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The area around Freetown is known to some as “the dumping ground of Southeastern Massachusetts”. It’s been called that due to people just dumping unwatned cars in the Freetown State Forest during the gas crisis of the 1970’s. Also what ever other junk anyone felt like pitching in the woods at the time. Now all that is changing, little by little people are coming back to the area, cleaning it up and making it something better, something stronger. However there are things experiences and stories that will never go away.

Freetown State Forest covers more then 5,000 acres offers up 25 miles of hiking trail as well as horseback riding and dirtbike trails. It also has it fair share of strange sights and paranormal happenings.

WikiPedia article about King Philip's War

WikiPedia article about Metacomet

Dark Woods; Cults, Crime and Paranormal in the Freetown State Forest by Christopher Balzano. Schiffer Press 

www.amazon.com/DarkWoods-Christopher-Balzano-November-2007/dp/B01B98OBP6/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=Christopher+balzano&qid=1562890085&s=digital-text&sr=1-7-catcorr

https://www.mass.gov/locations/freetown-fall-river-state-forest

Local Headlines

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7212907/Bizarre-alien-like-winged-creature-crawls-ceiling-Indonesia.html

www.wavy.com/news/her-eyes-were-completely-black-va-family-fends-off-naked-woman-who-claimed-to-be-the-devil/

mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/07/giant-mysterious-creature-recorded-in-lake-michigan-during-a-storm/

Listener Stories

indianaghostdetectives.blogspot.com/2014/10/witchs-circle-daleville-indiana-sharp.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR1…rCcI

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Hayward is in the heart of the East Bay.  It’s home to many things such as the famous Buffalo Bill’s Brewpub  a large fiberglass Paul Bunyon- like statue called big mike and it’s where Tom Hanks graduted collage. Big Mike isn’t the only landmark in Hayward, on Mission BLVD stands a long cement building that resembles an aircraft carrier.  This is the Hayward Plunge, a large indoor (possibly huanted) public pool.

alt1053.radio.com/blogs/dallas/legend-haunted-hayward-plunge

YouTube video (t2S2HriBzjc)

youtu.be/EjPgUyjIvUI

WikiPedia article about Memorial Park (Hayward, California)

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San Leandro is nestled in the East Bay, in between Oakland to the Northwest and Hayward to the Southeast.   On June, 21st 2000 the town would be rocked by a bizzare triple homicide.  It would go on to become known the Santos Linguisa Sausage Murders. 

WikiPedia article about San Leandro, California

WikiPedia article about Stuart Alexander (murderer)

www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SAN-QUENTIN-Sausage-king-dies-in-his-cell-on-2585387.php

Local Headlines

www.slavorum.org/drunk-polish-man-invades-a-small-polish-town-with-a-soviet-tank/?fbclid=IwAR1…10Dk

mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/06/missing-helicopter-found-crashed-on-ufo-hot-spot-catalina-island/

www.coasttocoastam.com/article/wwii-bomb-explodes-in-german-field/

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The legend of the Groglin Grange Vampire is really the classic vampire story, but unlike Dracula this one may have actually happend.  Crouglin is nestled in Cumberland County, England. The story first originated in a book by Augustus Hare titled My Solitary Life.  Augustus claimed he was told the story by a descendent of hte Cranswell family, named Captain Fisher.  It all started at a farmhouse known as  now as Croglin Grange but was then called Groclin Low Hall.  The grange is also located near an old cemetery and church.

theunexplainedmysteries.com/Croglin-Grange-Vampire.html

mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/08/a-strange-case-of-a-real-vampire-in-england/

https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/2011/02/croglin-grange-vampire-mystery.html

coolinterestingstuff.com/the-strange-croglin-grange-vampire-mystery

The small town of Mineral point in Wisconsin is home to many things including, a stop on the Cheese Country Trail and the Midwest Cornish Festival.  But Mineral Point  has something else, it lurks in the shadows and stalks around in the night.  It’s a tall, lanky figure wih pale white skin, complete with black cape.  The thing is simply known as the Mineral Point Vampire.

Chasing American Monsters, Jason Offutt.  2019 Llewellyn Books.

