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