Hello and welcome back to the Most Amazing Channel on the Internet!
I am your Host Rebecca Felgate and Today we are talking about the Top 10 Scary Massachusetts
Urban Legends - You are up Massachusetts!
Any of you guys watching from New England?
Let me know where you are from in the comments section down below and what the weirdest thing
to happen in your town is?
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10 - The Dover Demon In April 1977, 17 year old William Bartlett
was driving down a dark road in Dover, Massachusetts when he saw a pale creature with large glowing
eyes and tendril fingers on top of a stone wall.
That same night, another teenager in the area reported seeing a similar creature, as did
another on the following evening.
William Bartlet drew a sketch of the creature, saying this is what he saw.
ALIENS ALIENS ALIENS.
Or not.
Young bill swore on the bible he was telling the truth and the case gained a lot of national
and international attention, likening the Dover Demon to the Sasquatch or Loch Ness
Monster.
In the end Police decided that it was probably just kids scheming to cause some trouble…although
a look back through the towns records tells me that actually, the teens may not have been
the first to spot the creature.
Since the 17th Century, the stretch of road the creature was spotted on has been home
to weird occurrences.
9 - The Devil of Wizards Glen Ah, the cursed Glen of Berkshire, Massachusetts.
Back in the early days of the settlers they fundamentally did not understand the natives
of the land and sometimes misunderstood their practices as being satanic.
The fraidy old Puritans decided that a certain area in the woods was home to the spirit of
evil.
They found a cave in the woods with a red rock and what looked like blood stains in
it, which they decided was where the tribe must make their human sacrifices.
One day a settler by the name of John Chamberlain was out hunting in the woods when a storm
came over and he had to take shelter- he went inside the supposedly satanic cave without
knowing what it was.
He couldn’t leave the cave all night and he claims that as the storm raged, the devil
came to him in the cave.
He described him as having wings, horns and hooves…classic starter pack devil.
He also said he saw imps of hell, ghosts and spirits!
He said he saw a beautiful young naked native girl who he saved by bashing raising his bible,
that he handily had on him, and speaking the name of the lord.
When the storm finally passed, Chamberlain went back to his town and told people what
he saw and there the legend of the devil in the cave was born… of course science endures,
we now know the blood stains in the cave are actually iron deposits.
8- The Route 44 Hitcher Route 44 is a massive stretch of road from
the Massachusetts coast, through Rhode Island, through the middle of Connecticut and into
New York.
The stretch between Rehoboth and Seekonk is famously haunted by a hitcher.
Since the late 1960s, many drivers have seen a man wearing a dirty red flannel shirt thumbing
for a lift.
On the few occasions that people have stopped to collect him, he disappears before getting
in the car.
The legend has it that in life he was killed by a truck as he thumbed for a lift.
7 - The Ghost of Harry Main The Seaport town of Ipswich is a lovely place
to visit.
Right on the coast, the land is rugged and beautiful.
Ipswich was one of the first established settlements in New England, dating back to the mid 1600s.
This story comes from 1671 when a pair of men, Andrew Diamond and Harry Main moved to
the town to better their futures.
Diamond thrived as a successful fisherman, but Main turned to a life of crime.
Most often, Main would steal items from shipwrecks, which were quite common on the Massachusetts
shores in those days.
Not satisfied with his Loot, Main started up as a Mooncusser, which is a particularly
nasty type of pirate who would set bonfires on the shoreline to purposefully confuse ships,
leading to their wrong steering and wrecking.
He would then climb aboard these ships and kill the survivors and then steal what was
there.
When his crimes were discovered he was forced by the Ipswich community to shovel sand until
he dropped dead.
And dead he dropped… but that wasn’t the end of his story.
His mean spirit is said to haunt his former home in the town as well as the shoreline.
It is also said he left buried treasure from the ships somewhere in the town protected
by magic.
6- The Ghosts of Boston Common Boston Common was the site of numerous hangings
back in the day, not just for witchcraft but for a number of crimes in ye olde puritan
and colonial eras.
They loved their gallows!
Hang them!
Legend has it that quakers, pirates, thieves, murders and witches have all died in America’s
first public park and their souls still haunt looking for justice.
Most often spotted are a pair of harmless seeming ladies who walk arm in arm or sit
on benches in early 1800s attire.
There is even a communal burial ground in the common where lowly members of society
were tossed into mass graves.
The area around the burial ground is to be very eeiree, with people reporting flashes
of light and feelings of doom.
