FtV – A Witch, a Rock, and a Pirate Treasure
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 61 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger hike into the woods of Kent, Connecticut, in search of Molly Fisher Rock, a boulder with strange petroglyphs, with ties to an old folk healer from the late 1700s, and a possible connection to a cursed pirate treasure of Captain Kidd. This episode first aired April 8, 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, legendary listeners. |
| 0:01.7 | Thanks for tuning in to From the Vault, a second look at some of our classic episodes. |
| 0:06.1 | Look for a new episode every week. |
| 0:07.8 | Now, can you go back and listen on your own at our New England Legends.com? |
| 0:11.6 | You bet. |
| 0:12.2 | But you won't get the added bonus of an after-the-legion segment featuring new commentary about that episode from your old pals Jeff and Ray. |
| 0:20.4 | So let's open up the New England Legends vault and revisit another legendary episode. |
| 0:27.5 | Here we go. Time for another vault. Time for a vault. A witch, a rock, and a pirate's treasure. |
| 0:33.5 | Walk into a bar. No? Right. Yeah. No, that's pretty good set up. I'm going to give you a few minutes to think about the punchline. |
| 0:39.7 | This first aired April 8th, 2021. |
| 0:42.0 | Enjoy. |
| 0:48.1 | Well, at least this isn't the biggest hill we've had to climb to find a legend, Jeff. |
| 0:51.8 | No, it's not too bad, Ray. |
| 0:53.4 | And it's spring, so it's a nice day for a hike here in Kent, Connecticut. All right. What are we looking for? A rock. Another rock. Yep. New England has no shortage of these rocks, I guess, right? Yeah. Of course, there are tons of them around here. What makes this one stand out? |
| 1:11.1 | Well, this rock's about the size of a compact car. It's got a wide band of quartz running around it and some strange petroglyph markings on one side. |
| 1:20.1 | Ooh, that sounds a little more interesting. |
| 1:22.8 | So we're in the woods on Spooner Hill searching for Molly Fisher Rock, a rock outcrop with a connection |
| 1:28.7 | to a witch, but also the buried and cursed treasure of the notorious pirate Captain Kidd. |
| 1:40.5 | I'm Jeff Belanger. And I'm Ray Ozier. Welcome to episode 190 of the New England Legends podcast. |
| 1:46.2 | If you give us about 10 minutes, we'll give you something strange to talk about today. |
| 1:49.9 | Kent, Connecticut is the next stop on our mission to chronicle every legend in New England, one story at a time. |
| 1:56.2 | So many of our story leads come from you. |
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