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Podcast 354 – 41 Lunatics Burned to Death

On February 9, 1893, a fire ravaged the Strafford County Lunatic Asylum killing 41 people inside. In Episode 354 Jeff […]

In 1817, a grave robber plagued the town of Essex, Massachusetts. Eight bodies were snatched from the local cemetery. In

On Vermont’s Mt. Mansfield, an elusive creature called the Wampahoofus is said to lurk circling the mountain. In Episode 352

What began as a copper mine in 1709, eventually turned into Connecticut’s first state prison. After multiple escapes and deaths,

In 1879, a group of flying horses was abandoned in the Watch Hill section of Westerly, Rhode Island, by a

In 1905, the Happy Hollow settlement in West Athens, Maine, made the news for being haunted by the ghost of

In 2023 a gas station and convenience store opened over the site of the former Country Tavern — one of

In 1984, the mysterious town of Ripton, Massachusetts, made the news for an odd state budget request. Once the U.S.