5 - The Pukwudgies I absolutely had to mention the legend of
the Pukwudgies and I will tell you why… but first, the legend.
Deep in the woods of Barnstable legends of fairytales are rife.
All manner of creatures are said to roam the forest, but the most enduring legend is the
legend of the Pukwudgies.
These are said to be swamp dwellers and damp lovers and are creatures with smooth grey
skin.
The creatures are fiercely protective over their space and like to play tricks on passers
by who encroach on their territory.
A bit of trickery never hurt anyone…buuut it also sounds like the Pukwudgies have the
ability to lure people to their deaths as well as launch poison arrows.
Basically, you don’t want to fall foul of one of these little cretins.
Now the reason I wanted to tell you about them is twofold, one, they’re native to
Massachusetts and two they are in Harry Potter folklore too!
We all know I am a dastardly slytherin, but I may have been
4 - Abandoned Dogtown Dogtown is a literal ghost town in the former
parish of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Urban legend has it that the town was abandoned and is now over run with dogs….hence the
name.
Others say it got its name from its dubious inhabitants.
Texts from the 1890s describe dogtown as being a strange place, where there were…I quote
women who dressed like men, men who did housework, alleged witches, and former slaves, who lived,
‘Gypsy Ways.
Loooolll.
Men….
Doing house work….
Must be the work of witches!
The community seemed to thrive for just a short period - the mid 1700s until 1928.
The last resident of Dogtown was a former slave named Cornelius "Black Neil" Finson,
who was found in 1830 with his feet frozen living in a cellar-hole.
The houses were razed, but you can still see remnants of the old settlement…although
many people wouldn’t brave a trip for fear of running into wild packs of dogs or spirits
of witches still haunting the woods.
3 - The Phantom Black Flash It was October 1939 in Provincetown, Cape
Cod when children began being wholly freaked out when out of nowhere a tall black shadow
jumped out of nowhere, growled at them.
The figure was frequently described as having blue eyes and silver ears and jumped like
a gazelle.
As soon as he was spotted, he would growl then jump away like a gazelle.
The phenomenon was reported by children, who would cry and be visibly shaken, but adults
seemed unaffected.
That was, until Mary Costa saw the creature and a spate of other adults had run ins with
an 8ft man in black with glowing eyes.
While sightings were at their height during October 1939, reports of the black phantom
flash continued right up until 1945 – when a group of kids reported throwing a pan of
boiling water at a creature that matched its description.
It cried, hopped away and was never seen again.
But what was it?
2 - The Bridgewater Triangle The bridgewater triangle refers to a rough
geographic triangle that encompasses a number of Massachusetts towns including Abington,
Rehoboth, Freetown, Bridgewater, Seekonk and Berkley.
This triangle is an absolute hot spot for ghostly, paranormal and satanic activity!
Key locations include the Hockomock Swamp where spirits are said to dwell, the spooky
Dighton Rock and Profile Rock with its open armed ghost, the popular suicide spot the
solitude stone and the Freetown Fall River State forest which has seen swathes of ritual
and animal sacrifice and murders.
The Bridgewater Triangle has had reports of giant snakes, UFOs, Poltergeists, bigfoot
sightings, Pukwudgie sightings, random fireballs and floating orbs as well as many ghostly
occurrences.
Honestly we could do a top 10 on this place alone.
The most enduring legend - 1 - The Witches
We know that the Salam Witch Trials were a colonial blight upon history and really did
take place between 1692 and 1693.
For some reason New England has always been obsessed with ghosts…believing in them absolutely!
The Salam Witch trials were just one example of witch fever which swept across the East
Coast of America.
The Salam trials began because a group of young girls claimed to be possessed by the
devil and accused several local women…many of whom were killed as a result.
Tales of witches run rife in Massachussetts, and the evidence can still be seen today – for
example a lot of homes have Witch Windows, which are slanted windows that were built
to stop witches flying into homes – these can also be found up in Vermont.
So afraid of witches!
SO THAT was the Top 10 Scary Massachusetts Urban Legends…
Comments: Scary Mirror Urban Legends Michael Rohlfing Said: The reason vampires
don’t have a reflection in classic myths is because mirrors used to be lined with silver
and not glass.
Silver was believed to be a holy metal which vampires would not be reflected in as they
were unholy creatures.
Modern mirrors backed with plastic or glass will show a vampire.
So maybe that guy without a reflection is a ghost??
Knight Slasher Mirror mirror on the wall who is the scariest
of them all?