WikiPedia article about Mineral Point, Wisconsin

www.ranker.com/list/mineral-point-vampire/april-a-taylor

authorlyngibson.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/the-vampire-of-mineral-point/

books.google.com/books

www.w-files.com/files/ghridgeway.html

Local Headlines

www.wbtv.com/2019/06/07/creature-with-huge-teeth-reported-nebraska-park-giving-rise-chupacabra-rumors/

https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/strange-elf-captured-on-security-camera

theberkshireedge.com/sheffield-town-crew-hauls-away-ufo-monument-reed-vows-to-file-charges/

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The Hoppkinsville Gobblin Encounter, the Kelly-Hopkinsvilled Encounter or the Kelly Green Man Case.  Whatever you name you give it, they all refer to the same thing.  The night when when a family was terrorized by small humanoid beings with large yelllow eyes and gigantic ears.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly–Hopkinsville_encounter

www.astonishinglegends.com/al-podcasts/2017/7/20/ep-79-the-kelly-hopkinsville-encounter-part-1

www.courierpress.com/story/life/columnists/2017/08/21/history-lesson-goblins-hopkinsville/104796526/

cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Hopkinsville_Goblins

WikiPedia article about Mammoth Cave National Park

www.nps.gov/maca/index.htm

youtu.be/R1FwIuicx88

In the same year as the Hoppkinsville incident, some 300 milwa North East in Loveland Ohio other strange creatues would be seen.  This would be the first sighting of the Loveland Frog Men, there would be more and people still see the frog men today.

cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Loveland_Frogmen

www.cincyweekend.com/loveland-frog-legend/

https://youtu.be/mQ3OGjuISnc

Local Headlines

www.coasttocoastam.com/article/tennessee-man-suspects-that-he-has-solved-the-forrest-fenn-treasure-mystery

https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/first-uk-crop-circle-of-2019-found

https://www.etdatabase.com/2019/05/ufo-filmed-moments-before-cloaking-over.html

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On Wednesday, August 28, 1996 22yo Clarissa Ann Culberson (known as Carrie) returned home from a volleyball game at around 11:30 pm. Shortly after that Carrie and her read Honda CRX woud vanish, never to be seen again.

unsolvedmysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Carrie_Culberson

www.findcarrieculberson.com

www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2015/03/05/murderer-vince-doan-wins-taxpayer-money-dog-nites-nose/24445467/

charleyproject.org/case/clarissa-ann-culberson

To this day neither Carrie or her Honda CRX have been found. If anyone out there has any info that may lead to revovering her remains or the car the can contact the Brown County Sheriff @ (937) 378-4555. You may also send an email to Carrie's family at [email protected]

Reena Virk was a shy 14yo girl who was born in Saanich British Columbia in Canada. On November 17th 1997 she would be murdered by her peers in the same town in which she was born. 

www.vice.com/en_ca/article/qvpqa7/the-unforgettable-story-of-a-bc-teen-murdered-by-her-peers

globalnews.ca/news/66450/timeline-reena-virk-murder-and-the-trials-of-kelly-ellard/

globalnews.ca/news/4281074/mother-of-murdered-b-c-teen-reena-virk-dies-in-tragic-accident-family/

globalnews.ca/news/4887261/reena-virks-killer-kelly-ellard-gets-new-extension-on-day-parole/

https://darkpoutine.com/2019/04/068-the-murder-of-reena-virk/

Listener Stories

WikiPedia article about Piqua Nuclear Generating Station

https://youtu.be/cH06vZZZSZw

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It’s known in the as “The most huanted house in England”. The house is located in the tiny parish of Borley in Essex. It was located on Hall road next to the Borley Church. It was built for Reverend Henry Dawson Ellis Bull in 1862. The nearby church may date as far back as the 12th century.

WikiPedia article about Borley Rectory

www.prairieghosts.com/brectory.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Price

http://www.borleyrectory.com/biblio/owennotes.htm

https://ghostsnghouls.com/borley-rectory-brick/

In 1973 the Smurl family (Jack and Janet Smurl, and their children, Heather, Shannon, Dawn and Carin) where forced from the home in Wilkes-Barre PA after flooding from Hurricane Agnes. The made the decision to pack up and move into the other half of the split house that Jack’s parents lived in. This house sat on chase street in West Pittson Pennsylvania. For the first year of so things in the house were normal and quiet. However in 1974 after they started fixing up the property strange things would begin happening in the family’s new home.

www.hellystar.com/en/poltergeist-smurl-family/

news.google.com/newspapers

the-line-up.com/smurl-family-haunting

Local Headlines

www.heraldextra.com/allthatsinteresting.com/lucas-dawe-human-bone-broth?fbclid=IwAR0…fH5k

news/local/central/provo/bigfoot-once-again-reportedly-spotted-in-provo/article_8b723d75-b47f-5b5a-bf4f-64c4001bb9ea.html

www.indystar.com/story/news/2019/04/22/delphi-murders-update-2019-new-cellphone-video-sketch-released/3536773002/

