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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. On the afternoon of Sunday,
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Speaker 1: February twenty fifth, eighteen fifty five, a forty eight year
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Speaker 1: old woman named Hannah Rollinson, along with her husband and
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Speaker 1: a group of her friends, walked quickly down a road
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Speaker 1: in Sheffield, England. As they walked, the entire group was
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Speaker 1: totally silent because they were verrified of what was going
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Speaker 1: to happen next. Behind Hannah and her friends on this
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Speaker 1: road was actually another slightly larger group of people that
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Speaker 1: were keeping pace with Hannah and her friends. They were
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Speaker 1: actually going to the same place as them, except this
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Speaker 1: second group had no intention of going inside that building.
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Speaker 1: They were just there to see what happened. Now, Hannah
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Speaker 1: and her friends were totally offended and annoyed by this
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Speaker 1: group that was following them, but they knew there was
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Speaker 1: nothing they could do, and so they just kept on
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Speaker 1: walking in silence. And as Hannah walked in silence, she
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Speaker 1: couldn't help but think to herself, you know, how in
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Speaker 1: the world did I get into this position. At the time, Sheffield,
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Speaker 1: England was a big industrial city with lots of metalworking
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Speaker 1: factories all over the place, and so loads of people
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Speaker 1: at the time were coming to Sheffield to work in
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Speaker 1: those factories. And as the population increased in Sheffield, the
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Speaker 1: city began building all these tenement apartments, which are kind
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Speaker 1: of like these low quality, cramped, interconnected apartments that are
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Speaker 1: basically cheap and easy to make and house lots and
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Speaker 1: lots of people. Hannah and her husband lived in one
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Speaker 1: of these tenement departments and they worked in one of
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Speaker 1: the metalworking factories, which meant their lives were pretty rough
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Speaker 1: and difficult. But recently their lives had become even more
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Speaker 1: challenging when their oldest son had died in a coal
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Speaker 1: mining accident, and this totally devastated the parents, but Hannah
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Speaker 1: definitely took it the worst. In her grief, Hannah became
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Speaker 1: very antisocial and began just going to the factory and
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Speaker 1: doing backbreaking labor all day and then came straight home.
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Speaker 1: She would go to a room by herself and she
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Speaker 1: would just sit there all night and pray and try
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Speaker 1: to communicate with her dead son. Now, at first, Hannah's
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Speaker 1: husband basically did the same thing as Hannah. He put
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Speaker 1: all of his energy in his time and his focus
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Speaker 1: on work, even though it was totally backbreaking and miserable,
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Speaker 1: mainly because it was a distraction from this terrible grief
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Speaker 1: he was dealing with. But after several weeks and months
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Speaker 1: went by, you know, Hannah's husband did begin to kind
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Speaker 1: of get back to nor normal and began to move
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Speaker 1: forward with his life, but he could see Hannah was
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Speaker 1: not doing that. Hannah was totally depressed and isolated, and
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Speaker 1: so he eventually encouraged her to start going back to
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Speaker 1: church and start spending more time with people there, make
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Speaker 1: some new friends, and hopefully being around some people will
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Speaker 1: help you cope with this tragedy. And Hannah had actually
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Speaker 1: taken her husband's advice. She began going back to church,
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Speaker 1: she made a bunch of new friends, she rekindled old
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Speaker 1: relationships and before long she was getting that support and
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Speaker 1: it was helping her kind of move through this grieving process.
