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Podcast 344 – Carl Rettich’s Deadly Footwear and Murder Mansion

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

In 1772 a group of Rhode Islanders attacked the HMS Gaspee in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island. Was this truly the

In the mid-1800s, Hell’s Half Acre on the New London Turnpike in West Greenwich, Rhode Island, was full of drinking,

In 1873 a fountain was erected on Benefit Street in Providence, Rhode Island, they say is enchanted. In Episode 325

In 1842 the Dorr Rebellion caused enough of a stir that shots were fired at the now-haunted Tavern on Main

Built in 1652, the White Horse Tavern is America’s oldest continually-operating bar and it’s Newport, Rhode Island’s most haunted. In

In 1922, Conimicut Lighthouse keeper Ellsworth Smith returned to the lighthouse to find his family dead in a murder-suicide. The

Built in 1763, the Stephen Harris house in Providence, Rhode Island, was haunted from its earliest day. The story inspired