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- the place where we collectively sigh at the whole of New England, and gently let them
know that they’ve got a bit of a ghost problem - and should probably seek help.
What’s going on guys - I hope you’re all having a fantastic day - as always, I’ll
be your spirit guide Jack Finch - as we soar on over the state lines, and shriek like the
blood-curdling witches of Salem - and take a look at the 5 Most Haunted Places in New
England.
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New England - geographically speaking, is a region that comprises the six northeastern
states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut - that has a
rich, weird - and oftentimes creepy history - hallmarking itself as one of the most haunted
hotspots on the paranormal planet.
It is also the point where Colonial American folklore first began, following the established
Jamestown Settlement in 1607.
In 1620 - Puritan Separatist Pilgrims from England established the Plymouth Colony - and
the rest, as they say - is history.
And with a lot of history - comes a hell of a lot of haunting.
Kicking off at Number 5 - Dudleytown - Cornwall, Connecticut.
And what a mysterious place it is.
Dudleytown - founded in the mid 1740s - was a small settlement located in Cornwall, Connecticut
- and later abandoned sometime in the 1800s.
It has everything you could ever ask for when it comes to a haunted New England village
- a vanished family, a plague of ghosts and demons - and an ancient curse that made its
way to the New World.
As the legend goes, the area where the town was first located was owned by a man named
Thomas Griffis - the first to settle in the region, and soon after to mysteriously disappear.
Then followed Gideon Dudley in 1747 - the man who the town is named after, and his two
brothers - who would become known over the years as the men who brought the curse that
has allegedly plagued the region ever since - causing the small area of Dudleytown to
fall into ruin.
According to legend, the curse began in England in 1510 - after Edmund Dudley, a patriarch
of the family - tried to overthrow Henry the 8th but failed and was beheaded.
A curse was then placed on the family which stated that all of the Dudley descendants
would be surrounded by horror and death - which manifested itself over two hundred years of
misfortune, until the family made their way to the New World where they all mysteriously
succumbed to plague and famine.
Creepy, eh?
And next up at Number 4 - Emily’s Bridge - Stowe, Vermont.
You might be asking - a bridge can’t be scary, right?
But let me tell you - yes it can, yes it can indeed.
Built in 1844 - Gold Brook - otherwise known as Emily’s Bridge - is a single-lane, 50-foot-long
bridge - where local legend believes a girl with a broken heart took her own life, and
since then haunts the area as an angry specter.
Sometime in the mid 1800s - Emily was supposed to meet her lover at the bridge, as they planned
to elope together and leave their disputed families.
She waited and wait - but he never showed - and Emily took her own life in a savage
fit of desperation - hanging herself from the rafters with her own cloak.
As local legend goes - tales of cars being mysteriously clawed as they pass the bridge
are frequent, and stories of bloody scratches down the backs of crossing pedestrians are
more common than you’d like to know.
It’s said that if you park your car on Emily’s Bridge, sometime between midnight and 3 AM
- then you can hear the dragging feet of a hanging corpse scrape against the roof of
your car.
I wouldn’t recommend it though.
Creeping in at Number 3 - The Snedeker House - Southington, Connecticut.
We’ve covered the Snedeker House multiple times in our recent run of Ed and Lorraine
Warren content - but it wouldn’t be a New England Haunting list unless the Haunting
in Connecticut made it.
After all - the New England Society for Psychic Research had to have its beginnings somewhere.
The Snedeker House was formerly a fully functioning funeral home and mortuary - where local legend
describes the owners as being necrophiliacs and unleashing a rancid pit of demonic energy
into the world.
The Snedeker family later moved in to be closer to their son Philip, who was receiving cancer
treatment at the nearby hospital.
Well - of course - that’s when the demonic possession began, with Philip being the first
to be allegedly tainted - and then later the majority of the family falling victim to Satanic
deeds.
Some of the paranormal activity witnessed is pretty prolific - including documented
apparitions, flying objects causing injury - and the water running a thick, dark red
with blood.
Ed and Lorraine Warren both said that it was one of their more terrifying cases - and it
stands as an obelisk for paranormal enthusiasts the world over.
Next up at Number 2 - The Bloody Pit - North Adams, Massachusetts.
Ahh - this creepy tale just really strikes a chord with me - so listen in.
Located between the town of Florida, and the city of North Adams - the Hoosac Tunnel is
a 5 mile railroad tunnel that passes through the Hoosac Range - an extension of Vermont’s
Green Mountains.
Hoosac, is an Algonquian word - meaning place of stones - and has an appropriate meaning
to the tunnels dark, bloody past.
Work began in 1851 - and wouldn’t be completed until 1875 - going nearly 20 million dollars
over its budget.
It was an economic disaster of a project - and with disaster, often comes death.
During construction - 193 workers lost their lives in deadly accidents - leading the surviving
workers to dub the tunnel - the bloody pit.
The deadliest of these incidents occurred on October 17, 1867 - where workers were trapped
in a tunnel shaft after a gaslamp had leaked and ignited - causing a naphtha explosion
to collapse the area that they were working in, raining debris and pieces of iron on top
of them.
Thirteen men were trapped 538 feet beneath the surface, as the chasm began filling with
deadly fumes - and overspill water from a collapsed pump.
After declaring that there were no survivors, rescue attempts were cut off after just a
day - but it wasn’t until several months later - after the deadly fumes had cleared
- that workers made their way to the bottom of the shaft.
There - they found that several victims had survived long enough to build themselves a
makeshift raft - in an effort to keep themselves from drowning.
They’d scratched marks into the walls, a countdown of the days that they’d survived
before suffocating - when they realised that rescue would never come.
And finally - at our Number 1 spot - Lizzie Borden’s House - Fall River, Massachusetts.
Well - this can’t be a New England Haunting list without mentioning the most notorious
New England homestead of all time, Lizzie Borden’s House - and the bloody legend of
the axe murders.
As the rhyme goes - Lizzie Borden took an axe - and gave her mother forty whacks.
And when she saw what she had done - she gave her father forty-one.
The case of Lizzie Borden has fascinated unsolved crime enthusiasts for well over a century
- and few cases have struck a chord more than the axe murders of Andrew Borden and his wife,
Abby.
Mainly because of the macabre, bloody details of the case - but also because of the unexpected
suspect - the quiet, respectable and demure Sunday School teacher - Lizzie Borden.
The entire town was in utter shock when Lizzie was accused and charged with the murder of
her parents - and even more perplexed when Lizzie was later found not guilty - leaving
the case to crumble into the forgotten ranks of unsolved murder mystery.
These days, the Borden house operates as a popular bed and breakfast - where fans of
the haunted tale can stay overnight in the same house that harboured the bloody, brutal
murders.
The most popular room requested is the bedroom where Lizzie allegedly murdered her step-mother
- well, whatever it takes for a good night's sleep - I guess.
What do you guys think?
Did we miss anywhere in our tour of Haunted New England?
Would you like to see a part 2?
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