The Ghost Towns of the Quabbin
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 417 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the ghost towns in and around the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts. In the 1930s, the towns of Dana, Enfield, Greenwich, and Prescott, Massachusetts with a combined population of about 2,500 people had to disincorporate in order for the Swift River Valley to flood and form the reservoir needed for Boston's drinking water. What was left behind were scars, haunts, mysteries, and maybe a dirty secret many would rather not know about.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Jeff, what brings us to downtown Boston today? |
| 0:07.0 | Ray, we've come for a glass of water. |
| 0:09.7 | A glass of water? |
| 0:11.0 | I feel like we could have stayed home for that. |
| 0:13.1 | We probably could have, but it wouldn't make the same point. |
| 0:16.5 | Let's head in and belly up to this bar. |
| 0:22.6 | Two waters? Let's head in and belly up to this bar. Two, um, waters, please? |
| 0:25.6 | Sparkling or tap? |
| 0:27.6 | Tap, definitely tap. |
| 0:29.6 | Tap, I guess. |
| 0:30.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:32.6 | Cheers. |
| 0:33.6 | Cheers. |
| 0:34.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.6 | Water isn't what we usually order in a bar, Jeff. Nope, nope, it's not. But I thought this would be a good place to start this week's adventure. Do you know where this water came from? You mean besides the tap behind the bar? Yeah. Actually, I do know where this one came from. It comes from the Quabin Reservoir out in central Massachusetts. That's right. And after we finish these, that's where we're headed next. |
| 0:55.2 | We're going to explore some of the ghost towns out there that may truly be haunted, and we're |
| 0:59.3 | going to give Bostonians something to think about the next time they take a sip of water. |
| 1:06.8 | Hey, I'm Jeff Belanger. And I'm Ray Osier. Welcome to episode 417 of the New England Legends podcast. |
| 1:13.0 | Thank you, Legidarians, for joining us on our mission to chronicle every legend in New England, one story at a time. |
| 1:19.0 | We love ghosts, haunts, UFOs, monsters, roadside oddities, and all the other wicked strange things that make New England like no other place. |
| 1:27.2 | Now, be sure to hit our |
| 1:28.1 | subscribe button wherever you get your podcast so you don't miss a minute of all the weirdness. |
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