She's a striking sight by the side of the road: a solitary figure dressed in flowing black robes, her head bowed, her face shrouded. She doesn't want fame. She doesn't want help. She doesn't want to talk.

She only tells people where she's going, and on Wednesday, she reached her destination.

The U.S. woman known simply as 'the woman in black' appears to have finished her nearly two-month, 1,000-kilometre trek across the Southern United States. For the last two months, she's told people WInchester, Va. is her destination, and she arrived there on Wednesday. She received a police escort when she came into town after a throng of well-wishers tried to embrace her against her wishes. Police say the woman in black just wants to be left alone.

She's refused to explain her pilgrimage, but the woman in black reportedly told people earlier this month that Winchester is her intended destination. And while she hasn't told anyone her name, a family member has identified her as Elizabeth Poles, a 56-year-old army veteran, Alabama native and bereaved mother of two.

Poles has amassed a legion of followers on social media since she started her journey at some point in late May or early June. Fans have snapped photos of her and tracked her progress through Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia and Virginia. A Facebook page dedicated to the woman in black had more than 67,000 likes by Thursday afternoon, and a social media users have tracked her progress under the hashtag #womaninblack.

 
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Despite her reluctance to share her personal story, the woman in black has reportedly told others she's on a "Bible mission." On June 3, a YouTube user posted a video of her heatedly discussing the Bible with a crowd of onlookers outside a Virginia Wal-Mart.

Her apparently religious journey has sparked plenty of faith-based messages from her fans.