New England Legends Podcast
405 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 897 ratingsTwice each week, legend hunter, author, and historian Jeff Belanger and radio host Ray Auger explore the ghosts, monsters, aliens, folklore, history, roadside oddities, true crime, and legends of New England in this award-winning podcast. If you give us about twenty minutes, we’ll give you something strange to talk about today. The bizarre is closer than you think!
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Episodes
Concord’s Most Haunted Jail
May 11, 2023 14:30 - 20 minutes - 20.6 MBIn Episode 299 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger investigate a former Concord, New Hampshire, police station turned Mexican Restaurant to search for the ghost of “George.” Back in 1945, two fugitives named Edgar Cook and John Giles broke out of a Council Bluffs, Iowa, jail and headed for New England on the lam. Dubbed the Toothbrush Bandits because they fashioned a toothbrush into a cell key, their dramatic life of crime ended in Concord, New Hampshire, in one of these haunted former cells. Se...
FtV - Return to Cassie the Sea Serpent
May 08, 2023 14:30 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBWelcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 4 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger revisit Casco Bay near Portland, Maine, in search of Cassie the Sea Serpent. Since 1779 there have been many reported sightings of a 100-foot-long serpent that has terrorized some local fisherman. Could this creature still be around? This first aired December 7, 2017. Listen ad-free plus get early access and bonus episodes at: https://www.patreon.com/NewEnglandLegends
A Selfie with Newport’s Little Maggie
May 04, 2023 14:30 - 19 minutes - 20.3 MBIn Episode 298 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the shores of Lake Memphremagog in Newport, Vermont, searching for Little Maggie, the most photographed person in northern Vermont in the early 1900s. This wandering vagabond wore men’s clothes, she fished the lake all day long, and smoked a pipe like she was a chimney. This memorable eccentric always found what she needed. Maybe there’s a lesson there? See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-298-a-selfie-with-newports-lit...
FtV - Return to Connecticut’s Fairy Village
May 01, 2023 14:30 - 20 minutes - 19.3 MBWelcome to New England Legends from the Vault – FtV Episode 3 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger revisit the ruins of Little People Village in the woods of Middlebury, Connecticut. Who built these miniature stone houses, and why? Is this forest haunted by an elderly couple who went mad listening to the chittering voices of the fairies? And what’s the connection to Lake Quassapaug and other countries around the world? This first aired February 1, 2018. Listen ad-free plus get early access and bo...
Timothy Dexter: An Idiot Who Failed Upward
April 27, 2023 14:30 - 21 minutes - 22.1 MBIn Episode 297 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to Newburyport, Massachusetts, to visit a mansion once owned by an idiot named Lord Timothy Dexter. An idiot, who no matter how many stupid business moves he made continued to fail upward, getting richer by the misstep, which makes us wonder if maybe he wasn’t an idiot at all. In 1802, Dexter published his memoir A Pickle for the Knowing Ones without a single bit of punctuation. See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-297-tim...
FtV - Return to the UFO Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill
April 24, 2023 14:30 - 26 minutes - 25.1 MBWelcome to New England Legends from the Vault – FTV Episode 2 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger revisit the strange UFO abduction case of Barney and Betty Hill of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, that took place on September 19-20, 1961. What was that odd light they saw in the night sky? Their story has become one of the world’s most famous UFO abduction cases. We end this one with a song "The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill." This first aired September 21, 2017. Check out "The Ballad of Betty and...
The Great Hartford Circus Fire Mystery
April 20, 2023 14:30 - 22 minutes - 23 MBIn Episode 296 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger visit Hartford, Connecticut, to see the memorial to the July 6, 1944 circus fire that claimed 167 lives and launched a 50-year mystery as to the identity of a young victim they called Little Miss 1565. This tragic story changed state laws and left a permanent scar on the state’s capital city. See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-296-the-great-hartford-circus-fire-mystery/ Listen ad-free plus get early access and bonus episode...
