In 1827, an English woman dreamed that her daughter came to her in that dream and said

that she hadn't married and moved away four months ago like everyone thought, but that

instead her betrothed had murdered her and buried the body in the family's red barn.

The family dug in the barn and found to their horror that the dream had been true.

For a sense, the murder in the red barn has been held up as proof that a ghost had identified

her killer from beyond the grave.

Is that, in fact, what happened?

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, the murder in the red barn.

Can the ghost of a murder victim come back and help identify her killer?

That's exactly what is said to have happened in 1827 at the village of Polstad, county

Suffolk, England.

Maria Martin was murdered in a red barn by her betrothed William Cordor, who buried her

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