Little Shop of Ponemah Bog Horrors
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 273, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger hike into Ponemah Bog in Amherst, New Hampshire, searching for some strange carnivorous plants that grow in the region. These plants are downright deadly… to the right species. Like the Venus Fly Trap that grows in the Carolinas, Ponemah Bog is home to plants like Sundews, Pitcher Plants, and Bladderworts. Could these plants have inspired the classic story and musical Little Shop of Horrors?
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| 0:00.0 | Ray, what's your favorite rock and roll musical based on a meat-eating plant? |
| 0:08.2 | Okay, I guess I'd have to say, Little Shabaharis. |
| 0:11.1 | Is there another rock and roll musical about a meat-eating plant, you? |
| 0:14.3 | I really don't think there is. |
| 0:16.0 | I was just trying to steer you in the right direction on this one. |
| 0:18.3 | Of course. |
| 0:19.0 | Who could forget the 1986 classic movie starring Rick Moranis, Steve Martin, John Candy, Christopher Gaston, Bill |
| 0:25.0 | Murray. Sure. The movie was star-studded and the musical has been done by countless |
| 0:29.1 | productions around the world. Shoot, I've even seen high school drama departments perform this |
| 0:33.1 | one and a very special performance from Dean Junior College, from yours truly. |
| 0:37.3 | Ooh. Well, we're going to have to hear more about that. And of course you did because it's a classic for sure. A story we all know about a Skid Row florist, a hapless employee, and a giant man-eating plant. All right. I'm guessing we didn't come out to this bog in Amherst, New Hampshire, to discuss musicals. No, not entirely. |
| 0:54.6 | We came to Ponyma Bog in New Hampshire to search for some real meat-eating plants. |
| 1:06.4 | Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger. |
| 1:07.9 | And I'm Ray Osier. |
| 1:08.8 | Welcome to episode 273 of the New England Legends podcast. Thanks for joining us on our mission to chronicle every legend in New England one story at a time. And we're so glad you're with us as we make our way through the streets, back roads, and bogs of New England, looking for oddities, ghosts, monsters, aliens, and any other weirdness that makes our radar. And stories make our radar mainly through you. |
| 1:29.6 | So please like and subscribe and share our podcast with a friend or two. |
| 1:33.0 | You can subscribe for free anywhere you get your podcasts. |
| 1:35.8 | The more people listening and sharing, the more people who reach out to us with weird story leads that are truly the sugar in our tea. |
| 1:42.5 | So reach out any time. |
| 1:43.4 | Hey, speaking of tea, before we go |
| 1:45.4 | searching for meat-eating plants in the Ponyma bog, we want to take just a minute to tell you about |
| 1:49.9 | our sponsor, New Adi Herbils. Ray, just like people, there are good plants and bad plants. Some plants |
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