Tonight’s story may arguably be the one most prolifically retold Victorian true crime stories of all time. It has inspired plays, publications, music, films - I mean it must be a wild story to stand the test of time like that right? It even includes a bit of a supernatural twist. This is the story of the Red Barn Murder.

It’s another case where ghosts and murder collide. This is the case of the Hammersmith ghost.

Whether or not you believe in ghosts, let me tell you… the Victorians sure did. Tonight’s story is famously known as the only case in which testimony from a ghost helped convict a murderer. This is the story of the Greenbrier ghost.

As is often the case with true crime, the facts of a case can turn out stranger than fiction. But in tonight’s story, much of what came to be accepted as fact, did wind up to actually be fiction. Luckily, I am here for you, to separate the fact from the fiction of a very notorious case. This is the true story of HH Holmes.

Jack the Ripper is arguably the most notorious serial killer of all time, but for as famous as this case is, there are still a few things that surprised me about it. So we’re going to get right to it, this is the story of Jack the Ripper.

When they make up a rhyme that goes, “Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks, When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one.” Well, someone ought to be caught red handed for that crime, right? But no one ever was. This is the case of Lizzie Borden.

In the 19th century, germ theory had started to take root. Government officials were starting to figure out why disease spread, but what to do about it was still not fully baked. That is how in 1906, Mary Mallon was forced to quarantine as a well woman for cumulative 26 years. This is the story of Typhoid Mary.