Wicked Strange: Your Guide to Ghosts, Monsters, Oddities, and Urban Legends from New England -- Jeff Belanger, Paperback
Wicked Strange: Your Guide to Ghosts, Monsters, Oddities, and Urban Legends from New England -- Jeff Belanger, Paperback
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- The Haunting of Conimicut Lighthouse--Warwick, Rhode Island
- Maine's Sistine Chapel--South Solon, Maine
- Edith Wharton's Haunted Mansion, The Mount--Lenox, Massachusetts
- Emily's Haunted Bridge--Stowe, Vermont
- The Sleeping Giant--Hamden, Connecticut
- The Haunted Mt. Washington Hotel--Bretton Woods, New Hampshire
New England is also full of monsters and devils that lurk in the woods, lakes, and seas. Explored are some of the best known and most obscure, including Lake Champlain's Champ; the Cumberland Vampire of Rhode Island; Gloucester's Sea Serpent; the Black Dog of West Peak in Meriden, Connecticut; and the Flying Moose of Maine. Also covered are unusual events, such as UFO sightings (Connecticut's UFO crash at Bantam Lake / Betty and Barney Hill's UFO experience), and roadside oddities, such as the World's Tallest Filing Cabinet (Burlington, VT), Boston's Big Steaming Tea Kettle, and the literal Fork in the Road of Westport, MA. Wicked Strange takes you off the beaten path, revealing a hidden world right under your nose. Come journey through the towns, hamlets, and hills that hide the strangest of history. Uncover the wickedly strange.
Author: Jeff Belanger
Publisher: New Page Books
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781637480212
About the Author
Jeff Belanger is one of the most visible and prolific researchers of legends and lore today. A natural storyteller, he's the award-winning, Emmy-nominated host, writer, and producer of the New England Legends series on PBS and Amazon Prime and is the author of over a dozen books (published in six languages). He also hosts the award-winning New England Legends weekly podcast, which has garnered over four million downloads since its launch and ranks in the top half percent of all podcasts for popularity, according to Listen Notes. Belanger's books include the bestsellers The Fright Before Christmas, The World's Most Haunted Places, Weird Massachusetts, Our Haunted Lives, The Call of Kilimanjaro, and Who's Haunting the White House? He founded Ghostvillage.com in 1999--one of the web's most popular paranormal destinations--and he's a noted speaker and media personality. He was featured in the one hundredth episode of Stories from the Stage on PBS, he's given a TEDx talk in New York City, and he spoke at MENSA's national conference. Belanger has written for newspapers such as the Boston Globe and USA Today and has served as the writer and researcher on numerous television series, including every single episode of Ghost Adventures (twenty-five seasons and counting), Paranormal Challenge, and Aftershocks on Travel Channel, and Amish Haunting on Destination America.
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