 Last Monday mystery, we spoke about the possibility of satanic cult rituals happening at Olympic National Park. We also spoke about how these national parks provide good opportunities for people to dump bodies. Well, today we're going to talk about a body that was found from a woman who allegedly still haunts one particular lodge at Olympic National Park. But before we go any further, you know what to do. Please hit that subscribe button and give us a like. As always, a very, very, very special thank you to all of our patrons and our producers on this channel. Without you guys, we would not be able to do what we do. Your help and your support is greatly, greatly appreciated. Welcome to esoteric Atlanta. My name is Bryce and today on Mystery Monday, we are going to be talking about the Lady of the Lake. Lake Crescent is home to the Lady of the Lake. It's the second largest lake in Washington. It's about 600 feet deep and 12 miles wide. Local legend states that Lake Crescent never gives up its dead, except for this one time. Halley Brooks Latham Illingworth was born on the 7th of January in 1901 in Kentucky. However, for Halley, she sought her sights out west. Halley herself was a bit of a nomad. And in 1936, at 35 years old, Halley ended up in Washington State. By this time, Halley was a two times divorcee. In 2022, that's not super uncommon. But in 1936, being a two times divorcee seemed to put a bit of a stigma on Halley. Halley eventually got a job at the Lake Crescent Lodge, a tavern that was about an hour away from Port Angels. Through her job at the tavern, Halley ended up meeting her third husband, a man named Montgomery Illingworth. Now Montgomery went by the name Monty and he was a beer truck driver. Halley and Monty had a very contentious relationship from the start. They were constantly arguing, making up, arguing, making up. Many people even today would mistake this kind of relationship for a relationship with passion. However, psychologists would probably tell you this had all the red flags in a very toxic situation. But nonetheless, less than a year after meeting Monty, Halley and Monty were married. And of course, their marriage did not fix their problems. It is said that Halley and Monty had an apartment very close to Lake Crescent Lodge, where Halley again worked as a waitress. Passerby's would often hear intense arguing and fighting coming from this apartment. And a lot of Halley's coworkers also stated that Halley would often come into work covered in bruises. On December 22nd of 1937, Halley was reported missing. This was about five months after the couple had gotten married. Monty's explanation for her disappearance was that she had run off with an Alaskan sailor. In seeing that Halley was already stigmatized by being a two times divorcee, the police closed the case and left it at that. And by 1938, Monty was granted a divorce from Halley so he could move off to California to start a new relationship with Halley's sister's roommates. I know, I know, super, super red flags. But again, this was the 1930s and things were done a little bit differently. In July of 1940, Monty Ellingworth's life would change. This is because two brothers, the raw brothers, were on Lake Crescent fishing when they noticed an interesting object bobbing in the lake. They went over to retrieve the object and to their horror, they found that this was a body. The body had been wrapped in blankets covered in rope and it appeared that it had been or attempted to have been weighted down 600 feet to the bottom of the lake. Now normally you would think that if a body had been dead for three years that there would be some major decomposition. But this wasn't so with this particular body. In fact, the only thing distorted about the body was missing fingers and toes and some of the face had decomposed like the nose was missing. But as far as the actual body, it was very apparent that this was a woman. It seems that the cold water had somewhat preserved her body so much so that they could still make out the fact that she had a green dress on. The brothers eventually went to go find help and when they told the authorities that they believed they had found a human body, the authorities thought they must have been mistaken. Maybe it was a deer's body or something like that. But of course, once the authorities got to the lake and they discovered that this was indeed the body of a woman, medical teams got involved. Now of course, again, this was 1940. There really was no forensic science at this point. And so the team did the best they could. According to Hayland McNuck, a medical student who examined the body said the body was the texture of soap. This was because her body had spawnified. This means that her body fat had molecularly mixed with some of the chemical compounds of the lake causing her body to have a waxy sensation. In fact, they compared it to almost soap like that her skin had turned porcelain light and feel very much like soap. From everything I read about this case in this time of 1940, even though the medical assistants and the doctors knew exactly what had happened to cause the skin to be this way, it still kind of freaked them out a little bit. I mean, here you have this body that they can tell had been gone for at least a few years without the telltale signs of decomposition, besides the face and the hands. The