The Lady in Blue of Moss Beach Distillery from the Speakeasa era in California

The Lady in Blue of Moss Beach Distillery from the Speakeasa era in California
10 July 2025 J.W.H
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In the times of prohibition in America, illegal speeches along the banks appeared, ideal for smuggling alcohol to the country. One of them was the distillery of Moss Beach in California, and the restaurant, as well as the beach, persecuted by Lady in Blue.

Blowed up high on a wind-sheltered cliff along the raw San Mateo coast in California, with a view of the restless Pacific, the Moss Beach distillery, through the secluded beach, stands as one of the most cute-haired-and the most haunted-and the most haunted monuments.

Since its inception in 1927, during mighty, illegal days of the ban, the distillery survived the decades of history, scandal and ghosts 20 miles south of San Francisco. But no one is as tough or as nippy as the legend of the lady in blue.

Speakes at the seaside

Distilia Moss Beach in San Mateo was born as a place of Frank by Frank Torres, an exclusive speakeasa, visited by quiet film stars, bootlegers and emotions seekers who want to escape from the stuffy moral code and has never been invaded. The mysterious writer Dashiell Hammett visited this place and used it as a scenery for one of his detective stories.

His hidden corridors, secret compartments for the smuggled Canadian whiskey and the location of Cliffside made it the perfect cave for mischief, music – and if the whispers are real, murder.

Among the regular guests was a striking teenage woman known only as Mary Anne or Morley, sometimes known as Cateye by various fairies. Mary was a married woman who, despite the risk, became involved in a passionate and ultimately tragic affair with John Conta, a charismatic pianist of the establishment.

Love story flooded with blood

The lovers' meetings were secret, and their feelings powered by the risk and thrill of the emotions of forbidden romance. But Los may have been jealous of one-full fog night. According to the most tough version of the story, when Mary and John walked in their hands on an abandoned beach, they were planted for a obscure figure. Mary was brutally attacked and killed. Although John initially survived, his battered body was later burned ashore, dead and broken.

Other versions suggest various results – a car disaster, a lover's quarrel or a tragic suicide of another despised mistress, Anna Philbrick, who allegedly rushed from the cliffs after learning about John's betrayal. In other versions she is a loving woman who throws herself into the sea.

However, no matter what you choose, one element remains indefinite: the spirit of Mary never left Moss Beach.

Lady in a restless haunting blue

Since almost a century, both patrons and employees have claimed that disturbing meetings with women's revelation dressed in liquid blue. He appears in vague nights, drifting through the restaurant, brushing cool fingers against life or disappearing into the air from surprised eyes.

Visitors reported whispers without a source, objects moving alone and inexplicable technical disorders, such as a phone call from nobody. Perhaps the most infamous incident occurred when, without warning, the restaurant's computer system inexplicably reset – changing each date in the 1927 system in which the distillery opened its doors for the first time. Technicians could not find a reason for the fault, and since then the anomaly has become part of the Blue Heritage.

Employees working overdue heard the piano game itself, and some refuse to loneliness. One employee swears that she saw a woman in a blue observing from the corner of the empty dining room, but disappeared when she approached. Apparently in the 70s, an employee of the restaurant reconstruction saw her and returned to southern California, too scared to come back and finish work. The guests even claimed that they could see a blue figure who misses the cliffs, as if to wait for a lover who never returned.

Also, the water was also reported to the water. Children playing on a sandy beach say that a woman in a blue dress appeared about the game so close to the waters just before the sudden tide rushed ashore.

Fact, folklore and vague nights

Although no official records confirm the names of Mary, John Contai or Anna Philbrick, the persistent nature of Lady in Blue Legend suggests a powerful cultural memory – perhaps born of the turbulent past of the ban on Moss Beach and her reputation of danger and romance at the edge of the world.

Although today there is a mighty character in the area, there is not much evidence of history before the 1980s. Then Mike and Shirley Sarno took over the restaurant and gave an interview about the legend of Lady in Blue in San Francisco Examiner.

Their names, Mary or Mary Morley, come from a series of scenes made by Sylvia Browne in April 1992. According to this Seance, the fire broke out just a few days after her spirit warned.

Regardless of whether Mary was an injured wife, a convicted lover, or simply a figure of colorful knowledge of California, her spirit seems determined, forever intertwined with crashing surfing and changing sands Moss Beach.

If you dare to visit, drink a drink, listen to whispers and give a look towards the cliffs at dusk. You can simply take a look at the lady in blue, walking around the shore between the living and the dead worlds forever.

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