The Woman in the Corner

Haunted

Panoply

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Widowed for decades, Jim lives alone in an old cottage. Not quite alone, though. A thin, black-haired woman comes to his bedroom as he sleeps. When he wakes and sees her, she simply points to the corner. Then she disappears. This ghostly co-habitation takes a new twist when Jim finds the spirit wants to share his bed, as well as his home. So what is at the root of this most intimate of ghost sightings?

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0:00.0	You're lying in the dark of your bedroom and your mind plays tricks.
0:05.9	The shadows in the corner coalesce, fuse, take shape.
0:14.0	A figure. It walks towards you.
0:17.0	A woman.
0:18.0	Her eyes make contact with yours.
0:21.0	But then you blink and she is gone. There's no one there. But what if the
0:31.1	blink didn't work?
0:34.0	Many, many bodies are under the roof, not like today.
0:39.0	Do ghosts exist?
0:41.0	If not, why do we see them?
0:44.0	She stood there, pointed to the spot in the corner,
0:48.0	and I said, hello, hello, hello.
0:52.0	This is haunted. Hello?
0:53.0	This is haunted.
0:55.0	Each episode will investigate one person's ghost story.
0:59.0	Not just what happened, but why.
1:02.0	I could hear someone crossing the room.
1:07.0	Hello, there was no sound apart from the slippers, that was a spooky bit. I could hear the slippers
1:12.1	crossing the room on the carpet. Shuffling.
1:17.0	I'm Danny Robbins and this time I travelled to an old cottage in a small English country village,
1:25.0	home to a widower and nighttime apparition and a ghost who knows no boundaries.
1:34.0	This is episode 5, the woman in the corner. Oh, This old village, 500 years old, Danny, was standing in the middle of the square, overlooking
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