Half-Hanged: The Women Who Wouldn't Die | Ep 1 | S2

Notes From The Dead · Oct 29, 2026 · 22m

They were hanged. They were supposed to die. They had other plans.

In the Season 2 premiere of NFTD, we're telling the extraordinary stories of two women who survived the hangman's noose.

First, there's Mary Webster of Hadley, Massachusetts, a woman accused of witchcraft in the 1680s who survived a brutal attack by her own neighbors and became known to history as Half-Hanged Mary.

Then we travel across the Atlantic to 18th-century Edinburgh, where Margaret "Maggie" Dickson was publicly executed in the Grassmarket in 1724—only to reportedly come back to life on the way to her own burial…