Ep. 43 - The Revenants of Two Bad Marriages
David Gring built a grist mill in Berks County in 1811. Today, that mill and Gring's homestead are owned by Berks County and used as a Visitor's Center and offices. In 1875, the Gring home would host the dead bodies of four members of the Bissinger family following a murder-suicide. A mother, Louisa Bissinger, took the lives of her children in retaliation for a wrong by the father. The tragic circumstances have left the ghosts of the family to haunt this area of Berks County in Pennsylvania. And then there was Ethel Major. A woman an ocean away from Pennsylvania. She was not happy in her marriage. Her husband was an angry man and their relationship had gone sour long ago. Rather than leave her husband, she decided to make the ultimate break. And for that, she paid with her life. She spent the end of her life at HM Prison Hull in Yorkshire, England. And it would seem that her spirit has decided to stay at that prison in the afterlife. Join us as we share these tragic tales that ...