Ghost Of Joseph Lepage Caught on Tape!

The tale of this sensational and widely publicized murder is horrific and a short summary of the crime and its aftermath follows here: On Monday morning, October 4, 1875, popular and attractive Josie Langmaid was on her way to Pembroke Academy. A month shy of her eighteenth birthday and a fine student, Josie lived a mile and a half from the school but had less than a quarter of a mile left to walk when she was ambushed on the most secluded portion of what is now Academy Road. What happened next was nothing short of atrocity. Josie was dragged into the woods, clubbed, raped, mutilated, and decapitated alive. The killer then fled with two pieces of her jewelry and her severed head.

When she didn't return home from school a search was formed and Josie's headless body was discovered 150 feet off the road by her father and brother at 8:30 pm. The next morning the search resumed and the murder weapon was found: a red oak club, modified to provide a better grip, broken in three pieces from the severity of the blows. Her head was also finally discovered, under some small trees, over a quarter mile away.

The murder outraged the community in and around Pembroke. Selectmen, local police, and Boston detectives worked tirelessly to find the murderer, but it took the public, and the similarity to an unsolved murder in Vermont the year before, to end the manhunt. On October 13, Joseph LaPage, a French wood-chopper, was arrested for the crime. He eventually confessed to both murders (after he was convicted of the crime and following his last confession to two Catholic Priests who urged him to confess to civil authorities if he wished to save his immortal soul) and LaPage was hung March 15, 1878, in the state capital of Concord. Sadly, facts indicate LaPage's real target was Josie's best friend, who had received a carriage ride to school that morning leaving Josie to walk alone. A horrifying example of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Back in Pembroke, Josie was laid to rest in a graveyard on what is now Pinewood Road. However, a simple funeral and interment wasn't enough closure for the town. They erected a somewhat grisly obelisk (which still stands today) near the spot where her body was found. Located on Academy Road, right across the street from the Three Rivers School, the 15-foot-tall marker eulogizes Josie, but also goes into the sordid details of her death and discovery. It even gives directions to the place (or rather two places) where her head and body were found. At least one of the two spots is still marked with a short granite post some distance in the forest behind the monument.


1878 -- Joseph Lepage is hanged for rape and murder on March 15. Lepage confessed to killing Josie Langmaid, a 17 year old student at Pembroke Academy, in 1875; while in custody he also confessed to killing a schoolteacher in Vermont the previous year. The town later erected a monument for Langmaid near the school.

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[TheCollectorFan]

I re-played it a couple of times and paused it,it's half a person. Not a swirling cloud of dust. Again,if no trickery was involved,which it doesn't look like there was. I say excellent capture!

[TheCollectorFan]

@Z000000000000000000M When i paused it,you can see quite a bit of detail. I would like to say it does look real. Definitely great if it is.

[garystrick85]

the human mind is programed to recognize human shapes and faces..... its a human shaped cloud of dust... nothing more

[BrendanLikesApple46]

@TheCollectorFan you idiot

[JordanVincentFilm]

Skip to 0:40 to see the good part

[rickster348]

what made you decide to tape the train crossing that day-?

[Haevenn]

fake and gay

[Mangina9000]

OF COURSE IT'S NOT REAL. Anyone can do this with a cursory knowledge of After Effects.

[Mangina9000]

You people are idiots. Jesus what's wrong with you.

[CarlChipSanders]

hey that was the thing that raped uncle vlad down by the train tracks! That's why you only see the top part the bottoms raping uncle vlad. Here I thought it was a hobo.

[Dudeamis]

@TheCollectorFan sorry watch from :42 you will see it float unto a more gaseous form and float up, its clearly dust.

[JohnAllanification]

you're good at this. ... lol keep's me active trying to figure ..