body still appeared like it would have appeared in life and was basically preserved in time, but yet felt like it was waxy soap. At first they had no way to identify this Jane Doe. And so this Jane Doe became known as the Lady of the Lake. Even though they had no identification and even though the body had spawnified, they were able to gather that this body again had been deceased for at least a couple of years. They also determined that the woman had lost her life due to strangulation. Not only were there the telltale signs of strangulation, but the body was still covered in bruises. Just like most of the body had been preserved by the spawnification and the cold water, so had the bruises. It's almost like her death was stamped in time. The Lady of the Lake was eventually buried in an unmarked grave in Potter's Fields near Port Angels. Now, Potter's Field, we've spoken about Potter's Fields a few times in some older episodes, especially dealing with some cemetery-based episodes when I first started this channel. Potter's Field is basically a section of some older cemeteries that offer resting places for people who are paupers, who are poor, who can't afford the expenses of a burial. However, 14 months after the Lady of the Lake had been buried, her dental records showed up to a positive match with Hallie Illingsworth. Before coming to the state of Washington, Hallie had lived in South Dakota and her dentist in South Dakota was able to identify work that he had done in her mouth. At this point, the Lady of the Lake was exhumed from her resting spot. Once she was identified, the police officers remembered that back in 1937, December 22nd of 1937, to be exact, a woman had been declared missing. And then they remembered that her husband had claimed that she ran off to Alaska to start a new life with a sailor. They also remembered that many of the locals had complained about the fighting that they would hear from the apartment owned by Monty and Hallie Illingsworth. So Monty Illingsworth was brought back to Washington to stand trial for the homicide of his wife. The trial was officially started on February 24th of 1942, and Monty himself kept proclaiming his innocence that this was not Hallie Illingsworth, this was just some Jane Doe. Hallie was still living in Alaska with her sailor lover and no, no, no, no, this can't be her. However, in the court, they brought up all the records and the complaints of abuse that had been filed all those years ago. They also brought in witness testimony from Hallie's job where her co-workers claimed that Hallie would often come back in with bruises. Monty's defense was that, yes, sometimes their arguments got a little bit passionate, a little bit heated, but that's okay because she hit him back, too. But the real kicker in the case was the rope. The rope that had been used to tie Hallie up and tie weights to Hallie to keep her down at the bottom of the leg. It seemed the rope had over time loosened itself and come undone from the weights, hence the body was able to float to the surface. There was a local shop owner in the area at this time that claimed that Monty had come in asking if he could borrow some rope. He claimed that he needed to pull his car and he would bring the rope back as soon as he was done. But lo and behold, Monty never brought the rope back and the rope that was left attached to the body matched the rope owned by the shop owner. This was the nail in the coffin for Monty Inglesworth. It took the jury only four hours to find Monty guilty of homicide. Monty was sentenced to life in prison, however, nine years later he was paroled and ended up going back to California where he spent the rest of his life and passed away in 1975. However, people who now visit the Lake Crescent Lodge claim to see the spirit of Hallie Inglesworth smoking cigarettes, talking, laughing and having a grand old time at the place that used to employ her. Now, yes, of course, right now we are in the middle of reviewing missing persons cases in national parks. But I thought for this week and for next week we would take a little bit of a break and look at some of the more metaphysical or paranormal aspects of Olympia National Park. It appears that Hallie Inglesworth or the Lady of the Lake is one of the most famous ghost stories in the area. And I would hope that if Hallie is still hanging out at the Lodge where she used to work, she's doing so by her own free will. She's back at a place that maybe brought her joy and I hope for her sake that she's not stuck there. So if you're an Olympic National Park and you go to the Lake Crescent Lodge, be looking out for Hallie Inglesworth. All right, guys, I hope you're having a wonderful, wonderful Monday. Please leave me your thoughts and your opinions down in the comment section below. Let me know if you believe in ghosts or not. I absolutely believe in ghosts. I've seen many of them. But let me know your experiences down below. And also, have you ever seen Hallie Inglesworth at this lodge yourself? I would be curious to know. All right, guys, tomorrow we're going to be releasing part four of the Magland series, which I'm so super excited about. I'm so glad you guys are enjoying the series just as much as I am. I hope again that you're having to start a really, really wonderful week. Hold your head up high and know that the best is truly yet to come.