Chatham Manor is reportedly haunted by "The Lady in White," the ghost of a young English woman who tragically died in 1790 after a failed elopement plan with her lover, eventually returning to the manor after her death, where her ghostly form is said to walk along the "Ghost Walk" path on the anniversary of her death, which occurs every seven years on June 21st. The manor's history as a Civil War hospital is also associated with other reports of spectral presences and phantom cries. The Lady in White is believed to be a young English girl, the daughter of a wealthy visitor to Chatham, who fell in love with a man of lower social standing. Her disapproving father sent her to America to find a more suitable husband, but her lover followed her. The couple planned to elope from Chatham Manor, but their plan was discovered. The young woman was sent back to England, and though she eventually married and had ten children, she never smiled again. Before her death in 1790, the woman vowed to return to Chatham Manor, the place she considered her happiest. On the anniversary of her death, June 21st, her ghostly presence is said to be seen on the "Ghost Walk" path, walking towards the river to meet her lover.