The Miller's Count: Why Eight Lines Hid a Town's Murder Ledger
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The Miller's Count: Why Eight Lines Hid a Town's Murder Ledger
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A cold notebook found on a utility pad with no footprints held a rhyme that matched eight deaths from 1891, and a town's nursery chant hid a ledger of killings. How did a children's rhyme become a sequence of deaths recorded by a nineteenth-century miller, and why did the pattern survive into 2011?
In this episode, we follow how a meter reader discovered an open spiral notebook on Birch Hollow Lane and how local historian Lisa Anderson traced the Miller's Count rhyme to Silas Gould's papers and an 1891 parish register - and ask whether the rhyme was ever meant to be a map of deaths.
Person: Jean Cooper
Location: Birch Hollow Lane
Date: March 14, 2011 at 8:40 AM
Person: Vicki Rafferty
Person: Lisa Anderson
- A meter reader named Jean Cooper found an open spiral notebook on a utility pad at 8:40 AM on March 14, 2011.
- The surrounding snow was unbroken with no footprints, tire tracks, or path leading to or from the pad.
- The Miller's Count rhyme has eight lines and was known to every child in Keswick, recited by residents like Phil Dearborn.
- Silas Gould, a miller who worked Sparrow Creek and died in 1892, had a handwritten draft of the complete Miller's Count with names written in the margins.
- Lisa Anderson found an 1891 parish register listing eight deaths between January and August that matched the rhyme's stanzas in order.
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