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Speaker 1: But ironically, it was this new church support group that
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Speaker 1: had thrust Hannah into a new horrible situation, one that
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Speaker 1: was playing out on the streets of Sheffield, England, as Hannah,
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Speaker 1: her husband and her church friends speed walked down the
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Speaker 1: road with this big group following behind them. And so
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Speaker 1: in this group of people with Hannah was obviously her
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Speaker 1: husband as well as her closest friend from church, whose
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Speaker 1: name was Harriet Ward, and then also there was three
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Speaker 1: members of the Favell fam There was mister and Missus Favell,
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Speaker 1: as well as Missus Favell's sister, and all of them
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Speaker 1: were headed to the tenement apartment on Campe Lane where
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Speaker 1: Harriet Ward and the Fabell family lived together. Hannah and
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Speaker 1: her group and the second group that was following them
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Speaker 1: all came from the same place. They all went to
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Speaker 1: the same church, and that day, for the previous two
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Speaker 1: hours before they all took to the streets here, they
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Speaker 1: had been having this really heated argument about what to
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Speaker 1: do about Harriet and the Favell family's basement, or more specifically,
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Speaker 1: what to do about what was in their basement. Some
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Speaker 1: parishioners said that Harriet and the Fabell family were just
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Speaker 1: totally making up what was going on in their basement,
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Speaker 1: but other parishioners believed them and said that that basement
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Speaker 1: was so dangerous nobody should go in it. In fact,
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Speaker 1: we should just board up that basement permanently, or we
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Speaker 1: should just level the entire tenement apartment building. And when
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Speaker 1: that idea began gaining some traction, that lots of people
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Speaker 1: in the church began saying, yeah, let's blow off the
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Speaker 1: basement or knocked the apartment down. The Favelle family and Harriet,
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Speaker 1: who lived in this apartment building and did not want to,
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Speaker 1: you know, permanently block off segments of it or knock
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Speaker 1: it down, they got so angry that they just stood
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Speaker 1: up and left. And at this point, Hannah and her
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Speaker 1: husband just got up and left with their friends. Now,
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Speaker 1: once they got outside, they didn't really have a plan,
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Speaker 1: but they felt strongly that they just needed to get
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Speaker 1: to the Campo Lane tenement apartment building and at a
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Speaker 1: minimum just be in there to prevent other people from
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Speaker 1: showing up and doing something to the apartment, like trying
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Speaker 1: to knock it down or do something to the basement.
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Speaker 1: And so Hannah and her group began speed walking to
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Speaker 1: the apartment, and this gaggle of other church goers who
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Speaker 1: were part of this argument just kind of naturally came
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Speaker 1: outside and followed them. And then when Hannah and her
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Speaker 1: friends reached the apartment building on Campbell Lane, they went
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Speaker 1: inside and shut and locked the door behind them, and
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Speaker 1: for a moment, Hannah and the five other people she
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Speaker 1: was with they just stood there in silence, not really
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Speaker 1: sure what to do next. But event actually one of
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Speaker 1: them said, we got to do something about the basement,
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Speaker 1: because if we don't, the people outside will. Hannah walked
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Speaker 1: over to the front of the apartment, where there was
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Speaker 1: a big window that looked out to the street, and
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Speaker 1: when she looked out there, she saw the big group
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Speaker 1: of people that had followed them were all kind of
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Speaker 1: gathering around the small window that looked down into the
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Speaker 1: Campo Lane tenement apartment basement. It was like all these
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Speaker 1: people were shocking for position to get the best look.
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Speaker 1: Hannah shut the blind in frustration and then walked back
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Speaker 1: over to the group and then after a few minutes,
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Speaker 1: mister Fabell said, you know, guys, it's only going to
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Speaker 1: be daylight for a few more hours. If we're going
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Speaker 1: to do something in the basement, we have to get
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Speaker 1: down there before the daylight is gone. We can't be
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Speaker 1: down there in the dark. The group nodded because they
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Speaker 1: understood why they definitely did not want to be down
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Speaker 1: there in the dark. And then mister Fabell looked over
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Speaker 1: at Hannah's husband and he kind of gestured like, why
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Speaker 1: don't we the two of us go down there together,
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Speaker 1: And Hannah's husband, even though he did not want to
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Speaker 1: go down there, he just nodded and said, okay, let's go.
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Speaker 1: Moments later, Hannah, Harriet, and the two Faveel women watched
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Speaker 1: as the two men opened up the basement door, turned
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Speaker 1: around and looked at the women, and then they slowly
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Speaker 1: began descending the stairs, and then after a couple of minutes,
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Speaker 1: the only sound coming out of the basement was the
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Speaker 1: sound of these two men using big metal tools to
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Speaker 1: attempt to break up the stone floor in the basement.
