The James T. Callow Folklore Archive

My mother had just had her second child and she was trying to
train the baby to sleep in its own bed. Her sister shared the bed
with her (my grandmother) and she was trying to help train the baby
by not going to pick him up when he cried. One night the baby
started crying and all of a sudden my mother heard the baby's crib
rocking very fast. She thought it was her sister but when she
reached out she felt her sister still in the bed with her. She sat
up and saw this woman with no face in a black taffeta dress with a
big black hat. Suddenly the woman glided out the room through the
door. The next morning she told her father about this woman and he
looked very frightened because he said that was one of his dead
sisters!

Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT