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Moss Beach Distillery is located in Moss Beach, California, and is reportedly the home of the famed "Blue Lady". Visitors come from all around to try to see her, mostly due to TV's "Unsolved Mysteries" piece on the spirit. I have found several conflicting stories as to how the blue lady's spirit has come to inhabit the distillery, and I'll post any info I've found.
As one story goes, sometime in the 30's there was a beautiful married woman who fell in love with another man. He was, according to the legend, the piano player in a local bar. He was very handsome and quite the ladies' man, and she began to have an affair behind her unsuspecting family's back. They would meet on the beach, she always wearing blue, and have their trysts. The affair lasted for months, until the evening the husband showed up in the bar where the two lovers had met. The two men battled, and the fight moved outside to the beach. What happened next is not known, but the young woman was found stabbed to death on the beach the next morning. The piano player was back in the bar playing the next night, but no sign of the husband was ever seen again.
Another version of the tale begins the same way, that is, with our lady in blue and our handsome piano player, but in this tale the lady in blue was killed in a car accident on Bayshore Highway. This is the version that was presented on "Unsolved Mysteries".
What of the actual haunting? An apparition, sometimes in torn and bloody clothes, and sometimes neatly dressed, but always in blue, had been seen by many different people in different places in the restaurant. Sightings of her recently have tapered off, but there are still many paranormal instances. These instances are largely made up of moving objects and feelings of a presence. Chairs have moved, doors have opened and closed of their own accord, and things come flying off shelves. In one romanticized account of the apparition, she is also said to call soft warnings to children who go near the cliffs. Some claim to have seen her wandering the beach, assumedly near her and her lover's favorite spot.
There is supposedly another ghost that haunts Moss Beach, though she is not as famed. The lady in blue's lover was not a faithful one, but she died never knowing his deceit. The other woman, however, learned of the piano player's affairs and threw herself off the cliffs. It is said that her ghost appears dripping wet, covered with slime and seaweed.
Moss Beach Distillery
Beach Way and Ocean Blvd.
Moss Beach, California
(650) 728-5595
Website: Moss Beach Distillery
If you have had an experience at the Moss Beach Distillery, please E-MAIL me.
