New England’s Scariest Stories and Urban Legends

by Summer Paradis & Cathy McManus

Journey through New England’s darkest places and read 22 of its scariest stories and urban legends.

Explore mysterious cryptids like the Dover Demon, Pigman, the Sea Serpent of Gloucester, the Dublin Lake Monster, and the Derry Fairy.

Meet Champ, the legendary lake monster of Lake Champlain, and a fisherman who found himself thirty feet from the beast.

See the grave of Midnight Mary and the Desert of Maine, and judge for yourself if their curses are real. Try to walk with the Leather Man and wonder why he chooses to walk alone.


Visit The House of the Seven Gables and The Shunned House, both famous in literature, and learn of ghosts that still linger there. Cross Emily’s Bridge in Vermont, creep over the alleged vampire Mercy Brown’s grave in Rhode Island, and more.

New England promises to scare you!

Size: 6″ x 9″ | 73 color images | Index | 144 pp
ISBN13: 9780764341229 | Binding: soft cover

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Mysterious Orange Lights Spotted Flying In The Sky Over The State Of Connecticut (Video Footage)

 

Date:  March 24, 2012

Time:  Approx: 8:30 p.m.

 

Hi Brian, on 3/24/2012 around 8:30 p.m. EST my boyfriend and I saw these mysterious orange lights flying across the sky one by one until eventually each one disappeared.

 

We were watching these lights for about 5 minutes. A few minutes in we noticed a line of cars pulling over to the side of the road all to watch these lights.

 

Towards the end we then saw spotlights shining to the sky as If a number of people were trying to figure out what these lights were.

 

 

I wouldn't think planes could travel as close as these did and also there were no stars in the sky to question anything else. Here is the video we had taken.

 

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

The Vike Factor (Brian Vike) http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com/

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Mysterious Flash Triangular Shaped Lights Moving Through Witnesses Home And A Woman's Voice Heard At Bowen Island British Columbia

 

Date:  March 12, 2012

Time:  Early morning.

 

Hi, my girlfriend and I are having a weird experience. We live on Bowen Island, BC Canada. Thought I would send you an email since I saw someone else's post about seeing a flashing light in North Vancouver earlier that evening.

 

Early this morning March 12 2012, my girlfriend and I were both woken by what seemed to be power flickering on/off in our house.

 

This is not totally uncommon on Bowen Island as we get some strong winter wind storms and it is very forested. Power outages are quite common in the winter months, but what happened next is something neither of us can explain.

 

The exact sequence of what happened is a little unclear, but I will just share what we both experienced in about a 30 minute series of events.

 

We saw 2 flashes of light, light up our house, about 5 minutes apart. We have both experienced lightning many times of course, but this felt different. It was way brighter and more like a fluorescent type of light.

 

The first one was not followed by any sounds of thunder at all.

 

Just a very bright, thick flash of light. The second one seemed to have some very distant sound after it. We also saw lights shining up through our windows and travel across our ceiling over our bed. Triangular shaped.

 

They sort of seemed like they could have been car headlights, but we live on the top of a hill in a very forested lot and there were no cars coming up the driveway.

 

We actually got up to the window to look out and see if there was a car, but there wasn't. We had not experienced light like this travelling across our ceiling before. These lights also happened twice. Then the weirdest thing happened. We both heard a woman's voice inside our house.

 

Clear as day. It sounded like a recording. Sort of digital. The words were hard to make out, some were illegible, but there were some words that were very clear. We had just moved into a new place, so we thought maybe it was the fancy new fridge or stove talking to us, but the power had been out for quite awhile before then. But here is where it gets really weird.

 

My girlfriend went to visit a few of her friends tonight and just through conversation, mentioned what we had seen and experienced earlier this morning, because it had been kind of strange and felt weird. This is where it gets strange. A friend of ours who lives about a block or 2 away, down the hill experienced the exact same thing!

 

She couldn't believe it when my girlfriend brought it up. She heard the woman's voice inside her house too, and also saw lights travelling across her ceiling. We are not next door neighbours, but live about a 5 minute walk from each other.

 

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

The Vike Factor (Brian Vike) http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com/

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Are They Watching ? Who Are These Men ? (UFO Phenomena)

These are stories about the secrecy behind the UFO Phenomena. Why is it these men chose not to come forward with what they know. And a look at who these men might be. Many who claimed to have an UFO experience tell of being watched, questioned and sometimes harassed.

Lets see what we can dig up about such men.

Was there really projects set up for making contact with other beings.

As you know there are thousands of documents available giving little about secret groups within the government.

