The Everlasting Faint

"This week lets talk about Greenbrier, WV and how the supernatural solved a most terrible crime! The courtroom drama is thick with this one and also if you are just gosh dang sure enough you can convince anyone of anything. Hey stay safe out there y'all and go vote!"

Presented by: Cristina
Category: Ghost

Elva Zona Heaster was a woman who lived in West Virginia in the late 19th century. After having a child outside of marriage, she married a blacksmith named Trout Shue in October of 1896 (Fish was not the father).

3 months later, she was dead. Her body had been found a boy Fish had sent to the house. Her cause of death changed several times, but was always some flavor of "women troubles". Fish was by all accounts distraught, preparing the body for burial himself (unusual at time) and hold vigil over the body.

Shortly after her daughter's death, Elva's mother started seeing the ghost of Elva appearing to her in bed. She insisted that these were not dreams and that Elva told her Fish had murder her. Her persistence was enough to get Elva's body exhumed (highly unusual at the time) and a second autopsy performed. This time the cause of death was determined to be strangulation and Fish, who was required to be present, was arrested on the spot.

At the trial, the defense attempted to bring the point of the ghost up to discredit Elva's mother. It backfired and Fish was sentenced to life in prison.

Takeaway: If someone you know was murdered, hope for the ghost.

Trivia

 * Patreon Skit: Dissenting court opinion