WOMAN, MISTAKENLY IDENTIFIED AS DEAD, WALKS IN ON HER WAKE
New York City (JFK+50) On November 15, 1924, the Associated Press reports Mrs. Margaret Sheridan was mistakenly identified as a "woman who had been struck by a taxicab" and died at Bellevue Hospital*, unidentified.
Because Mrs. Sheridan had not returned home after an evening outing, her children assumed that it was their mother who had been killed.
The body was taken to the home of Patrick Sheridan where a wake was held. Suddenly, Mrs. Sheridan walked through the front door. Her children cried out "A ghost!"
The body was returned to Bellevue morgue.
*Bellevue Hospital, 462 1st Ave Manhattan NY (established in 1736), is the oldest & largest hospital in the United States.
SOURCES
"Bellevue History," www.nyhealthandhospitals.org/
"Woman In Ghostly Role Halts Her Own Funeral," The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., November 16, 1924, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
