10 Haunted Houses That Have Murdered People

7. The Ghost That Solved Its Own Murder

Now here's a weird, apparently true story from history. Elva Zona Heaster Shue died mysteriously in late January, 1897, with the official cause of death being that she had expired during childbirth. Except here mother, Mary Jane Heaster, new that her daughter had not been giving birth when she died €“ in fact, to her knowledge, she hadn't even been pregnant. She would know, they lived in the same house.

All of this is a matter of record: Mary Jane arranged for her daughter's testimony to be heard in court, from beyond the grave, in what became possibly the only official trial in history to involve the use of an accusation from a ghost in what became a murder case. Zona had, indeed, become pregnant out of wedlock some years prior.

When she did marry, it was to the uniformly creepy out-of-towner Erasmus Stribbling Trout Shue. After her death, Zona apparently visited her mother, informing her that Erasmus was an abusive monster who strangled her and broke her neck. The body was exhumed, an autopsy proved that was indeed what happened, and Shue went down for murder. A man killed her, but a ghost solved it.