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There is a particular kind of dark in New England. Not Hollywood dark. The dark of a mill river in November. A dirt road after the last porch light. A...
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There is a particular kind of dark in New England. Not Hollywood dark. The dark of a mill river in November. A dirt road after the last porch light. A slate roof holding snow and older weather than that.Slate & Shadow began as walking stories — first-person ghost tales told while moving through the actual towns that keep them. The podcast keeps everything that mattered and leaves the footage behind. What remains is the voice, the lore, and the room the story needs.Each episode takes one place and stays with it: the documented pieces, the versions people still argue about, and the feeling that made the story survive. Ocean-Born Mary. Ghost trains. Hitchhikers who do not want a ride so much as a witness. Taverns, bridges, boarding houses, and the thin places between villages.If you come from the videos, this is the same fire, just indoors. If you found the show here first, welcome. Sit down. The woods are still out there.
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28 SEP 2026 · In the far north of New Hampshire, in a county with more spruce than streetlights, people have talked for a hundred years about something that is not a bear and not a man.They call it the Woods Devil.Witnesses describe a tall, thin, gray-haired figure with a face too long for a person. It does not crash through the timber. It stands against a trunk, slides to the far side as you pass, and is gone. Sometimes it screams. Sometimes it only stares.This episode is a history of that legend — where the name comes from, what the lumber camps actually meant by “devil,” how older Abenaki talk of shy mountain people sits underneath the settler story, and the handful of hunters who said they saw the same wrong face: George Lavoie in 1948, Robert Goulet in Dixville Notch in 1952, and the later reports from Colebrook, Errol, and the roads that dead-end at Canada.It is not Champ. It is not Bigfoot with a local accent. It is thinner than that. And it already saw you.Slate & Shadow. Episode 2. About 30 minutes.
21 SEP 2026 · In the summer of 1720, somewhere on the Atlantic, Elizabeth Wilson gives birth on a ship bound for a new grant in New Hampshire. The child is named Mary. The town will call her Ocean-Born Mary for the rest of her life — and long after it.
The legend that follows her is the one New England likes best: pirates over the rail, a captain who spares the ship for a baby’s name, a bolt of green silk for a wedding dress, a retired pirate waiting in the hills, treasure under a hearthstone, and a ghost on the stairs of a Henniker house.
Mary Wilson Wallace did live. She married in Londonderry, raised five children, moved to Henniker in old age, and died there in 1814. She is buried behind the town hall. Pieces of that green dress still exist.
She did not live in the house that bears her name.
This episode of Slate & Shadow tells the story the way the region tells it — then walks the records to see what remains when the lantern comes on. A birth at sea. A life that was long and mostly ordinary. A Wisconsin photographer with a shovel for rent. And the question under almost every New England legend: when the story is better than the life, which one do we owe the truth to?
There is a particular kind of dark in New England. Not Hollywood dark. The dark of a mill river in November. A dirt road after the last porch light. A...
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There is a particular kind of dark in New England. Not Hollywood dark. The dark of a mill river in November. A dirt road after the last porch light. A slate roof holding snow and older weather than that.Slate & Shadow began as walking stories — first-person ghost tales told while moving through the actual towns that keep them. The podcast keeps everything that mattered and leaves the footage behind. What remains is the voice, the lore, and the room the story needs.Each episode takes one place and stays with it: the documented pieces, the versions people still argue about, and the feeling that made the story survive. Ocean-Born Mary. Ghost trains. Hitchhikers who do not want a ride so much as a witness. Taverns, bridges, boarding houses, and the thin places between villages.If you come from the videos, this is the same fire, just indoors. If you found the show here first, welcome. Sit down. The woods are still out there.
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