Poison- If Walls Could Talk...

Poison- If Walls Could Talk...

Shadows From the Tree by Michele McCall & Danielle Gravel
S3 · E9
Feb 2, 2026
46:10

Episode notes

In this episode, we shine light on two stories involving arsenic poisoning. First is the true story of the Watkins family of Manchester, Michigan, whose children were slowly poisoned by arsenic-laced wallpaper in their Victorian home. As well as the infamous tale of Belle Gunness, who had a habit of collecting insurance payouts from fires and the deaths of her husbands.

Keywords

documentary
history
archive
genealogy
1800s
1900s
newspaper
true crime
mystery
romance
science