Purgatory Chasm’s Lover’s Leap
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 263, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore a dangerous piece of rock at Purgatory Chasm in Middletown, Rhode Island, called Lover’s Leap. It was here long ago that they say a young heiress dared her would-be suitor to prove his love to her by jumping across the chasm. Will he make the jump? Will he get the girl? This was also the place where the Devil once landed after a cross-harbor leap.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a pretty spot here in Middletown, Rhode Island, Jeff. |
| 0:07.7 | Yeah, it is. |
| 0:08.6 | And we just parked our car at Satuist Beach right off of Hanging Rock Road. |
| 0:12.6 | And now we're heading toward the woods just up ahead. |
| 0:15.0 | All right. |
| 0:15.3 | There's a nice grassy area with some benches that overlook the ocean. |
| 0:18.4 | And then it turns into a bike path that runs along Tuckerman Avenue. And there's another little parking area right up here on our left. Why didn't we park here then? You know, I don't really have a good answer for that. But, you know, it's a nice day for a walk by the ocean either way. So we're going to cut through the back of this little parking area and take the trail into the woods. |
| 0:38.7 | We're heading towards the ocean again. |
| 0:40.7 | There's a bunch of trees, and I could see it turns to rocks up ahead. |
| 0:44.1 | What are we looking for? |
| 0:45.5 | We're heading toward the water ray to a place where the devil once landed, |
| 0:49.3 | and where a woman had her heartbroken, had a frightening landmark called Lovers Leap. |
| 1:01.5 | Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger. |
| 1:02.9 | And I'm Ray Osier. Welcome to episode 263 of the New England Legends podcast. |
| 1:07.8 | We're on a mission to chronicle, every legend in New England one story at a time, |
| 1:11.2 | and we're glad you're with us. We are. We're a community of legend seekers who are always looking |
| 1:15.6 | out for new strange stories, and we appreciate when you get involved. Feel free to reach out to us |
| 1:20.3 | anytime through our website where you can find an archive of all of our past episodes, video clips |
| 1:25.7 | from the New England Legends television series that you |
| 1:27.8 | can watch on Amazon Prime right now, dates and places to see me or Ray Live, and you can also find |
| 1:33.0 | a link to get my brand new 2023 haunted New England calendar with stories by yours truly |
| 1:38.4 | and photography by the great Frank Grace. Their limited edition, like last year, once they're gone, |
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