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Podcast 349 – The Haunting of Happy Hollow

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.

In 1812 Russell Colvin of Manchester, Vermont, went missing. Years later he was presumed murdered due to a prophetic dream.

In 1914, the brutal unsolved axe murder of a Newtown, Connecticut, cobbler led to a haunting that still echoes today.

Roger Williams is the founder of Rhode Island, but by the time of his death in 1683, most of his

In the 1920s during the height of Prohibition, Carl Rettich ran Rhode Island bootlegging with an iron fist and cement

In 1847, Hanson Crockett Gregory of Rockport, Maine, invented the donut while working as a ship’s cook on a schooner.