Episode 115: Perspective (ad-free)
Added 2019-05-27 07:00:59 +0000 UTCThe way we explain the world around us is determined by the lens we view it through, especially when events sit outside the realm of the believable. And no better moment in time can illustrate that idea better than the perfect storm of fear and paranoia that descended on a New England village a handful of centuries ago.
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Further Reading
- “Aliens in New England? A Timeline of UFO Sightings and Unusual Encounters,” New England Today Living, January 2019, https://newengland.com/today/living/new-england-history/ufo-sightings-alien-sightings.
- “The Spectre Leaguers, 1692,” Stories from Ipswich, August 2014, https://storiesfromipswich.org/2014/08/10/the-spectre-leaguers-1692.
- Samuel Adams Drake, New England Legends and Folk Lore (Little, Brown, and Company, 1901), pp. 253-259.
- Charles M. Skinner, Myths and Legends of Our Own Land (J. B. Lippincott Company, 1896) pp 238-241.
- Cotton Mather, Magnalia Christi Americana: or, The ecclesiastical history of New-England, from its first planting in the year 1620 unto the year of Our Lord, 1698 (Thomas Parkhurst, 1702).
- Edmund Henry Garrett, Romance and Reality of the Puritan Coast (Nabu Press, 2010).
- Joseph A. Citro, Passing Strange: True Tales of New England Hauntings and Horrors (Houghton Mifflin, 1996).
- Robert Damon Schneck, The Bye Bye Man: and Other Strange-but-True Tales (Tarcher Perigee, 2016).
- Gasser Erika Anne, Manhood, Witchcraft and Possession in Old and New England (The University of Michigan, 2007).
- “Margaret Rule: Hidden Cause, Visible Effects,” Hidden Cause Visible Effects, December 2012, hiddencause.wordpress.com/tag/margaret-rule/.
Comments
I loved this story when it was a lore extra, and I love it now that it's a full episode.
andrea michalak
2024-09-23 16:57:12 +0000 UTC
