Episode 150: The Hammersmith Ghost murder

Hello      Welcome back This is survived with Sophie and LexiWe started telling our survived story (in college) and we are moving on to being you guys moreThrough many different topics It's week two of the spooky season! Today we have a true crime case that involves the paranormal An engraving in Kirby’s Wonderful and Scientific Museum, published early in 1804, portrays a pale, otherworldly form drifting among the tombstones—the eerie specter at the heart of the Hammersmith Ghost murder case. That year, paranoia and superstition combined in a string of midnight sightings around London’s Hammersmith district, producing one of Britain’s most notorious legal precedents: the principle that a person may be held criminally liable for lethal force even when acting on a wholly mistaken belief in self-defence.