The Berkshires and the Hauntings Time Left Behind, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The Berkshires may look serene—sunlit trails, grand homes, quiet historic towns—but those gentle hills hold stories that refuse to stay buried. In this episode, author Robert Oakes takes us through the haunted heart of the region, revealing the places where history lingers a little too long.
From a literary icon’s estate where whispers still drift across empty rooms… to opulent mansions that haven’t quite let their former residents go… to a tunnel carved through the mountains where tragedy left more than scars in the stone—these are the places where the past breathes, watches, and sometimes steps forward.
The Berkshires are beautiful—but beauty isn’t always quiet. This is Part Two of our conversation.
For more information, visit his website at robertoakes.net.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on The Grave Talks, we continue our conversation about ghostly tales of the Berkshires with author Robert Oakes. |
| 0:08.5 | Is it because of living in the Berkshires for so long that you decided to write the book, |
| 0:16.2 | ghosts of the Berkshires? |
| 0:19.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm just hearing stories. |
| 0:23.6 | Yeah. I mean, I love the Berkshires. You know, it really is a very special place. |
| 0:27.6 | You know, I wanted the opportunity to write a book for sure. |
| 0:31.6 | At that point, I hadn't yet written a book, so it was exciting when I was approached about doing this book. What also excited me was that |
| 0:39.5 | I knew that this would give me the chance to write about this place and explore these places that |
| 0:46.5 | people say are haunted, get to know them better and like really, you know, and talk to people |
| 0:52.5 | about their experiences and documented and just kind of, you know, and talk to people about their experiences and documented and just kind of, |
| 0:56.9 | you know, tell the Berkshire story. And that was exciting to me, like, to be able to do that |
| 1:02.9 | because I had at that point lived in the Berkshires for 15 years or so. And so it really had |
| 1:10.4 | become like my adopted home. And now I had this chance to |
| 1:13.8 | write about it in this really special way. So I was pretty excited. Can I ask you about a couple of the |
| 1:20.0 | stories in the book? The one I was very interested in because it's just so tragic is the, and correct me if I'm pronouncing this wrong, Husak tunnel. |
| 1:34.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.5 | Hussack tunnels. |
| 1:36.9 | Hussack. |
| 1:37.6 | Okay, Hussack. |
| 1:38.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:38.8 | Because it's one of those where these men, so many men lost their lives building this tunnel so the train could go |
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