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Famous Stories & the Record
GHOSTS
The sightings, as newspaper events. The Fort Wayne Gazette ran them on 27, 28 and 29 August 1883 (p.7), naming patrolmen Sheridan, Singleton, Lapp and Franke as witnesses, while disclaiming belief: “The GAZETTE is not a believer in the supernatural…”
The ghost, by the story's own later telling. Fort Wayne Magazine's history (Oct 2015) recounts a confession: two cousins projected the figure onto the bridge with a magic lantern from a West Central house and doused the lamp to make her vanish. FortWayne.com's Answers column records that readers debunked the Lady in White on that basis.
The lantern mechanics, the magazine itself asks whether a candle-era lantern could project that clearly at that distance. Hoax: settled. Apparatus: not quite.
Primary: Fort Wayne Gazette, 27–29 Aug 1883, transcripts at acgsi.org; debunk: fortwayne.com