In 1897, a woman named Zona Heaster Shue was found dead in West Virginia. Her husband claimed it was natural causes — until her mother began claiming Zona’s ghost visited her nightly, describing how her husband broke her neck. The mother went to authorities, who exhumed the body — and found her neck was indeed broken. The husband was convicted of murder, making it the only U.S. case where “ghost testimony” was accepted in court.
