New England Legends: Dogtown Commons

New England Legends: Dogtown Commons

Dogtown Commons is an abandoned settlement on the outskirts of Gloucester, MA, where the founder of Babson College left a strange legacy in stone during the Great Depression which endures to this day. Legend Hunter Jeff Belanger takes us to Dogtown to find out more...
New England Legends

New England Legends

Just in time for Halloween, Legend Hunter Jeff Belanger is back, with a look at some of New England’s most eccentric residents… including one who thought he could weigh a man’s...
New England Legends: The Mount

New England Legends: The Mount

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton’s home, the Mount, in Lenox, Massachusetts is renowned for its beauty and majesty – but there’s also a sinister side to it. Marital infidelities, madness, and death are also a part of this gilded age...
New England Legends: Return to October Mountain

New England Legends: Return to October Mountain

In 2012, legend hunter Jeff Belanger took us to October Mountain in search of a hidden cemetery and the ghost of a little girl. He found the cemetery, and that the girl had a name: Anna Pease. We thought that was the end of the story, but then we got an unexpected...
New England Legends: Origins of Halloween

New England Legends: Origins of Halloween

It’s that time of year again, when ghosts and goblins walk the earth and the veil between our world and the spirit world is said to be at its thinnest… A perfect time for legend chaser Jeff Belanger to examine the origins of Halloween, find out why we like being...
New England Legends: Ventfort Hall

New England Legends: Ventfort Hall

Built by the J.P. Morgan family, Lenox’s Ventfort Hall is a Gilded Age mansion with ties to the legendary Massachusetts 54th regiment from the Civil War and was host to the people who shaped and molded this country at the turn of the century – the Vanderbilts and the...
Halloween at the Deerfield Inn

Halloween at the Deerfield Inn

Deerfield, MA is just 30 miles north of Springfield, but when you drive through you feel as if you’ve gone back in time 200-300 years. The buildings and the streets are almost the same. Some say the past is such a huge part of the present that it permeates the...