The ‘Lady in Brown’

Working on the premise that late is better than never, and with Halloween fresh in memory, I’m going to access my files for another ghost story, this one Victoria’s most famous of all.

In September 1926 attractive, 30-year-old Doris Gravlin was reported missing by her parents with whom she was living with her young son since she’d separated from husband Victor. At his pleading, she’d gone to meet him to discuss their strained marriage but failed to return home.

Her body was later found at the water’s edge of the Victoria Golf Course; she’d been strangled. Days later, Victor drifted in on the tide, an apparent suicide. 

What should have been the end of a sad story was just the beginning because Doris still walks the golf course, 80-plus years later!

Of the many who’ve claimed to have seen her on the links, an unnamed fisherman told how he’d watched a woman as she “suddenly hurried down as if she were going to meet someone, and on the way, she vanished. I saw her just kind of melt into thin air.’”

His is only one of many such sightings, as you’ll see in next week’s Chronicles.

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