FtV - Return to Dungeon Rock
April 17, 2023 14:30 - 17 minutes - 18.6 MBWelcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FTV Episode 1 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger revisit Dungeon Rock in Lynn, Massachusetts. It was here in 1852 that spirits told Hiram Marble to dig for buried pirate treasure. Marble and his son spent years tunneling through solid rock searching for gold. Their tunnel is still there as is the legend. This first aired August 22, 2017.
The Woonsocket Werewolf
April 13, 2023 14:30 - 16 minutes - 17 MBIn Episode 295 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger hunt the woods of the Fairmont section of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, searching for the loup-garou, the French-Canadian version of the werewolf. Found somewhere near a cave called the Devil Hole, the story about a monster roaming the woods near the Blackstone River has been passed around for generations. See more at: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-295-the-woonsocket-werewolf/ Listen ad-free plus get early access and bonus episodes at: h...
A Maine Voyage to End the World
April 06, 2023 14:30 - 25 minutes - 27.2 MBIn Episode 294 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore a Jonesport, Maine, monument to the 1866 voyage of the Nellie Chapin. The ship, and its 156 Christian pilgrims was led by Rev. George Adams, with the plan to sail to Jaffa and build housing for Jewish people in an effort to restore Israel to the Jews so Jesus can return and bring on the End of Days. Even Mark Twain weighs in on the sorry state of the expedition. We ask the important question: What’s the rush? See more at: https://ournewen...
A Contract for Murder with the Devil in New Hampshire
March 30, 2023 14:30 - 25 minutes - 25.9 MBIn Episode 293 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger investigate an 1897 Good Friday murder and bank robbery that left the town of Somersworth, New Hampshire, in shock. A 68-year-old pillar of the community named Joseph Stickney was found lying in the bank in a pool of his own blood. The police chased 24-year-old Joseph Kelley into Canada where he was apprehended and brought back to New Hampshire for trial. In court, Kelley claimed he was under contract with the Devil. See more here: https://ournew...
Vermont’s Ice Age Monster from the Deep
March 23, 2023 14:30 - 22 minutes - 23.6 MBIn Episode 292 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger dig down 114 feet in the Forestdale section of Brandon, Vermont, to search for an Ice Age-era frog they say was discovered back in the summer of 1865 deep in an ochre mine. But when the frog was brought to the surface… it jumped back to life! Is this just one weird fish story, or something more? See more at: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-292-vermonts-ice-age-monster-from-the-deep/
A Stone Tomb to Avoid the Devil
March 16, 2023 14:30 - 19 minutes - 19.8 MBIn Episode 291 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger hike up a wooded hill in Chester, Massachusetts, searching for a unique tomb carved into a glacial boulder. In 1873, Hiram Smith and his sister, Isabell Toogood were entombed in a rock that took masons two years to chisel. One story goes that Hiram wanted to be buried above ground so the Devil couldn’t get him. But maybe it was a childhood memory that haunted Hiram all of his long years. See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-291...
The Meeting House Hill Ghost
March 09, 2023 15:30 - 21 minutes - 22.7 MBIn Episode 290 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the Meeting House Hill region of Meriden, Connecticut, searching for a ghost that made the newspaper back in August of 1895 -- a spooky specter around Booth Pond seen by dozens of locals. Though the reporter at the time seems to think he solved the mystery of the ghost… we found something more. The pond is gone now, but are the ghosts? See more at: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-290-the-meeting-house-hill-ghost/
Rhode Island’s Spite Tower
March 02, 2023 15:30 - 18 minutes - 19.3 MBIn Episode 289 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to Little Compton, Rhode Island, to drive by the Spite Tower. Built in 1905, it’s a three-story, odd-looking tower located at the edge of the former Hathaway property. They say it was built out of spite -- to intentionally block the view of a neighbor Hathaway didn’t like. But what’s inside? See more at: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-289-rhode-islands-spite-tower/
The Ghost of Maiden’s Cliff
February 23, 2023 15:30 - 18 minutes - 19.5 MBIn Episode 288 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger hike up to Maiden’s Cliff near Lake Megunticook in Camden, Maine, where they say the ghost of a young woman still haunts the ledge. Some people witness the horrific fall that killed the girl back in 1864 playing over and over again. Today there’s a large white cross and plaque marking the spot where young Elenora French lost her life. See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-288-the-ghost-of-maidens-cliff/ Also check out Podcast ...
