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Today on STM I’m taking it back to the early 1800s and the village of Hammersmith, located in foggy London.

Nowadays, Hammersmith is a populated area within the Greater London area, home to almost 200,000 people . In December of 1803, However, the village only had about 5,500 inhabitants - the perfect setting for local gossip to run amok.

And amok it ran! Tales of an ominous specter were spreading among the village. It was described as a white-shrouded figure that would stalk Black Lion Lane. Some said it wore calfskin clothes and had horns and large glass-like eyes. Local legend was that the spectre was actually the restless spirit of a man who’d taken his own life the year before, and who was now condemned to haunt the grounds of St. Paul’s churchyard.

But was the figure really a ghost?

And how did this lead to a legal dilemma that would last for 200 years?

Sources:

1) https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2015/10/the-case-of-a-ghost-haunted-england-for-over-two-hundred-years/
2) https://www.historicmysteries.com/history/hammersmith-ghost/37316/
3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammersmith_Ghost_murder_case
4) https://www.discoveryuk.com/mysteries/the-hammersmith-ghost-londons-paranormal-murder/

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The Dybbuk box first gained popularity in 2003, after a man by the name of Kevin Mannis posted the Dybbuk box for sale on ebay. He claimed that the Dybbuk box was haunted and was causing a lot of strange and supernatural things to happen to both him and his family.

Sources:

1) https://jewitches.com/blogs/blog/the-deal-with-the-dybbuk?srsltid=AfmBOooiwzKe-kwg8ZBK2fCzzIa10aX_7PbGLT9DV-QiFa2KlCeknEQl
2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repentance_in_Judaism
3) https://www.inverse.com/input/features/dybbuk-box-dibbuk-kevin-mannis-zak-bagans-haunted-hoax-revealed
4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dybbuk_box

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Hello and welcome to Small Town Mysteries, spooky season edition! This October we’re bringing you some truly bizarre cases – ones that we think simply scream Supernatural…are they truly the works of ghosts and phantoms? Are these crimes caused by otherworldly beings…or are humans the most depraved creature of all? I’m Kate, here with Christine and Rachael, bringing you our the first episode of our annual Spooky Season Series, The Death of Zona Shue…also known as the Greenbrier Ghost.

Sources:

1) https://appalachianmemories.org/2025/01/10/the-greenbrier-ghost-the-case-where-a-spirit-helped-convict-a-murderer/
2) https://dannyechase.com/blog/greenbrier/
3) https://greenbrierwv.com/editorials/the-greenbrier-ghost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenbrier_Ghost
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