Strange New England

Strange New England

A Compendium of History, Folklore, and Evidence of the Unexplained

  • 17 minutes 32 seconds
    The Last Tree in the Meadow -a Ghost Story
    NOTE: The following story contains description of a suicide and may not be suitable for younger listeners.  Ghosts are old companions. They’ve been with us since the very beginning. Go…
    10 August 2024, 9:37 pm
  • 26 minutes 54 seconds
    The Light in the Barn
    I was ten years old when my grandfather died. He died in his sleep during the cold February night with his rosary in his hands. My cousin had to break…
    19 October 2023, 1:26 am
  • 39 minutes 38 seconds
    The Minister’s Black Veil & Patience Boston
    It’s a warm July Sunday in 1745. You’re sitting in your pew at the First Church of York, Maine, waiting for the service to begin. It is a quiet time,…
    4 August 2023, 10:54 pm
  • 20 minutes 53 seconds
    The Strange Voyage of the Charles Haskell
    A ghost story is usually a solitary thing. It lives by itself and doesn’t go out much and by its nature, is solitary and lonesome. A ghost story is the…
    1 July 2023, 5:56 pm
  • 21 minutes 53 seconds
    The Charming Man of the North Woods
    You’ve heard a lot of stories about the old days in the deep woods of northern Maine, when river drivers cut the trees and moved the logs into the rivers,…
    4 March 2023, 3:24 pm
  • 17 minutes 11 seconds
    The Phantom Trains of the North Woods
    There are trains in the forest that run on their own schedules, trains whose origins and destinations are as mysterious as forest itself. These are some of their tales.
    23 July 2022, 7:18 pm
  • 21 minutes 34 seconds
    The Lost Village of Riceville, Maine
    When I was a boy, my father told me a story about a ghost town. I come from northern Maine, Aroostook County, a place of endless trees and potato fields…
    24 June 2022, 4:52 pm
  • 14 minutes 44 seconds
    The Bunkers at the End of the World
    Loring Air Force Base, which itself is now only a memory. The bunkers we walk among are easily viewed on Google Earth but at one time in the early 1950s, this was one of the most secure and secret sites on the planet. Inside this strange and haunting set of structures half buried in the earth, the United States stored enough nuclear warheads to destroy the earth several times over. These are the depositories of doom and they are as quiet as the grave. They stand today as a testament to a period of time in our history when the words ‘the end of the world’ were no longer a metaphor. This was the place where the end of the world could easily have begun.
    14 May 2022, 4:25 pm
  • 16 minutes 59 seconds
    The Man Who Wandered After Death
    Three score years and ten. It says it in the Bible, our allotted time upon this planet, the time we can expect to wander and walk and wonder, because nobody…
    17 October 2021, 4:13 pm
  • 22 minutes 17 seconds
    The Living Machine of John Murray Spear
    It looks like a small desk without any legs, just sitting there on a table, a well-fashioned rectangular wooden box containing within it a drawer that pulls out to reveal…
    13 September 2021, 10:21 pm
  • 12 minutes 31 seconds
    Long Distance Call
    It happens several times a day to everyone I know, usually at dinner time. Sitting quietly, minding your own business in the comfort of your own home and the phone…
    8 August 2021, 5:22 pm
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