Chicken Farmer I STILL Love You
February 16, 2023 15:30 - 18 minutes - 19.6 MBIn Episode 287 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger spend Valentine’s Day driving along Route 103 in Newbury, New Hampshire, to see some graffiti that’s endured for half a century. Though the state once painted over it in the 1990s due to a complaint, Newbury responded with a petition to protect this enduring but odd message of affection. The painted rock reads: Chicken Farmer I Still Love You. Who first put it there and why? See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-287-chicken-farm...
Vermont’s Abandoned UFO Base
February 09, 2023 15:30 - 22 minutes - 22.8 MBIn Episode 286 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger hike up East Mountain in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom searching for the ruins of the North Concord Air Force Station, a massive Cold War-era radar base where a UFO was spotted on September 19, 1961. This UFO sighting was the precursor to New England’s most famous UFO case. See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-286-vermonts-abandoned-ufo-base/ Hear also: Episode 5, The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Abduction: https://ournewenglandl...
Westford’s Grey Ghosts
February 02, 2023 15:30 - 20 minutes - 20.8 MBIn Episode 285 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger cheer Westford Academy’s football team in Massachusetts. Their mascot is the Grey Ghosts. How they cam e to be called that has been a point of controversy in recent years, but part of the backstory leads us to the haunted Roudenbush Community Center in Westford where we explore a Civil War legend. See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-285-westfords-grey-ghosts/
Connecticut’s Cremation Hill
January 26, 2023 15:30 - 17 minutes - 18.8 MBIn Episode 284 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to Haddam, Connecticut, to a location officially known as Cremation Hill -- a place where they say a farmer used to hire farmhands for the season, and then murder them and burn the bodies instead of paying them. There’s some truth to the legend… this is the story and trial of Emil Schutte who was sentenced to hang on October 22, 1922, for the murder. See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-284-connecticuts-cremation-hill/
Cranston’s Headless Corpse
January 19, 2023 15:30 - 24 minutes - 25.2 MBIn Episode 283 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the former Rhode Island State Burial Grounds in Cranston, searching for the place where Grave 599 was exhumed in November 1883. The remains of Caleb Brown were being retrieved by an undertaker hired by his sister to be reinterred in a family plot. When the grave was exposed it was discovered that Brown’s head was missing. Who took it and why (and how) is a mystery. See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-283-cranstons-head...
The Unsolved Littlefield Murders
January 12, 2023 15:30 - 18 minutes - 19.9 MBIn Episode 282 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to Paris, Maine, to investigate the unsolved murders of Dr. and Mrs. Littlefield who were killed in October of 1937. Two men were convicted of the heinous crime, one of them likely didn’t do it. What seemed like an open-and-shut case turned into an event that rocked the otherwise small, peaceful town of Paris. See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-282-the-unsolved-littlefield-murders/
The Man Behind the Console
January 05, 2023 15:30 - 24 minutes - 24.1 MBIn Episode 281 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger stroll Heritage Park in Manchester, New Hampshire, in search of the statue of a man sitting on a park bench holding a small box with dials on it. The statue depicts Ralph Baer, who changed the world back in 1966 when he developed the first home video game console. From two lines knocking a small digital square back-and-forth, a $220 billion dollar industry was born. See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-281-the-man-behind-the-co...
From the Vault: The Snowflake Man of Jericho
December 29, 2022 15:30 - 12 minutes - 12.4 MBIn Episode 280 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger take a week off for the holidays and reintroduce you to an episode from that vault that originally aired in December of 2020. We head to Jericho, Vermont, in search of snow. In 1885, Wilson Bentley figured out a way to attach his camera to a microscope and capture the first close-up photograph of a snowflake. In the coming years he would photograph thousands of images showing the intricate beauty of these ice crystals. His images would be published ...
