So I may have seen a famous ghost...

[orangecrush]

I went to NYC by train from Erie Pa. on a lark September 6th, 2017.

I arrived quite late, stayed at the Pennsylvania, and walked 2 blocks to the Empire State Bldg. just before midnight.

It was a full moon, and there were quite a few people on the observation deck, with red uniformed workers around.

I turned a corner, and there was only one person in the section - a very pretty, sad looking young woman looking out over the city, who smiled at me and said "hello". Something about this struck me as strange, I said "Hi" back, and kept walking.

I never thought much about it till today, when I found the story of "the most beautiful suicide".

"McHale took her life on the 16th anniversary of when the Empire State first opened.

Most agree this suicide resulted in a haunting. The ghost of a pretty young woman is seen on the Empire’s observation deck.

Witnesses state that this ghost talked to them, expressing sadness, and then they saw her remove her coat and leap to her death through the barrier fence--as if it wasn’t even there.

This ghost is described as wearing old-fashioned 1940s style clothing. "


https://seeksghosts.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-empire-state-building-ghost.html?m=1


View from observation deck taken by me...


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[NBachers]

1. I've seen that picture- with the clothes & the pretty young dead woman, it seems Hitchcockian to me,

for some reason. The contrast between the smashed car and the serene sleeping face are unnerving.

Was the woman you saw dressed in '40's clothes?

[hlthe2b]

2. I find it almost inexplicable that her body was so perfectly intact and placed.

I know it is a grainy black and white photo, but having had the sad experience of seeing the aftermath of trauma it (the photo) just seems staged. I know Life Magazine has denied that, but....?

[Mister Ed]

3. I think it's normal, in a fall from an extreme height, for the body to appear externally intact.

I remember that information from my skydiving days: that when a skydiver has the misfortune to "bounce" (as they put it), there will be very little external injury, but massive internal injury.

[orangecrush]

5. If staged

That wouldn't explain the smashed roof of a 47 Caddy, which were built like tanks in those days, not the thin sheet metal we have now.

[hlthe2b]

6. I'm not saying she didn't hit the car.. just that she may well have been "cleaned up" before photo

[orangecrush]

7. I guess that's possible

But hopefully the photographer wasn't that ghoulish.
It sure is a spooky picture, though.
She seemed quite friendly, and a bit lonely.

[orangecrush]

8. Then there is this...

"According to witnesses, her body fell apart when they moved her. She was basically liquefied on impact. Yet that photo makes her look so peaceful. Warhol had a copy of this photo in his office, and later used it in a piece."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/4gv4tj/evelyn_mchale_the_most_beautiful_suicide/

[orangecrush]

4. What's strange

Is that I seemed to make no observation of the type of clothes she was wearing, except that she was definitely not wearing a coat or jacket, which was odd.