The Hermit of Manana Island

New England Legends Podcast

Jeff Belanger

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

4.8 • 951 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 300 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger sail out to Monhegan Island, about ten miles off the coast of Maine, searching for a hermit named Ray Phillips who lived 40 years on a desolate nearby rock of an island called Manana. From 1931 to 1975, Phillips lived out there in a shack with his flock of sheep and a pet goose. Over the years the old hermit became a celebrity as curious tourists ventured over to talk to him and try to find out what makes him tick. Think you could walk away from it all?

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0:00.0	Ray do you think you could live alone you know like a hermit I think if I lost everything I could make a go of it.
0:11.5	Really for a social butterfly like you? Yeah I could see a go of it, yeah. Really?
0:13.0	For a social butterfly like you?
0:14.0	Yeah, I could see shutting it all down in extreme circumstances.
0:17.0	I don't think I'd last much longer than like a day or so as a hermit before
0:20.0	I think I'd just go nuts from loneliness.
0:22.0	Well, it's not for everybody, obviously.
0:24.0	But being out here on this tiny island off the coast of Maine,
0:27.0	it's pretty easy to feel isolated.
0:29.0	And you know what?
0:30.0	Isolation is a good description for Manana Island,
0:32.0	which sits just a stone's throw across the water from
0:34.8	Monhegan Island, which is about 10 miles from the coast of Maine.
0:38.4	We're isolated out here no matter how you slice it.
0:40.9	Manana Island is about 1800,800 feet long and about a
0:44.4	thousand feet wide and the only structures on the island is a fog horn and the
0:49.1	ruins of a small house. I don't even see any trees, just some bushes and grass. Yeah it's not much but this was
0:55.8	once home to a man named Ray Phillips a man who got famous for living out here all
1:00.8	alone for 40 years. We're searching for the hermit of Manana Island.
1:06.3	Hello I'm Jeff Belander, and welcome to episode 300 of the New England Legends
1:17.5	podcast.
1:18.5	And I'm Ray Ojo, 300 episodes.
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