In tonight's continuation of our spooky season celebration, we cover one of North America's most well documented and least debunked hauntings, The Great Amherst Mystery.
In the Winter of 1878, in the quite town of Amherst, Nova Scotia, terror didn't come screaming down from the sky or clawing it's way out of the grave. It settled instead inside a modest wooden cottage on Princess Street- unseen, uninvited, and relentless. What happened inside the Teed family home would become one of the most disturbing and well-documented hauntings in history. A case that would defy skeptics, fracture a community, and a leave a young woman at the center of something so violent it would be studied for over a century.
Her name, Esther Cox- a shy, ordinary girl by every measure- until the night something inhuman seemed to decide she belonged to it, and it laid claim over her very soul.
Unlike most ghost stories, this one did not fade with time. It erupted. Witnesses included doctors, clergymen, scholars, and townspeople. Affidavits were signed. Newspaper reporters traveled from all over Canada to document the phenomenon. And in a curious twist, a traveling actor named Walter Hubbell, with a history of exposing fake mediums and the spiritualism movement of the time, would move into the house itself - determined to uncover the truth and debunk what he saw as impossible. What he would find inside would forever change the lives of all involved, and would turn the once skeptic minded Hubbell into a firm believer that not all stories are so easily disproven.
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