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Podcast 440 – The Luckiest Man in Maine

On June 4, 1980, Edwin Robinson of Falmouth, Maine, was struck by lightning, making him the luckiest man in Maine. […]

Incorporated in 1876, Livermore, New Hampshire, was a mill and logging town that saw fire, plague, and finally flood over

On December 15, 1863, a Malden, Massachusetts, bank became the site of America’s first armed bank robbery with a murder.

On November 5, 1873, DeWitt Terry believed the world was going to end. Over 100 people gathered on this Suffield,

In 1843, a poem called “A Corpse Going to a Ball” was published in various newspapers throughout New England. The

Opening in 1891, the Ladd Observatory in Providence, Rhode Island, is home to a literary icon, possibly a ghost, and

Ancient Wabanaki legends speak of a ghost witch called the Skudakumooch who haunts the woods of Maine. In Episode 434,

Since the 1920s, stories of an eight-foot-tall, shaggy, grey-haired creature called the wood devil have lurked around Coos County, New