History & local legend
A woman in white became the talk of Walnutport in 1963, drawing crowds to the Lehigh Canal near Lock 23 and its locktender’s house. According to a Morning Call report recounted by the National Canal Museum, roughly 150 ghost seekers crowded Canal Street while local firefighters were trying to reach a fire.
The sightings came in several extraordinary versions. Some described a woman nearly seven feet tall; others said she walked across the water. One story claimed that she outran a motorcycle traveling seventy miles an hour. A flashlight beam supposedly made her disappear.
Police chief Alex Husack offered less supernatural possibilities: someone wearing a sheet to frighten children away from the canal, or a prank involving a canoe.
