Editing Lady Bend Hill (section)

=== Lady Bend Hill ===
According to local lore, the Lady Bend Hill haunting dates back to 1833. A young woman from a wealthy Wheeling family allegedly fled her home at night in a horse-drawn coach to meet her lower-class lover in Fairview. On the third bend of the hill west of Morristown, a bolt of lightning reportedly spooked the horse, overturning the carriage and killing the woman instantly. Her horse, said to have wandered for three days before being captured, became part of the legend.

Over time, variations of the tale have emerged—some describing the woman’s decapitation by lightning and her spirit appearing as a headless rider astride a white horse, galloping wildly up and down the road during storms or cold nights. One 1896 report described a stagecoach driver witnessing a “headless woman rider floating in the icy air.”