In 1685, Maryland executed Rebecca Fowler — the only recorded witchcraft hanging in the colony’s history. Once an indentured servant who rose to own land, she was accused by her own laborer of cursing him “through evil and diabolical arts.” Tried under England’s Witchcraft Act of 1604, her fate was sealed long before the verdict.

Dr. Bill and Deb revisit the fields of the Chesapeake, where religion, fear, and isolation collided. Through court records and colonial lore, they uncover how one woman’s strength became her undoing — and how the echoes of her trial still haunt Maryland’s soil.