Comments on: Ghosts in Court

Ghosts in Court

Bulgaroktonos — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:54:03 -0800

Perhaps not as well known as Ackley's Ghost, whose legal, if not factual, existence is known to every American law student, the Greenbrier Ghost is still known as the only ghost whose testimony helped convict a murderer. Although commonly used to convict witches, spectral evidence largely fell out of favor after the Salem Witch Trials, until one West Virginia women's ghost accused her husband of murdering her.

By: BiggerJ

BiggerJ — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 05:01:08 -0800

The Phoenix Wright games don't seem so stupid now, do they?

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 05:32:23 -0800

Objection!

By: Ironmouth

Ironmouth — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 12:24:49 -0800

Never heard of either of them.

By: homunculus

homunculus — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:24:57 -0800

"If what the accused judge said about the jinn, then this jinn could be bad and blasphemous...this jinn could have been sent by a bad sorcerer because witchcraft is bad and non-Islamic." Saudi Arabia certainly is tough on sorcery.

By: Copronymus

Copronymus — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:02:18 -0800

There's a theater in Greenbrier county that regularly puts on a musical based on the Greenbrier Ghost story, although I've only seen the non-musical version they did back in the 90s and most of what I took away from that was that Trout Shue is a hilarious name.