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Mountain State Mysteries contains adult content that may not be suitable for all audiences.

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Listener discretion is advised.

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I'm your host Marc.

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And I'm Courtney.

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And this is Mountain State Mysteries.

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Today we want to tell you the story of a woman whose death is still a local legend to this day.

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This is the story of Elva Zona Hester Shoe, better known as the Greenboro Ghost.

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Little was known about the early life of Zona Hester Shoe.

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Her birth year is given as 1876, however, records differ and she may have been born in 1873.

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Zona lived near Livesay's Meals in Greenboro County.

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While doing research, I couldn't find her father's name.

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However, her mother's name is Mary Jane Hester and she plays a big role in the story of her daughter.

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Zona was a very attractive girl and the men were chasing her.

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Her mom was basically what I call a helicopter mom.

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If a guy wanted to speak to her daughter, they had to go through her first and if she didn't like the guy, she would let them know.

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Zona would go against her mom nine times out of ten, which led to her giving birth to a child in 1895.

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Zona and the father, who was only together for a short amount of time, he ended up leaving her one month into her pregnancy.

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Records do not say who the father was or what became of their child.

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In 1896, Zona met Erasmus, stripling, trout, shoot.

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What a name.

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Damn straight.

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He was a handsome stranger who had moved from Drew Mountain in Pocahontas County to Greenboro to work as a blacksmith for James Crickshanks and started a new life for himself.

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The two were instantly attracted to each other and they married shortly after meeting.

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On October 26, 1896, this might be weeks, maybe months from meeting one another.

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Mary, however, headed the idea of the two getting married.

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She wanted to be the one to give her daughter the okay to marry and shockingly enough, she disliked trout, shoot.

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What Zona didn't know is that her mother's gut feeling about trout, shoot would be correct.

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Zona didn't know about the checkered past he left behind him at Drew Mountain.

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It's said that trout, shoot had an excellent singing voice and great physical strength.

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It's said that he liked to brag about his strength and that he often bullied others.

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He was married while living at Drew Mountain and the locals knew that he would often beat his wife.

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In the winter of 1886, word got around that trout, shoot had beat his wife.

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A mob got together to teach him a lesson.

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On the night the mob grabbed him, it was said to be 10 degrees below zero.

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The mob went to the home of shoot at Rock Camp Run and grabbed him.

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After a little struggle, shoot broke down and begged for mercy.

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However, the mob dragged him to a nearby watering hole and dunked him into the water, informing him why they were doing it.

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On the day shoot tried to take out warrants against the members of the mob.

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The warrants were set aside due to the lack of evidence.

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During this time, shoot was arrested for stealing a horse and his wife fled their home and went back to her father's home.

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While he was serving his time, his wife divorced him and remarried.

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You're listening to Mountain State Mysteries and we have a little announcement.

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Courtney and I have always believed in helping others.

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With Mountain State Mysteries, we know that we have a platform to get people's stories out there and there is a very good possibility that one of the cases we tell you about could get solved.

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We also know that we have this platform to help someone in the community.

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So help us help a Beckley local on April 1st 2023 from 10am to 5pm.

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We will be at the Kroger on Harper Road co-hosting a hot dog and bake sale for Ashley Burge.

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All proceeds will go to Ashley's birth cancer treatment.

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If you're unable to make it from now until April 20th, you can go into Kroger on Harper Road and go to customer service and enter to win a C4 cooler and a cornhole board set.

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It's only $5 to enter.

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We hope to see you there.

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After Shoe was released, he went back to Drute Mountain and married again.

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Reverend R. R. Little, a Methodist minister, was asked to come to Shoe's property atop the mountain to perform the ceremony.

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When he arrived, he found that Shoe's bride to be, whose name was Lucy, to be young.

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He actually wondered if she was the legal age to marry.

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Reverend Little waited and waited.

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Lucy said that she was out getting the marriage license.

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Shoe did not return until after midnight.

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The license he had obtained was issued in Greenberg County.

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Little said he couldn't perform the ceremony because Drute Mountain was in Pocahontas County.

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Shoe, being the man that he is, pointed out that the county line was less than a mile away.

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And it was a moonlit night, so the wedding would be moved to Greenberg County.

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Little agreed and they moved the wedding to Greenberg County, getting married in the middle of the road.

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That's romantic.

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When Little got to the part of the ceremony where others could object, he paused for a second, then said, I object.

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Shoe demanded to know why.

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Little replied that the bride was a mere child.

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As recounted in the Greenberg Ghost and other strange stories by Dennis Deets, Little said,

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None of her people are present. It is now one o'clock in the morning and we're all here in the county road.

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A marriage ceremony is a sacred rite and should at least be performed under ordinary circumstances.

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I cannot help but think that there is something not right in this case and I will go no further, so there will be no wedding as far as I'm concerned.

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Little later found out that Lucy was indeed underage. She was only 15.

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She had met her and persuaded her to visit her uncle, Andrew Mountain.

