MURDERS THAT HAUNT: The Brides in the Bath | The Hauntings of George Joseph Smith
Paranormal Activity with Yvette Fielding
adam.foster@createproductions.com
4.6 • 571 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Three wives. Three bathtubs. Three identical murders. And rooms that still won't let go.
George Joseph Smith killed with terrifying precision: no weapon, no struggle, just water and a method so quiet it passed as accident. Twice. His case rewrote forensic history. But what he left behind in those rooms has never been fully explained.
Violent splashes from empty baths in Blackpool. Walls that turn damp without cause in Herne Bay. A figure bent over a bathtub in Highgate gone the second you look directly.
This isn't a ghost story. There's no voice. No footsteps. Just a moment that refuses to end.
Yvette explores the hauntings, the murder method investigators physically reconstructed, and six paranormal theories: including why this case is considered the textbook example of trauma embedded in water itself.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to paranormal activity with me, Yvette Fielding, |
| 0:06.6 | in this continuation of our Murders that Haunt series. |
| 0:10.7 | We're stepping into a case that is as chilling as it is methodical, |
| 0:15.3 | a story where the horror doesn't lie in chaos or madness, but in repetition. |
| 0:21.9 | Three women, three marriages, three bathtubs. |
| 0:27.1 | Between 1912 and 1914, a man named George Joseph Smith carried out a series of murders so precise, so calculated, |
| 0:36.5 | that they would go on to change the course of forensic history forever. But this week, we're not just asking how these women died, we're asking something far more unsettling. When death comes this suddenly, this deliberately, does something remain? |
| 1:01.8 | Welcome to another episode of paranormal activity. |
| 1:05.4 | And as ever, I like to start the show with a tickle of fact or fiction. |
| 1:08.1 | Listen out at the end of the show for the answer. |
| 1:13.4 | As this week's episode is all about the case and hauntings of George Joseph Smith, |
| 1:18.3 | I want to know whether it's fact or fiction that guests in the Blackpool Boardinghouse where Alice Burnham was killed report hearing violent splashes from an empty bath. |
| 1:24.7 | Is it fact or fiction? |
| 1:26.8 | Find out at the end of the show. |
| 1:30.7 | Early 20th century England, a time of propriety, of routine, of quiet domestic life. |
| 1:38.7 | Bathing was not just practical, it was ritual. A moment of privacy, a vulnerability, a place where, for a brief time, |
| 1:47.5 | the outside world just disappeared. And it's within that most private of spaces that these |
| 1:54.1 | crimes unfolded. George Joseph Smith was not a man who appeared to be dangerous, quite the opposite, in fact. |
| 2:01.9 | He was very charming, very polite and adaptable. |
| 2:05.6 | A man who could become whoever he needed to be, a devoted husband, a respectable gentleman, a safe pair of hands. |
| 2:13.7 | But behind that carefully constructed persona was something far darker. |
| 2:18.9 | Smith operated with chilling patience. |
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