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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