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October-ganza 3, Day 17: Cemeteries Lost & Found
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October 17, 2016 by Bret Kramer (aka WinstonP)

I found what I had half expected, that where the shunned house now stood the Roulets had laid out their …
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Category: October-ganza | Tags: Bird Island, Boston, Boston Neck Cemetery, Graveyards, Leicester, Leicester (MA), Michael W. Bell, Nixes' Mate, Portsmouth (NH), Portsmouth African American Cemetery, Quinebaug Cemetery, Southgate Pasture Cemetery, vampire, West 7th & Dorcester St Tombs
October-ganza Day 18: Ghoulish Boston, part 1
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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
October-ganza Day 11: The Executions of Phillis and Mark, 1755
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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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