America’s First Christmas Card
December 22, 2022 15:30 - 22 minutes - 23.2 MBIn Episode 279 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts, searching for the factory that produced America’s first Christmas cards. Back in 1875, Louis Prang took a chance that Americans might want to send Christmas cards like they do in Europe. His risk paid off. Within a few years 5 million cards per year were leaving his Roxbury factory, and sending holiday cards became an institution. Jeff and Ray wish you the happiest of holidays! See more here: ...
The Lindley Street Poltergeist
December 15, 2022 15:30 - 27 minutes - 28.1 MBIn Episode 278 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore a bungalow house on Lindley Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where in 1974 haunting activity was so profound the police, fire department, city engineers, and clergy got involved. Police witnessed a levitating refrigerator, chairs breaking with no one touching them, chairs piling up on each other, and a panicked family. And that’s when Ed and Lorraine Warren joined the case. In this episode we’ll hear from Ed Warren himself about this haunt...
Rhode Island’s Broken-Hearted Tower
December 08, 2022 15:30 - 19 minutes - 20.1 MBIn Episode 277 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to South Kingstown, Rhode Island, to check out a rock and 40-foot observation tower named after Hannah Robinson, a broken-hearted woman who once sat here in 1773 to take in the view of her childhood home one last time. They say her ghost still haunts the rock, but her story still haunts us all. See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-277-rhode-islands-broken-hearted-tower/
The Broke-Neck Shadow Man
December 01, 2022 15:30 - 17 minutes - 18.1 MBIn Episode 276 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to Lewiston, Maine, to search for a house that’s “ridden with ghosts” according to the headline of a December 1894 local newspaper article. A shadowy man whose neck appears broken in a most unnatural way had been reported throughout the tenement house for years. Some believe he was a harbinger of bad things. But he’s not the only ghost reported here. See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-276-the-broke-neck-shadow-man/
The White Mountains Search for Pammy
November 24, 2022 11:00 - 25 minutes - 26.1 MBIn Episode 275 – the Thanksgiving Special – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger search the White Mountains near Albany, New Hampshire, for Pamela Hollingworth, a five-year-old girl who went missing back in the Autumn of 1941. What followed was one of the largest and most closely-watched search parties to ever grace the region. For days New Englanders held their breath waiting for news of little Pammy’s fate. See more on our Web site: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-275-the-white-mountai...
A Ship Crewed By the Damned
November 17, 2022 15:30 - 23 minutes - 24.4 MBIn Episode 274, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger sail out of Gloucester Harbor in Massachusetts, aboard the fishing schooner Charles Haskell. In March of 1869, the Haskell was fishing on Georges Bank when a perfect storm knocked her into another vessel sinking the other ship and damning her crew. The ghosts of the sunken crew came back to haunt the Haskell. The story still haunts Gloucester Harbor. See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-274-a-ship-crewed-by-the-damned/
Little Shop of Ponemah Bog Horrors
November 10, 2022 15:30 - 25 minutes - 24.9 MBIn Episode 273, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger hike into Ponemah Bog in Amherst, New Hampshire, searching for some strange carnivorous plants that grow in the region. These plants are downright deadly… to the right species. Like the Venus Fly Trap that grows in the Carolinas, Ponemah Bog is home to plants like Sundews, Pitcher Plants, and Bladderworts. Could these plants have inspired the classic story and musical Little Shop of Horrors? Seymour (get it?) here: https://ournewenglandlegends.c...
The Phineas Gage Incident
November 03, 2022 14:30 - 21 minutes - 15.6 MBIn Episode 272, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger walk along the railroad tracks just south of Cavendish, Vermont, in search of the location of a horrible 1848 accident that launched an iron rod through the skull of railroad worker Phineas Gage. Gage became a medical miracle surviving the incident and becoming the subject of medical studies as well as a temporary living exhibit in P.T. Barnum’s American Museum. Today a monument in Cavendish commemorates the event and the doctor who saved Gage’s li...
