S2•E4: The Canary in the Belfry, 1895

 
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A corpse stored upright in a place visibile by all, but seldom thought to be entered. Reaching into the sky, but cold like a cellar. An innocuous parishioner, and a rumor that might've saved two lives. These details alone set the stage for a most peculiar string of murders in 1895.

Though churches may be bastions of holiness and sacred worship, the houses of angels, the most reprehensible humans, the demons among us, will use any four walls and a roof to conceal their misdeeds. And in this case, there is not one better than the Emmanuel Baptist Church in San Francisco, 1895.

There is no better home, that is, for the 'Demon of the Belfry'.

Harlequin Grim

Voice of the Mania podcast. Author of macabre tales.