Sarah Nagel and the Brooklyn Morgue Mystery

Podcast: Southern Ghost Stories · Southern Ghost Stories

Opublikowano: 2026-10-16

In the summer of 1879, Sarah Nagel’s body was pulled from Brooklyn’s East River, sparking one of the most baffling cases of mistaken identity in 19th-century America. Friends, acquaintances, and a close benefactor wept over her remains at the city morgue, positively identifying the corpse down to her clothing, facial features, and forehead scar—only for a routine coroner's inquest to derail into absolute disbelief when Sarah Nagel walked into the room. In this episode of Southern Ghost Stories, Allen Sircy unearths a bizarre New York mystery where certain death collided with an unbelievable twist, leaving an anonymous soul lost f...