Back from the Dead for Justice: The Story of the Greenbrier Ghost of 1897 and the Murder Conviction She Caused
Greenbrier County, West Virginia is located in the heart of Appalachia. It has a storied history dating back to the late 18th century. Famed orator and founding father Patrick Henry, as a young attorney, once defended a murder suspect in Greenbrier County years before an official courthouse was ever constructed there. Eighty years later, a more modern and permanent courthouse in Greenbrier County would be the site of a Civil War hospital and witness the bloody carnage of battle as thousands of amputations, both confederate and union alike, would be performed on the courthouse grounds. To this day many say that the Greenbrier County Courthouse, constructed in 1837 by a well known local brick mason named John W. Dunn, and relatively unchanged since it was originally constructed nearly 200 years ago, is haunted by the spirits of limbless young men dressed in blue and gray uniforms who wander its hallways at night looking for their eternal resting place. As frighten...