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Podcast 454 – Hunting a Dire Wolf in Vermont

In 1839, Lawrence Brainerd shot a giant wolf that had been terrorizing Franklin County. Today a monument stands where the […]

A military fort was built on Rose Island off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island, in 1798, since then a

In 1906, details of a profound haunting at the Old Stone Tavern in Blue Hill, Maine, first came to light.

In 1804, a tragedy in Washington, New Hampshire, led to a unique grave for a piece of Captain Samuel Jones.

In 1939, the skeleton of a giant serpent washed up on the shores of Provincetown, Massachusetts, lending credibility to the

During World War I, Sgt. Stubby fought heroically alongside his troops of the 26th Yankee Division of the 102nd Infantry.

In the 1860s, Dr. Lucy Cooke of Montpelier, Vermont, would enter a trance-like state and perform medical examinations on her

In August of 1914, a series of riots due to rising food prices broke out in the Federal Hill section