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Speaker 1: For the next two hours, mister Favell and Hannah's husband
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Speaker 1: continued to smash up the floor in the basement, but
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Speaker 1: every time they removed a big piece of stone, all
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Speaker 1: they'd find was dirt underneath. There was nothing else. Meanwhile, outside,
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Speaker 1: the crowd looking in that window into the basement was
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Speaker 1: only getting bigger and bigger. It was no longer just
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Speaker 1: other members of their church. It was now just random
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Speaker 1: people who saw this big group and walked over to
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Speaker 1: see what was going on. And Hannah, who was at
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Speaker 1: that window looking out into the street, she was seeing
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Speaker 1: this group growing and seeing how rowdy they were getting,
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Speaker 1: and it was starting to make her really nervous. But
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Speaker 1: the nerves she felt about the crowd were nothing compared
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Speaker 1: to the nerves she felt about her husband and mister
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Speaker 1: Favel's still being in that basement. Now that the sun
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Speaker 1: was about to set. She did not want them down
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Speaker 1: there in the dark. And finally, when the sun did
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Speaker 1: set and the two men still had not come up,
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Speaker 1: Hannah just rushed over to the basement and yelled for
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Speaker 1: them to stop what they were doing and get up here,
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Speaker 1: and the two men did as she asked. They dropped
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Speaker 1: their tools and came upstairs looking totally dejected. You know,
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Speaker 1: they had not found the thing they were looking for
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Speaker 1: down there, which meant they had failed. But Hannah and
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Speaker 1: her friends were hoping that now that it was dark
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Speaker 1: outside and the people outside could no longer actually see
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Speaker 1: into the basement because it was too dark, that maybe
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Speaker 1: the crowd would disperse. But as Hannah, her husband, Harriet,
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Speaker 1: and the Faveels sat down to have some dinner in
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Speaker 1: the apartment, they looked outside periodically and they saw the
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Speaker 1: crowd was not going away. If anything, the crowd was
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Speaker 1: still continuing to get bigger. Now you've got to remember
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Speaker 1: this is Sheffield, England in the eighteen hundreds. This was
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Speaker 1: a tough place to live. Everybody's working at these factories,
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Speaker 1: doing this awful work seven days a week for very
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Speaker 1: little money, and there's virtually no entertainment anywhere. It's basically
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Speaker 1: just work, work, work until you die. And so when
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Speaker 1: people in Sheffield saw this big group of people at
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Speaker 1: night standing around this apartment window, it was exciting and
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Speaker 1: that was pretty rare in their lives, and so they
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Speaker 1: were not about to leave and go home because their
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Speaker 1: lives at home were terrible. And so by about midnight
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Speaker 1: there was this huge crowd right outside of the Campbell
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Speaker 1: Lane apartment and it meant that, you know, Hannah and
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Speaker 1: her husband really couldn't leave to go back to their apartment.
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Speaker 1: They were kind of trapped because of this crowd. Also,
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Speaker 1: the crowd was really starting to get rowdy, and the
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Speaker 1: Favelle family were starting to get worried that a fight
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Speaker 1: would break out near the basement window and then maybe
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Speaker 1: the window would break and then these people would storm
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Speaker 1: into their apartment and maybe rob them. I mean, they
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Speaker 1: didn't know. And so missus Favell came up with this
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Speaker 1: plan to try to get the crowd to leave them alone.
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Speaker 1: And so she ran over to one of the biggest
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Speaker 1: windows on the first floor and she pulled down the
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Speaker 1: curtain rod and the curtain attached to it, and she
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Speaker 1: handed it to her sister and said, go down in
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Speaker 1: the basement and use this curtain rod and curtain to
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Speaker 1: block out the one window of this crowd has to
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Speaker 1: look into the basement. If they can't see into the basement,
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Speaker 1: then they'll likely just leave. But missus Favel's sister, after
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Speaker 1: being handed this curtain rod, she's like, I don't want
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Speaker 1: to go in the basement. It's the middle of the night.
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Speaker 1: I'm not going down there. And over the next couple
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Speaker 1: of minutes, the entire group just kind of bickered about
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Speaker 1: who should be the one to go down into the
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Speaker 1: basement to cover up this window, and nobody wanted to
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Speaker 1: do it. And finally Hannah, who she's lost her son recently,
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Speaker 1: you know, she just wants to go home at this point,
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Speaker 1: but she can't because of the stupid group. She finally
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Speaker 1: just snaps and says, you know what, I'll do it,
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Speaker 1: And so she snatches the curtain rod and just walks
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Speaker 1: right over to the basement door. She opens it up
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Speaker 1: and begins descending the stairs before anybody else could stop her.
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Speaker 1: And as she did, her husband and Harriet and the
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Speaker 1: Favell family, they all crowded around the top of the
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Speaker 1: basement stairs, looking down, kind of waiting to see what
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Speaker 1: back to the story. And so they all heard as
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Speaker 1: Hannah turned the corner and walked over to that window,
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Speaker 1: and they could hear her kind of messing around with
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Speaker 1: the curtain as she put it in place. And then
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Speaker 1: even though they could not see her down there because
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Speaker 1: the basement's totally dark they can't see the window, they
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Speaker 1: heard Hannah call out that she was done. She had
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Speaker 1: put the curtain up, it's blocked, and now she was
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Speaker 1: going to come back upstairs. But after she yelled to
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Speaker 1: them that she was coming back up it went completely
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Speaker 1: silent in the basement, and for like five six seven seconds,
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Speaker 1: all the people at the top of the stairs are
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Speaker 1: waiting anxiously for Hannah to turn the corner and come
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Speaker 1: up the stairs to safety. But then this tense silence
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Speaker 1: was broken with a horrible scream coming out of the basement.
