Slightly Odd America
Take a journey through the odd and haunted history of the United States. Some of the stories are funny, some are sad, and some make you question your own reality. From haunted locations and traveling ghosts to paranormal history, weird America, witches, and cryptids, it's all right here. Get the latest episodes right here or at SlightlyOddFitchburg.com!
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The Gravity Hill of Greenfield, Massachusetts makes cars roll uphill instead of down, and it's not the only Magnetic Hill around! The area's history goes back tens of thousands of years, to when mastodons roamed the Earth, and its Native American history is rich beyond measure, all the way up to the European colonization of the Americas. Explore the folklore of gravity hills and magnetic hills around the world and the lege...
The first UFO sighting, recorded by the European World, happened in what would become Boston, back in 1639. The UAP sighting was recorded for history by colonial Governor John Winthrop from accounts told by a "sober and discrete man." Other settlers backed it up and it remains unexplained to this day! Support Slightly Odd America and get Early Access!
Mary Rowlandson was caught in a battle between King Philip's men and Puritan colonists in 1676. She was taken captive along with her sister and three children. John Hoar of Concord was dispatched to buy her freedom from the Wampanoag leader. While she would be reunited with her husband in Boston, only two of her children made it back with her.
Mary was a victim of King Philip's War and went on to write the first worldwide ...
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The Redheaded Hitchhiker of Rehoboth is a mainstay New England ghost story, but it's not the only one. Why are roads so rife with spirits and other interesting and mysterious stories? Haunted highway legends are common parts of Massachusetts ghost sightings, but creepy hitchhiker stories and highway ghost encounters happen globally and go back centuries. Real highway ghost encounters and famous hitchhiker ghost legends are as...
Wakefield, New Hampshire is home to a strange and unexplained ice hole. Farmer William McCarthy found a mysterious hole in the ice of his frozen pond. Investigation revealed a radioactive black box at the bottom. The Pentagon, police, and National Guard claim is was nothing, but high levels of radiation were recorded right before the box disappeared. Was it a government cover up? Was it a UFO conspiracy? Was it nothing? McCarthy ce...
The Dover Demon might be a real deal cryptid from New England. John Baxter and William Bartlett saw it and drew the same cryptozoological creature without ever talking to each other. Was it an alien, a paranormal creature, or just an owl? You decide! Like and Subscribe
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Gloucester, Massachusetts is home to its very own sea monster cryptid. This New England legend has been sighted as far back as the 17th century Colonial New England era and was reported on by the creator of Cryptozoology, himself. Is it real or just folklore and scary stories? Let's find out! In the Wake of Sea Serpents by Bernard Heuvelmans
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The media dubbed it the Last Salem Witch Trial of 1878. It had spectral evidence, an agenda, and all the trappings of the real Witch Trials. Did Daniel Spofford really mesmerize Lucretia L.S. Brown? How was the Church of Christian Scientists involved? Find out now!
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