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Podcast 345 – The Cobbler’s Ghost Has No Shoes

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.

On September 15, 1855 Lizzie Bourne, her cousin, and uncle attempted to summit Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. The climb

In 1792, Valentine Bagley and his ship’s crew were marooned in the deserts of Arabia. He swore if he survived

On a stormy October day in 1841 Eugene Clifford set out in a rowboat on Fairfield Pond with his wife

In 1850, the Phelps Mansion in Stratford, Connecticut, was so profoundly haunted that the story made all of the regional