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New England Legends Podcast

The Cobbler’s Ghost Has No Shoes

New England Legends Podcast

Jeff Belanger

History, Paranormal, Ghosts, Folklore, Places & Travel, Monsters, Society & Culture, Legends, Newengland

4.8951 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 345 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger visit the Newtown Bee parking lot in Newtown, Connecticut, to experience the site of a brutal unsolved axe murder of a local cobbler and the profound haunting that followed soon after. Managing Editor Shannon Hicks from The Bee joins us for this one.

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0:00.0

Oh, Ray, it's so good to be back in my old hometown of New Town, Connecticut.

0:05.2

That's right, you grew up in the Sandy Hook part of town.

0:07.5

I did, and I have plenty of memories from here.

0:10.1

Plus, I still have family in town, so maybe my sister can rustle us up a couple of cold ones

0:14.4

You know after we're done looking for what we're looking for today now. We're walking up church hill road pretty close to the center town.

0:20.1

Yeah, Newtown's iconic giant flagpole is just up ahead at the top of the hill, right there in the middle of the intersection of Churchill and Main Street.

0:28.0

Well, I see why they call it Church Hill. I can see two different churches right by the flagpole.

0:32.0

So the closer one to us is Trinity Episcopal. I can see two different churches right by the flagpole.

0:32.6

So the closer one to us is Trinity Episcopal,

0:35.4

and the white one is actually the New Town Meeting House.

0:38.7

My sister got married there.

0:40.6

All right now we're standing next to a red building with a sign over the door that

0:44.0

says the new town B. Oh and this is our destination, Ray. The new town B

0:49.2

building and parking lot. The B is the town's weekly newspaper and it has been since

0:53.7

1877. It was the first newspaper to ever do a story on me. It was for

0:59.7

flying model rockets at Treadwell Park when I was like 11 years old and it even had this goofy

1:04.6

picture of me holding the rocket.

1:07.1

And by the way the new town B is the first newspaper I ever wrote for.

1:11.3

So I wrote an article about attending the Woodstock 2 Music Festival.

1:14.0

That's so awesome.

1:15.0

So is your past haunting you, Jeff?

1:17.0

Are we here to destroy that old goofy photo or something?

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