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When he got her away from her parents, he talked her into marrying him.

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Not faced by Little, Shoe and Lucy were married the next month in Frankfurt, West Virginia.

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Eight months later, Lucy was dead. The circumstances were mysterious.

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It said that she had died either in a fall or being struck in the head by a rock.

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Soon after that, Shoe moved to Greenberg County, mesmerized by Zona.

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The marriage between Zona and Shoe only lasted three months.

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In early January 1897, Zona fell ill with female issues and went under the care of Dr. George W. Knapp.

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Shoe seemed to be attentive to her.

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On January 23rd, Shoe went to the home of Anderson Jones, a black boy who was said to be 11.

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He asked the boy if he could do some chores for Zona.

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His mother said yes, just that he had other things to do first.

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Shoe became impatient and went back four times before the boy was available to help out.

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When Jones was finally able to head over to Shoe's house, he nodded and couldn't hear anything.

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He ended up letting himself in, and that's when he discovered Zona's body lying on the floor.

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She was stretched out straight with her feet together.

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One hand by her side and the other one on her stomach.

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Her head was slightly inclined to one side, James ran home to tell his mother.

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She told him to rent at the blacksmith's shop to tell Shoe.

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Once Shoe made at home, he sent for Dr. Knapp.

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He arrived to the house an hour later.

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By then, Shoe had already taken care of Zona.

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He dressed her strangely in her Sunday's best, a dress with a high collar secured by a big bow,

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and a veil covering her face.

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While Dr. Knapp was attempting to determine the cause of Zona's death, Shoe remained planted to his wife,

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cradling her head and her upper body while sobbing in great distress.

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Due to Shoe's extreme display of grief, Dr. Knapp was only able to label her death as everlasting fame.

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The next day, Zona's body and its coffin was transported by carriage to her parents' home across Swell Mellon,

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14 miles away, for her wake the following day.

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You might be surprised by this, but during her wake, Shoe made sure to stay close to the body at all times.

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Members of the community who came to pay their respects noted that Shoe was behaving oddly,

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and that his mood would change from overwhelming grief to manic energy.

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He wouldn't let anyone near Zona's body.

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He placed a pillow on one side of Zona's head and a wadded-up cloth on the other, claiming he wanted Zona to rest easier.

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He said the big scarf that is around her neck was her favorite and that she wanted to be buried in it.

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However, when it came time for Zona's body to be moved,

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people noticed a looseness to her head.

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You're listening to Mountain State Mysteries, and we have a little announcement.

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Courtney and I have always believed in helping others.

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With Mountain State Mysteries, we know that we have a platform to get people's stories out there,

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and there is a very good possibility that one of the cases we tell you about could get solved.

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We also know that we have this platform to help someone in the community.

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So help us help a Beckley local on April 1st, 2023, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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We will be at the Kroger on Harper Road co-hosting a hot dog and bake sale for Ashley Burge.

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All proceeds will go to Ashley's first cancer treatment.

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If you're unable to make it from now until April 20th, you can go into Kroger on Harper Road

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and go to customer service and enter to win a C4 cooler and a Cornhole board set.

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It's only $5 to enter.

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We hope to see you there.

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The Kroger

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Mary was certain that her daughter's death was not an accident.

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She took a sheet from the coffin and noticed a weird smell coming from it, so she washed it.

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When Mary washed the sheet, the water turned red, but when she got the sheet out of the basin, it was clear.

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The sheet was stained pink. After this, she tried to boil the sheet and hang it outside for days.

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The sheet remained pink.

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To her, it was a definite sign that her daughter's death was met with foul play.

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Mary prayed and prayed that her daughter would come back from the dead and tell her the truth about how she died.

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She said that she wanted her daughter to tell on shoot because she had a feeling he had something to do with her daughter's death.

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Her prayers were answered within a few days.

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For four nights, Zona's ghost would appear and wake her mother from sleep.

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Zona was wearing the dress she died in and it appears solid like flesh and blood.

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When Mary would try to reach out her hand, Zona's spirit would disappear.

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Zona appeared once again and talked to her mother on the third night.

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Zona made another appearance and on the fourth night, she finally described to her mom her murder in detail.

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She told her that her husband had been abusive and cruel.

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He beat her one night because she didn't have any meat cooked for dinner.

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He grabbed her head and broke her neck.

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Zona's spirit even proved it to her mother by turning her head around.

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I would be out of that house in a second.

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Same, I wouldn't be able to sleep for like a week.

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No, peace out.

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Mary went to the prosecutor, John Halford Preston, and demanded an investigation.

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It was unlikely that he would take the case. However, the local rumor meal was buzzing with the talk of Zona's mysterious death,

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as well as the odd appearance of her corpse and her husband's strange behavior.

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Dr. Knapp admitted to the prosecution that his determination of Zona's death might have been an error.

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Preston ordered Zona's body to be exhumed. You might be shocked, but Shu was opposed to the thought of this.

