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So you never miss a mystery. This is Crime House.

The bond between mother and daughter can be hard to explain.

Its instinct, intuition, the feeling that something isn't right, even when

everyone else says it is. In 1897, a young woman named Zona Heister Shoe was found unresponsive

in her home in rural West Virginia. She was in her early 20s. Her husband said she'd been

feeling sick. The doctor agreed. The coroner signed off. And just like that, the case was closed.

But not everyone accepted that. Zona's mother, Mary Jane Heister, couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong,

not just with the explanation, but with everything surrounding it.

She didn't trust what she was being told, and she didn't trust the man her daughter had married.

Still, she had nothing to prove it, no witnesses, no evidence, just a sneaking suspicion that refused to go away. And then,

she said she saw a ghost. Not once, but four times. Mary Jane would later describe it in

chilling detail, what it showed her, what it told her, and what it seemed to know. And whether

you believe in ghosts or not, what happened next is a matter of public record.

Mary Jane's story helped reopen the investigation.

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