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Twice each week, legend hunter, author, and historian Jeff Belanger and radio host Ray Auger explore the ghosts, monsters, aliens, folklore, history, roadside oddities, true crime, and legends of New England in this award-winning podcast. If you give us about twenty minutes, we’ll give you something strange to talk about today. The bizarre is closer than you think!
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A podcast about the people behind the music that other people wrote, performed and made millions off of and their goals to score a little gas money and cover the bar tab.
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Longtime friends Jay, Chris and Melanie discuss whether movies from our past survive the test of time. New episodes every Friday.
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In Episode 393 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger investigate Vale End Cemetery in Wilton, New Hampshire, searching for a ghost known as the Blue Lady. But who is she? Or rather… who WAS she? We dig in (not literally). See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-393-the-blue-lady-of-vale-end-cemetery/ Listen ad-free plus get early access and b…
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Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 111 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to Westerly, Rhode Island, in search of witches. While never formally charged with witchcraft, Granny Mott and Rebecca Sims both had witchy reputations in the eighteenth century. Granny Mott could turn herself into a chicken, and Rebecca Sims was a su…
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This week, Melanie's out, and Jay and Chris review the comedy, Quick Change!If you enjoy our videos and podcast, please rate and review the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts! Please Like the video and subscribe to our channel! / @thefilmcrickets3831 / thefilmcrickets [email protected] / filmcrickets Origi…
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In Episode 392 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the shores of Plymouth, Massachusetts search for a giant sea serpent that as spotted here by multiple witnesses back in the mid-1800s. One of those witnesses was none other than stateman and orator Daniel Webster. See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-392-the-plymouth-sea-serpent/…
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Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 110 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger walk up to a tiny pond in Millis, Massachusetts, they say is bottomless, they also say the devil meets with his minions in this spot as a headless ghost circles the pond after being summoned by hobgoblins. They call this mysterious place now nestled into a…
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In Episode 391 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger investigate the haunted ruins of Whipple Hollow near West Rutland, Vermont. Back in 1938, a ghost sighting near the old marble quarry made the newspaper and started a buzz around the community. The theory is the ghost is that of an old quarry worker who died in an accident, but is it true? See more here: h…
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Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 109 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the Boston Athenaeum in search of a rare book — the 1837 memoirs and deathbed confession of thief and highwayman James Allen, alias George Walton (among others). Allen’s dying wish was to have one copy of the book bound in leather made from the ski…
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In Episode 390 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the story of Dr. Horace Wells of Hartford, Connecticut, a dentist who attended a nitrous oxide expedition in 1844. Though the performance was a laughing matter, Dr. Wells took what he saw seriously. He was inspired to try using the gas in his dental practice. Though he sought fame and fortune, Well…
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FtV – The Second Coming of Jemima Wilkinson
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Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 108 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to Ledyard, Connecticut, to investigate the death and alleged resurrection of Jemima Wilkinson. Going by the name Publick Universal Friend, this pronounless religious leader started a movement in the late 1700s, then traveled New England ready to perf…
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The Haunting of the Nathanael Greene Homestead
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In Episode 389 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger investigate the haunted Nathanael Greene Homestead in Coventry, Rhode Island. Built in 1770, the stately Colonial home was a castle that oversaw the Greene’s iron forge empire. Many triumphs and tragedies graced this home over the centuries, and today they say the places is haunted by unexplained sites, so…
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FtV - The Strange Legends of Mt. Moosilauke
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Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 107 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger hike the Appalachian Trail up to Mt. Moosilauke near Benton in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, in search of three hikers who went missing in a ravine long ago, and an immortal mad doctor who abducts the unsuspecting to perform ungodly experiments. Th…
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In Episode 388 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore Beals Island, Maine, searching for the legend of Barnabas Coffin Beal III who died in 1899. Better known as Tall Barney, some say hey was seven feet tall and as strong as five men—a giant. They say he would sleep with his feet sticking out the window because his bed was too short. Thought there are…
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Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 106 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to Union Street in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, to search for the long-lost location of a haunted farmhouse that made the newspapers back in 1887. Though it was reported to be haunted before a tragic event left a final scar, after a child was lost inside…
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In Episode 387 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to New Hampshire to break some of their strangest laws. From sugar containers, to trash pickup, to harvesting seaweed, we go on the lam in the Granite State to see what we can get away with. See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-387-breaking-new-hampshires-weirdest-laws/ Listen ad-fr…
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This week we see how well A Fish Called Wanda holds up today.If you enjoy our videos and podcast, please rate and review the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts! Please Like the video and subscribe to our channel! / @thefilmcrickets3831 / thefilmcrickets [email protected] / filmcrickets Original music provi…
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Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 105 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the woods around School House Pond in Charlestown, Rhode Island, searching for the place where a Narragansett boy named John Onion challenged the devil, and the dark rock formation where horrible acts still haunt the woods. This episode first aired…
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In Episode 386 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger row out to Thatcher’s Island off the coast of Rockport, Massachusetts, to find the site of a horrific maritime tragedy that took place in August of 1635 during the Great New England Hurricane. 23 passengers and crew were sailing aboard the Watch and Wait when the storm hit. There were two large families on…
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Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 104 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger search for Governor John Wentworth’s missing treasure in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. In 1775, with the American Revolution about to come to a boil, British Governor Wentworth is forced to flee his mansion with his family, his servants, and chests of gold and…
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