It is time for us to have this information, as:

Also Other Mysterious Disappearances and Deaths.

Please use the link for the entire story: http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com/2009/10/are-they-watching-who-are-these-men.html

Three Mysterious Orange Lights Seen Over The Woolwich Area UK

Date: September 1, 2010
Time: 8:45 p.m.

Hello Brian, I'm writing to report a further sighting we had tonight of the mysterious three orange lights in the sky, this time observed in the northern sky from the Woolwich area. We live in an elevated apartment with an uninterrupted view over the river toward East London and the City. This was a clear night with good visibility.

At 20:45hrs two orange lights appeared in the sky above East London, approximately over the new Olympic Park area, heading west toward the city. We were ready this time with a camcorder which has a powerful zoom facility. A third object rose up to follow the first two with a very fast rate of ascent and I was able to focus on this one using maximum zoom.

As the sun was just setting there was more light tonight than during our previous observation of 29th August. Zooming in revealed an outline shape against the dusky sky which appeared as a large rectangle or diamond shape above and connected to the orange light. Certainly unlike a conventional aircraft. The light momentarily shone brightly in our direction indicating some maneuvering around, but quickly the object followed the others westward until each light one by one disappeared just as before.

It is possible to tell which way these objects are facing because the orange light source is strongly visible at the leading end, rather like a huge headlight. A certain amount of orange light spill is visible from the side of these objects until they pass a certain point when the light source becomes obscured. Therefore it seems unlikely that these are the light from Chinese lanterns, which would, of course, be visible from all angles. At first glance, they could easily be passed off as lanterns due to the incandescent quality of the orange light, however, the associated dark form clearly seen tonight further reduces the possibility of them being lanterns.

When they passed overhead on Sunday night, the orange light source could be seen to have an irregular quality, like intense fire, with ill-defined edges and not the kind of crisp edge and beam you might associate with aircraft landing lights which are always white in any case. Tonight they were too far away to tell whether there was any noise associated and other aircraft were making noises in the area. Once again two of us witnessed this event.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Mysterious Lights Over Prince George Explained

By Bernice Trick
Citizen Staff
©Prince George Citizen Newspaper

The mystery of the orange lights in the sky above Prince George about a week ago has been solved.

"The lights turned out to be parachutists jumping at night," said Brian Vike, a UFO expert from Houston.

"The jumpers were doing acrobatics -- almost doing somersaults at times -- and the orange lights attached to their feet or ankle areas would appear to rise upwards during the acrobatics," Vike said. The mystery was solved by a retired military man who viewed the action with a pair of binoculars, he said.

"One landed close to his home, and he said just before landing, the jumper turned the lights off."

On Friday the Citizen ran a story of the unusual sightings reported by Andrea Lanoue who, with four friends, observed bright orange objects.

She described the lights as hovering for a time before moving slightly apart at different speeds, and some of them "fading off".

Vike said he's not sure if the skydivers used the lights to keep track of each other during formation jumping or if they were "playing some kind of hoax".

A UFO survey released Monday by Ufology Research of Manitoba shows the top 10 communities in Canada for reported UFO sightings, Vike said. In 2003, there were 673 reported sightings across Canada, with Vancouver leading with 41. Toronto ranked second with 34 sightings, followed by Houston at 33, Terrace at 30, and Airdrie, Alberta at 17. Prince George is not among the top ten.

"Most reported unfamiliar lights in the sky are identified as meteors, planets or stars," Vike said, who became heavily involved in UFO sightings in 2000 after moving to Houston. Since then he's participated in radio shows in Canada and the U.S. and was one of the main characters featured in a 2002 TV documentary called "The Magnificent Obsession".

Among cases still unsolved is one involving two women travelling away from Kelowna last July. "They reported seeing three white lights which turned green and dropped down in front of them on the highway. They both reported a loss of 45 minutes, and a tingly throughout their bodies," Vike said.

"They turned around and headed back to Kelowna with the light following them for a short distance before disappearing," said Vike, noting eight other people also reported seeing green lights. The next day, both women felt ill with a passenger having a nose bleed and finding a burn mark on her tail bone which the doctor said appeared to be a radiation burn. Since then, both have experienced weight loss, hair loss, nausea, salt cravings, dehydration and pressure to the back of their neck. But doctors cannot figure out the problem, Vike said.

Vike's website at http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com/.

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Note from Brian Vike: The above story was solved as to what caused the orange lights, you can read the full report at: http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com/2009/10/prince-george-british-columbia-orange.html