Haunted history: New England massacre sites come alive with ghostly tales
This month, thoughts naturally turn to the supernatural, the macabre, the spectral — the downright Halloweentastic.
Perhaps this means visiting one of the ingenuous “haunted houses” that dot the region, rigged up with all manner of scare and staffed by caffeinated adolescents running around with rubber monster masks and plastic cleavers.
But in a few quiet spots, there exists a more somber kind of ghost hunt, in the places where, many years ago, unfathomable atrocities were carried out in incidents that loom large in New England’s bloody past.
This article is agnostic on the question of ghosts, but it is a firm believer in the benefits of taking a stroll in crisp autumn weather through precincts that are supposed, by historical pedigree, to be peopled with the restless dead. This season, two spots — free of charge, open to the public, and steeped in eerie atmosphere — deserve to be on your October itinerary.
