Podcast 261 – Half-Hanged Mary of Hadley
In 1683, Mary Webster of Hadley, Massachusetts, was found not-guilty of being a witch. Her neighbors still tried to hang her. In Episode 261, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore …
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Podcast 251 – Nellie Vaughn: Vampire? Witch? Ghost?
Nellie Vaughn died March 31, 1889 at the age of 19. Decades later she was thought to be a vampire, witch, and ghost. In Episode 251, Jeff Belanger and Ray …
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Podcast 227 – Christmas Witch Sheep of Narragansett
The Witch sheep breed of sheep takes its name from a spell cast by a local witch on a Narragansett farm after a Christmas blizzard. In Episode 227, Jeff Belanger …
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New England Legends Extra: Laurie Cabot – The Official Witch of Salem
In 2017, Jeff Belanger sat down with Laurie Cabot, the Official Witch of Salem, Massachusetts. Cabot discusses her life, her arrival in Salem in 1969, the history of witchcraft, Samhain …
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Podcast 208 – A Tombstone Every Mile in the Haunted Haynesville Woods
Route 2A through Haynesville, Maine, is so haunted and treacherous, it inspired a 1965 country song by Dick Curless. In Episode 208, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger take a drive …
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Podcast 199 – The Witch of Pepperell
The village of North Pepperell, Massachusetts, disappeared by the end of the nineteenth century thanks to a witch’s curse. In Episode 199, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger search for the …
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Podcast 188 – The Druid’s Chair and Witch’s Altar
We head to Narragansett, Rhode Island in search of Spiritualist Joseph Peace Hazard’s Druid’s Chair and Witch’s Altar. In Episode 188, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the woods of …
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Podcast 160 – The Dinglehole
In Episode 160, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger walk up to a tiny pond in Millis, Massachusetts, they say is bottomless, they also say the devil meets with his minions …
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