A Snob’s Mausoleum

New England Legends Podcast

Jeff Belanger

History, Paranormal, Ghosts, Folklore, Places & Travel, Monsters, Society & Culture, Legends, Newengland

4.8 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 371 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore a grave in the woods of West Windsor, Vermont. In 1934, Vermont’s eccentric and snobby poet laureate Daniel Cady built his tomb on a hill so the world would forever have to look up at him. He made his money the old-fashioned way. He married rich.

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0:00.0	All right, so we're going to make a right up here onto Strawberry Hill Road.
0:08.0	Got it. Okay. Now, West Winster is a quiet section of central Vermont.
0:14.0	That it is.
0:15.0	I mean, it's small town New England at its finest.
0:17.0	So true. Okay, so we're going to head up here just a little bit.
0:20.0	And, all right, yeah, pull over right over here by the side of the true. Okay, so we're going to head up here just a little bit and all right, yeah,
0:22.1	pull over right over here by the side of the road. Okay. Now, what are we looking for?
0:32.5	We're looking for a grave ray and not just any grave, a mausoleum. Well, why are we in the woods? We passed the
0:39.2	Brownsville Cemetery just about a mile back there. Yeah, that's true. And there's a 1960s and 70s
0:44.6	icon buried in there, but more on him later. The site we're looking for is just a short hike
0:49.4	into the woods. So the person we're looking for is too good to be buried with the common folk down below.
0:57.1	We're looking for the grave of an eccentric.
0:59.2	Some would say a snob, a local poet named Daniel Caddy.
1:08.0	Hey, I'm Jeff Belanger.
1:09.2	Welcome to episode 371 of the New England Legends podcast.
1:13.0	And I'm Ray Ozier.
1:13.8	Thank you for joining us on our mission to chronicle every legend in New England, one story at a time.
1:18.0	We're always on the hunt for ghosts, monsters, aliens, roadside oddities, and all the other
1:23.2	strange things that make New England like no other place.
1:26.4	We get most of our story leads from you, so please reach out to us anytime through our website. We love hearing from you.
1:31.9	We'll go looking for this mausoleum madness right after this word from our sponsor.
1:40.3	Why would somebody want to be buried way out here in the woods? It's a good question. So first, a century ago, this wasn't woods. It was a grassy hilltop called
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