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Ghost Stories & Folklore

Boston Ghosts & Haunted Folklore

• Central Burying Ground, Desecrated Graves
• Charlesgate Hotel Building, Entrapped by a Ghost
• King's Chapel Burying Ground, Buried Alive
• Old Charlestown Bridge, Peter Rugg, The Missing Man
• Old Province House, Esther Dudley's Magic Mirror
• Quaker Executions at Boston Neck
• Boston Harbor, George's Island Lady In Black Ghost
• Boston Harbor, Nix's Mate Pirate Curse

Massachusetts Folklore

• Fox Hill Bridge Ghost - Lynn, MA
• Lizzie Borden House - Fall River, MA
• Bell Rock Cemetery Ghost - Malden, MA
• Powder House Ghost - Somerville, MA

New England Haunted Folklore

• Woman In Black Ghost - Barnstable, MA (1886)
• Ghost of Murdered Brother - Boston, MA (1687)
• Scared to Death - Cambridge, MA (1800) - New
• Concord Avenue Haunted House - Cambridge, MA (1885)
• The Window Rattler - Fairhaven, MA (1892)
• Haunted Schooner Jourdan - Fall River, MA (1885)
• Spirituous Dispute - Fall River, MA (1889)
• Mystery Buggy & Apparition - Hull, MA (1902)
• Night Walker - Jamaica Plain, MA (1888)
• Lady On The Stairs Ghost - Lynn, MA (1890)
• Armory Ghost - Gloucester, MA (1896)
• Haunted Schooner Arizona - Gloucester, MA (1885)
• Parker Hill Ghost - Roxbury, MA (1884)
• Entertaining Ghost - Sandwich, MA (1886)
• Spirit Guardians - Somerville, MA (1883)
• Cemetery Spirit - Weymouth, MA (1886)
• Nancy Brook Ghost - Bartlett, NH (1880s)
• Portsmouth Poltergeist - Portsmouth, NH (1838)

Devils, Witches & Curses

• Margaret Jones Execution - Boston, MA (1648)
• A Race With The Devil - Woburn, MA (c.1781)
• Curse of Ann Hopkins - Cambridge, MA (1881)

New England Strange & Occult Stories

• First UFO Sighting - Boston, MA (1639)
• First USO Sighting - Boston, MA (1644)
• Ghost Ship UFO - New Haven, CT (1647)
• Dead Ship of Harpswell - Harpswell, ME (c.1865)
• Psychic Detective Story - Boston, MA (1848)
• Body Snatched - Ashland, NH (1885)
• UFO Scare - National Story (1897)

Native American Stories

• Horn Pond Island Legend - Woburn, MA
• Rag Rock Legend - Woburn, MA
• Thunderbird Legend - Passamaquoddy Tribe
• Thunder Marriage - Passamaquoddy Tribe