Hanged Twice: The Ballad of Charles Dilger

Podcast: Southern Ghost Stories · Southern Ghost Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-10-14

In August 1888, a brawl inside a Louisville boardinghouse left two police officers fatally stabbed and local brawler Charles Dilger facing the gallows. After surviving three suicide attempts in his cell, Dilger dropped through the scaffold trapdoor only for the noose to unravel, forcing deputies to haul the barefoot killer back up and hang him a second time. Years later, terrified inmates swore Dilger stalked their cells, while a guard froze in terror beneath a pair of bare feet dangling in the jail yard. In this episode of Southern Ghost Stories, Allen Sircy unearths one of Kentucky’s most gruesome true-crime sa...