EP 58 "The Woman Who Solved Her Own Murder": the Astonishing True Story of The Greenbriar Ghost

On a freezing winter afternoon in 1896 the small Appalachian foothills town of Greenbriar County...a young boy named Andy Jones came by to offer his neighbor (22 year old newlywed Zona Heaster Shue) help with gathering eggs. Instead, he found a harrowing trail of blood and Zona lying dead as a doornail on the floor of her dining room. All types of hell broke loose. This case has it all..."out-of-wedlock" hanky-panky, a handsome grieving widower, a pattern of mysteriously dead wives, secret pregnancies, body exhuming, courtroom drama, an angry mob, damn good investigative work, Gen & Kait's wild speculation....a ghost, and a badass mother/daughter team who refused to let a real POS get away with murder.

If you aren't curious about what the folks in the tiny Appalachian town of Greenbriar County were getting up to in the late 1800's....or the possibility of the paranormal.....best move right along. In today's episode, we dive deep into the only recorded instance in American courtroom history where a ghost encounter was directly responsible for swaying a jury beyond reasonable doubt to convict a murderer.

WELCOME TO OUR BELOVED SPOOOOKY SEASON!!!!

(& lights out campers)

SOURCES:

https://www.gothichorrorstories.com/gothic-travel/the-death-resurrection-and-retribution-of-zona-heaster-shue-the-greenbrier-ghost/

https://wvexplorer.com/2024/01/20/greenbrier-ghost-zona-heaster-shue-west-virginia-wv/

https://westvirginiahauntsandlegends.com/Greenbrier_Ghost.htm

https://www.greenbrierhistorical.org/blog/the-greenbrier-ghost-reexamined