Old Timey Crimey #134: The Hammersmith Ghost - Perfectly Dead

Published: Oct. 8, 2021, 4:01 a.m.

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.\xa0\nThanks to sponsor Crazy is as Crazy Does: The Life of a Serial Killer by John H. Mudgett--buy it on\xa0Amazon\xa0or\xa0BN.\nVisit/support/contact us:\nPatreon\u202f\nFacebook\xa0\nInstagram\nTwitter\nMERCH\n\u202fAmazon Wishlist\noldtimeycrimey@gmail.com\n\xa0\nSources:\nJane Alexander in Londonist\nClaire Feikert-Ahalt on LOC Blog\nApparitions: or, the mystery of ghosts, hobgoblins, and haunted houses, by Joseph Taylor\nSara Luehmann on Hammersmith & Fulham\nBBC.\nNewgate Calendar\nWiki: Hammersmith\nRoss Macfarlane at the Wellcome Library.\nBritish and Irish Legal Information Institute.\nOld Bailey Online.\nGeorge Dillard on History of Yesterday.\nThe Murder of the Hammersmith Ghost \u2014 1804 | by Jed Graham | Genius in a Bottle\nFrank Baker MD in The American Anthropologist Journal\nNewspapers.com: The Times\n\xa0\nMusic:\xa0\nHeadless Horseman by Alexander NakaradaLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/6740-headless-horsemanLicense:\xa0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\nEvil Plan by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3725-evil-planLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/