At the end of the 19th century, a thuggish man murdered his wife.

Everyone knew who did it, but it was still necessary to secure a conviction.

And then, at the trial, a bombshell.

It was revealed that the victim's ghost came to her mother in a series of dreams and revealed

all the details of the murder, which then all checked out true.

The Green Brieher Ghost is said to be the one time when a ghost's testimony was admitted

in court.

But the truth behind the case might not necessarily support that.

The Green Brieher Ghost is up next on Skeptoid.

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The Green Brieher Ghost

The year was 1897, the place a courthouse in Green Brieher County, West Virginia.

The accused murderer stood grinning, confident of a quittle.

He'd broken his young wife's neck and left her to be found by others, sure that no evidence

linked him to the brutal crime.

But then his mother-in-law took the stand and all present sat transfixed as she told

how her daughter's ghost had come to her over each of four nights.

And revealed the grisly details of her own murder.

The killers grin melted away and he was soon convicted and sensed to live out his life

in prison.

We know the Green Brieher Ghost as the only documented case in which a ghost's testimony

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