Old Timey Crimey #134: The Hammersmith Ghost - “Perfectly Dead”
Spookyween continues with an examination of the Hammersmith Ghost, which terrorized people in a London village until someone paid the ultimate price. Plus, Kristy tells Amber the creepy, ridiculous details of an old superstition, the Dead Man's Hand.
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Sources:
Claire Feikert-Ahalt on LOC Blog
Apparitions: or, the mystery of ghosts, hobgoblins, and haunted houses, by Joseph Taylor
Sara Luehmann on Hammersmith & Fulham
Wiki: Hammersmith
Ross Macfarlane at the Wellcome Library.
British and Irish Legal Information Institute.
George Dillard on History of Yesterday.
The Murder of the Hammersmith Ghost — 1804 | by Jed Graham | Genius in a Bottle
Frank Baker MD in The American Anthropologist Journal
Newspapers.com: The Times
Music:
Headless Horseman by Alexander Nakarada
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/6740-headless-horseman
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Evil Plan by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-plan
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/