Greenbrier County
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Sep 27, 2026
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
The likeliest answer turned out to be the saddest and most ordinary one available.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
In Greenbrier County, West Virginia, in 1897, a young woman was murdered, and her grieving mother swore the dead woman's ghost had come back to name the man who did it.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
That's the one time all season the reach for the supernatural landed on the guilty party instead of an innocent one.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
Even there, it wasn't a ghost that convicted him.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
The likeliest answer turned out to be the saddest and most ordinary one available.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
In Greenbrier County, West Virginia, in 1897, a young woman was murdered, and her grieving mother swore the dead woman's ghost had come back to name the man who did it.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
That's the one time all season the reach for the supernatural landed on the guilty party instead of an innocent one.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
Even there, it wasn't a ghost that convicted him.
Tony CaridiHOST
And so she'll be there.
Tony CaridiHOST
And then the last thing was, remember Logan in Greenbrier County? Now, you guys know Logan.
Tony CaridiHOST
I know Logan very well.
Tony CaridiHOST
He'd gone AWOL on us.
Rebecca StrezinaHOST
No mother should ever have to bury their child.
Rebecca StrezinaHOST
And as Mary Jane Hester sat in her home in Greenbrier, West Virginia, crying over her Bible, she asked God for answers as to her daughter's unexpected death.
Rebecca StrezinaHOST
Yet she was shocked to find not God before her, but rather her dearly departed daughter Hester.
Rebecca StrezinaHOST
During the harsh and biting January of 1897, Mary Jane had to say goodbye to her 23-year-old daughter, Elva Zona Hester Shue.
Rebecca StrezinaHOST
Ordinarily, this task would have been reserved for the women in her life, her mother in particular.
Rebecca StrezinaHOST
But the ever-devoted Trout sat with her 24-7 and made sure her head was securely cradled in her coffin.
Rebecca StrezinaHOST
Zona was laid to rest at Soul Chapel Cemetery in her home of Greenbrier, West Virginia.
Rebecca StrezinaHOST
And life moved on.
Rusty WebbGUEST
...
Rusty WebbGUEST
he, he, he worked in Greenbrier County-
MikeHOST
Yeah, he sure did
Rusty WebbGUEST
... for a long time.
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Vanessa RichardsonHOST
It's winter 1897, a freezing night in the mountains of West Virginia, and in a farmhouse on the far side of Greenbrier County, an old woman is lying awake in the dark, the way she has every night since they buried her daughter.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
Her name is Mary Jane Heaster, and for weeks now she's been praying for something no sane person should ever ask for.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
She's been begging God, or anyone who might be listening, to send her dead daughter back to her, just once, just long enough to tell her the truth.
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Vanessa RichardsonHOST
Greenbrier County sits in the southeastern corner of West Virginia, tucked between the Allegheny Mountains and the muddy waters of the Greenbrier River.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
In the 1890s, it was farm country — quiet, isolated, and deeply traditional.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
Today, we're continuing spooky season with the ghost of Zona Hester Shue, and this case still refuses to stay buried.
Vanessa RichardsonHOST
The Greenbrier County Courthouse records that documented Zona Hester Shue's murder trial including the extraordinary ghost testimony entered into evidence, have recently been digitized and made publicly available for the first time, drawing a new wave of legal scholars and true crime researchers to re-examine just how the American justice system handled a murder conviction built on the word of a ghost.
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Vanessa RichardsonHOST
Now, I take you deep into the frozen mountains of Greenbrier County, where a mother's grief, a husband's secrets, and one extraordinary ghost story collided to change legal history.
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Pat SmithHOST
Yeah.
Pat SmithHOST
Is that Greenbrier? It's in West Virginia.
Pat SmithHOST
Yeah, Greenbrier.
Pat SmithHOST
Is that it? Yeah.
Pat SmithHOST
Yeah, Greenbrier.
Pat SmithHOST
Yeah.
Pat SmithHOST
I mean, I wouldn't.
Genevieve ManionHOST
And if you would follow me beside this bright winter moonlit barn toward that farmhouse just yonder, I want to show you something.
Genevieve ManionHOST
It's February 1897 in Greenbrier County.
Genevieve ManionHOST
Delicate snowflakes are just starting to fall on the frosty earth, and we're walking toward Zona's mother's house.
Genevieve ManionHOST
Not too far off in the distance, in fact, you can see the gates there, is the cemetery where her daughter was buried.
EmmyHOST
Now that we've gotten to sounding with uranium, I think it's time to talk about our next ghost.
EmmyHOST
The Greenbrier ghost is said to be the ghost of Elva Zona Hester Shue, a young woman of Greenbrier County, West Virginia, who was murdered in 1897.
EmmyHOST
In October of 1896, Elva met a blacksmith named Edward Stribling Trout Shoe, and the two married soon after.
EmmyHOST
Not long after that, on January 23rd, 1897, Elva was found dead in her home, with the coroner's jury rendering a verdict of death by heart disease.
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