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Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast

Elizabeth City: Disappearance of Nell Cropsey

Foul Play: A Historical True Crime Podcast

Shane L. Waters, Wendy Cee, Gemma Hoskins

True Crime, History, Society & Culture

4.5992 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

There is a house in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Its Queen Anne style Frame sits on Riverside Ave near the Pasquotank river. It stands two stories high, with green and white siding and trim. This house, like so many, holds a dark history. Onlookers of the house claim to see a ghostly figure standing in front of a window of the second story. A young girl, taken before she could truly live life. A girl who has a secret.

Her name is Nell Cropsey, and the town still talks about her story to this day. But no-one truly knows what happened to Nell. The best we can do for her is to tell her story. The good, the bad, and the dark.

Joining Shane to host this season is Justin Evans from Generation Why and The Peripheral.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello friend. Joining me to narrate this season is one of my best friends Justin Evans

0:24.9

from Generation Y in the peripheral. Before we get into the case, I wanted to share a quick

0:31.0

review that caught my eye that I thought you might enjoy. It's from Apple Podcasts

0:36.5

in its titled Silence of the Lambs. I know it caught my attention too.

0:42.7

Same things that I sound like Buffalo Bill, which gave me a good laugh. It was a three-star

0:48.2

review. With that voice comparison, I thought it should have been a four-star minimum, but

0:54.2

I forgive you Sam.

1:14.1

If you would like to leave feedback, you can do so by leaving your review too on Apple

1:18.5

Podcasts. Okay, let's get into the story. I'm no cropsy. But first, I must put the

1:25.9

lotion on my skin so I can get back to podcasting again.

1:48.5

There is a house in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Its queen and style frame sits on River

2:06.7

Side Avenue near the Pasco Tank River. It stands two stories high, with green and white

2:12.5

siding and trim. This house, like so many, holds a dark history. Onlookers of the house

2:20.5

claim to see a ghostly figure standing in front of a window on the second story. A young

2:25.9

girl taken before she could truly live life. A girl who has a secret. Her name is

2:32.4

no cropsy. And the town still talks about her story today. But no one truly knows what

2:38.5

happened to Nell. The best we can do for her is to tell her story, the good, the bad, and the dark.

2:48.7

Ella Maud Cropsy, known as Nell to her friends and family, was born in Brooklyn, New York

2:54.7

in the summer of 1881. Her parents, William and Mary Louise Cropsy, had nine children,

3:02.1

sadly, some are lost early in life. We don't know much about Nell's early childhood,

3:07.8

but what is known is that she was a happy child. Her father, William, worked as a farmer,

3:13.6

but the land they lived on wasn't good enough to make any profit. So he worked as a tax official

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