New England Oddities

This Week’s Best Photos – Special Edition

Welcome to a special edition of This Week’s Best Photos!  Chris and I have been extra-busy lately trying to launch our new paranormal research group (more details to come on that later), so we haven’t been keeping up with the photos here.  But we are going to make it up to you with one massive photo post, encompassing all the photo sessions we haven’t yet published. This edition of This Weeks Best Photos includes all our best from the last two months.

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Springfield Cemetery in Springfield, Massachusetts

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Becket’s Abandoned Quarry

The solitary entry read simply this: “Two hundred men lost their lives while the quarry was in operation from 1850 to 1960. And a lone hiker claims to have been chased away by a angry spirit”. An abandoned quarry located in the small town of Becket, MA? Having grown up less than 30 miles away, I was surprised never to have heard of it, and more than a little intrigued.

With a little bit more digging, I came upon a very informative web page, published by The Becket Land Trust. Although there is no information in the land trust’s page corroborating or denying claims of so many deaths or any mention of paranormal activity, I was pleasantly surprised to find maps and photos of the area with a brief history of the quarry’s operation. Still I must say that the hopes of gathering some kind of evidence of paranormal activity were high. The claims that approximately two hundred workers had met their demise there, and that a hiker was chased away from the location sparked my curiosity. So, the very next day we left to explore the living museum with hopes of finding memories of the dead.

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