Category Archives: New England Folklore
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Cryptober Day 5 – The Devil Monkey of Danville, NH
Leave a commentOctober 6, 2020 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Our first swing through New England’s menagerie of mysterious (and probably mythical) creatures has reached New Hampshire, a state possessing …
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Cryptober day 4 – The Dover Demon
Leave a commentOctober 5, 2020 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
In April of 1977, several teens witness a strange creature in the woods around the small town of Dover, Massachusetts. …
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Cryptober day 3 – The Spectral Moose of Maine
Leave a commentOctober 4, 2020 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Many strange creatures are said to stalk the woods of Maine, but none is quite so famous as the so-called …
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Cryptober day 2 – Come on Feel the Melon Heads
Leave a commentOctober 3, 2020 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
In the woods of southwestern Connecticut, so they say, in certain lonely places, you can encounter a strange group of …
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Yankee Yarns – Alton Blackington’s radio show of New England folklore
1January 18, 2020 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
As Arkham Gazette #4 finally comes together, I wanted to share something I discovered as we put the issue together. …
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Two New England Cults: ‘The Live For-Evers’ and ‘The Church of the End Times’
Leave a commentNovember 7, 2017 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
One plot staple of Call of Cthulhu (and in many other Lovecraftian RPGs and Lovecraftian fiction) are cults – so …
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Guy Fawkes Night in New England
Leave a commentNovember 3, 2017 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
While Halloween is now past, in New England, until about a century ago, there was another night of masks and …
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New England’s Alchemists, pt. 2: Bulkeley and Lodowick
Leave a commentOctober 24, 2017 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
(You’d be forgiven in thinking that I’d forgotten about our various orphaned posts, but I really do intend to wrap …
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New England Halloween folklore
Leave a commentOctober 17, 2017 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
It has been a while since I’ve updated the blog here. Sadly time is at a premium of late and …
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“Black” Dinah Prince – an 18th century ‘witch’ in York, Maine; pt. 1
Leave a commentAugust 16, 2017 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
One of my interests is account of witchcraft (you can imagine I’m always using air quotes around that term unless …
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