The Man Who Upset a Ghost

Haunted

Panoply

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Private Lee Davis was hanged in a British prison in 1943. The execution chamber where the young American GI spent his final tragic moments is now a tourist destination, popular with "ghost hunters". When a tour guide recently recounted the story of the hanging there, the man felt a sudden, fierce pain. His hand had been badly, but inexplicably wounded. Was Private Davis sending a violent message, perhaps protesting at becoming the focus of such macabre entertainment?

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	A few weeks ago I got an email from a man named Paul
0:10.6	with an odd story.
0:12.1	He'd been injured by somebody at work, not a colleague, but they were
0:17.1	based in the same building. Paul had a photograph of a wound on his hand, red and raw.
0:25.0	But the thing that really bothered him
0:28.0	was that the guy who did it died in 1943.
0:37.0	It was the kind of email you just can't ignore.
0:43.0	Do ghosts exist, if not, why do we see them?
0:45.0	This is haunted. Each episode will explore one person's ghost story in forensic detail.
0:50.0	Not just what happened, but why.
0:53.0	Take a look at my hand now.
0:55.0	Okay, there's a scar there.
0:57.0	So, I mean, it's still not completely healed.
1:00.0	I'm Danny Robbins,
1:02.0	and this is episode six the man who upset a ghost Oh, The church clock strikes eight as I arrive in the old market town of Shepton Mallet in Somerset in the west of England.
1:40.0	It's cold. My breath floats in the night air.
1:44.0	I'm here to meet Paul. He works at the town's prison.
1:48.0	First built in 1610.
1:51.0	Shepton Mallard was the UK's oldest prison until it closed in 2013.
1:57.0	Now it's due to be turned into flats.
2:01.3	But until the developers move in, it's Paul's job to give guided tours.
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