New England Legends Podcast
Twice 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!
Episodes
In Episode 445, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger drive up to Hinsdale, New Hampshire, to watch a movie in Northfield, Massachusetts. How will they cross time and space to pull this off? They'll first have to travel back to the year 1948 to see how it all came together.
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Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 167 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger hike the woods surrounding the Cobble Mountain Reservoir in Blandford, Massachusetts, in search of a Bigfoot-type creature locally known as the Cobble Mountain Critter. Could this be the same Sasquatch that's been seen in the nearby Berkshires, or is it something weirder? This episode first aired June 18, 2020
In Episode 444, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to Ashburnham, Massachusetts, to visit ground zero where Betty Andreasson was allegedly abducted by a UFO on January 25, 1967. Her entire family witnessed a disturbing scene that winter evening. This close encounter of the fourth kind would be thoroughly investigated and come to be known at the Andreasson Affair.
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Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 166 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger travel to Middlebury, Vermont, in search of a 4,000-year-old Egyptian Mummy buried in the ground. In 1886, Vermont collector Henry Sheldon (a man described as "a Yankee who never threw anything away"), played a significant role in bringing the body of young Prince Amun-Her-Khepesh-Ef to central Vermont. But after the little mummy arrived ...
In Episode 443, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the stone ruins of Gungywamp in the woods of Groton, Connecticut. This mysterious site could date back as much as 3,000 years and includes strange stone structures from the Native American period as well as the Colonial. Could there also be some European influence here from long before Columbus or the Vikings?
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Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 165 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to Wethersfield, Connecticut, on the hunt for a ghost who has been haunting this town since December of 1782. Fresh off the heels of the American Revolution, wealthy merchant William Beadle has lost almost everything because he followed the law, and did the right thing. Once the new congress devalued his currency, he was broke, and c...
In Episode 442, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger investigate the Connecticut River in Westminster, Vermont, searching for a 100-foot-long monster serpent that's been witnessed along the river for centuries. One of the earliest sightings led to a religious conversion to a historical figure. Is the beast still out there?
See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-442-the-connecticut-river-monster/
Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 164 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger take a drive up to Haunted House Curve in Hampton, New Hampshire. The stretch of road along Route 1 next to the General Moulton House has the ominous moniker not only because of the many car accidents reported there, but because the nearby house is said to be haunted. It's also the place where they say General Moulton made a deal with the...
In Episode 441, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore Roger Williams Square in Providence, Rhode Island, to investigate the disappearance of Slate Rock (also called What Cheer Rock) – a landmark that was on its way to becoming Rhode Island's version of Plymouth Rock before it mysteriously vanished in 1877.
See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-441-rhode-islands-vanishing-slate-rock/
Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 163 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger take a drive to Campton, New Hampshire, to cross the cursed Blair Bridge. A picturesque covered wooden bridge that dates back to 1829, this structure has seen more than its share of tragedies. From the time Lem Parker burned it down because he said God told him to, to the time a doctor's horse drowned here, to the time Tropical Storm Iren...
In Episode 440, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to Falmouth, Maine, to search for Edwin Robinson who was struck my lightning on June 4, 1980. It turns out, Robinson may just be the luckiest man in the history of Maine.
See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-440-the-luckiest-man-in-maine/
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Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 162 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger stroll down Brick Kiln Lane in Pembroke, Massachusetts, searching for a tapping ghost who was seen and heard over the span of years back in the 1940s. This ghost has ties to the old shipyard, which has ties to the Boston Tea Party. This ghostly experience was documented by local journalist Curt Norris in the 1980s. Could these taps come f...
In Episode 439, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the ruins of Livermore, New Hampshire. A once bustling little logging town nestled in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, this village has seen fire, plague, and flood before the citizens finally walked away. What's left are the ruins and the ghosts.
See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-439-the-ghost-town-of-livermore/
Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 161 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger take a boat out to Wood Island off the coast of Biddeford, Maine, to the scene of a murder-suicide that occurred June 1, 1896 — a day that will haunt the island forever. The lighthouse keeper's quarters is said to be haunted as is the entire island. This episode first aired July 9, 2020
In Episode 437, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger investigate the former Malden Bank building in Malden, Massachusetts, to witness the site of America's first armed bank robbery that included a murder. On December 15, 1863, 17-year-old bank employee Frank Converse became the victim of a gunman who made off with thousands of dollars in the heist. But whodunit and why? The event still haunts the old building.
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Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 160 – 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 Fe...
In Episode 437, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore Kings Island in Suffield, Connecticut. The island was once home to DeWitt Terry, A Seventh Day Adventist elder who believed the second coming of Christ, and thus the end of times was going to occur November 5, 1873 (spoilers: he was wrong). Over 100 people once gathered on this island to await the end.
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Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 159 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the campus of Marlboro College in Vermont in search of the ghost of Emily Mather. They say Emily committed suicide after the man she loved took his own life because her parents forbade their romance. This story of star-crossed lovers still haunts the small campus today with strange paranormal activity and a haunting tale that's to...
In Episode 436, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to Benson, Vermont, to trace the origins of Frozen Charlotte dolls. The tiny dolls were popular in the latter half of the nineteenth century and exist because of a song, based on a poem, based on a news story, based on a tragic and creepy winter legend.
See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-436-frozen-charlotte/
Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 158 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger visit the border town of Fort Fairfield, Maine, in search of Simeon Cary's gold-hunting chickens. In 1898, Cary was quietly using chickens to peck for gold just over the Canadian border. His technique was so strange, it made the news in July of 1899. This episode first aired August 8, 2019
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