Halloween: The Shadow People
October 27, 2022 14:30 - 31 minutes - 22.2 MBFor Halloween Episode 271, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger remake an old radio drama called “The Shadow People.” Our friends Lorna Nogueira, Michael Legge, and John Wilbur join us to help recreate this spooky audio drama from the 1950s. We break our usual format for the sake of the most haunted holiday of the year. Enjoy! See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-271-halloween-the-shadow-people/
Berlin’s Crying House
October 20, 2022 14:30 - 18 minutes - 13.5 MBIn Episode 270, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger search for a house in Berlin, Connecticut, that was once so haunted locals wouldn’t live there very long. Doors opened and closed by themselves, but most frightening, the last tenant was haunted by the ghostly cries of an infant, though no children lived in the house at the time. The haunt made the newspapers back in 1888. See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-270-berlins-crying-house/
The Ghost Ship Sea Bird
October 13, 2022 14:30 - 20 minutes - 14.9 MBIn Episode 269, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger search for the Sea Bird, a seaworthy ghost ship that beached near Newport, Rhode Island, in the Autumn of 1750. With no crew on board, and no sign of any trouble or theft, a legend was born. The captain and crew were never seen again. 135 years later, a plausible tale of mutiny and murder surfaced that made the newspapers, keeping us wondering what happened to the Sea Bird. See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-269-the-ghost-sh...
Bangor Library’s Death Couch
October 06, 2022 14:30 - 22 minutes - 16 MBIn Episode 268, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the Bangor Public Library in Maine, in search of a couch where former Vice President Hannibal Hamlin drew his last breath. The couch has become a macabre attraction in the library due to its connection with presidential royalty… but you can’t sit on it! What happened? And how did it get here?
The Dover Demon
September 29, 2022 14:30 - 20 minutes - 14.7 MBIn Episode 267, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger cruise down Farm Street in Dover, Massachusetts, looking for a strange monster who made an appearance back on April 21, 1977. Bill Bartlett didn’t have a camera, but being an artist, he was able to draw what he saw. It was like no other creature anyone had ever seen before. By the following night, three more people witnessed this strange creature that Loren Coleman first chronicled and dubbed the Dover Demon. Was it a cryptid? An alien? Something e...
The Haunted Mt. Washington Hotel
September 22, 2022 14:30 - 21 minutes - 15.3 MBIn Episode 266, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the haunted Mt. Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Built in the White Mountains in 1900 by Joseph Stickney, he didn’t live long enough to get much use out of the hotel. His widow, Princess Carolyn inherited the hotel and made a reputation for throwing lavish parties and always being the best dressed. In 1944, the hotel was home to a huge international conference that would give rise to the IMF, the World Bank, and conspiracy ...
The Goonyak of Northern Vermont
September 15, 2022 14:30 - 18 minutes - 13.6 MBIn Episode 265, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger hunt for an eight-foot-tall humanoid giant of a creature in Craftsbury, Vermont, that locals called the Goonyak. Back in November of 1978, the Goonyak was all the talk on morning radio and in the newspapers. Some even said the body was recovered and sent to the University of Vermont. Is this the Northeast Kingdom’s version of Bigfoot? What exactly happened back in 1978?
The Ghost of Wadsworth Athenaeum
September 08, 2022 14:30 - 18 minutes - 13.6 MBIn Episode 264, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger hunt for the ghost of the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Connecticut. Opened in 1844, this is the oldest continually-operating art museum in the United States. The haunting first made the newspapers back in 1911, when a group of past and present employees gathered to share their unexplained experiences inside the old building. The group thinks they know who is haunting the old Athenaeum.
Purgatory Chasm’s Lover’s Leap
September 01, 2022 14:30 - 19 minutes - 14 MBIn Episode 263, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore a dangerous piece of rock at Purgatory Chasm in Middletown, Rhode Island, called Lover’s Leap. It was here long ago that they say a young heiress dared her would-be suitor to prove his love to her by jumping across the chasm. Will he make the jump? Will he get the girl? This was also the place where the Devil once landed after a cross-harbor leap.
