Ghosts of the Bridgewater Triangle

by Christopher Balzano

Overview

For the past twenty-five years, the people along the Massachusetts-Rhode Island border have known about the Bridgewater Triangle and the odd things that occur there. But for centuries before that, the Triangle has been a haven for the unexplained, with sightings of weird animals, UFOs, ghosts, and unmarked, strange government vehicles. Now, for the first time, the full light of research is brought to this understudied aspect of the Triangle, including the examination of classic hauntings as well as urban legends told for years as true stories. Learn about the ghosts of Profile and Anawan Rocks in Freetown, the spirits haunting the hospital of the insane in Taunton, the eerie cemeteries in Fairhaven, Attleboro, and Fall River, and many more scary sites. Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island can finally be exposed as one of the most haunted areas of New England.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780764330063
Publisher:	Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date:	08/07/2008
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	635,536
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Christopher Balzano is a teacher and accomplished author from the Boston area. He is the founder and director of Massachusetts Paranormal Crossroads, an online collection of legends and ghost stories from Massachusetts and the surrounding states. He has been investigating the paranormal for more than ten years and has been writing about it for the past five.

Table of Contents

Introduction 7

Preface: Travels Into the Weird 12

Part 1 Where It All Began 18

They See It All 20

It Happens First in Freetown 26

The Ghosts of the Wampanoags 39

Profile Rock

King Philip's Cave

Anawan Rock

Assawompset Pond

Part 2 The Legacy of State Mental Hospitals 51

The Hospital of the Insane 52

Just Down the Street 60

The Other Asylum 71

Part 3 Stories in Stone 78

Triangle Cemeteries 80

Riverside Cemetery

Broadway Street Cemetery

St. Stephen's Cemetery

Clark & Horr Cemetery

Oak Grove Cemetery

Ellis Bolles Cemetery

Mount Hope Cemetery

Remembering the Dead 90

The Cemeteries at the Apex 94

Palmer River Burial Ground

The Old Village Cemetery

Part 4 A Triangle Within the Triangle 106

The Robinson Hauntings 108

The Hornbine School

Province Street

The Shade Factory

Massachusetts' Most Famous Ghost 117

The Other Most Famous Ghost 127

Part 5 In Session 138

Walking the Halls 140

Fairhaven High School

Tabor Academy

Bridgewater State College

Wheaton Ghosts 146

Stonehill College 150

Part 6 Ghostly Cities, Places, & Objects 164

The Haunted City 166

The Summer Vacation 172

The Haunted Violin 175

Friends and Bunnies 177

In the Bedroom 180

The Man in the Window 183

Don't Look too Much 185

Part 7 The Sounds of Ghosts 190

The EVP Guy 192

The Haunted Town Hall 198

The Children & Angry Old Woman 201

Conclusion: And That's Only the Beginning 217

Bibliography 219

Index 223