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Speaker 1: It was Hannah, and then silence again. And at this point,
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Speaker 1: Hannah's husband he's like, oh my god, something's happened, and
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Speaker 1: he charges down the stairs and he looks over and
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Speaker 1: he sees Hannah is lying on the ground motionless. There's
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Speaker 1: nothing else in the basement. It's just his wife in
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Speaker 1: this covered up window. And so he runs over. He
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Speaker 1: scoops her up, and he runs her back upstairs, and
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Speaker 1: he lays her on the ground right outside of the
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Speaker 1: basement door, and then he began to shake her to
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Speaker 1: try to wake her up, but she wasn't waking up. However,
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Speaker 1: it was clear she was still breathing. And so Harriet
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Speaker 1: ran and got a wet towel, and she came back
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Speaker 1: and she kneeled down next to Hannah, and she placed
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Speaker 1: the towel on Hannah's forehead, hoping this wet towel would
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Speaker 1: revive Hannah. But as Harriet is kneeling there, so she's
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Speaker 1: looking at Hannah's body, then the basement door, which is open,
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Speaker 1: is right past Hannah's body. Harriet happened to look up,
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Speaker 1: and so now she's looking into the doorway that leads
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Speaker 1: down into the basement, and her eyes went wide and
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Speaker 1: she screamed, and then she passed out. The big controversy
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Speaker 1: over this basement began several weeks earlier, at the beginning
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Speaker 1: of February, when Harriet and the Favell family began hearing
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Speaker 1: all these strange sounds coming out of the basement. Now,
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Speaker 1: initially they had totally written off these sounds as being strange,
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Speaker 1: creaking and cracking sounds that were just the product of
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Speaker 1: a poorly constructed building with lots of people inside of it.
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Speaker 1: But the noises they were hearing from the basement only
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Speaker 1: got louder and louder and more intense, and they were
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Speaker 1: especially bad at night. And so basically Harriet and the
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Speaker 1: Favelle family were so scared to go down there that
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Speaker 1: they just stopped, especially at night. Sometimes they go during
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Speaker 1: the day, but at night it was like, no one's
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Speaker 1: going down there. We don't know what's going on, but
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Speaker 1: I'm not going down there. And then on February twenty fourth,
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Speaker 1: so this is one day before all this craziness happened,
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Speaker 1: where you know, Hannah and her friends get followed to
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Speaker 1: the apartment and then Hannah goes down and she passes out,
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Speaker 1: and then Harriet passes out. So one day before that,
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Speaker 1: Harriet swore she saw a ghost in the basement. She
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Speaker 1: saw this old woman wearing a white gown kind of
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Speaker 1: moving around in the basement. And the whole time, Harriet said,
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Speaker 1: this woman, this ghost woman was pointing at one particular
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Speaker 1: spot on the ground in the basement. And then the
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Speaker 1: same night that Harriet sees this ghost in the basement.
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Speaker 1: Harriet has a dream and in her dream she sees
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Speaker 1: this ghost and again, this ghost is in that basement
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Speaker 1: and it's pointing at this spot on the basement floor.
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Speaker 1: Except in Harriet's dream, this ghost woman speaks to Harriet
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Speaker 1: and says that she was murdered and her gold was
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Speaker 1: stolen from her and buried in the basement right there.
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Speaker 1: And it was this apparent ghost in the Campo Lane
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Speaker 1: basement that was the center of that two hour long
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Speaker 1: argument at the church the following day, which ultimately prompted Hannah,
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Speaker 1: her husband, Harriet, the Favelle family to get up and
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Speaker 1: storm out to go protect the Campo Lane apartment. And
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Speaker 1: then also the secondary group followed right after them, really
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Speaker 1: just to see if they were going to go confront
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Speaker 1: the ghost, because a lot of people thought that's what
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Speaker 1: they're going to go do, and that is basically what Hannah,
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Speaker 1: her husband, and her friends ended up doing. They decided
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Speaker 1: the two men would go down into the basement and
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Speaker 1: attempt to dig up the floor in hopes that they
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Speaker 1: might find this gold that was stolen from this murdered
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Speaker 1: woman and buried in the basement. But they obviously did
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Speaker 1: not find the gold, which ultimately led to Hannah going
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Speaker 1: down and passing out, and then Harriet also passing out.
