FtV – Slave Traders and Grave Robbers

New England Legends Podcast

Jeff Belanger

History, Paranormal, Ghosts, Folklore, Places & Travel, Monsters, Society & Culture, Legends, Newengland

4.8 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 69 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger hike through a Bristol, Rhode Island, cemetery searching for a burial mound and crime scene. In the woods behind this small cemetery sits a mound of dirt containing the robbed crypt of Captain James DeWolf, a former slave trader who whose grave was desecrated in 1842. Today this crypt is a once-prominent family’s dirty secret. This episode first aired December 3, 2020.

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0:00.0	Welcome legendary listeners.
0:01.6	Thanks for tuning in to From The Vault, a second look at some of our classic episodes.
0:06.0	Look for a new episode every week.
0:07.7	Now, can you go back and listen on your own at our New England legends.com?
0:11.5	You bet.
0:12.1	But you won't get the added bonus of an after the legend segment featuring new commentary
0:17.5	about that episode from your old pals Jeff and Ray.
0:20.8	So let's open up the New England Legends vault and revisit another
0:24.0	legendary episode.
0:27.0	Hey kids welcome to the vault.
0:29.0	Welcome to the vault. This one ponders a moral dilemma you know if something bad happens to a bad
0:35.7	person is that karma yeah karma that too first air December 3rd 20 20 enjoy
0:41.6	enjoy okay so we'll make a right here onto Woodlawn Avenue.
0:45.5	Okay. All right, now we're looking for a small cemetery somewhere here on the left.
0:50.8	All right, well I see a colonial stone wall in front of some woods.
0:55.0	Yeah, there's the gate.
0:57.0	I see some headstones.
0:58.0	Yep, okay.
0:59.0	So, welcome to Bristol, Rhode Island, Ray.
1:01.0	This place is officially known as Rhode Island Historical Cemetery,
1:04.7	Bristol, number five. But those in the know call it the DeWulf family plot.
1:09.7	It's not a very big cemetery, isn't? Maybe 40 or 50 headstone surrounded by a stone wall
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