Mystery AtlasJohn Graham
An elderly Hammersmith shoemaker who came forward after Francis Smith's trial and admitted to dressing in a white sheet to frighten his apprentice, who had been scaring Graham's children with ghost stories. His confession is treated as a probable partial source of the Hammersmith Ghost panic, though it does not account for every sighting reported that winter. No record survives of him being formally punished.
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- Hammersmith Ghost CaseNovember 1803 - July 1804
John Graham is the confirmed identity of Hammersmith Ghost Case — Graham's confession to dressing as a ghost to frighten his apprentice is offered as one probable source of the panic, but it surfaced after the shooting, was never tested at trial, and does not account for every sighting reported that winter.
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John Graham occurred in London.