183: Death Markers in the Live Free or Die State with Marianne O'Connor. White Mountains National Forest.

National Park After Dark

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True Crime, Places & Travel, Wilderness, Society & Culture, Sports

4.8 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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What an exciting episode! Today we are joined by author of “Haunted Hikes of New England” Marianne O’Connor to talk all things trail death in the White Mountains. A self proclaimed collector of ghost stories, NH native Marianne is an avid hiker and historian. Today she shares with us the stories behind some of the most notable death markers in the White’s and what we can learn from the tragedies.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, welcome back to National Park after dark.
0:22.3	We have another fun episode for today where we have a guest, a really fun guest.
0:27.4	She's such a good time.
0:28.9	On the podcast today we have Marianne O'Connor, who is a New Hampshire native and is from
0:35.7	the area very close to us and is an author and we're getting ramped up for spooky season
0:42.2	here.
0:43.2	So she is the author of Haunted Hikes of New Hampshire, which we're very, very excited
0:48.0	to tell you all about.
0:49.6	It's our home.
0:50.6	It's our home state.
0:51.6	She's published two books highlighting the Haunted Hikes around the White Mountains of
0:55.5	New Hampshire.
0:56.7	And is the author of books we have used for research in our own stories on the podcast.
1:02.4	She is an author and retired educator from New Hampshire.
1:05.7	As a teenager, her father included her on several White Mountain hiking trips and after
1:10.6	that, she was just hooked just kind of, kind of like us like we got up there and we're
1:15.0	like, hey, we, we love it up here.
1:17.2	Marianne began pursuing her 48, 4,000 footers of New Hampshire, which if you're not familiar
1:22.8	with the 48 are 48, 4,000 footers that are in mostly the White Mountains of New Hampshire
1:29.8	that is this huge feat for people to go out and set their mind to do.
1:34.5	And she finished it in 2004 and not only did she finish it in 2004, but then she did
1:40.4	it all over again in 2011.
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