Hmm, I see some shovels in the backseat, a pickaxe, got some buckets.

Are we going to bury a body or something?

Or maybe dig one up?

Even better.

So when I was a kid, I used to love digging holes.

Me too.

I think maybe I was a minor in a past life, which is what brings us to this small town of Brandon in Eastern Vermont today. Oh, are we going mining? We are, sort of. All right. And while we're heading to a former ochre mine in Brandon, ochre is not what we'll be digging for. No? Okay. Then what are we digging for? Ray, we've come to Brandon, Vermont,

to dig for a prehistoric animal

discovered deep in the ground back in 1865.

An animal, they say, came back to life once it reached the surface.

We're searching for Vermont's giant Ice Age frog.

Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger.

And I'm Ray Osier. Welcome to Episode 292 of the New England Legends podcast.

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