Concord’s Most Haunted Jail
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 299 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger investigate a former Concord, New Hampshire, police station turned Mexican Restaurant to search for the ghost of “George.” Back in 1945, two fugitives named Edgar Cook and John Giles broke out of a Council Bluffs, Iowa, jail and headed for New England on the lam. Dubbed the Toothbrush Bandits because they fashioned a toothbrush into a cell key, their dramatic life of crime ended in Concord, New Hampshire, in one of these haunted former cells.
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| 0:00.0 | Jeff, I've always liked downtown Concord, New Hampshire. I lived here. I love this place. |
| 0:09.2 | I mean, it's a city. It's a state capital, but it kind of feels like a town at the same time. |
| 0:13.4 | Yep, I totally get that. It's got that quaint New England charm to it. Even here in Bicentennial Square, in the heart of downtown. |
| 0:20.6 | Okay, we're going to make a right onto Warren Street here. |
| 0:24.2 | And there's our destination, right up there on the left. |
| 0:27.1 | That two and a half-story brick building there? |
| 0:29.3 | Yep, that's the one. |
| 0:30.4 | The one that says police station at the top. |
| 0:32.5 | Yeah, that's it. |
| 0:33.8 | All right, it's obviously not a police station anymore. |
| 0:36.8 | Looks like a restaurant now. |
| 0:38.3 | And that it is. Let's head inside. |
| 0:41.5 | Jeff, this is a Mexican restaurant and I used to eat here all the time. |
| 0:45.3 | Yeah, when you lived here, sure. So we're going to head south of the border, you know, sort of, to one of Concord's most famous haunts, Margarita's Mexican restaurant, located inside this |
| 0:56.3 | former police station in jail, and we're here to look for a ghost named George. |
| 1:04.3 | Hola, amigos, I'm Jeff Belanger, and welcome to episode 299 of the New England Legends podcast. |
| 1:10.1 | And I'm Ray Osier. Thanks for joining us on our mission |
| 1:12.2 | to chronicle every legend in New England one story at a time. We're always on the hunt for ghosts, |
| 1:16.9 | monsters, aliens, roadside oddities, true crime, eccentrics, and all the other things that make New |
| 1:22.6 | England like no other place. Please be sure to subscribe to our podcast wherever you get your |
| 1:27.3 | podcast because it's |
| 1:28.2 | free and we don't want you to miss a thing. Before we head south of the border-ish to look for a |
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