The Dream Pond Murders

New England Legends Podcast

Jeff Belanger

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

4.8 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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In Episode 340 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the shores of Dream Pond in Fairfield, Vermont, in search of clues that could solve an 1841 double murder. After Eugene Clifford tragically loses his wife and infant daughter on a stormy day on Fairfield Pond, his neighbor has a profound dream that gnaws at her until she makes a startling discovery. Was it an accident or murder?

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0:00.0	Late March really isn't the ideal time of the year for a rowboat in this northern Vermont pond Jeff.
0:08.0	No, no, I get that it's not. I mean the pond was ice over until just recently.
0:12.0	It's cold and windy up here today and it's not a place
0:15.5	where you want to fall in either. Yeah I get it. You go hypothermic pretty quick in this cold water.
0:19.9	Yeah, you would. So officially the name of this body of water is Fairfield Pond.
0:24.0	Which makes sense because we're in Fairfield, Vermont, just of itself of the Canadian border.
0:29.1	Right. But unofficially, it's been called Dream Pond, or Dream Lake, depending on who you ask.
0:34.8	I mean, I guess it's kind of dreamy odd here, or maybe it is in the summer?
0:39.5	Yeah, well, it's called Dream Pond, not so much because of the way it looks but because they
0:43.9	say a local woman once had a dream that led to a shocking discovery by the side of
0:49.0	the pond that solved a murder. Hey, I'm Jeff Belanger.
0:56.0	Welcome to episode 340 of the New England Legends podcast.
1:00.0	Thanks so much for joining us on our mission to chronicle
1:02.0	every legend in New England.
1:03.7	And I'm Ray Ozer.
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1:09.8	the plain weird, we love it all.
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1:25.5	And we'll explore this strange tale of murder right after this word from our sponsor.
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