The Man Who Shot a Ghost - The Hammersmith Ghost Murder
This Paranormal Life
This Paranormal Life
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🗓️ 9 June 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In the winter of 1803, a strange phantom began appearing late at night in the streets of Hammersmith, |
| 0:06.0 | haunting locals and even physically grabbing them. |
| 0:10.0 | Within weeks, the village of Hammersmith had fallen into a full-blown panic. |
| 0:14.0 | Women refused to go out at night. |
| 0:16.0 | Men were patrolling the streets with guns, And by the time the terror was over, |
| 0:25.5 | one man would be dead and another on trial for murder. |
| 0:28.6 | But how could it escalate to this point? |
| 0:31.8 | If you shoot a ghost, can you kill it a second time? |
| 0:34.3 | Why can't I bring a snake on the subway? If anything, it's weird that we're underground, not him. All these questions |
| 0:39.2 | you can find the answer to on this paranormal life. Hello everybody and welcome back to this |
| 0:46.3 | paranormal life, the comedy paranormal podcast where every week we dissect a brand new paranormal tale |
| 0:52.0 | and come to the conclusion to figure out once and for all whether or not it truly is paranormal |
| 0:57.0 | Sometimes like last week we are looking at newly released UFO footage by the government and sometimes like this week |
| 1:05.0 | We're not doing that at all. We're going back in time to investigate some crazy paranormal cases that happened right here in the UK. |
| 1:13.7 | You know, Kit last week showed us videos of unidentified objects, the likes of which I've never |
| 1:18.6 | seen. After we recorded that episode, I cried in the bathroom for 45 minutes. |
| 1:23.6 | But this week, I'm actually bringing some cool paranormal evidence to the table as well, yeah, from a case that happened in 1803. |
| 1:31.3 | Will I be crying in the bathroom about it afterwards? |
| 1:35.0 | Possibly. |
| 1:35.8 | Maybe. |
| 1:36.7 | Possibly. I'm telling you, this is a case that we've never covered on the podcast before. |
| 1:41.5 | It's one of the UK's most famous, I would say, ghost stories because |
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