The Greenbrier Ghost: The Spirit Who Named Her Killer

Portrait photograph of Elva Zona Heaster Shue, the Greenbrier Ghost

About 5 min readIn 1897, a young West Virginia woman’s death was ruled natural — until her mother said the dead woman’s spirit had told her it was murder. The trial that followed convicted a killer on a ghost’s testimony, and the case has never been repeated — or explained.