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Haunted Road

I Wish it Was I, and Not the Girls

Haunted Road

iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.73.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A terrible accident one summer day changed the entire course of the Houghton family’s history, leaving behind a legacy of tragedy and a mansion full of harrowing memories.
That mansion is also full of ghosts — the restless spirits of those who can’t forgive themselves, and those who can’t forget.

Special Guest: Tim Weisberg

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0:00.0

Welcome to Haunted Road, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm and Myld from Aaron Manky.

0:05.7

Listener discretion is advised.

0:15.2

In 1914, Albert Charles Houghton had it all.

0:19.2

A prominent businessman and a respected local politician,

0:23.0

Houghton enjoyed a reputation throughout New England as a man whose influence extended well beyond the bounds

0:29.0

of his small town in the Berkshires.

0:31.4

He also had a large and loving family with his wife and daughters, most of whom had married and were starting families of their own.

0:39.8

Houghton lived in the grandest house in North Adams.

0:43.0

He had everything, until he didn't.

0:47.4

A terrible accident one summer day changed the entire course of the Houghton family's history,

0:53.2

leaving behind a legacy of tragedy and a mansion full of harrowing memories.

0:58.6

That mansion is also full of ghosts.

1:01.8

The restless spirits of those who can't forgive themselves and those who can't forget.

1:07.2

I'm Amy Bruni and this is Haunted Road.

1:21.8

Today, North Adams is the smallest city in Massachusetts.

1:25.8

Nestled in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Mass, the city is best known as the Home of Mass Moka,

1:31.2

the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

1:34.2

But once, North Adams was a center of manufacturing during the Industrial Revolution,

1:39.2

topping out at a population of 24,000 in 1900.

1:43.8

A.C. Houghton wasn't just an important figure in the history of North Adams.

1:47.8

He was seminal in the founding of the city itself, which was incorporated in 1878

1:52.8

and became an official city in 1895.

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