S1E09 Stamford's Friendly Ghosts

02/21/20 • 12 min

Approximately 30 miles from Manhattan is Stamford, CT. Stamford, which was incorporated as a city in 1893, is a part of the Greater New York metropolitan area and home to eight Fortune 500 companies. And like many cities on the east coast, Stamford has its own vibrant downtown district with restaurants and entertainment, museums, parks, and yes, ghosts.

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S1E08 Blackbeard's Ghost and Other Seafaring Spirits

When you think of pirates, warm tropical climates probably come to mind, but the islands off the coast of New England were popular hang-outs for the swashbuckling set. The Isles of Shoals off Portsmouth, New Hampshire was home to none other than Blackbeard.

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S1E10 Murder on Smuttynose Island

In 1871, Louis Wagner was a mysterious loner, barely scratching out a living fishing the Maine and New Hampshire waters off the Isles of Shoals, when he had the good fortune to meet John Hontvet and his wife Maren. For two years John and Maren took a personal interest in seeing that Wagner was never in need of food or clothing, and hiring him to work on John’s prosperous fishing schooner, the Clara Bella. On the morning of March 6,1873, 147 years ago, the Hontvets discovered how their kindness was to be repaid.