The Ghost of Whipple Hollow

New England Legends Podcast

Jeff Belanger

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

4.8 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 391 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger investigate the haunted ruins of Whipple Hollow near West Rutland, Vermont. Back in 1938, a ghost sighting near the old marble quarry made the newspaper and started a buzz around the community. The theory is the ghost is that of an old quarry worker who died in an accident, but is it true?

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0:00.0	Okay, so make a right right up there.
0:07.6	All right, got it.
0:08.8	And if we follow this road north, it'll take us to where we're going.
0:12.4	So we're driving on a road just north of West Rutland, Vermont.
0:15.8	We've passed a couple houses, but they're pretty spread out.
0:19.4	Over to our right is a large wetland area called the West Rutland Marsh with the Castleton River right in the middle there.
0:26.5	That's right.
0:27.1	And there was a time, though, where this was all farmland and a large granite quarry.
0:32.1	A lot of building materials came from this region to help construct various projects all over the northeast.
0:36.7	And more than a few headstones, I imagine. I'm sure you're right. Okay, various projects all over the northeast. And more than a few
0:37.7	headstones, I imagine. I'm sure you're right. Okay, you can pull over right here.
0:51.3	And we're here, Ray. Yep. There's some trees in a whole lot of marshland.
0:55.3	Now, what are we looking for?
0:56.7	Ray, we've come to the scant ruins of a village.
0:59.2	A village, they say, has been haunted for almost a century.
1:03.1	We're here to look for the ghost of Whipple Hollow.
1:08.5	I'm Jeff Belanger.
1:09.5	Welcome to episode 391 of the New England Legends podcast.
1:13.2	And I'm Ray Osher.
1:13.9	Thank you for joining us on our mission of chronicle every legend in New England one story
1:17.5	at a time.
1:18.4	We're always on the hunt for ghosts, monsters, aliens, roadside oddities, and all the other
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