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This is Love

He Left in a Storm, He’ll Return in a Storm

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

There’s an old story on Cape Cod about a woman named Maria Hallett who fell in love with a pirate. According to legend, when he died at sea, she became so heartbroken that she started walking along the cliffs in storms and cursing other ships. The story goes that she believed that if she had lost the person she loved to the sea, everyone else should too. She became known as “The Sea Witch of Billingsgate,” and her story has haunted Cape Cod for the last 300 years. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:30.0

One of my favorite places in the world is Cape Cod in Massachusetts, far down on the Cape.

0:38.0

Most of it is national seashore, so there aren't many houses, and these big mile and mile long stretches of

0:45.1

uninhabited beach. You can walk for an hour and not see anyone, even in the

0:50.3

middle of summer. The beach is bordered by huge hundred foot cliffs.

0:56.1

From the top of the cliff, you can look out

0:58.6

and only see the Atlantic Ocean.

1:00.9

Sometimes, I think I might be able to see Spain. You can also see whales, and I think I see

1:07.0

sharks, but that might just be made up in my mind.

1:11.6

One of the stories I like best about this place is a ghost story.

1:15.0

The story of a woman named Maria Hallet, who comes out in every storm and walks the cliffs overlooking the sea.

1:24.0

Some people say that if you listen closely during a storm, you can hear her singing.

1:29.0

I've heard this story for years, and I always think about it.

1:34.3

And so I decided to try and figure out where this ghost story came from.

1:39.5

And that's when I found out that Maria Hallett actually lived and that the story of her life and what

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