Testimony From Beyond The Grave
American Hauntings Podcast
Cody Beck and Troy Taylor
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
On January 23, 1897, the body of a young woman named Zona Heaster Shue was discovered in her home in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. It seemed to be a rather ordinary case of perhaps domestic discord gone wrong, but in the end, the case turned out to be anything but ordinary. In fact, it went on to become the only case in which the word of a ghost helped to solve a crime and convict a murderer!
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Timestamps:
Monologue: 00:00:00 - 00:38:30
Discussion: 00:39:00 - 01:05:20
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| 0:00.0 | There's never been another story like it in American history. |
| 0:22.2 | It was a legal case in which the word of a ghost was allowed as testimony, helped solve |
| 0:26.8 | a murder and convicted a killer. It started in January 1897 in Greenbrier County, West |
| 0:33.3 | Virginia when a bride of only three months was found dead in her home by a neighbor boy. |
| 0:39.6 | Within a month, her ghost had appeared on four successive nights and told her mother |
| 0:44.2 | that her husband had killed her and described exactly how he'd done it. |
| 0:49.2 | At the mother's insistence, the young woman's body was exhumed, her cause of death determined |
| 0:54.3 | in her husband was tried, convicted, and sentenced to a life behind bars. |
| 0:59.9 | It's hard enough to believe on the surface, but there's even more to this story that |
| 1:03.9 | meets the eye. It's a case where the prey returned to avenge herself on the predator. |
| 1:10.8 | Or did she? Who was the young bride and why did people believe her mother's story? |
| 1:16.7 | And what happened to make the story of the Greenbrier ghost one of the strangest and |
| 1:22.4 | the annals of the supernatural? |
| 1:27.6 | Welcome to American hauntings, the podcast dedicated to the history, hauntings, and the dark |
| 1:32.6 | side of American history. And welcome to the last act of this season, Woodson Fields, |
| 1:38.3 | Dark and Wicked, which is hosted and produced by Cody Beck and written and performed by Troy |
| 1:43.2 | Taylor. That's me. This has been a strange and twisted season so far, filled with witchcraft, |
| 1:49.8 | taxes, curses, mysterious disappearances, and more spirits and sins than you could shake |
| 1:54.6 | a stick at, but the last act will be the strangest and bloodiest episodes of the season so far. |
| 2:01.4 | As we delve into the murders that have forever stained America's forests, farms, and fields, |
| 2:07.5 | this is episode 17. Make sure you leave the lights on when you listen. |
| 2:15.1 | Zona Hester, a pretty girl with dark hair, was born in Greenbrier County, West Virginia |
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