S20 Ep119: Wicked Strange: Your Guide to Ghosts, Monsters. Oddities, & Urban Legends from New England w/Jeff Belanger
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Wicked Strange is a journey and a celebration of all the things that make New England like no other place on earth. In a time when so much of the world is becoming homogenized—as big-box stores and chain restaurants move in and so many communities lose their identity—we still have these legends. They belong to specific towns and streets. These are stories locals will share with you . . . if they trust you. This travel guide takes readers on a journey to the strange and frequently unseen world that is often right under their noses. Covering numerous haunted places, environs where mysterious creatures have been spotted, areas where unusual events have happened, eccentric locals, and roadside oddities to explore, noted expert of the strange Jeff Belanger is your guide to all that’s local and strange. Haunted locations from all over New England are covered
New England is full of monsters and devils that lurk in the woods, lakes, and seas. Explored are some of the best known and most obscure, including Lake Champlain’s Champ; the Cumberland Vampire of Rhode Island; Gloucester’s Sea Serpent; the Black Dog of West Peak in Meriden, Connecticut; and the Flying Moose of Maine. Also covered are unusual events, such as UFO sightings (Connecticut’s UFO crash at Bantam Lake / Betty and Barney Hill’s UFO experience), and roadside oddities, such as the World’s Tallest Filing Cabinet (Burlington, VT), Boston’s Big Steaming Tea Kettle, and the literal Fork in the Road of Westport, MA. Wicked Strange takes you off the beaten path, revealing a hidden world right under your nose.
Jeff joins Darkness Radio today to tell us a few of the terrific tales that lie behind the six states of New England! Jeff also recalls how he met he co-creator, Frank Grace and what makes their collaboration on this and other projects in the New England Legends series so special throughout the years!Â
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The United States Welcome and to the best in paranormal podcasting. |
| 0:32.0 | This is Darkness Radio. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm your host, Tim Dennis. |
| 0:34.6 | Guys, I'm so excited about today's show. |
| 0:36.3 | I got to tell you, we got an old friend back with us. Not only that, but we're going to talk about some of the, some of the most favorite topics that you've ever talked about, I've ever talked about, we've ever talked about. We're going back to the paranormal. We're going back to some of the strange and unusual. And we're going back to the Northeast, which is one of my favorite topics. Let's just get to it. Let's talk about our buddy that's back with us. Jeff Belanger's back with us. |
| 0:54.8 | Award. unusual and we're going back to the northeast which is one of my favorite topics let's just get to it let's talk about our buddy that's back with us jeff belanger's back with us award-winning author |
| 0:58.8 | podcaster storyteller adventure and explorer of the unexplained this man is multi-talented you've seen |
| 1:06.2 | them on your screens you've seen them in books you've seen them uh you've probably seen |
| 1:10.0 | them on a stage near you. |
| 1:11.3 | You've seen him at conventions. He's got more than a dozen books, including the world's most haunted places, the fright before Christmas, his memoir, The Call of Kilimanjaro, which is a great memoir. If you don't have it, go get it. We've got links in the description of this program, so you can go check out all of Jeff's books. |
| 1:28.1 | He's the award-winning Emmy-nominated host, writer, and producer of We've got links in the description of this program so you can go check out all of Jeff's books. |
| 1:35.5 | He's the award-winning Emmy-nominated host, writer, and producer of the New England Legends series on PBS and Amazon Prime. |
| 1:41.9 | He also hosts the New England Legends Weekly podcast, which I believe you can still get right in the Darkness Radio app. |
| 1:42.8 | So go get it. I think you can. |
| 1:43.5 | Thank you. |
| 1:43.9 | Yes. Go go check that out in the Darkness Radio app. So go get it. I think you can. Thank you. |
| 1:45.0 | Yes. |
| 1:46.0 | Go check that out in the Darkness Radio Apple app. |
| 1:48.0 | It's garnered over 6 million downloads since it was launched in 2017. |
| 1:54.0 | He provides live programs and performances to audiences all over the world. |
| 1:58.0 | If you're in the Northeast, you could pretty much see him wherever he is |
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