The Mystery of Bathsheba Sherman

Horror Stories - The Mystery of Bathsheba Sherman

Bathsheba Sherman is said to be a witch that haunted house where once a place her residence. This house has been inhabited for eight generations and the family who had lived there, all of them dead in the house. Arnold family who lived at the farm Bathsheba also killed in a tragic over there, before eventually Perron family bought it and eventually haunted by several sightings and other paranormal events. It seems that some spirits never leave this house.

Bathsheba Thayer Born in Rhode Island in 1812, no one knows for sure when the date of the birth. But in the age of thirty, on March 10, 1844, she married a man named Judson Sherman from her a year older. About five years later they last had a son named Herbert.

The Sherman family owns a farm where Judson worked there all day, while Bathsheba keep the house and taking care their young son. Although in the end the family is believed to have several children, a daughter and two other sons, none of them could certainly there and when some people considered them had died at a very young age.

Although initially lead a good life, the lives of Bathsheba then turned completely when a baby died in her care. However, there also said it was not a baby but a neighbor's child who was killed with a great sewing needles into its head to penetrate the skull. Bathsheba was eventually be arrested.

Society at that time believe that the boy's death as part of the activities of Bathsheba who had sacrificed him to Satan, or something related to the magic. Basically Bathsheba is a beautiful woman, many men are interested in him and almost all women are jealous of its beauty. It is not surprising that there are bad rumors about her, perhaps because of jealousy against Bathsheba.

Bathsheba later found not guilty. There is some evidence that denies she had committed a murder, an accident or other cause. Unfortunately, the penalty for Bathsheba is actually not a court conviction against her, but public views that makes things worse for Bathsheba after all that happened to him.

The public believes that this woman is a wicked woman and would probably cause something bad for them. Since then, Bathsheba life changed, so did her views. She became a bad person and start likes to threaten people who work in her field. She even attacked them, and in some occasions let them starve, not to die of hunger, but just let them live in poverty.

Bathsheba then live into old age. She was left her husband dead four years before she died at the age of 72 or 73 on May 25, 1885. She died with a rigid body but the cause could not be ascertained by any doctor at the time. The report are there was just said that She died because her body has turned into a stone. Because of this, the allegations against Bathsheba increasingly that she was a a witch, or have made agreements with the Devil.

Bathsheba was buried in Harrisville, close to her husband's grave. The tombstone of Bathsheba now partially broken, probably due to the action of a rogue or those who do not like her. His son Herbert then married and now have their own children.