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Ghosts In The Burbs

REPOST: Classic Haunts #3 - The Shunned House Part II

Ghosts In The Burbs

Liz Sower

Arts, Society & Culture, Performing Arts, Fiction, Drama

4.94.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

I deleted The Classic Haunts episodes because I thought they weren't really a fit here. Turns out I was wrong! I apologize to everyone looking for them ;)

Transcript

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0:00.0

As promised, here's part two of the Shun House by H.P. Lovecraft.

0:22.0

The relets it seemed had come in 1696 from each granite, down the west shore of Narragansett

0:28.6

Bay.

0:29.8

They were Huguenots from Cod and had encountered much opposition before the Providence Selectmen

0:34.7

allowed them to settle in the town.

0:37.2

Unpopularity had dog them in each east granite, whether they'd come in 1686 after the revocation

0:43.9

of the Edict of Nance, and the rumor said that the cause of dislike extended beyond mere

0:49.0

racial and national prejudice, or the land disputes which involved other French settlers

0:54.5

with the English and rivalries which not even Governor Andrews could quail.

0:59.9

But their ardent Protestantism, too ardent, some whispered, and their evident distress

1:05.8

would virtually driven from the village down by the bay, had moved the sympathy of the

1:09.8

townfathers.

1:10.8

Here, the strangers had been granted a haven.

1:14.3

And the swarly, a team relat, less apt at agriculture than at reading queer books and

1:19.0

drawing queer diagrams, was given a clerical post in the warehouse at Pardens Tillingus.

1:24.3

Warf, far south in town street.

1:28.0

There had however been a riot of some sort later on, perhaps 40 years later, after old

1:32.8

relat's death, and no one seemed to hear of the family after that.

1:36.7

For a century or more, it appeared, the relat's had been well-remembered and frequently

1:41.8

discussed as vivid incidents in the quiet life of a New England seaport.

1:46.7

A teen son, Paul, a surly fellow whose erratic conduct had probably provoked the riot which

1:52.0

wiped out the family.

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