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This article needs additional citations for verification. A White Lady is a type of female ghost dressed in all white reportedly seen in rural areas and associated with some local legend of tragedy. While White Lady legends are found in many countries around the world, they are most prominent in parts of the United States, Ireland and Great Britain. In popular medieval legend, a White Lady is fabled to ghost bride usa showing by day as well as by night in a house in which a family member is soon to die.

According to The Nuttall Encyclopædia, these spirits were regarded as the ghosts of deceased ancestresses. Called Dama Branca or Mulher de Branco in Portuguese, the Brazilian Lady in White is said to be the ghost of a young woman who died of childbirth or violent causes. According to legend, she appears as a pale woman in a long white dress or a sleeping gown, and although usually speechless, will occasionally recount her misfortunes. A popular legend claims that the surroundings of the Montmorency Falls, near Quebec City are haunted by a white lady. The best-known White Lady of the Czech Republic is the ghost of Perchta of Rožmberk at Rožmberk Castle.

The most famous white lady of Estonia resides in Haapsalu castle. She is said to be the woman who a canon fell in love with. She hid in the castle as a choir boy, and remained a secret for a long time. But when the Bishop of Ösel-Wiek visited Haapsalu she was discovered, and immured in the wall of the chapel for her crime.