Phantasmal Crime 39 - Murder of Captain White

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

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🗓️ 19 November 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Salem, Massachusetts' Gardner-Pingree House was the scene of a horrific murder. In 1830, this had been one of the grandest houses in Salem and was owned by Captain Joseph White. On the night of April 6th, he was bludgeoned and stabbed to death. This event and the ensuing trial featured some prominent names. Daniel Webster was the prosecutor and writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and H.P. Lovecraft were all inspired by elements from this true crime. Such a horrific murder can lead to rumors of hauntings. And several ghosts seem to be at unrest in the aftermath.

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0:00.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:15.0	True crime can be strangely fascinating.
0:18.1	This true crime is odd, macab, and haunted. I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows.
0:25.4	Welcome to Phantasmal Crime. Salem, Massachusetts, Gardner-Pingrey House was the scene of a
0:35.0	horrific murder. In 1830, this had been one of the grandest houses in Salem and was owned by Captain Joseph White. On the night of April 6th, he was bludgeoned and stabbed to death. This event and the ensuing trial featured some prominent names. Daniel Webster was the prosecutor, and writers like Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
0:56.1	and H.P. Lovecraft were all inspired by elements from this true crime. Such a horrific murder can
1:02.1	lead to rumors of hauntings, and several ghosts seem to be at unrest in the aftermath. The Gardner-Pingrey
1:08.9	House sits at 1-8 Essex Street and was built in 1811. Salem native son,
1:14.2	Samuel McIntyre designed the house in the federal architectural style. McIntyre was a self-taught
1:19.5	woodworker and architect, and he built these beautiful and phenomenal mansions. His specialty was
1:25.2	creating wonderful pieces of woodwork that included these ornate mantles for fireplaces.
1:30.4	McIntyre even entered a proposal in the competition for the design of the United States Capitol.
1:35.9	The interior and exterior of the Gardner-Pingree House features rectangles with different ornamental accents within, and it looks very elegant.
1:44.6	McIntyre liked his designs to be proportional, rhythmic, and detailed.
1:49.3	The house is three stories and constructed from brick in a Flemish bond.
1:53.2	The trim was done in white marble, and the house looks really unique
1:56.4	because the third-story windows are about half the height of the other windows.
2:00.8	Black shutters frame the windows with lintels with a keystone at the top of the windows.
2:05.1	There are two chimneys, and the front door is framed with four Corinthian columns holding an elliptical portico.
2:11.6	Samuel McIntyre built the house for John and Sarah Gardner on a lot that John had bought from his father.
2:17.3	So this house is finished,
2:18.6	the gardeners move in, and here comes the war of 1812. During the war, Salem suffered under an embargo,
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