Lost Massachusetts

Lady in Black - a ghost story of George's Island (Fort Warren) from Spook New England by S.E. Scholsser. More at Lost Massachusetts Get a Postcard from a Lost Place: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lostmassachusetts.com/get-or-send-a-postcard⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Photos and contact: ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Closed section of Interstate 95 now hiking/biking trail. You can walk on a real Lost Highway...Just off the real Interstate 95 in Newburyport... Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/lost-highway-abandoned-interstate-95-e23 Get a Postcard from a Lost Place: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lostmassachusetts.com/get-or-send-a-postcard⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Photos and contact: ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instag...

In 1834 Boston's growing Irish Catholic immigrant community met the fiery resistance of a suspicious native Protestant Yankee mob. Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/ursuline-convent-fire-e22 Get a Postcard from a Lost Place: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lostmassachusetts.com/get-or-send-a-postcard⁠⁠⁠⁠ Photos and contact: ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/⁠⁠...

Sights and sites to see in an and around Worcester Mass. that may puzzle or intrigue you. Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/worcester-weird-road-trip-memories-episode-21 Get a Postcard from a Lost Place: ⁠⁠⁠https://lostmassachusetts.com/get-or-send-a-postcard⁠⁠⁠ Photos and contact: ⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/⁠⁠⁠

Mysterious (or not so much) manmade(?) cave in Upton - Attributed to various groups but still unsolved, the Upton Chamber is one of hundreds of structures throughout the region with an unknown past. Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/upton-chamber-e20 Get a Postcard from a Lost Place: ⁠⁠https://lostmassachusetts.com/get-or-send-a-postcard⁠⁠ Photos and contact:...

Weird beard. The story of a persecuted follicle fashion and an unofficial community that vanished before it could become a real town. Also, we talk to a born-and-raised son of Leominster.  Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/notown-mass-e19 Get a Postcard from a Lost Place: ⁠https://lostmassachusetts.com/get-or-send-a-postcard⁠ Photos and contact: ⁠ https://www...

Norton Furnace (Meadowbrook) and the Copper Works Now a quiet residential area with a hiking trail, the lower portion of Norton was once home to a dense collection of industrial factories. Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/norton-furnace-and-copper-works-e18 Get a Postcard from a Lost Place: ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lostmassachusetts.com/get-or-send-a-postcard⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Ph...

Working with boy scouts to find what is hidden beneath this spacious state part on the south shore... Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/wompatuck-geocaching-and-dark-secrets-e17 Get a Postcard from a Lost Place: ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://lostmassachusetts.com/get-or-send-a-postcard⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Photos and contact: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

The Long Ditch and Mother Brook are the first man-made industrial water ditch projects in America. You can canoe/kayak or hike this area that holds a critical part of our early history. Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/the-long-ditch-and-mother-brook-secrets-of-dedham Get a Postcard from a Lost Place: ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://lostmassachusetts.com/get-or-send-a-postcard...

Mysteriously named and somewhat dreamlike to match, Questing Mass has long history that could be as elusive as the monster it is named after.  Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/searching-for-a-mythical-monster-in-questing-mass Get a Postcard from a Lost Place: ⁠ ⁠⁠https://lostmassachusetts.com/get-or-send-a-postcard⁠⁠⁠ Photos and contact: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.insta...

The cutoff community of Boston Corner was eventually literally cut off from Massachusetts and added to New York. Hidden behind the Taconic Mountains, beyond the reach of Massachusetts law, the Mount Washington section called Boston Corners become a haven for gamblers, bootleggers and horse thieves. Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/the-lost-corner-aka-hells-a...

Within Rutland State Park there are the ruins of an abandoned state prison farm camp and former tuberculosis hospital. Between 1903 and 1934 this was home to hundreds of drunkards, vagrants, tramps and vagabonds, The growing power of the temperance movement put many drinkers on the outside of society. Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/lost-mass-on-wpkz-fitchb...

Recap episode for our initial shows and a Lost and Found Boston Christmas story. Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place Get a Postcard from a Lost Place: ⁠https://lostmassachusetts.com/get-or-send-a-postcard⁠ Photos and contact: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/⁠

Where does Thanksgiving really come from? Especially the food? The modern meal we eat is nothing like the original meal and the reasons for the Thanksgiving holiday (including the observed day) are Lost. Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/lost-thanksgiving-episode-11 Get a Postcard from a Lost Place: https://lostmassachusetts.com/get-or-send-a-postcard Photos...

Peddocks Island is one of Boston's larger harbor islands. Peddocks has a number of Lost stories. Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/peddocks-island-fort-andrews-e10 Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

Come along with us on a journey to the Land of the Dead on this All Souls Day as we visit Forest Hills Cemetery to examine its lost history and mysterious present. https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/city-of-the-dead-forest-hills-ep9 Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

This is a search for a town described by H.P. Lovecraft in the story: Shadow Over Innsmouth. Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/innsmouth-mass-ep8 Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

Salem Mass. Is famous for Halloween fun, creepy history and of course Witchcraft. Not only were many of the purported were demented fantasies but they may not have happened in Salem at all. Sources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/the-real-salem-mass-ep7 Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

What happened to Dogtown and what's there now? Was this a cursed place of witches and monsters? Were the residents fleeing British attacks, pirates, or Leviathan itself? Is it haunted? Is there lost treasure? Show notes: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/dogtown-part-2-the-accursed-land-ep6 Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

In the summer of 1692 Gloucester Mass was the target of bizarre attacks by demonic soldiers who could not be killed or tracked. Evil spirits? Panic? Imagination? Or something very real and explainable. Show Notes: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/details-and-links-for-episode-5---phantom-leaguers Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

Boston was once an island held together by a patchwork of dams, bridges and wharfs. The Mill Pond was a dominant feature for 200 years and on many old maps there is a forgotten point called "Waldos Wharf". Who was Waldo? Show Notes: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/details-for-waldos-wharf-the-mill-pond Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

Not just an old cemetery but the location of "pest house", a small settlement of infected people from the 18th century. Show Notes: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/details-for-episode-3-small-pox-burial-ground Get a Postcard from a Lost Place: ⁠https://lostmassachusetts.com/get-or-send-a-postcard⁠ Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

An abandoned settlement in Gloucester and Rockport Mass. A place that has had many lives and changes. Show Notes: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/notes-on-episode-2-dogtown---ghost-towns-and-phantom-roads Get a Postcard from a Lost Place: ⁠ https://lostmassachusetts.com/get-or-send-a-postcard⁠ Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/

Long Point and Wood End were two salt-producing villages at the tip of Cape Cod. Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/ Blog: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/release-of-the-floating-city-episode-1---long-point-and-wood-end

Drive with us down the dark road to the forgotten forest path that leads to a mysterious place with cracked sidewalks and overgrown cellar holes. We will introduce the show and discuss the original Lost Massachusetts (Revised). Show Notes: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/path-to-lost-massachusetts-episode-zero Photos and contact: https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/