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🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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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.
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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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