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Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

345: The Edith Wolfskill Mystery

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Ghost Town

Science, History, Social Sciences, True Crime

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The disappearance of an heiress in the bay area of California in the early 20th century remains a mystery.


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0:00.0

Ever wondered why people go on killing sprees?

0:05.0

Are you interested in exploring the paranormal?

0:07.0

Faffled by stories of previous lives.

0:10.0

Well so are we.

0:11.0

In each episode we'll be discussing the weird and wonderful stories of some truly confusing phenomena

0:17.0

and some horrific true crime cases.

0:19.0

Find us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok

0:22.5

and join us every Tuesday,

0:24.6

wherever you listen to your podcasts.

0:26.9

And be prepared to be totally and utterly,

0:29.7

perplexed. A Mysterious.

0:48.8

I'm Jason Horton.

0:51.1

I'm Rebecca Lebe.

0:52.2

And this is Ghost Town.

1:09.0

Yeah. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Leeb. And this is Ghost Town. It seems inevitable that rich, powerful families attract, well, their own brand of scandal.

1:16.7

But scandal around religion, money, famous feuds, missing persons, and even murder, those are

1:24.8

a bit rarer in our experience. Enter Edith Wolfskill, a beautiful heiress to one of

1:31.1

California's richest and most important families. A controversial life led to an even more

1:37.3

puzzling, vanishing, and death. Today on Ghost Town, the life and death of Edith Irene Wolfskill. Edith's heiress legacy in California

1:47.5

began with her grandfather, Mathis Wolfskill, who, along with his brothers, bought 17,000 acres from

1:54.3

Mexico in Yolo County, California. The siblings, who were some of the first English-speaking settlers

2:00.0

in California, used this land to cultivate an agricultural empire, making them one of the most wealthy and influential families in California.

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