The Lordship Mermaid
New England Legends Podcast
English - June 04, 2020 14:30 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 897 ratingsPlaces & Travel Society & Culture History folklore monsters ghosts history legends newengland paranormal Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In Episode 146, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to the Stratford, Connecticut, coast by the Stratford Point Lighthouse in search of a mermaid sighting that was reported in great detail by lighthouse keeper Theodore Judson in July of 1915. Mermaid fever had gripped the region decades earlier thanks to another local Connecticut guy name P.T. Barnum who introduced the world to the Feejee Mermaid in the 1840s.