Tillie’s Last Walk

Unsolved Mysteries

Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. + Audacy

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In the early hours of April 9, 1886, Tillie Smith, an 18-year-old who lived and worked at Centenary Collegiate Institute, was raped and strangled, her assaulted body left in an open field. Many have claimed Tillie still haunts the grounds of Centenary College, and that the man convicted of her murder was actually innocent of the crime. An investigation by a local historian and a paranormal investigator leads to a new suspect in Tillie’s murder. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tracey literally felt the crime.
0:10.2	She literally felt the rape.
0:11.8	She felt the whole death experience that Chilli smith endured.
0:17.2	I think Tilly's spirit is restless.
0:19.6	I don't think she haunts the college in a bad way.
0:23.6	She's not an evil spirit.
0:26.5	You know, she was murdered.
0:35.3	50 miles west of New York City, in the rolling hills of New Jersey's Lehigh Valley,
0:40.4	rests Hackett's town.
0:42.1	Peppered with dairy farms and stately Victorian mansions, it has a gentility that conceals
0:47.4	a darker, more chilling character.
0:50.4	Since it's founding in 1853, Hackett's town has had more than its fair share of hauntings,
0:56.0	and one of the most notorious of these restless spirits is Tilly Smith, an 18-year-old girl
1:01.9	who was brutally murdered in April of 1886.
1:12.6	I'm Steve French, and this is Unsolved Mysteries.
1:16.8	Tilly's Last Walk
1:28.6	In early 2002, audio engineer and published paranormal investigator David Roundtree
1:34.8	moves to Hackett's town, New Jersey, where he's thrilled to learn that it's a town filled
1:39.4	with ghostly activity, the perfect place to pursue his fascination with the other world.
1:45.8	There was a person that lived near me that had the New Jersey Ghost Hiding Society, which
1:51.3	was like the biggest ghost hunting society in New Jersey at the time, and it was one
1:55.1	of the first ones.
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