The Haunting of Happy Hollow
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 951 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 349 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore West Athens, Maine, searching for the former site of Happy Hollow, a shanty town that made the news back in 1905 when the ghost of a man they called Uncle came calling every night. Multiple witnesses were spooked!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it doesn't get much more rural than this, does it, Jeff? |
| 0:07.0 | No, Ray, it doesn't. |
| 0:09.0 | West Athens, Maine is where we are. |
| 0:11.0 | It's a little more than an intersection of a couple of roads located about |
| 0:14.4 | two and a half miles northwest of the town of Athens, which is not really all that much bigger. The area is pretty close |
| 0:21.7 | to the dead center of Maine. |
| 0:25.0 | I don't like the way you said dead. |
| 0:27.0 | There's only a few houses out here. |
| 0:29.0 | Most of them are trailer homes and even those are pretty spread apart. I see cars and trucks that are |
| 0:34.8 | obviously being worked on or abandoned. We just passed a lapidated house. |
| 0:39.3 | This is the kind of place where no one can hear you scream. |
| 0:43.6 | And now I'm nervous. |
| 0:45.3 | You should be, Ray. |
| 0:46.2 | You should be. |
| 0:47.0 | Because this area was once known as Happy Hollow. |
| 0:50.7 | It made the news for being so haunted because multiple residents claim they saw the ghost every night. |
| 0:57.0 | Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger. |
| 1:03.7 | And I'm Ray Ozier. |
| 1:04.7 | Welcome to episode 349 of the New England Legends podcast. |
| 1:08.6 | We're on a mission to chronicle every legend in New England one story at a time, whether it's |
| 1:12.2 | ghosts, |
| 1:12.7 | monsters, aliens, roadside oddities, true crime, |
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