History & local legend
Sacred Heart and Calvary cemeteries lie beside one another along New York Avenue in Port Vue. A story collected by The Daily News in October 2000 describes young people seeing a white-clad woman among the gravestones from their car.
They got out and followed her, but could not close the distance. As they approached, she moved backward more quickly while continuing to face them. The unusual retreat made her seem unlike another visitor walking through the grounds.
The figure finally passed over a small grave marker and disappeared. The group understood it to be a young girl’s grave and connected the woman with the person buried there.
Sources
- Pennsylvania Haunts & History, White Lady of Port Vue, citing The Daily News, Local Urban Legends, October 6, 2000
- Catholic Parish Cemeteries Association, Calvary Cemetery, Port Vue
- OpenStreetMap, Sacred Heart Cemetery on New York Avenue
- OpenStreetMap, adjoining Calvary Cemetery at the New York Avenue end of the grounds
