The White Ghost of Port Wakefield
On a previous blog, I featured the story of the Grey Ghost of Port Wakefield. I explored whether the mysterious apparition may, in fact, have been a real grey horse terrorising the local community. Remarkably, just a week after the Grey Ghost had caused fear and pandemonium, another unusual tale emerged from Port Wakefield.
It was a hot summer night in the newer part of town, and a local woman couldn't sleep. Restless, she wandered her yard, checking the garden and inspecting a freshly stacked pile of firewood that was delivered earlier that day.
As she glanced towards the woodpile, she noticed a man quietly stealing smaller logs and stuffing them into his bag. She let out a startled scream, catching the thief completely off guard.
The man looked up to see a woman dressed in white, her figure glowing in the full moonlight. Her eyes were wide, her mouth agape, and she was still screaming. Convinced he had encountered a ghost, the terrified thief turned and bolted.
In his desperate attempt to escape, he ran headlong into an iron fence, rebounding with such force that he was flung backwards into the wall of a stone washhouse and tumbled inside. In his panic, he kicked over the washing copper, scattering dust and ashes from the fire pit used to heat it.
Somehow managing to regain his feet, the hapless intruder scrambled through a window, collided with a wheelbarrow and finally collapsed in a heap after rolling across the lawn.
But his ordeal was not over. The woman’s small dog attacked, and the unfortunate thief sprang up and fled into the night without his trousers. The little dog had torn them to pieces, along with a well-worn slipper he had left behind in the chaos.
By then, the woman had regained her composure. The following morning, she reported the extraordinary incident to the police.
Whether the thief had genuinely mistaken the woman for a ghost or had been thoroughly frightened by an unexpected encounter in the moonlight, one thing was certain: he had paid a rather embarrassing price for trying to steal a few logs of firewood.
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