The Cock Lane Ghost - The 1762 Haunting That Was Really a Revenge Plot

Podcast: DEADLY INTENT · Carman Carrion

Opublikowano: 2026-10-31

In 1762, thousands of Londoners, including lords, clergymen, and the famous dictionary writer Samuel Johnson, crowded into a narrow street to question a ghost. One knock meant yes. Two knocks meant no. And "Scratching Fanny" had a shocking answer: she said she had been poisoned. The man she accused was William Kent, a Norfolk moneylender whose late partner, Fanny Lynes, had died of smallpox. The man behind the haunting was Kent's landlord, parish clerk Richard Parsons, who owed him money. On this Halloween edition of Brewed With Intent, we pour...