Westford’s Grey Ghosts
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 285 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger cheer Westford Academy’s football team in Massachusetts. Their mascot is the Grey Ghosts. How they cam e to be called that has been a point of controversy in recent years, but part of the backstory leads us to the haunted Roudenbush Community Center in Westford where we explore a Civil War legend.
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| 0:00.0 | no oh he broke a tackle oh he he could go all the way oh he's in the end zone touchdown westford |
| 0:10.4 | man oh that was a great game it was i think it's great seeing so many young people involved |
| 0:17.3 | with their school athletics uh my daughter who is on the track team back home. |
| 0:21.2 | Yeah, and I've got one kid who's a swimmer, and my daughter does cheer in softball. |
| 0:25.7 | But our kids don't go to schools with mascots anywhere near as cool as the mascot here at the |
| 0:31.9 | Westford Academy in Massachusetts. Yeah, what is their mascot anyway? |
| 0:35.9 | Westford Academy is the gray ghosts. |
| 0:38.6 | Oh, I love it. I bet you there's a story there. |
| 0:41.6 | I bet you're right. It's a story that goes all the way back to the Civil War and the ghost |
| 0:46.9 | of a woman who waited for her fiancé to return. |
| 0:53.8 | Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger, and you've landed on episode 285 of the New England Legends |
| 0:59.0 | podcast. |
| 0:59.7 | And I'm Ray Osier. |
| 1:00.5 | Thanks for joining us on our mission to chronicle every legend in New England one story |
| 1:04.3 | at a time. |
| 1:05.2 | Did you know most of our story leads come from you? |
| 1:07.4 | This one did. |
| 1:08.5 | A big thanks to Josh French for the story lead. |
| 1:11.9 | We love it when you reach out to us with your own tales of local weirdness through our website. It takes a community of people |
| 1:16.8 | to find and share these stories, and we're glad you're in our tribe. The more people who you |
| 1:21.0 | tell about our show, the more who share, subscribe, and review our podcast, the more stories we get. |
| 1:26.3 | Our website is also the place for you to see video clips from the New England |
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