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October 19, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
We conclude our survey of Boston’s most ghoulist spots and anecdotes… King’s Chapel’s odd enclosure An oddity often spotted, but …
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Category: October-ganza
| Tags: Albert Scott Cox, Copp's Hill Burying Ground, Granary Burying Ground, Harvard, Jonathan Armitage, King's Chapel Burying Ground, Mary Paine, October-ganza, Re. Daille, Spunkers Club, the 'T', the Historic Burying Grounds Initiative, Ye Ancient Burying Grounds of Boston
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October 18, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
An instance is given of an empty tomb being taken possession of by some wandering vagrants, from which they terrified …
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Category: October-ganza
| Tags: Bird Island, Boston Neck Cemetery, Captain Gruchy, City Crimes, Deer Island, George Thompson, ghouls, Long Island, Nixes' Mate, North End, Quaker Cemetery, Rainsford Island, tunnels
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October 17, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
Things have been dark, of late, here on the blog, and a little snarky (sorry, but reading all those ”ghost’ …
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Category: October-ganza
| Tags: Autocrat, Beverages, Cabinet, Coffee Milk, Dr. Augustin Thompson, Dunkin' Donuts, Eclipse, Frappes, gentian root, Moxie, New England, Switchel, Woonsocket
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October 16, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
A dispatch from California describes a theosophist colony as donning white robes en masse for some “glorious fulfillment” which never …
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Category: October-ganza
| Tags: California, Cults, Great Eleven, May Otis Blackburn, Rita Wieland Rickenbaugh Rizzio, Samuel Fort, Ward Sitton Blackburn, Willa Rhodes
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October 15, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
We’ve covered the ‘haunted’ cemeteries of Connecticut, Maine, and Massachusetts so far, now we turn to New England’s other three …
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Category: October-ganza
| Tags: Abel Blood, Ballou Cemetery, Black Agnes, Blood Cemetery, Erastus Hubbard, Gilson Road Cemetery, Green Mount Cemetery, Haunted Cemeteries of New England, Pine Hill Cemetery, Pukwudgies, Stones and Bones of New England, Thanatos, Thanos, Vale End Cemetery
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October 14, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
There is a contradiction, to my mind at least, between the traditional lore of how ghosts are created (violent murder, …
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Category: October-ganza
| Tags: Central Burying Ground, Dean Hill Road Cemetery, Evergreen Cemetery, Four Corner's Cemetery, Giles Corey, Hannah Cranna, Howard Street Cemetery, Mary Nasson, Midnight Mary, Old Burying Ground, Old Hill Burying Ground, Quaker Cemetery, Red Eyes, Spider Gates, Union Cemetery, White Lady
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October 13, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
It is fascinating to watch the gradual evolution of various odd and curious tales from the past be repurosed by …
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Category: October-ganza
| Tags: Cotton Mather, Gloucester, John Emerson, October-ganza, Phantoms
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October 12, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
We turn today from murder and gruesome executions in greater Boston to the genteel chambers of an unusual social club …
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Category: October-ganza
| Tags: Bookhounds of London, Boston, Club of Odd Volumes, October-ganza
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October 12, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
I have, adding ever on to my browser’s very odd search history, been looking at the use of gibbets in …
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Category: October-ganza
| Tags: Bird Island, Burned at the stake, Charlestown, Daniel Allen Hearn, Executions, Gibbet, Jack, King Philip, Legal Executions in New England, Maria, Mark, Massachusetts, Nixes' Mate, October-ganza, Phillis, Phoebe
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October 10, 2015 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)
When you are a collector of weird New England lore, you notice a few names appearing again and again on …
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Category: October-ganza
| Tags: Robert Ellis Cahill, Salem
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