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by SARAH SHANNON
Ghost Story
As its name suggests, Ghost Stor y is a podcast series with ghosts aplenty. A faceless ghost, a ghost that shakes the bed, even a ghost that moves a vase around the room. Luckily for the sceptics among us, it’s also a captivating true crime serial, and a study on how families deal with their own history. How is it all these things?
Ghostly things happened in the childhood bedroom of host Tristan Redman. Then he heard about two other families who’d lived there after him and experienced a faceless ghost on the top floor. Next, it turns out his wife’s great-grandmother was murdered in the house next door, killed by two gunshots to the face.
The killing was ruled a murder-suicide, the great-grandmother shot by her shell-shocked brother who then cut his own throat. Redman puts today’s detectives on the case, who suggest that John Dancy, the great-grandfather revered by the family, committed a double murder, sending shockwaves through his wife’s family. Redman brilliantly interweaves the elements of the story, drip-feeding discoveries along the way.