History & local legend
A woman in white is said to walk from the Lehigh Canal towpath at Weissport toward the railroad bridge over the Lehigh River. The Carbon County story describes her stepping onto the span in the direction of Packerton, then disappearing about halfway across.
Early collections listed the apparition under Lehighton, across the river. A local contributor writing in May 2008 placed the beginning of her route more specifically on the Weissport bank, near the Norfolk Southern crossing north of the canal park. In that telling, she seems to lead a walker toward the bridge, but never reaches the opposite bank.
Sources
- The Shadowlands, Pennsylvania index, Lehighton railroad trestle, apparition’s clothing, direction and disappearance halfway across
- StrangeUSA, May 17, 2008, local account locating the canal path and Norfolk Southern trestle at Weissport
- Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Weissport Lehigh Canal Park trailhead
- Itinerant Wanderer, September 2020 ground photograph explicitly identifying Norfolk Southern’s bridge over the Lehigh at Weissport
- OpenStreetMap, Lehigh Line bridge and Norfolk Southern operator
