New England Gothic

In Episode 10, we take a trip to the Vermont Police Academy in Pittsford, VT - a repurposed TB hospital where some of the nurses have apparently stayed on even after death.

A train wreck in Richmond, RI, in 1873 kills at least 11. The same area is the site of a later nuclear accident that kills 1.

In Waterbury, CT, an abandoned village of dollhouse-sized buildings sits abandoned in the woods.

The Orleans Inn in Orleans, MA has a well established history of hauntings.

CW for family violence and graphic descriptions of torture. We take a trip up to Augusta, Maine, to examine Captain Captain James Purrington’s slaughter of his family in 1806.

A discussion of the Connecticut River Valley Killer, active in Vermont and New Hampshire in the mid 1980s. These cases remain unsolved. Content warning for non-graphic mentions of sexual assault.

In this episode, we traipse (yes, traipse) around New England in search of the New England Vampire “Panic.” This phenomenon, which was really a last-ditch effort to save community members from an incurable illness, gave rise to some delightfully creepy folklore.

We take a trip to Enfield, CT, and explore a demon house, a river, an exploding gunpowder factory, and peanut butter. No, really.

We visit the towns of Onset and Wareham, home of Spiritualists, ghosts, bog iron, and a super creepy unsolved murder from before my mom was born.