In 1897, Zona Heaster Shue’s death was ruled natural… until her ghost allegedly appeared to her mother, insisting she’d been murdered by her husband. The testimony of a spirit became the backbone of a courtroom trial, making this West Virginia haunting the only case in U.S. history where the word of a ghost was actually brought forth and accepted as legitimate evidence, and helped convict a killer. Was it really intervention from beyond the grave, or a clever courtroom tactic?

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