Gibbeted Alive in the 18th Century
Channel: Deceptive Realities
Date: 15/12/2023

Being gibbeted alive was rarely carried out in the 18th century, but in one particularly gruesome crime in Berkshire, this extreme sentence was deemed fitting. The woods near the long-vanished St. Margaret's Priory became infamous for the haunting legacy of a vagrant whose brutal crime in the early 1700s led to his chilling punishment in a gibbet. The eerie tales and a mysterious photograph from the 1950s have perpetuated the legend of Cooper's ghost in the surrounding woods, adding a haunting dimension to this tranquil countryside.

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
00:58 Cooper's Ghost
04:04 The mysterious photograph
05:14 Outro


Credits
Daws Heath by Roger Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
John Fielding / East side woodland Newmillerdam CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons