EPISODE · Jun 8, 2026 · 51 MIN
Scratching Fanny of Cock Lane
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A landlord claimed that his daughter was haunted, by the deceased wife of a former tenant. Most shocking of all, this ghost was accusing her husband of murder. Ghosts aren't real (most of the time, sorry), but murders plots can be very, very real. But who is the real murderer here? SOURCES:Gentlemen’s Magazine archives (by Samuel Johnson) “Ghostly Hands and Ghostly Agency,” Jennifer Bann“Missionaries, Methodists, and a Ghost,” Travis Glasson“We See a Ghost: Hogarth’s Satire on Methodists and Connoisseurs,” Bernd Krysmanski“Samuel Johnson and Spectral Media,” Rachael Scarborough King Elizabeth [called the Cock Lane Ghost], Oxford Dictionary of National BiographySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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