The First Kid to See Star Wars…
There are moments in your life that shine like stars in the darkness and light your path and as you remember your past. Such memories are safely couched in the…
Lithobolia – The Stone-Throwing Demons of Great Island
Today, New Castle is a small town of 2.4 square miles at the mouth of the Piscataqua River in New Hampshire bordering the neighboring state of Maine. Today, only 968…
The Red-Headed Spectre of Route 44
No one knows his name. No one knows his motives. All that is known is where he lingers, what he looks like, how he haunts the living and the circumstances…
The Luckiest Man in Old New England – Timothy Dexter
Have you ever known an extremely lucky person, a character so unlikely to be successful due to a perceived lack of wit, money, talent, and education as to be the…
Tales of Gluskabe: The King of The Ghosts
This October, Strange New England will cover ghost stories in a special series of articles with a theme befitting Halloween (or The Day of the Dead, if you celebrate it).…
Out of Place Artifact: The Story of the Dorchester Pot
Out of place artifacts are items, objects or curiosities that are out of place or out of time. They seem to occur or are discovered at random times and places,…
Revisiting the Incident at Exeter
New Hampshire has always held a fascination for me, but it’s not the mountains or the live free or die attitude. It’s not the New Hampshire Motor Speedway or Strawberry…
Pogunuk: The Lost Assassins of The Northeast
Upon conducting more research into the lore of the Wabanaki Confederacy, I stumbled across a very noteworthy legend of an obscure figure shrouded in mystery. This is a being who…