Sam said for some reason he was drawn to the backyard and decided to walk around outside for a while. At the back of the lot, about twenty-five or thirty yards from the house, there was a deep depression, partially filled with debris and bricks. As he walked up to the depression he began to feel strange vibrations. And then he began to both see and feel the presence of a young woman. She materialized in front of him as a grayish white figure clothed in a long gingham gown. The dress was all ragged and tattered. She was barefooted. From a fitted bodice, her full skirt fell to the tops of her feet. The sleeves of the dress were puffed, and Sam recalled one of them was torn. The face of the figure showed fine features, as if she had been very pretty at one time, but her skin was leathery looking, and her general appearance was that of someone who probably looked much older than her years. Her hair was wispy and unkempt and was light brown in color. Her eyes, which looked almost white … a cold, strange whiteness, could have been a light gray or a pale blue. Sam said it was hard to tell in the fast fading light.

The apparition was able to communicate with Sam, and she told him who she was and why she was there. She said her name was Amanda, and Sam can't recall but believes her last name was either Price or Page. He said he definitely got the impression the surname started with a P. She had come from back East, in Pennsylvania, in the 1870s, and she was traveling in a wagon train headed to California via the southern route. The wagon train was attacked by a raiding party of Comanches. Because she was young and pretty, the Indians did not kill and scalp her as they did the others. She was taken captive and enslaved by the Indians. Sometime later a group of men who were a mixed body of Anglos and Mexicans who called themselves Comancheros, because they traded with the Comanches, came to the encampment where Amanda was held captive. They were attracted by her beauty and bartered with the Indians to buy her. At first the Comanches didn't want to talk about trading her off, but the Comancheros made such a good offer they finally agreed to turn her over to the traders.

The Comancheros took her to their line camp near the location of present-day Abilene, which was not founded until 1881. They kept her in an underground cellar, and she was carefully watched. She was just as afraid of the Comancheros as she had been of the Indians. They were afraid she would try to run away, so they tied her ankles with rawhide hobbles and took away her shoes. They incarcerated her in a deep, dark root cellar. They told her they had to spend a lot of money for her, and they would like to get some of it back. She told them she had a sister back East, and if they would write to her she was sure that she would send them money to send her back home. Actually, they wanted to hold her for ransom but didn't tell her that at the time. They did write to her sister, telling her if she would send them the sum of $1,000, they would try to find her sister. Amanda's spirit told Sam that her family probably did not trust the sincerity of the Comanchero offer and decided not to answer the letter.

No money was ever sent for her release, and as her hopes of freedom faded, she gradually wasted away, forlorn, alone, and lonely. Finally she died there in the deep, dank, darkness of the cellar.

Amanda's figure seemed to be so forlorn and sad that Sam felt he must convince her to let go of the past and all the suffering she had endured. He told the spirit it was time to move on and cross over into the light.

Sam must have been convincing, because he said the image of the once beautiful young woman slowly started to fade away. Suddenly the atmosphere changed and he immediately felt the difference. A sudden light, airy feeling came over the little backyard. There was a general feeling of peace and tranquillity. Sam believed there would be no more nocturnal visits from the "mujere blanca." Amanda had sought, and found, the way to the light.