The Good Fire
February 8, 1673
Thomas Cornell left his mother, Rebecca Cornell, seated by the fireplace on a cold evening in 1673. Soon after, Thomas returned to find the charred remains of his own mother left seated in the chair. While the circumstances of the death were intriguing enough what makes this story so strange is the way in which justice was carried out…
by the words of a ghost
New England Historical Society: LINK
Intro Music: Moonlight Hall - Stings by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)