White Lady of Wopsy

by Stephen Skibo
(Glen Gardner, NJ)

The legend begins in the early to mid 1800s. A couple was scheduled to get married. On the day of the wedding the bride sat and awaited her groom to be. She waited and waited but he never showed. The bride was told that he had ran away with another female from the village. The bride not believing what she was told waited day after day for him to return to wed. She went to her death still awaiting her Groom. Rumor has it that she seeks couples that travel through or decide to park to seek revenge for her groom leaving her at the altar. All accidents since then have been accredited to the White Lady of Wopsy.

This is the beginning of the White Lady and her creation. As for personal first hand knowledge, myself and a friend 30 years ago were up there in the evening in the fall scouting for a place to hunt. We saw her first hand. She was about 30 ft in the woods in front of us. When we hit the flood lights of his jeep there was no doubt what we were looking at, it was her. We immediately backed up at a considerable pace to the road, swung around, through the jeep in forward and she appeared to our left, being we were in a soft top jeep I was stretched across holding the door closed because the didn't have locks, like that would of made a difference. She kept up with us for about an eighth of a mile and disappeared only to reappear directly in front of us about 150 feet in the middle of the road. My buddy drove right at her and when we were within 5 to 10 feet from hitting her with the jeep she vanished. 2 witnesses that lived in Lakemont & Altoona can vouch for the legend.

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by: Shaun

I don’t believe in such stories and I have been to places which people have many legends like this. But, believe me, I couldn’t find any inhuman activities in the area. I think it’s the fear of the people that is being exploited here.
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by: Patricia

Hi Caroll,

Now that story made me laugh. It really is funny to bring some people into the Altoona area and try to explain how things have been sectioned off. I remember once I had someone visit and look around at all the mountains surrounding Altoona and asked how do they get all those houses in between all those trees.

Thanks for sharing that with us, it really gave me a good chuckle,

Patricia
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by: Patricia

Hi Stephen,

I really enjoyed reading your testimony of actually seeing the White Lady of Wopsy. There are different legends of how the White Lady became the White Lady but it all comes down to one thing, there is a woman haunting Wopsy Lookout and Wopsy Mountain. I have no doubt she's there, I've had too many eye witnesses tell me about her, but there are still many that are skeptical about her.

Thanks for taking the time to share your experiece on Wopsy Mountain with us,

Patricia
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by: Caroll Burleson

I have a funny story about Wopsy. When we first took my soon to be husband to Altoona we were point out sights to him--being a Floridian he had never seen mountains--There's the Kettle--There's Wopsy and that's Jew Hill. He was quite taken back by this and being the Southern Gentleman he was he said, "Well, don't the Itallians and Jewish people resent that?" We laughed and laughed till we cried. I don't think anyone ever thought of it in that way.

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