91: The Hammersmith Ghost
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal
Ghost Town
3.7 • 938 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
A haunted 1804 court case involving a shooting of an alleged ghost changed UK laws forever.
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| 0:00.0 | The man who shot a ghost. I'm Rebecca Leib. I'm Jason Horton and this is Ghost Town. In 1804, Francis Smith shot and killed Thomas Millwood mistaking him for the Hammersmith ghost. |
| 0:28.6 | The following court case set illegal precedents regarding self-defense. |
| 0:33.3 | Oof. |
| 0:34.6 | A ghost, a man, a gun, a courtroom. |
| 0:38.2 | What's next? |
| 0:39.2 | That's it. |
| 0:40.1 | Those are all the things. |
| 0:42.3 | So the Hammersmith Ghost is a court case where I was like, |
| 0:49.0 | yeah, I shot him. |
| 0:50.0 | Thought it was a ghost, like not a ghost. |
| 0:52.0 | It was the more logical thing, not a ghost it was the more logical thing not a ghost |
| 0:53.9 | everything's a ghost to me if I can get away with it it's like oh that ghost |
| 0:59.0 | cut me off I stole from a ghost Walgreens one time. |
| 1:04.0 | But you have to admit |
| 1:06.0 | Hammersmith section of London early 1800s. |
| 1:10.0 | Okay, okay, that's spooky. |
| 1:11.0 | I mean that's exactly that's, listen, I would think everything is a ghost as well. |
| 1:16.4 | Yeah, I mean if it means shooting people, you're a ghost, I'm a ghost. This person's a ghost. |
| 1:21.6 | The HarroSmith ghost was first spotted. I'm a ghost. This person is a ghost. The Hammersmith region of London in November 1803. |
| 1:28.0 | Was not your friendly neighborhood ghost, by the way. |
| 1:32.0 | No, it was a person, it was supposedly attacking people with several claiming to have been physically |
| 1:37.7 | grabbed in and around the Hammersmith churchyard. |
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