Exploring Sleepy Hollow: Legends, Hauntings, and History Washington Irving’s 1820 story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, remains one of America’s most enduring ghost tales. Set in 1790, the story follows the lanky, superstitious schoolteacher Ichabod Crane as he vies for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel, the daughter of a Continue Reading
Tales
The stories and legends.
Fort Fisher and the legend of the Hermit
Discovering the Fort Fisher Hermit: A Journey into History In the summer of 2011, I found myself flipping through a well-worn copy of 100 Classic Hikes in North Carolina. I had checked off most of the hikes within a two-hour drive from home, and my curiosity pulled me east, towards Continue Reading
Seaside Tuberculosis Sanatorium
Seaside state Park As you drive along shore rd. in Waterford Ct you’ll find a small brown sign that reads Seaside: a Connecticut state park. You pull in to find a small dirt parking lot to your left with two older brick buildings on either side. One looks like a Continue Reading
Legend of the Black Flash
Provincetown MA Beginning of a legend October, Provincetown Cape Cod, 1939. War is looming in Europe, but the people of this small new England village are about to be terrorized by something more local. The first sighting was by a group of children on their way home from school. Someone Continue Reading
Shelter Trail, Arcadia Wildlife management area
It was about two months prior, I was out at dinner at a place in Warwick called the shanty, I was having dinner with my girlfriend and she wanted to buy the drinks in celebration of me putting out the first episode of this podcast. She told the waiter to Continue Reading
Bennington Triangle
The Enigma of the Bennington Triangle Why are the most mysterious places often shaped like triangles? Perhaps it’s the minimal number of points needed to define an area, but there’s something undeniably sinister about it. From the infamous Bermuda Triangle to New England’s own Bridgewater Triangle, these regions seem to Continue Reading
Ninigret Park, Charlestown RI
Recorded in an oral history of the south coast town, Helen Church recalled “South of Post road was a field that served as an airstrip in the early 1920’s for bi-wing aircraft. Every Sunday the providence journal newspaper would deliver the Sunday edition to the airstrip and the newspapers would Continue Reading
Tri Town Forest Preserve
Mt Misery and the Hell Hollow Witch
The name Pachaug comes from the native American term for bend in the river, the area had been inhabited by the Narragansett, Mohegan and Pequot tribes who were relentlessly pushed out by white settlers in the 1700’s.
Pilfershire Abandoned Town Trail
Pilfershire Abandoned Town Trail