The Haunted Well of Sabattus
August 25, 2022 14:30 - 20 minutes - 14.5 MBIn Episode 262, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger search for a haunted well located at the back of Sabattus, Maine, cemetery where they say back in 2001, a kid was lowered down, and when he came back up his hair turned white, he’d ages decades, and he lost his mind. But is it true? We found the source!
Half-Hanged Mary of Hadley
August 18, 2022 14:30 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MBIn Episode 261, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore Old Hadley Cemetery, in Hadley, Massachusetts, which is the final resting place of accused witch, Mary Webster. A ward of the town, Webster was accused of witchcraft in 1683 but found innocent. Though the court’s verdict wasn’t good enough for the people of Hadley. When a prominent church deacon fell under a strange illness in 1684, some locals were sure he was under a spell of Mary Webster, and they took matters into their own hands. They ...
Orford is Electric Lady Land
August 11, 2022 14:30 - 17 minutes - 12.9 MBIn Episode 260, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the small town of Orford, New Hampshire, searching for a woman written up in the 1837 American Journal of Science for exhibiting the strange ability to shoot sparks from her body all day long with no ability to stop. Dr. Willard Hosford or Orford, documented this strange case that we’re still talking about today.
From the Vault: The Bootlegger Queen of Vermont
August 04, 2022 14:30 - 15 minutes - 11.5 MBIn Episode 259, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger are forced to take a week off because they both have Covid! So this week they introduce you to an episode from the vault: The Bootlegger Queen of Vermont, which originally aired September 24, 2020. Back to 1925 in West Halifax, Vermont, during the height of prohibition, Hilda Stone made a name for herself running illegal booze from Canada. Stone became an icon in the newspapers, and was arrested more times than you can count on one hand.
Connecticut’s Sleeping Giant
July 28, 2022 14:30 - 17 minutes - 12.5 MBIn Episode 258, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the hilly woods of Hamden, Connecticut, searching for a giant named Hobbomock. For centuries the Quinnipiac people told the story of a pesky giant who plagued their people. A giant who could change the course of rivers, and devour the local delicacies. The giant was ultimately tricked, and today you can still see where he lies sleeping in Hamden.
From the Vault: The Day it Rained Fish in Olneyville, Rhode Island
July 21, 2022 14:30 - 13 minutes - 9.88 MBIn Episode 257, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger take a week off, so they introduce you to an episode from the vault: The Day it Rained Fish in Olneyville, Rhode Island, which originally aired June 24, 2021. At an unremarkable intersection in Providence, it once rained fish down from the sky back on May 15, 1900, but that wasn’t the only weird thing to make the headlines that day. Just across town, an explosion in a trolley car covered the occupants with a mysterious goo. May 15, 1900, may just b...
From the Vault: Three Strange Beasts from the Woods of Maine
July 14, 2022 14:30 - 14 minutes - 10.5 MBIn Episode 256, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger take a week off, so they introduce you to an episode from the vault: Three Strange Beasts from the Woods of Maine, which originally aired March 5, 2020. In the woods of western Maine, we search for the Agropelter, the Billdad, and the Tote Road Shagamaw. These legendary creatures have haunted and hunted loggers for decades. Are they just tall tales told around the campfire at the end of the day, or could there be something more to it?
The Spectre Leaguers of Gloucester
July 07, 2022 14:30 - 22 minutes - 15.9 MBIn Episode 255, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to the woods of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to search for some ghostly soldiers and scouts who plagued the town for weeks back in July of 1692. With the Salem Witch trials happening just a few towns away, and King William’s War raging to the north, everyone is on edge. Pretty soon, the people of Gloucester think these aren’t soldiers at all, but minions of the devil who can’t be shot or scared.
Hannah Handy the Hero of Royalton
June 30, 2022 14:30 - 19 minutes - 14.2 MBIn Episode 254, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the town green of South Royalton, Vermont, searching for the memorial to Hannah Handy--the only memorial to a woman from the Revolutionary War in the state of Vermont. On October 16, 1780, Handy rescued nine children who were taken prisoner in a British raid. Her story was almost lost if not for a local historian who lobbied her town to raise funds for a monument.