Dancing with a Ghost
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 421 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to Burrillville, Rhode Island, to investigate the curious grave of Laura Sherman who was buried in this small family plot back in 1870. Today all of the headstones are gone. They say under a full moon and right conditions, her ghost will appear and talk to you.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, Jeff, it's a creepy night to be walking down a dirt road here in this remote section of Burrville. |
| 0:09.7 | Yeah, it is. |
| 0:10.6 | It's really dark out here, too. |
| 0:12.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:12.6 | Well, at least he's a full moon. |
| 0:14.2 | Really dark. |
| 0:15.3 | But yeah, the moon gives us just enough eerie light. |
| 0:18.2 | Still, I can't see anything. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm glad I brought a flashlight. So our |
| 0:22.6 | destination is just up ahead off the side of the road. Well, I see a raised stone wall in a flat area |
| 0:28.0 | just beyond that. It's maybe about 30 feet wide and 20 feet deep. And there's a sign out front |
| 0:33.8 | that reads Rhode Island Historical Cemetery, Town of Burrville, and the number one. |
| 0:38.8 | This is the place, Ray. |
| 0:40.5 | Now, I don't see any headstones, just a small area within a stone wall. |
| 0:45.5 | Oh, wait, there is one base of a headstone here right towards the front. |
| 0:50.1 | Yeah, that would be the grave of Laura Sherman. |
| 0:52.7 | Ray, we've come to this old family cemetery |
| 0:54.7 | under a full moon to dance with a ghost. |
| 1:02.7 | Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger. Welcome fellow legendarians to episode 421 of the New England |
| 1:08.0 | Legends podcast. And I'm Ray Osier. Thank you for joining us on our mission to chronicle every legend in New England one story at a time. Now, did you know that most of our story leads come from you? Please contact us anytime through our website. There you can also find links to buy Jeff's new book, Wicked Strange New England, the 2026 haunted New England calendar, plus a calendar of dates to see Jeff's story |
| 1:28.0 | tour and my band, The Pub Kings. We'll go dancing with a ghost in Burrville, Rhode Island, |
| 1:32.7 | right after this word from our sponsor. Okay, Jeff, we've been looking for ghosts in Burrville before. |
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