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Speaker 1: Hannah and Harriet wake up after passing out, and when
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Speaker 1: they woke up, they would tell these terrifying stories about
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Speaker 1: what they saw. Hannah said, she went down the stairs,
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Speaker 1: she went over to the window where all the crowd
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Speaker 1: was looking in, and she managed to get this curtain up,
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Speaker 1: and then she yelled upstairs to her husband and her
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Speaker 1: friends that she was coming back up. But when Hannah
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Speaker 1: actually turned around to go to the stairs, she realized
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Speaker 1: the ghost was in the basement with her. There was
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Speaker 1: this old woman wearing a white gown standing between Hannah
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Speaker 1: and the stairs. She was blocking her way, and this
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Speaker 1: woman was staring at Hannah really intently. And then Hannah screamed,
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Speaker 1: and this ghost charged at Hannah and basically went through
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Speaker 1: her body. And it was at that point that Hannah
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Speaker 1: passed out onto the ground. As for Harriet, when she
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Speaker 1: came to, her story was even more terrifying. Harriet said,
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Speaker 1: after she placed that wet towel on Hannah's head, she
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Speaker 1: looked up and she saw the woman in white walking
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Speaker 1: up the stairs staring directly at Harriet, and Harriet, you know,
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Speaker 1: she froze and kind of leaned back and just stared
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Speaker 1: at this woman. And the woman she came right to
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Speaker 1: the top of the stairs, she stopped in the doorway,
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Speaker 1: and then she opened up her mouth grotesquely wide and
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Speaker 1: just continued to stare directly at Harriet. And then with
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Speaker 1: slow trembling hands, the woman began taking off her nightgown,
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Speaker 1: which eventually fell to the ground, and Harriet saw this
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Speaker 1: woman was covered in cuts and gashes all over her
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Speaker 1: chest and neck, and then Harriet let out a scream
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Speaker 1: and she passed out too. Not long after, Hannah and
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Speaker 1: Harriet both came to and told their horrible stories. The
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Speaker 1: police arrived outside and dispersed the big crowd, which meant
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Speaker 1: Hannah and her husband could finally leave and go back
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Speaker 1: to their own apartment, and they would, but just twelve
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Speaker 1: hours later, Hannah would die. The Sheffield Corner held an
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Speaker 1: inquest into Hannah's death, but he could find no scientific
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Speaker 1: explanation for why Hannah actually died, and so on her
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Speaker 1: death certificate it basically said she died of fright. She
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Speaker 1: was literally scared to death. Following Hannah's very bizarre and
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Speaker 1: basically unexplained death. Harriet, who would survive, and the Favelle
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Speaker 1: family they just moved out. They could not stand to
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Speaker 1: be at that apartment any longer. And then also many
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Speaker 1: more people who lived inside of this tenement apartment building
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Speaker 1: on Campbell Lane they also moved out because again it
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Speaker 1: was just too terrifying to be near this basement. To
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Speaker 1: this day, we still don't have a better explanation for
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Speaker 1: what happened to Hannah. She was in good health all
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Speaker 1: things considered, when she died, and so really this didn't
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Speaker 1: make any sense. And so this case still is one
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Speaker 1: of the only and recorded history where somebody apparently died
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Speaker 1: just from getting scared. Late one night in the spring
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Speaker 1: of nineteen thirty seven, a young woman stumbled into her
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Speaker 1: New York City apartment building drunk from a long night
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Speaker 1: of partying with friends. She made her way up the
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Speaker 1: steps and reached her apartment, and after she opened it up,
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Speaker 1: she stepped inside and her little dog ran up to
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Speaker 1: say hello, and so she gave her dog a pet,
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Speaker 1: and then she walked towards her bedroom. But the moment
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Speaker 1: she stepped foot into that pitch black bedroom, something just
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Speaker 1: felt off. It was too quiet. But before she could
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Speaker 1: figure out why that was, something heavy came flying out
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Speaker 1: of the darkness and hit her on the face, and
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Speaker 1: for a moment the woman just stood there, stunned, and
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Speaker 1: then a second later something else emerged from the darkness.
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