Massachusetts – New England Legends

Podcast 386 – Thatcher’s Woe

In August of 1635, Anthony Thatcher and his family sailed aboard the Watch and Wait into a hurricane that left […]

In 1904, a strange creature terrorized Indian Lake in Worcester, Massachusetts. The newspaper called it a: What-It-It. In Episode 380

In the late 1800s, hermit John Smith lived in the woods of Erving, Massachusetts, turning himself into an unlikely celebrity.

Johnny Appleseed was born in 1774 in Leominster, Massachusetts, by the time he died in 1845, he had planted countless

In 2002 Red Sox baseball legend Ted Williams had his head and body cryogenically frozen in the hopes of being

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

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

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