Phantasmal Crime Ep. 36 - Murder in Ballston Spa

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

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

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🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The Crandell Murder shocked the nation. Sylvester Crandell shot his mother-in-law, his step-daughter, his wife and himself in 1887. This was the worst crime Saratoga County had experienced up to that point. All four people would die and the main motivation seems to have been money. Sylvester Crandell and wanted more of it and when his wife and mother-in-law wouldn't give it to him, his rage erupted. And in the wake of the crime, it seems that the Crandell House has some paranormal activity.

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0:00.0	True crime can be strangely fascinating. This true crime is odd, macabre, and haunted.
0:18.0	I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows. Welcome to Fantasmal Crime.
0:27.0	This Fantasmal Crime was suggested by Memory Berkeley. Berkeley The Crandallandall
0:44.0	murder shocked the nation.
0:46.2	Sylvester Crandall shot his mother-in-law, his stepdaughter, his wife, and himself
0:51.4	in 1887. This was the worst crime Saratoga County had experienced up to that point.
0:57.0	All four people would die and the main motivation seems to have been money.
1:02.0	Sylvester Crandall had wanted more of it,
1:04.0	and when his wife and mother-in-law wouldn't give it to him,
1:07.0	his rage erupted.
1:08.0	And in the wake of the crime,
1:10.0	it seems that the Crandall House has some paranormal activity.
1:16.0	Julia V. Stone was born in 1846, the daughter of paper collar manufacturer Samuel S. Stone.
1:26.0	During the 1850s and 1860s, companies were experimenting with making cuffs and collars out of paper.
1:33.0	These detachable paper collars and cuffs could be thrown away when they got dirty.
1:38.0	So they were very convenient and popular during a time when, well, I mean, laundry was kind of hard to get done.
1:43.7	And that was what got the most dirt, was the collar and the cuffs.
1:48.4	This made Samuel Stone a very wealthy man.
1:51.2	He was worth around $1. million dollars in today's dollars.
1:55.0	Julia's mother was named Emma and she was a very strong-willed woman and after her
2:00.4	husband passed she was very fiscally conservative with the fortune, wanting to protect
2:05.1	her daughter's inheritance.
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