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It's International Bat Appreciation Day! Roxie shares some spooky bat tales as we discover an old stone quarry filled with bat bones. Where can you find a gravestone with bats on it and where can you observe these curious creatures flying in and out of the trees in Boston? Then unearth more unsettling stories about old gravestones showing up in places where they shouldn't ever be.

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In this episode of Wicked Curious, start putting together your itinerary to explore some of the most unusual museums New England has to offer. Explore the oddities from around the world (and your backyard) that you'll find in those curious collections. The Devil visited and left his mark in one New England town, do you dare go look for it. Plus, why were fish dropping in from the sky on a Rhode Island neighborhood? All that and more with your Mystery Maven, Roxie Zwicker.

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In this episode of Wicked Curious a man from Maine spends his afterlife as a funhouse and sideshow corpse. We will unravel the bizarre story and explain why people put a nickel in his dead mouth. Plus, what might you see trailer touring in the graveyard? All this ghoulish-ness and more with your Mystery Maven, Roxie Zwicker.

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In this episode of Wicked Curious Roxie shares some inspiration from old issues of Yankee Magazine. Listen throughout New England for the old bells of Paul Revere. A story about the footless ghost of Maine will keep you on your toes. Plus, you'll discover a strange summertime party for the future dead - and so much more!

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In this episode of Wicked Curious Roxie shares some stories from her journey to Long Island and to Sleepy Hollow, New York. Curl up and listen to our experiences connecting New England to this tiny, yet storied village! What is it like to wander through the old library and what did we find there? Plus, we share a excerpt from our Sea Glass book about a spooky Provincetown beach - and so much more!

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In this episode of Wicked Curious Roxie shares some spooky tales of colonial medicine, eerie folkways and herbal closets. Were some sicknesses the work of witchcraft or the devil? How did a doctor from Connecticut brew his "black powder" potion to treat smallpox? Discover the frights of 1735 in southern New Hampshire that changed the course of history (and perhaps left a ghost story or two) in several small communities. Grab some "Nanny Goat Tea" and listen in to tales of strange sicknesses and even stranger cures.

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In this storytelling episode of Wicked Curious Radio, Roxie shares some short spooky stories from a haunted train line, to the spirits of murdered men in Marshfield, Massachusetts. Plus, discover a superstitious tale about how to cure a curse of malaria. There are a few New England Curiosities updates and news on the next book.
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In this storytelling episode of Wicked Curious Radio, Roxie shares two mysterious maritime tales and a Victorian poem of a doomed ghost ship. The Queen of windjammers departs in her own dramatic way with a flash of fire in Casco Bay, Maine. A grandmother gathers her young grandchildren close while they whisper the tale of a cursed ship, where the mention of the fate of its Captain could doom one and all. Sailor Jack from Canada spent their last days in Medford, Massachusetts hiding a shocking secret and tales of untold adventures at sea.

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In this conversational episode of Wicked Curious Radio, Roxie is joined by the Professor Lou Blasi for a spooky discussion of storm tossed lighthouses, the harrowing experiences of their keepers and some of the ghost stories they left behind.  Also, discover a haunted corner in New Haven, Connecticut, where a ghostly grocer wandered his store for many years. Why do some spirits linger and can two different places be haunted by the same spirits? Climb into the boat, traverse the waves of the Atlantic and look for the light with Roxie and Lou in this episode.

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In this conversational episode of Wicked Curious Radio, Roxie is joined by the Professor Lou Blasi for two stories of mysterious ships, lost treasure and one of the most unusual maritime tragedies in Maine history. Do these historical events leave behind echos of spirits past, or is there something more going on?

Roxie also shares the foreword she wrote for a book about Revolutionary era spirits. 

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