Cries of the Dead - A New England Legends Podcast

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🗓️ 29 July 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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On February 9, 1893, a fire ravaged the old asylum building killing 41 people inside. The tragedy was an epic failure of a system meant to protect the most vulnerable. Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger visit Dover, New Hampshire, to see the memorial to the Strafford County Lunatic Asylum fire. Cries of the Dead - A New England Legends Podcast Listen ad-free plus get early access and bonus episodes at: https://www.patreon.com/NewEnglandLegends For more episodes join us here each Monday or visit their website to catch up on the hundreds of tales that legends are made of. https://ournewenglandlegends.com/category/podcasts/ Follow Jeff Belanger here: https://jeffbelanger.com/ SUPPORT THE SPONSORS THAT SUPPORT THIS SHOW This Show is Sponsored by BetterHelp - Visit www.BetterHelp.com/P60 for 10% off your first month. Mint Mobile - To get your new wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month, and get the plan shipped to your door for FREE, go to www.MintMobile.com/P60 Rocket Money - Start saving money and reclaim control over your finances with www.RocketMoney.com/P60

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0:16.5	Jeff, this is a lovely little spot here in Dover, New Hampshire.
0:19.3	Yeah, it definitely is.
0:20.5	So right now we're walking behind a massive complex of buildings that includes an old folks home, the Stratford County Department of Corrections, and there's paths to walk down to the banks of the Cochico River, plenty of trees. But our destination is up this small hill on our left. All right. Well, I see what looks like a kind of headstone monument
0:39.2	with an urn on the top. Yep, that's the spot. It was near here that a horrible tragedy claimed a lot of
0:45.1	lives. I know we often need to put tragic events behind us in order to move on, but at least we
0:50.4	sometimes leave some kind of memorial behind to the fallen. It's something to say they
0:54.6	lived here and died here and hopefully they didn't die in vain. Yeah, I know what you mean. We can't
0:59.4	mourn anything forever, but we should also never forget. It's tough to know where the balance is.
1:04.8	Yeah, it definitely is. Now, quite often, the most vulnerable people in our communities are the
1:09.3	first stories to be lost to history.
1:11.6	We're here to check out one such story. We're in Dover, New Hampshire to visit the site of the Dover
1:17.6	Insane Asylum Fire.
1:24.2	I'm Jeff Belanger. And I'm Ray Osier. Welcome to episode 354 of the New England Legends podcast.
1:30.2	And thanks for joining us on our mission to chronicle every legend in New England one story at a time.
1:34.9	It's a mission we can't accomplish without you.
1:37.1	So please contact us through our website anytime with your story leads.
1:41.0	We love hearing from you.
1:42.4	Also, Ray and I are thrilled to announce we're holding our
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