The women were vacationing on the Breton Coast when the Empress was recalled to Vienna. Her friend stayed. When Marguerite was riding her horse in the heath, she saw a figure in white on a rocky precipice. She glanced away, then looked back. The figure had vanished. Marguerite knew about the White Lady and made plans to return to Vienna.
That night, Marguerite fell asleep, but was suddenly awakened by the sounds of gentle rustling and soft footsteps. She saw the same figure she had seen on the precipice, but it was not the White Lady. It was the Sisi who pointed toward her breast where two or three drops of blood seeped from a triangular wound.
On the date of Sisi's and Franz' wedding anniversary, a Styrian sentry in the Hofburg Palace saw a woman dressed in white carrying a taper approaching . He challenged her. She retraced her steps. He followed. The figure entered the chapel. The sentry alerted other guards. There was a thorough search. The woman had vanished.
The Styrian had not known about the White Lady. When he and his fellow guards discussed the incident, he learned of her significance. His experience became a part of official record, as did the sighting of the White Lady by guards at Schonbrunn, the summer palace, that took place on the same night.
In the summer of 1898, Sisi was staying at the Grand Hotel in Caux, Switzerland. She was on the balcony when she noticed a lady in white staring at her maliciously. Sisi called an attendant. The grounds were searched. The lady had disappeared. That night, Sisi saw a lady in white, tried to ignore her, then became so unnerved that she called attendants. There was another search. Again, the lady vanished.
On September 9th, Sisi took a walk with her English reader, Mr. Barker. They stopped to rest. As she handed Mr. Barker half a peach, a raven swooped down, knocking it out of her hand.
The next day, Sisi was in Geneva to take a steamer to Mont de Caux. She heard the ship's bell and hurried toward the steamer.
Luigi Luccheni, an Italian anarchist, pounced upon her, stabbing her in the heart with a shoemaker's awl. Sisi was dazed. After she boarded the steamer, she fainted. A few drops of blood oozed from a tiny triangular wound. Sisi died of an internal hemorrhage.
