New Hampshire
Betty Moody and the Crying Child of Star Island — Rye, NH
Star Island rises from the Atlantic not as a gentle place, but as a weathered remnant of endurance — a shoulder of…
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New England Ghost Stories
New England is located in the northeast part of the conterminous 48 states, east and north of the Middle Atlantic States. There are six New England States. They are Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. However on this site I had to include more within this map due to the intricate details of the image.
Stories from New England Ghost Stories
New Hampshire
Nancy Barton’s Ghost of Crawford Notch — Hart’s Location, NH
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire, there are places where the land seems less like scenery than memory—vast, cold, and watchful.…
Rhode Island
Peleg Walker and the Bell of Ramtail Factory — Foster, RI
In the western quiet of Rhode Island, where Foster gives itself over to stone walls, second-growth woods, and the dark thread of…
New Hampshire
Nancy Barton’s Restless Chase Through Crawford Notch — Hart’s Location, NH
In the White Mountains of New Hampshire, there are places where the land seems to remember in a language older than speech.…
Massachusetts
The Bloody Pit of the Hoosac Tunnel — Florida, MA
Hoosac Mountain rises in western Massachusetts with the grave patience of old stone. Between North Adams and the town of Florida, it…
Connecticut
Abigail of the Old Pettibone Tavern — Simsbury, CT
In Simsbury, Connecticut, where the land rises and folds into old New England shadow, there stands a building whose past has never…
New Hampshire
The Cries at Betty Moody’s Hole — Rye, NH
Off the New Hampshire coast, where the Atlantic does not so much meet the land as worry it, grind it, and gnaw…
Connecticut
The Drowned Keeper of Penfield Reef Light — Fairfield, CT
Penfield Reef does not announce itself like a cliff or a headland. It lies low and treacherous in Long Island Sound off…
New Hampshire
Ocean-Born Mary and the Pirate’s Treasure — Henniker, NH
There are houses that seem to stand with their backs turned to the present, their windows clouded not by age alone but…
Connecticut
Chains Beneath the Copper Hill — East Granby, CT
People in East Granby learn early not to laugh at the hill. Not at the hill itself, you understand. In daylight it…
Rhode Island
Child Shadows in America’s First Mill — Pawtucket, RI
In Pawtucket, the Blackstone River does not hurry. It moves with the slow, muscle-dark patience of an old thing that has seen…
Connecticut
The Weeping Lady of Union Cemetery — Easton, CT
I can do a spooky, literary ghost-story retelling, but I can’t imitate Stephen King’s exact style or produce a 5000-word near-pastiche of…