New England
Salem, the Bridgewater Triangle, and America's oldest haunted landscape
New England is the cradle of American paranormal history. The Salem witch trials of 1692 established a template of mass accusation and community hysteria that researchers still study. The Bridgewater Triangle in southeastern Massachusetts — a 200-square-mile zone encompassing Hockomock Swamp — has recorded UFO sightings, Bigfoot encounters, cattle mutilations, and ghostly apparitions for over three centuries. Rhode Island gave us the Mercy Brown vampire case and the real Conjuring farmhouse. Vermont has the highest per-capita UFO reporting rate of any US state.
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The Bridgewater Triangle
Southeastern Massachusetts, USA
A 200-square-mile paranormal hotspot. UFOs, Bigfoot, thunderbirds, giant snakes, ghosts, cult activity, and poltergeists all converge in this cursed Massachusetts region.
The Mercy Brown Vampire Incident
Exeter, Rhode Island, USA
One of the last recorded vampire exhumations in America occurred when a dying man's family dug up his daughter's body, believing she was a vampire draining his life force.
The Perron Family Haunting (The Conjuring House)
Harrisville, Rhode Island, USA
The true story behind 'The Conjuring.' The Perron family endured a decade of terror from multiple spirits, including the demonic witch Bathsheba.
Salem
Massachusetts, United States
The 1692 witch trials executed 20 innocent people. Pressed to death, hanged, died in prison. Their restless spirits haunt the locations of their suffering. 'More weight,' said Giles Corey as he was crushed.
Boston
Massachusetts, United States
Birthplace of the American Revolution—and home to countless revolutionary ghosts. The Boston Massacre, hanging of witches, prisoners on spectral island. Paul Revere still rides.
Borden House Hauntings
Fall River, Massachusetts, USA
Andrew and Abby Borden were hacked to death in 1892. Daughter Lizzie was acquitted. The house became a bed and breakfast where guests sleep in murder rooms—and report the victims returning nightly to the scene of their brutal deaths.
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