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Podcast 285 – Westford’s Grey Ghosts

The Westford Academy mascot is the Grey Ghosts. The backstory of this Massachusetts mascot dates back to a Civil War-era […]

In 1875, Louis Prang produced America’s first mass-produced Christmas card in his Boston, Massachusetts, factory. In Episode 279 Jeff Belanger

In 1869 the schooner Charles Haskell out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, sank another fishing vessel during a fierce storm. In Episode

On April 21, 1977, four kids from Dover, Massachusetts, witnessed a strange creature that rose to international fame. In Episode

In 1683, Mary Webster of Hadley, Massachusetts, was found not-guilty of being a witch. Her neighbors still tried to hang

In July of 1692, Gloucester, Massachusetts, enemy soldiers and scouts spooked the town. Locals believed they weren’t men at all,

In June of 1819, Hannah Chase took her own life in a pond in Haverhill, Massachusetts, the day before her

On April 13, 1901, William Street’s Eyrie House Inn burned up in a funeral pyre gone horribly wrong. In Episode