9/1/2023 0 Comments Lady in blue coming through![]() She's very peaceful at peace now and I don't think she'll ever be seen again." “They might even feel her breathing down their neck. I think there may be people that might feel her walking down the hallway one night,” says Johnson. Johnson believes the sighting of the ‘Lady in Blue’ was Wilson trying to escape the hotel, and the only way to do so was to prove she didn’t kill herself. As stories, I’ve heard about the paranormal if a person is murdered or some there’s some untimely death they don't leave the property until they're resting at peace.” “So she was left to roam the hallways trying to seek a way to get out. “The guest of the hotel had told the police what he saw, but it wasn't enough proof to say that the general had pushed her down the elevator shaft so he more or less got away with it,” Johnson explained. Some believe Wilson was working in the hotel and the general was unable to pay her, which lead to the fight. The guest said when he opened the door again, he saw the general running toward the same elevator Patricia Wilson was seen in 1987. “He closed the door and a few minutes later, he heard a loud noise and a woman screaming,” Johnson said. A guest on the 8th floor heard an argument and went out of his room and found the general arguing with a young woman. Rumor has it that in 1936, General Henry Denhardt was down on his luck. He had also been lieutenant governor of the state of Kentucky," Johnson said. “The name of the article is ‘Bluegrass Justice for the General,' and the article is about a general that had been in the Kentucky National Guard. Just eight years ago, Johnson found articles from a 1955 True Detective magazine with information uncovering a new theory of what happened to Patricia Wilson on July 15, 1936. The doors of the elevator were pried open but nothing suspicious was found.īefore the security guard could file the report, a housekeeper came in saying she saw a woman in blue walk into that same broken elevator on the 8th floor. The doors were closed and she walked through the doors,'” Johnson said. “He told the chef what he had seen and the chef sort of laughed at him and said what's so bad about a lady walking in the elevator. ![]() In 1987, a hotel cook named James Scott was making waffles and omelets for Sunday brunch when he saw a young woman with long dark hair wearing a long blue dress walk in an elevator and disappear. Many historical figures including government leaders, athletes, authors and celebrities have stayed at or visited the hotel. You can find Johnson's video about the Lady in Blue here. There have been reports of a lady in blue roaming the floors of the hotels decades after her death. The thing he has done longer than being alive and married to his wife is digging into the mysterious death. The only way she could make a living was being a lady of the evening.” “She ended up being left and loyal by herself. For some unknown reason, she moved from Oklahoma, with a young gentleman by the name of Wilson, who was a traveling salesman,” Johnson said. “It's about a young lady that had a rough life. Over time, he grew interested in learning, researching, and sharing Wilson’s story. He gathered information from news articles, books and people over his 40-year career at the hotel. In his book, “The Seelbach: A Centennial Salute to Louisville’s Grand Hotel,” Johnson covers the stories of the hotel since its opening in 1905. Larry Johnson, the hotel historian, joined the Seelbach team as a bellman in 1982. A newspaper report listed her death as a suicide or accident. On July 16, 1936, 24-year-old Patricia Wilson was found in one of the hotel’s elevator shafts wearing a long blue dress with long dark hair. There have been multiple reports of people seeing a woman with long dark hair wearing a long blue dress near the same elevator.
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