The Greenbrier Ghost

Record summary

The Greenbrier Ghost tradition holds that Zona Heaster Shue appeared to her mother, Mary Jane Heaster, after her 1897 death and identified her husband as responsible. A medical examination and trial followed, and Edward Stribbling Shue was convicted of murder. The case matters because an alleged after-death encounter is linked to a documented corpse examination, court proceedings, and a named conviction rather than existing only as folklore. Uncertainties concern the exact wording and timing of the apparition report, later popularization, and how much evidentiary weight the testimony received in court.