History & local legend
West 19th Street in Erie once carried freight trains along the roadway. Writer Robin Swope linked that history to a ghost-bride story he published in August 2008: an engaged couple had attended a Halloween party dressed as bride and groom, and the woman’s gown caught in a passing train as they returned to their car.
Swope then described a later encounter reported by a passenger he called Tami. She and a friend were driving toward State Street, just beyond Erie Cemetery, when they saw a woman in a wedding dress walking away from them in the middle of the road. The driver slowed and flashed the headlights. As they approached, Tami thought the figure looked blurred rather than more distinct. Beneath a streetlight, it disappeared.
