Nothing can be as isolating or confining as the woods.

They seem to cut us off from the rest of the world, leaving us alone, balanced on the

edge of being lost. Even in these thoroughly modern times, the woods seem to exist as

a reminder that so much of the world is outside of our control.

Sure, we could stay on the path, but those narrow routes between the trees only give us the

illusion of control, like a trail of breadcrumbs, the fragile, infleating, and somewhere in the

back of our minds we understand that if we were to leave the trail, we would be stepping into

the unknown. The woods hide things from us. For centuries, criminals have used the dark cloak of

the forest to conceal everything from boot lagging and poaching to drug use and murder. They hide

wildlife from us, and instill just enough doubt and mystery that we end up believing that anything

could be living out there. Anything. Some areas though are darker than others. In some places,

the woods are more than just a gathering of trees and undergrowth. There are locations in our

world that are consistently avoided, plagued by a rumor and dense with fear. To step into one

of these places is to abandon all safety, all reason, and all hope. I'm Aaron Mankey, and this is

lore. Between the three Massachusetts towns of Abington, Rahoboth, and Freetown, exist a triangular

slice of land that has become home to hundreds of reports of unexplainable phenomenon. It's known

as the Bridgewater Triangle, though some call it the Black Triangle or the Devil's Triangle.

It might not be swallowing up fighter jets and colonial era ships like the Bermuda Triangle to

the south, but its history is just as storied and mysterious. One of the areas within the triangle

is the Hackemok Swamp. It's a 17,000 acre wetland near Bridgewater Massachusetts. In the 1600s,

it was inhabited by the Wampanoag tribe of Native Americans, and the fort they built inside it

became a strategic location for them during King Philip's War in 1674. One legend tells how

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