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Podcast 332 – Hell’s Half Acre

In the mid-1800s, Hell’s Half Acre on the New London Turnpike in West Greenwich, Rhode Island, was full of drinking, […]

In 1813, the ship Sarah sailed south from Maine and into legend. Today the ghost ship is sometimes spotted around

Caroline Cutter died in 1842. The 150-word epitaph is a tirade of gossip against the Baptist church in Milford, New

On Christmas morning of 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow found his hope renewed in the morning church bells while nursing his

In 1789, Rev. David McClure of Dartmouth College documented some strange faces carved into the rocks by the banks of

In 1885 Williams Memorial Park was created after hundreds of graves were relocated to a newer cemetery a mile away.

In 1965 Arlo Guthrie came to Stockbridge, Massachusetts, with a friend. They dumped some garbage, got arrested, and made a

In 1873 a fountain was erected on Benefit Street in Providence, Rhode Island, they say is enchanted. In Episode 325