Category Archives: New England Folklore
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Cryptober Day 5 – The Devil Monkey of Danville, NH
1October 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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