307: The Campo Lane Ghost
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib
3.7 • 928 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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A killer haunting takes hold of 19th-century Sheffield, UK.
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| 0:00.0 | A Killer Ghost Ghost, I'm Jason Horton. |
| 0:02.5 | I'm Rebecca Leib. |
| 0:03.5 | And this is Ghost Town. In the mid-19th century, a tenement on Campo Lane in Sheffield UK set the scene for one of the wildest, |
| 0:27.0 | strangest, and most outlandish hauntings the world has ever known. |
| 0:31.0 | Called the Campo Lane Ghost, this story involves sensationalist |
| 0:35.1 | reporting, angry drunken Mormon mobs, Satanism, buried bodies, buried |
| 0:41.8 | treasure, and death by haunting. |
| 0:45.0 | But don't take my word for it. |
| 0:47.0 | The report in The Sheffield Times sums this story up nicely. |
| 0:51.0 | Quote, this ghost story is one of the prettiest we've heard for some time. |
| 0:54.9 | It has appeared to three persons. |
| 0:57.0 | The first it alarmed. |
| 0:58.3 | The second it threw into fits. |
| 1:00.3 | And the third it killed. |
| 1:02.1 | What more can be needed to convince the most skeptical? |
| 1:05.0 | Today on Ghost Town, we're not here to convince the skeptics, only to explore the bizarre |
| 1:09.7 | existence and dramatic narrative of the Campo Lane Ghost. |
| 1:15.0 | First I need to say that according to the Sheffield Star and Steel City Ghost Tours, |
| 1:19.4 | Sheffield UK is still one of the most haunted British cities, boasting over 3,500 ghosts dating from the 17th century |
| 1:27.0 | up until today. |
| 1:28.6 | The story we're telling takes place in 1855 on Campo Lane, one of the last medieval streets of Sheffield. |
| 1:35.0 | Later in the 1920s, on account of it being the hub of English organized crime, Campo Lane |
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