Women in Black: Ghosts Stories & Dark Urban Legends

PNW Haunts & Homicides · Oct 8, 2026 · 47m · transcript

This episode dives into the eerie legends of the Women in Black. We start in Yakima, Washington, where a mysterious woman in a black dress was reported in 1897. Witnesses described a tall, silent figure racing through the streets who could supposedly shapeshift into a massive black hog, earning her the terrifying nickname Hog Devil. But was Yakima’s first ghost actually a supernatural entity, a woman sneaking out to meet her lover, or an elaborate prank?

Then we travel to Sleepy Hollow, New York, where a mysterious veiled Woman in Black haunted the streets in the late 1800s, before an…