Listener Stories

www.mynbc5.com/article/timeline-of-the-michael-jacques-case/3311233

www.emilysbridge.com

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On December 9th 1965 an anomalous object was tracked on radar and seen by thousands of people as it streaked across the night sky. The object flew over six states as well Winsor Ontario. It was reported that it left traces of hot metal over parts of Michigan and Northern Ohio. After Causing Sonic booms in Western Pennsylvania it came crashing to the earth just outside of Kecksburg Pennsylvania. The original explanation was a meteor. In 2005 NASA released a statement saying they had studied deris from the site and confirmed it was downed Russian satellite. However NASA’s findings for Kecksburg were lost sometime in the 1990’s. But was it, or was it something else entirely? Back in December of ’65 the humble people of Kecksburg didn’t know it yet but they were about to beome “the roswell of Pennsylvania”.

www.mufon.com/kecksburg-crash---1965.html

WikiPedia article about Kecksburg UFO incident

WikiPedia article about Kosmos 96

https://www.revolvy.com/page/Kosmos-96

There a few towns named Sokolec laying around Eurpoe. The one we are concernng our selves with is the one located in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. Proir to 1945 this land was part of Germany. The area around Sokelec is best known for two things. The first is Project Riese (German for Giant) and Die Glocke or the Nazi Bell.  

WikiPedia article about Die Glocke

www.gaia.com/article/nazi-bell-ufo-technology

ancientexplorers.com/blogs/news/declassified-documents-released-confirms-the-nazi-bell-was-a-secret-worm-hole-time-machine

sites.google.com/site/nazibelluncovered/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Riese

Local Headlines

www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-47936223

www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/04/dead-body-found-at-oregon-home-of-missing-disney-mouseketeer.html?

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www.coasttocoastam.com/article/chupacabra-slays-71-farm-animals

Listener Stories

www.travelerstoday.com/articles/9626/20140425/bill-list-todville-mansion-photos-decades-old-murder-seabrook-texas.htm

WikiPedia article about Martensville satanic sex scandal

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/outintheopen/fighting-falsehoods-1.5056457/satanic-cult-scandal-that-rocked-a-small-saskatchewan-town-in-92-continues-to-haunt-the-falsely-accused-1.5074956

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The Ashtabula train disaster has many names, the Ashtabula bridge disaster, the Ashtubla Horror or the Ashtabula river railroad disaster. Which ever name you choose they all refer to a terrible derailment that occured in Ashtubla Ohio on December 29, 1876.

www.deadohio.com/AshTrain.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashtabula_River_railroad_disaster#cite_note-25

WikiPedia article about Amasa Stone

During the last months of the first world war, on June 22, 1918 a horrific accident occured near Hammond Indiana. The 26 cars of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus were holding the performers and other circus workers as it chugged ahead to Hammond where the circus had a show. 

the-line-up.com/showmens-rest

WikiPedia article about Hammond Circus Train Wreck

Local Headlines

www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-speaks-out-on-seizing-artifacts-from-indiana-home-staggering-discovery-of-human-bones/

www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/investigation-underway-after-more-skeletal-remains-found-in-robeson-county/1819798651

www.necn.com/news/new-england/Victorian-Era-Ghost-Spotted-at-Wilmington-Market-Basket-507670481.html

Listener Stories

www.legendsofamerica.com/we-stevelong/

www.prairieghosts.com/oh-elmo.html

fringeparanormal.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/the-legend-of-the-elmore-ghost-rider/

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In 1909 and again in 1932 a large dragon-like creature was spotted from Maryland to Ohio. Was the Snallygaster real or just something made up to sell papers?

www.legendsofamerica.com/snallygaster/

www.phantomsandmonsters.com/search/label/snallygaster

WikiPedia article about Thomas Chalmers Harbaugh

In 1903 the small mining town of Van Meter Iowa was terrorized for a full week by an eight foot winged monster that came from the depths of their own mine. They called it the Van Meter Visitor.

www.amazon.com/Van-Meter-Visitor-Mysterious-Encounter/dp/0982431465/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549396306&sr=8-1&keywords=van+meter+visitor

www.backroadslore.com

cryptidz.wikia.com/wiki/Van_Meter_Visitor

Local Headlines

http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/mystery-vibrations-shake-canton-homes-windows?fbclid=IwAR3tsurMgFB8jn9AtOpH2-Ah-bNEIa0_eZo4wM-beHzPKlwZMXgahJEajpo

www.rdrnews.com/2019/02/06/site-of-alleged-1947-ufo-crash-changes-hands/?fbclid=IwAR2…rdCk

mountainreporter.com/man-claims-extraterrestrials-are-to-blame-in-highway-18-rollover-accident/

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Small Town Secrets is a podcast that explores the secrets and strangenss of small towns across the globe. Be it Paranormal, True Crime or just plain weird.

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