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George Norrie with you, Jeff Belanger, back with us, author, podcaster, great storyteller,

adventure, and explorer of the unexplained.

He's written more than a dozen books that have been

published in six languages and is an Emmy-nominated host, writer, and producer. Jeffrey, you hit a

home run with Wicked Strange. Welcome back. Thanks, George. So good to be back with you. How did you

get the idea to write this one about New England? Well, that's

New England's home. And, you know, long ago, when I started researching the paranormal ghosts

and haunted places, I think I fell into the trap of thinking all the cool places are far away

from me. And then you realize, wherever you live is far away from most of the world. And so I started

to kind of look at my own backyard and just started uncovering so many great stories. And when

you're local, you know, you can just get in deeper because these are your neighbors. And so it started

with a TV show on PBS called New England Legends that turned into a podcast of the same name.

And what's great is over time, George, a whole community sort of evolved of people emailing me saying,

hey, in my town, we've got this strange story. And what about this strange story? And I've now

collected hundreds and hundreds of them. And from there, it was just sort of natural to put together a very weird book.

The photography in the book is absolutely stunning.

Yeah, that's Frank Grace. He is amazing. So Frank and I started doing a haunted New England

calendar, an annual calendar, 13 years ago. And we've done one 13 years in a row. And he tells a whole

story with a photograph. And I'm so in awe of what he can do. And when we first met, he said,

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