of them have become rarer over the years. 

Legends of La Dame Verte, the Green Lady, are some of the most popular tales told about the Château de Brissac. It is said that she was murdered by her own husband and now wanders the halls in search of vengeance. Some believe these stories are real, while others think they’re far-fetched. 

The Murder of Charlotte de Brézé

One of the reasons why Château de Brissac is so famously haunted is due to a tragic event that took place there. Charlotte de Brézé, the wife of Jacques de Breze and mistress of the castle, was mysteriously murdered inside one of its rooms. 

She was the illegitimate daughter of King Charles VII and his mistress, Agnes Sorel. She married Jacques de Breze, the lord of Château de Brissac in 1462 and had 5 children with him. The match was not a success however and Charlotte found the boring country life too much. 

Jacques de Breze suspected her of having an affair with another man, one of his huntsmen, Pierre de Lavergne. On the night of May 31 in 1477 she was murdered by her husband when he ran his sword through her as well as her lover because of his jealousy. 

She is said to haunt the tower room of the chapel of Château de Brissac, wearing her green dress and it is said that Jacques de Breze had to move out from the castle as he was tormented by her ghost. Years later, visitors still report hearing cries in the night at Château de Brissac, perhaps forever labeling it as one of France’s most haunted places!

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Bærums Verk — Most Haunted Village in Norway

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In a former foundry village at Bærums Verk in Norway, they have experienced strange hauntings since the the founder of the place died there. Phones calls in the dead of the night and ghostly figures have been spotted for a long time.

Norway is perhaps remembered as two things. Either as the savage Vikings, plundering Europe and beyond, or they are perhaps remembered as this rich oil country of today. Most often, perhaps not remembered at all, were it sits at the edge of the world. But few people know of the dark times in between.

It was only in the 50’s and 60’s that the country grew in wealth, and before that, it was one of Europe poorest countries. So centuries with coldness, starvation and ghosts. The folk lore is still thriving and the ghosts of the past, lurking around the corners, in between the walls, and inside the houses and homes.

Bærums Verk: The little village of Bærums Verk in Norway still stands as an old foundry settlement, and is an active place, both as a place to work, and as a place to live. It is also said it’s an active place for ghost visitations./Wikimedia

On a very un-scary place like Bærums Verk, a village east in Norway, the quaint streets and not the most busy city life in Oslo not far from it, we find one of the country’s most haunted place along the river and mountains were it is built. Between the old wooden walls of the ancient houses creeks the history from the many lives that walked through this place since it was first built in the 1600s when it was found iron ore there.

The ghostly tales of the Bærums Verk are many and it’s supposedly haunted by more than one ghost. According to the stories, dogs refuse to go into certain rooms in the old buildings. There are steps and doors creaking when no one is using them. Doors that never wants to open, even when you have the key.

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The Times Were Changing

Norway is perhaps not very known for their factory and mining, but at the birth of the industrial revolution, the tall mountains were hacked into and the gushing waterfalls harvested to use as energy. The grouping of people changes from being a small farming country to taking its first steps into the modern world.

Conrad Clausen: The former owner of the foundry Bærums Verk and the one that expanded it and made it as big as it became. /Wikimedia

Going from being a country spread out on small farms and along the coast, they grouped together inland to work the land, hack into the mountains and train the water to make their bidding.

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Some of these communities from the start of the industrial revolution are alive and thriving today, like at Bærums Verk were people still live and work, long after the iron foundry the settlement was founded on closed. And so does the ghosts of the past as well if we are to believe the rumors.

So who is the one said to haunt the entire place? One of the supposed ghosts said to still roam the place has been there from the very beginning.

The legend wants to tell of the former owner of Bærums Verk, Conrad Clausen haunts the street called Verksgata. At least he is one of the ghosts, and according to the workers and people living there, there are a lot of them.

But back to Conrad. He was only a young guy when the whole place fell on his shoulders. He took over the iron foundry in 1773 at 18 years old. In those time, small villages for the workers was often built around foundry like what happened at Bærums Verk, a lot of the little villages still standing to this day.

Clausen gave all of his life and his energy to the place were he lived and worked. Even if his life was going to be a very short one. Only at the age of 31 he died in his bedroom. The same bedroom now operating as a meeting room for people working there today, now that the foundry is turned into a shopping mall.

