Oh, it's getting to be the thick of autumn now, Jeff.

Yep.

I can't imagine we'll get too many more days to row out into a lake.

Yeah, I get that, Ray.

We had a slow start to fall this year, but it seems to be here now, especially in southern New Hampshire.

And what brings us to the town of Dublin today?

Ray, we've come to Dublin, New Hampshire, specifically to the deep,

dark, and spooky waters of Dublin Lake to search for a monster and an alien.

Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger. Welcome to episode 418 of the New England Legends podcast. And I'm Ray

Osier. Thank you for joining us on our mission to chronicle every legend in New England one story at a time. Thank you, Legidarians, for riding along with us as we search for ghosts, monsters, aliens, roadside, oddities, eccentrics, and all the wicked strangeness that makes New England like no other place. If you've got a story tip for us, please contact us through our website.

It's also the place that you can find a link

to buy Jeff's latest book,

the 2006 Haunted New England calendar,

and dates for Jeff's story tour,

and dates to see my band, the Pub Kings.

We'll go searching for the Dublin Lake monster and alien

right after this word from our sponsor.

So Dublin Lake, though it's been called Dublin Pond, which gives you the sense of its size,

it's 236 acres of water. It's 0.8 miles long and about 0.6 miles wide and about 100 feet deep in its steepest parts.

So not a huge body of water, but nothing to sneeze at.

Exactly.

Route 101 borders part of the lake, making it easy to get to,

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