The Haunted and Cursed Ruins of Ashintully

New England Legends Podcast

Jeff Belanger

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

4.8 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 404 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore the ruins of Ashintully, a former mansion in the Berkshire Mountains in the town of Tyringham, Massachusetts. Built in 1910, Ashintully was a massive home built by Robb Tytus, a wealthy archeologist and explorer who may have brought a curse back from his exploration of tombs and palaces in Egypt. A string of misfortune struck his family, and the home was said to be haunted.

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0:00.0	It's a fine day to be hiking in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.
0:08.9	It is, Ray, for sure.
0:10.5	We're in the Bucolic town of Tiringham, looking for the ruins of a unique and cursed haunt.
0:16.7	Oh, haunted and cursed.
0:18.6	That's what they say.
0:19.7	We love curses and haunts. It's two for one today.
0:23.5	We're walking along an old road that's mostly overgrown now. I could see some old stone work
0:29.7	between the grass and the weeds. And there's our destination just up ahead. Oh, wow. Yeah, that is
0:36.3	spooky. I see four stone pillars along a wall.
0:40.0	Looks like it used to be the front of a mansion, but the mansion is obviously gone now.
0:44.7	Yeah, all long gone now, and it's been gone for over half a century, but this was once a huge estate
0:50.4	called Ashintilly, and its centerpiece was a marble palace mansion built by Rob Titus
0:55.6	and his wife Grace. They fell in love with the Berkshires back on their honeymoon, so they
1:00.2	built their mansion here long ago. Though there were good times here, there were also a string
1:04.3	of tragedies, and they said the house was haunted. They say the Titus family was under the spell of an ancient Egyptian curse.
1:16.1	Hey, I'm Jeff Belanger. Welcome to episode 404 of the New England Legends podcast. And I'm Ray Osier. Thank you for
1:22.4	joining us on our mission to chronicle every legend in New England, one story at a time. So many of our
1:27.4	story leads come from you,
1:28.6	so please reach out to us anytime through our website with your tales of ghosts, monsters, UFOs,
1:34.2	roadside oddities, and anything else that bumps in the night. Our website is also the place
1:39.6	where you can find dates for Jeff's story tour and see my band The Pump Kings.
1:43.5	We'll explore these haunted and cursed ruins in Tiringham, Massachusetts, right after this
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