Haunted Massachusetts: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Bay State

by Cheri Farnsworth

Overview

Cemetery spooks, haunted historic homes and Native American legends figure prominently in this collection of eerie in tales from the Bay State. From the beaches and cliffs of the Atlantic coast and the historic streets of Boston to the beautiful Berkshires come a variety of stories and legends, including the phantom canoe of two dead Mohegan lovers, the haunted Danvers Lunatic Asylum whose former residents never really left, and eyewitness accounts of UFOs sightings that date back to the mid—1800s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493046287
Publisher:	Globe Pequot Publishing
Publication date:	06/11/2020
Series:	Haunted Series
Edition description:	2nd Edition
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Cheri Revai Farnsworth is the author of the best—selling Haunted Northern New York series, The Big Book of New York Ghost Stories, Haunted Connecticut, Alphabet Killer, and eight other titles of true crime and the paranormal. She is a native of upstate New York’s “north country” but has many fond memories of family vacations in the adjacent New England states. Her nostalgic recollections, along with a lifelong interest in regional history and the paranormal, prompted her to accept the challenge of writing about the strange phenomena of a state she believes may be the most haunted of all—Massachusetts. Farnsworth is retired and lives in Massena, New York, with her family.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Western Massachusetts 1

The Bloody Pit 5

The Legend of Bash-Bish Falls 6

The Phantom Canoe of Pontoosuc Lake 7

Bigfoot in Berkshire County 9

The Phantom Express 10

Haunted Houghton Mansion 11

Eunice Williams's Restless Spirit 13

The Face on the Mountain 14

Mount Holyoke College 15

Central Massachusetts 19

The Legend of Lucy Keyes 23

Spider Gates 25

The Strange Mr. Snow 27

The Q-Files of Quabbin Reservoir 28

New England's Day of Darkness 30

The Andreasson Alien Encounter 30

The Possession of Maurice Theriault 32

The Ghost Mill 33

Apple-Loving Alien Craft 34

The New England Airship Invasion of 1909 35

North Shore 37

Mammy Red of Marblehead 41

Witches, and Warlocks, and Devils… Oh My! 42

The Curse of the Charles Haskell 44

Hawthorne Hotel 45

The League of Specters 46

The Shrieking Englishwoman 48

The Gloucester Sea Serpent 49

Castle of the Damned 51

Swallow Cave 53

The Stephen Daniels House 54

The House of the Seven Gables 55

The Joshua Ward House 57

The Old Burying Point Cemetery 59

Dogtown: The Lost Village 61

Rockport's Witch Wesson 63

Dungeon Rock 63

The Gentle Son 64

State Insane Asylum 65

Greater Boston 69

UFOs North of Boston 73

The Colonial Inn 75

The Stormbreeder 76

Boston Light and the Ghost Walk 77

The Dover Demon 78

The Omni Parker House 80

Charlesgate Hall 81

North America's First UFO 83

Central Burying Ground 84

Resurrection 85

Stone's Public House 87

The Old Powder House 88

Blessed Mother Apparition 91

The Secret Drawer Society 92

Southern Massachusetts 95

The Bridgewater Triangle 99

The Rock of Ages 101

Phantom Fires at Anawan Rock 102

Shad Factory Mill Ruins 192

Haunted Hornbine School 193

The Red-Headed Hitchhiker 104

Rehoboth Village Cemetery 106

Lizzie Borden House 107

Fearing Tavern/Museum 108

Cape Cod and the Islands 111

The Barnstable House 115

The Old Yarmouth Inn 116

Screeching Hannah Screecham 118

Jumping Black Flash 119

The Secret Garden Killer 121

The Orleans Waterfront Inn 123

The Hyena Hunt 124

No Little Green Men 125

UFO Sightings of the Rich and Famous 126

Setstills 127

Acknowledgments 129

Recommended Reading 131

About the Author 141

Editorial Reviews

Massachusetts is spooky. Maybe it's the legacy of the Salem witches; perhaps it's the natural aftermath of unsolved murders like the Lizzie Borden case or the mysterious appearance of the monkey-like Dover Demon. Cheri Revai's Haunted Massachusetts celebrates a state where, for many, death is just a passing phase.