Strange New England Podcast

Aug 10 2024 40 ep. 17 mins 1.1k

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A compendium of New England strangeness, paranormal or historical. Join host Tom Burby as he investigates some of the regions oddest happenings, most interesting personalities and unsolved mysteries.

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The Last Tree in the Meadow -a Ghost Story

Aug 10 2024 17 mins

NOTE: The following story contains description of a suicide and may not be suitable for younger listeners. Ghosts are old companions. They’ve been with us since the very beginning. Go…

The Light in the Barn

Oct 18 2023 26 mins

I was ten years old when my grandfather died. He died in his sleep during the cold February night with his rosary in his hands. My cousin had to break…

The Minister’s Black Veil & Patience Boston

Aug 04 2023 39 mins

It’s a warm July Sunday in 1745. You’re sitting in your pew at the First Church of York, Maine, waiting for the service to begin. It is a quiet time,…

The Strange Voyage of the Charles Haskell

Jul 01 2023 20 mins

A ghost story is usually a solitary thing. It lives by itself and doesn’t go out much and by its nature, is solitary and lonesome. A ghost story is the…

The Charming Man of the North Woods

Mar 04 2023 21 mins

You’ve heard a lot of stories about the old days in the deep woods of northern Maine, when river drivers cut the trees and moved the logs into the rivers,…

The Phantom Trains of the North Woods

Jul 23 2022 17 mins

There are trains in the forest that run on their own schedules, trains whose origins and destinations are as mysterious as forest itself. These are some of their tales.

The Lost Village of Riceville, Maine

Jun 24 2022 21 mins

When I was a boy, my father told me a story about a ghost town. I come from northern Maine, Aroostook County, a place of endless trees and potato fields…

The Bunkers at the End of the World

May 14 2022 14 mins

Loring Air Force Base, which itself is now only a memory. The bunkers we walk among are easily viewed on Google Earth but at one time in the early 1950s, this was one of the most secure and secret sites on the planet. Inside this strange and haunting set of structures half buried in the earth, the United States stored enough nuclear warheads to destroy the earth several times over.

The Man Who Wandered After Death

Oct 17 2021 16 mins

Three score years and ten. It says it in the Bible, our allotted time upon this planet, the time we can expect to wander and walk and wonder, because nobody…

The Living Machine of John Murray Spear

Sep 13 2021 22 mins

It looks like a small desk without any legs, just sitting there on a table, a well-fashioned rectangular wooden box containing within it a drawer that pulls out to reveal…