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Shu publicly said that he knew he would be arrested, but said,

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they will not be able to prove I did it. Thus indicating that he knew his wife had been murdered.

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On February 22, 1897, Zona's body was exhumed and the autopsy revealed a broken neck and a crushed windpipe from strangulation.

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Preston informed Shu, we have your wife's neck. We have found your wife's neck. Two have been broken.

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Shu looked distressed and said in a low voice, they cannot prove I did it.

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Shu was arrested and charged with first degree murder.

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While Shu was waiting for his trial in jail in Louisburg, more information came to light about his background and criminal record.

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Shu also stayed in good spirits, no longer appearing to grief.

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He bragged that he wanted to have seven wives since Zona was his third and he was only 35.

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He stood at the chains of realizing his ambition. He continued to repeat that his guilt could not be proved.

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He also wondered why no one suspected the Black boy Jones.

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All of the evidence against Shu was circumstantial.

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The trial started in late June of 1897 in District Court in Louisburg and lasted for eight days.

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Mary Jane Hester's ghost story was hearsay evidence and Preston did not go into the account in detail.

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However, the defense raised the story when she was on the stand, maybe in an effort to make her appear crazy to the jury.

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Hester recounted the ghost assertion that Zona's neck had been squeezed off at the first vertebrae by Shu.

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According to Hester, Zona's visits were not dreams, but visions she had while awake.

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The defense attempted to get her to say that there were dreams based on her distressed condition of mind.

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Hester stuck to her story and its details.

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She also stated that Zona described the house where she was and Shu had lived.

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A place Hester had never seen or visited. The details were accurate.

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Because the defense had entered the story into the trial, the judge could not instruct the jury to disregard it.

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However, most of the people in town already knew the story and believed it every single bit.

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When Shu took the stand in his own defense on day six, his testimony was not cohesive.

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He rattled on about unimportant events.

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But he passionately denied everything said about his alleged guilt.

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After deliberating for one hour and ten minutes, the jury returned with the guilty verdict.

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Two of the jurors would not agree to the death sentence, so Shu was sentenced to life in prison.

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The verdict did not satisfy many in Greenbrier County and the lynching party formed on July 11th,

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but was ended due to a tip to the sheriff who dissuaded the mob from acting.

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Shu was moved to the Moundsville State Penitentiary.

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He died on March 13th, 1900 due to an epidemic of infectious diseases.

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Once Shu was convicted, Zona's ghost was never reported again.

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A state historical marker was placed on Route 60, west of Lewisburg.

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It reads, interred in the nearby cemetery is Zona Hester Shu.

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Her death in 1897 was presumed natural until her spirit appeared to her mother to describe how she was killed by her husband, Edward.

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Autopsy on the exhumed body verified the apparitions account.

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Edward found guilty on the murder was sentenced to the state prison.

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Only known case in which a testimony from ghost helped convict a murder.

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In the nearby small cemetery of the Soul Chapel Methodist Church, it's just a few miles away in the opposite direction.

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There are no road signs or markers pointing you in the way, but locals can provide directions.

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Zona was originally buried in an unmarked grave.

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She was reinterred here after the exemption of her corpse for the autopsy.

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Her parents were buried alongside her.

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Her modern tombstone was erected in 1979 financed by the church in her honor.

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Visitors come to pay their respects to the women behind the Greenbar ghost and others place flowers and other tokens on her grave.

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Some say you can feel Zona's spirit at her grave site.

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Courtney, do you have any final thoughts on this case?

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I'm glad that he got everything that he deserved in the end.

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I'm really glad that the prosecutor decided to listen to Zona's mother.

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And I'm glad that they actually decided to exhume her body because even now it is so difficult to get a body exhumed.

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And for somebody to actually listen to her mother and actually to go in there and exhume a body and then after that find all the findings on it is remarkable.

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It's 100% remarkable.

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I hate that this has happened.

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I mean, as far as we know right now, there's really only like three people that we know of.

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Maybe there's more out there that he could have hurt.

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There could be more.

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So I'm glad that he had finally had an end to it and Mark, do you have any final thoughts?

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To be honest, I really didn't know much about this case growing up.

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That isn't ill.

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Me and some family members went to the flea market they have at the state fair.

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And there was this couch.

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My grandmother fell in love with it.

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And the woman told us that it was the couch from the house that Zona was murdered in.

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So like the couch is still in the family to this day, whether or not it's actually the couch.

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I don't know.

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But it did pink my interest into this case.

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And like you said, I'm so happy she got the revenge that she needed.

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I'm so happy that people listened to her mother.

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And I'm kind of happy he didn't get to have seven wives at the end.

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So that's really, you know, everything there.

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I definitely think that we do need to go see her grave and go to the marker because I've always wanted to see it.

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Join us next time on Mountain State Mysteries as we do something a little different for our season finale.

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I'm going to tell you the story of a mysterious unsolved murder from Parkersburg.

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Courtney, are you ready to blind react to it?

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I am.

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