120 episodes

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!

New England Legends Podcast Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger

    • Society & Culture
    • 4.9 • 915 Ratings

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!

    FtV – Yo Ho Ho and a Barrel of Buried Rum

    FtV – Yo Ho Ho and a Barrel of Buried Rum

    Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 66 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore Liberty Hill Cemetery in Lebanon, Connecticut, where they say there’s a barrel of rum buried beneath one of the headstones. And the word is, there’s a local sea captain who was just dying to get to it. This episode first aired May 30, 2019.
     
    Listen ad-free plus get early access and bonus episodes at: https://www.patreon.com/NewEnglandLegends

    • 15 min
    FtV - The Ghost of Hull

    FtV - The Ghost of Hull

    Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 65 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore Hull, Massachusetts, in search of multiple ghosts spotted around the turn of the twentieth century. After a ghostly horse and buggy was spotted by none other than local hero Captain Joshua James, a strange apparition stalked a local actor by the Hull Cemetery. We hear their accounts, and walk the grounds searching for the spooky specters. This episode first aired October 21, 2021.
     
    Listen ad-free plus get early access and bonus episodes at: https://www.patreon.com/NewEnglandLegends

    • 19 min
    The Ghoul of Chebacco Parish

    The Ghoul of Chebacco Parish

    In Episode 353 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the Old Burying Ground in Essex, Massachusetts. Back in October of 1817, a ghoul snatched eight bodies from the local cemetery causing a huge stir in town. An investigation was launched with shocking results. But who done it? And why?
     
    See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-353-the-ghoul-of-chebacco-parish/
     
    Listen ad-free plus get early access and bonus episodes at: https://www.patreon.com/NewEnglandLegends

    • 16 min
    FtV - Hunting Slipperyskin

    FtV - Hunting Slipperyskin

    Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 64 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger hike the woods of Maidstone, Vermont, in search of a clever, but annoying hairy beast called Slipperyskin. For generations, this creature, described as a bear who walks on his hind legs, and who torments the people of Essex County, roamed the forest giving everyone who hunted him the slip. Could he still be out there in the Northeastern Kingdom? This episode first aired December 5, 2019.
     
    Listen ad-free plus get early access and bonus episodes at: https://www.patreon.com/NewEnglandLegends

    • 15 min
    Hunting the Wampahoofus of Mt. Mansfield

    Hunting the Wampahoofus of Mt. Mansfield

    In Episode 352 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger hike the trails of Mt. Mansfield in northern Vermont in search of the elusive Wampahoofus. Said to be a cross between a deer and a boar, the creature circles the mountain either in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction. Are there any left?
     
    See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-352-hunting-the-wampahoofus-of-mt-mansfield/
     
    Listen ad-free plus get early access and bonus episodes at: https://www.patreon.com/NewEnglandLegends

    • 14 min
    FtV – The Broken Hearted Ghost of Edgar Allan Poe

    FtV – The Broken Hearted Ghost of Edgar Allan Poe

    Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 63 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger take a Valentine’s Day stroll down Benefit Street in Providence, Rhode Island, to the Athenaeum in search of the brokenhearted ghost of Edgar Allan Poe. It was at the Athenaeum that Poe once courted poet Sarah Helen Whitman and it was at this same building that Whitman once tried to summon his spirit. Could the master of horror still be haunting Providence? Had events gone differently would it had been Providence and not Baltimore that claimed Poe as their own? This episode first aired February 14, 2019.
     
    Listen ad-free plus get early access and bonus episodes at: https://www.patreon.com/NewEnglandLegends

    • 18 min

Customer Reviews

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915 Ratings

915 Ratings

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Awesome podcast keep up the good work
Also plz do an episode about the devil monkeys

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Love to listen

I really enjoy your podcast about New England. I live in New England so it’s interesting to hear about things that are local to me. Really enjoy it

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Love this podcast!!

The after the legend talk on the FtV episode about the Molasses disaster was really great!

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