To Visit: 

• Whydah Pirate Museum: 674 MA-28, West Yarmouth, Massachusetts
• Palatine Graves: 18 Old Town Road, Block Island, RI

Episode Source Material: 

• A glimpse of RI's past: Captain Thomas Paine of Jamestown
• Black Sam Bellamy, the Pirate Who Fought Smart, Harmed Few, Scored Big
• Top Earning Pirates
• Robin Hood of the Sea
• Pirates of Rhode Island
• Newport and its Pirates: A Love/Hate Relationship
• The Dutch Founding of NY, Thomas A Janvier 
• Rhode Island - Discovered by a pirate, named by a pirate and nurtured by pirates
• The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations - Page 1046
• The Day Rhode Island Hanged 26 Pirates
• Thomas Tew
•  Pirates and Buccaneers of the Atlantic Coast by Edward Rowe Snow in 1944
• The legend of Captain Kidd
• “not even a pirate by pretension” — New York State Quarter Coin
• This week in history, 313 years ago
• Why Do Squirrels Bury Nuts?
• The Surprising Story Of Pirate Captain Kidd's Buried Booty On Liberty Island
• Captain Kidd's hidden loot
• Hunting for the Buried Treasure of Captain Kidd
• The Legend of the Palatine
• The Legend of the Ghost Ship Palatine
• Block Island, RI - Mass Grave of Pirate Massacre
• Pirates: A Reality Check - 9 Pirate Myths Examined
• Why Do We Love Pirates? | A Kennedy in College
• Culture - The timeless allure of pirates
• Shedding light on the Palatine legend
• The Palatine Wreck: The Legend of the New England Ghost Ship
• Thomas Tew - History of Piracy
• The Surprising Truth About Pirates and Parrots

To Visit a Similar Spot: Medfield State Hospital, 45 Hospital Road, Medfield, MA 02052

Episode Source Material: 

• History of Psychiatric Hospitals • Nursing, History, and Health Care • Penn Nursing
• Dr. Joseph H. Ladd School
• Days of Darkness
• From the archives: FINAL DAY: Ladd Center shuts down quietly
• The Fall of an Icon, the End of an Era
• The Asylum Antiquarian – Medium
• https://www.rihs.org/mssinv/Mss231sg1.htm
• Something About Snow. “Well, I had thought of giving you… | by Jason Carpenter | The Asylum Antiquarian
• https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2012-01-06/the-psychology-of-ruin-porn
• One of the Forgotten Two Percent
• Ladd School 25 Years After, Series November 16
• The Abandoned Ladd School (Exeter, RI)
• To Manage the Darkness: Why We Are Drawn to What We Fear
• A God Damed Shame: The Demolition of the Ladd School : RhodeIsland
• Former Ladd School property was becoming problematic
• True Hauntings of America: The Haunting of the Ladd School
• The World’s Most Haunted Places: The Joseph Ladd School 
• Detroitism – Guernica
• Providence ranked as one of worst cities in US for people with disabilities
• Feeble-minded
• Eugenics
• Eugenics in the United States
• Rhode Island Eugenics/Eugenic Sterilizations

Episode Source Material: 

• Have Mercy 
• The Great New England Vampire Panic | History
• Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England’s Vampires by Michael Bell
• Vampires, Bural, and Death: Folklore and Reality by Paul Barber
• Food For the Dead Website
• New England's Vampire History | Legends and Hysteria 
• UNCOVERING A THERAPY FROM THE GRAVE 

To Visit: 

1. Newport Tower: 5 Touro Park St W. Newport, Rhode Island, 02840
   Hours: Always available for viewing
2. Newport Tower Museum: 152 Mill St, Newport, RI 02840
3. Dighton Rock: 3rd Avenue, Berkley, MA. 02779
   Museum Hours: By appointment only; open daily at 9:00

SOURCES: 

1. The Controversy Touching the Old Stone Mill in the Town of Newport: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015089568243&view=1up&seq=53
2. The Archaeology of the Old Stone Mill in Newport, Rhode Island, by William S. Godfrey Jr.: https://www.jstor.org/stable/277246?seq=1
3. The Enigma Of Dighton Rock: https://www.americanheritage.com/enigma-dighton-rock#5
4. Dighton Rock, a Study of the Written Rocks of New England, by Edmund Delabarre: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b542245&view=1up&seq=32
5. Britannica, Vinland: https://www.britannica.com/place/Vinland
6. The Newport Tower, by Jason Colativo: http://www.jasoncolavito.com/the-newport-tower.html
7. The Newport Tower Museum: http://www.newporttowermuseum.com/styled-4/index.html

Music: 

• Swimmey Texture Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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• Thunderbird Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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