Stanley Routledge, manager of The Newhall Land and Farming Co.'s Santa Clarita Valley property, claimed the last time he saw his wife, Margaret, she was eating breakfast in bed. Later that day, a servant found her body. The coroner couldn't decide whether the single gunshot wound to her chest - from a rifle - was self-inflicted or the result of foul play. (Nor did he explain how a woman who'd never handled a rifle could shoot herself in the chest with one.) The year was 1916, and the slaying took place in the Newhall Ranch House - now a historic building at Heritage Junction Park in Newhall, but at the time, Newhall Land's local headquarters near present-day Six Flags Magic Mountain. The TV ghost hunters from the Travel Channel latched onto the story and decided the things they were hearing late at night in the creaky old house must be associated with the unsolved riddle of Margaret Routledge's demise.

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