Ghosts on the Phones at Bærums Verk

Typical, isn’t it? A young man dies too soon, steps in the night, creaking of the doors and sceptical dogs to watch over his life work. But perhaps the strangest with the haunting must be the phones acting up at Bærums Verk.

It is the middle of the night, a very dark and desolate nordic night. No one is at work at Bærums Verk yet, no one is there to answer the phones. No one is up to make a call to them. But still, the phones are ringing. The people employed in the offices of the shopping mall, where Clausen lived, claims that phones calls constantly during the night. To the same time, quarter past twelve or quarter past one. Depending if it is summer- or winter saving time.

It’s rumored that if you try to take the ghostly phone call it will only answer with a strange beeping sound. Straight after the phone in the room next to will start calling. And then in the room next again. That is how it continues through the whole building during the nights.

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Why haven’t the people working at Bærums Verk just called the telephone company to have it fixed? Answer is, they have, several times but no one seems to be able to figure it out. Who is making the calls and how is it possible to not trace them? The leader of the shopping mall, Gry Skådinn told the local newspaper that it was exactly what the workers at the mall tried to and they have tried to get to the bottom of this mystery for ages.

“When we get into work in the morning, the whole switchboard is blinking away.”

But when the telephone company comes to fix the whole thing and explain it all, only more questions rose.

“Before I started here, we found that the phone signals came from the lunch rooms. That was back in the day the bedroom of Conrad Clausen, and were he died,” Skådinn says as if that is the final answer to this mystery and the only explanation.

The Woman in Green at the Tavern

The ghost of Conrad Carlsen is not the only reported ghost, haunting this settlement of iron workers. On the oldest tavern in the country found at Bærums Verk, there are also been reported many cases of unusual happenings. Bærums verk has become somewhat of a cultural place to preserve olden times that used to be. That is what the people planned for at least when working at the tavern as they served recipes based on old ones and classical Norwegian food.

The Woman in Green: The imagery in filled with supernatural connotations to folklore of the huldra and Norwegian literature./wikimedia

Perhaps this nostalgic sentiment and keeping the place frozen in time is contributing keeping the ghosts alive here. The buildings at Bærums Verk are protected and will remain as part of the cultural heritage, the smell of the food coming from the tavern, perhaps similar the one the ghosts used to eat when they themselves were alive. In any case, the strange occurrences, like the with the phones to the malls is happening all over the settlement.

So many instances of these strange occurrences have happened in fact that several journalists, ghost tourists, paranormal investigators, mediums and the ghost hunter tv-show in Norway stopped by at Bærums Verk to get a glimpse of it. Most comes back with claims they did.

At the old tavern for instance at Bærums Verk, the staff as well as the owners have had trouble dealing with a green clothed woman, a very loaded imagery in Norwegian culture that keep popping up in folklore and fairy-tales.

“It’s just not practical working in the oldest tavern when a ghost in green clothes just walks around,” the owner, Ulla Laycock told the local newspaper.

Laycock and her husband found a way for this impractical haunting work for their advantage though, as they published their book on the persistent hauntings of the place.

The local history team have identified the woman in green as a woman called Anna Paulsdatter Vogt Krefting that died in 1766 after running the foundry for more than 50 years. Perhaps she as well put too much energy into the place to let it go after her death.

The Lady in Green: The ghost that have been called the woman dressed in green is said to be Anna Paulsdatter Vogt Krefting (born 23. mars 1683 in Christiania, død 25. mars 1766 i Bærum)//Source: wikimedia

According to the legend about the ghost of the woman in green though, the people working in the tavern claim that the ghost of Anna Krefting still walks among the guests of the tavern as it fits with her period clothes she’s been observed in.

Living With the Ghosts

“There is a lot in the walls in this place, and it is important to take care of,” the writer of the book, Caroline Paulsberg says about the supposed haunting at Bærums Verk.

It is however interesting how the locals and workers feel about living in the country’s most haunted place, or rather, haunted village. On their own facebook group, they claim that, yes, it is haunted, but they would like to keep them around at Bærums Verk as if they ear a sense of pride of the ghosts still lingering in the small and old buildings. Here, everything is going to be preserved, even the ghosts.

Most of people around haunted places would perhaps not feel the same way at those at Bærums Verk. But according to them, the ghosts are only nice, and they have the same right to be their as the living, having once themselves lived and worked there.

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