Prepare to venture to venture to the darkest most haunted locations once again.

About 4 o'clock in the morning it felt like the hand of God touched the castle.

The whole thing just shook. Brace yourself for a

supernatural journey unlike any other. It felt like there were other guests go

staying with us that we could not see.

Listen to Haunted Road season five on the I Heart Radio app, Apple

Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite shows.

Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky.

Listener discretion advised. It's the middle of June 1836 and the courtroom in London is packed. The man being publicly tried for infidelity is as high

ranking as you can be in England short of being the king. He is the prime minister, Lord Melbourne, but the woman he may have

cheated on his wife with is as much a draw as he is.

She is one of the most well-known women in London,

a beauty but an unusual one,

dark-eyed and flirtatious and entirely too smart by 19th century standards.

A writer married herself to an abusive husband who, as rumor had it, had once pushed her so hard he had caused a miscarriage.

The woman's name is Caroline Norton, rumored Vixen, close friend and maybe more of the

Prime Minister.

But as the spectators who came to see her quickly realize, Caroline

Norton isn't there in the courtroom. She's elsewhere, hold up with her mother away from her children, waiting for a messenger's

horse to gallop toward her with news of her fate. It was only right in a way that she wasn't in the courtroom on that

drizzling day in June because in the year 1836 in the United Kingdom a married woman like Caroline had no legal existence.

Unmarried women, socially looked down upon as they were,

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