Haunted Vermont

Joining Paul on this Episode is Director, Austen out of Barre, VT. Looking to complete a short mystery video shoot at the Wilson Castle. It seems something may be wanting to put in their "pulls" as well.

Mia and Candice have also come onboard to talk about their little mishaps, or at least experiences. As the mishap could have been mistaken for something thrown, and not a "punch."

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Join Paul in today's Episode as we dive into the unknown with two members of New England Paranormal Researchers, Ryan and Tristen. As we talk about the following Investigations.

* Wilson Castle

* Burke Green Cemetery

* Green Mount Cemetery

* St. Michaels College

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This October, we bring you FOUR Vampire Tales that lurk within the Shadows of the Green Mountains. Tom also has appeared on the Fox Nation documentary- American Vampires, 2022. And as a bonus, we talk Witch Windows, and the ONLY Vermont Witch Trial for a brief description.

Make sure to check out the book, A History of Vampires In New England available wherever books are sold.

Jeff Belanger is an author, podcaster, storyteller, adventurer, and explorer of the unexplained. He’s written more than a dozen books that have been published in six languages, he’s the Emmy-nominated host, writer, and producer of the New England Legends series on PBS and Amazon Prime, he provides programs and lectures to audiences all over the world, and he’s been the writer and researcher for every episode of Ghost Adventures on the Travel Channel. Jeff has made media appearances on hundreds of radio and television programs over his 25-year career, and he has a passion for mysteries and legends.

Mister Sam Shearon and Paul chat in three segments, however at the beginning we kind of go into our favorite horror flicks. However, as much as we are talking horror films. It's still "Monsters", and I mean. It's cool to chat and learn more about what others like as well. Once we get back on track, we get into the idea and layout, of the book. We even take a dive into the Paranormal realm, and the latest Sonar Image that Scott Thurber captured and reached out to Katy Elizabeth from Champ Search.

Keep up to date with all things Mister Sam Shearon, with his website below and make sure to grab your copy. Monsters of the Green Mountain State: Cryptids & Legends of Vermont.

Tom is an educator and author of 16 published books on ghosts and legends of New England. I have been a paranormal researcher/investigator for 39 years with over 1400 investigations to my credit in both the public and private sector. I am an experienced public speaker with a passion for sharing my experiences and research of the legends, ghosts and folklore of New England. My books have prompted several PBS series, documentaries and television shows in which I have appeared.

Arlene and Tom constantly travel the region in search of the countless mysteries and haunts that make New England so rich in legend and history. We have appeared at and held countless events around the region for the past fourteen years including lectures, conventions, special tours and ghost hunt dinners.

J.W. Ocker is the award-winning author of macabre travelogues, spooky kid’s books, and horror novels. His nonfictions books include The New England Grimpendium and The New York Grimpendium (both Lowell Thomas Award winners), Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar Award winner), A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem, Massachusetts, and Cursed Objects: Strange But True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items. His novels for kids include Death and Douglas, The Smashed Man of Dread End, and The Black Slide.

Paul gives a little break down Episode. What to expect today for the 10th Anniversary of Haunted Vermont, and what's to come. Unfortunately no guest or guests were available to help with this, so nonetheless I hope you at least check out and enjoy the 7 videos I created to help celebrate the Anniversary. Enjoy!

Vermont native Thea Lewis is a writer and creator of special events. When not touring, she’s stirring up fun with speaking engagements, pop-up events and big productions like Queen City Ghostwalk’s Halloween season showing of the classic film, Rocky Horror Picture Show. In addition to her work with The History Press, Thea has written a book for kids, There’s a Witch In My Sock Drawer! (Peapod Press, 2011).

We talked about her following books. Haunted Burlington, Ghosts and Legends of Lake Champlain, Haunted Inns and Ghostly Getaways of Vermont, Wicked Vermont & Lakeview Cemetery of Burlington Vermont.

Find her books at independent booksellers like Phoenix Books in Burlington and Essex, Vermont and at Amazon.com.

Jeff founded Paranormal Investigators of New England back in 2004, nearly 18 years ago. We talk about that experience while the talk about the possible UFO window, that surrounds Cobble Hill, Milton and Lake Champlain area.

Who is Jeff?

"I started as a Paranormal Investigator in 2001 with a group from Worcester, MA. I have investigated all types of paranormal phenomenon from cryptozoology, ghost, hauntings and UFOs. I founded Paranormal Investigators of New England (PI-NE) in 2004. I have trained many investigators in the field who have started their own groups in New England and continue to help anyone in need." - Jeff Stewart

Teaming up with Kolby, from The Blue Coyote Podcast. As he'll help with some Haunted Vermont Videos, and we'll be Investigating the famous Castle that resides in Proctor. Wilson Castle. And we talk a bit of other topics, enjoy our little chat.

Lucy Lago is a nine year-old orphan. She believes that Champ, the Lake Champlain Sea Serpent, lives and lurks in the lake by her cabin in Crown Point. She lives there with her grandpa, who she calls “Papa.”

Despite mockery and mercenary forces opposing them, Lucy and Papa determine to venture out on their rickety rowboat and bring awareness of America’s Loch Ness Monster to the world.

Co-written by Academy-Award-considered filmmaker Richard Rossi and retired school teacher Kelly Tabor, Lucy and the Lake Monster is a children’s series and soon-to-be feature film that masterfully illustrates how to overcome mental health challenges like worry, depression, and anxiety with childlike faith.

Bill Alexander has been running Vermonter.com since 1996, and this year marks it's 25th Anniversary. I chat with Bill about his time of debuting the website, history, and sharing the stories that have been around. Whether it's real or fake, it's always nice to share some campfire ghost stories. We also discuss his books.

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Paul talks about his latest project, "My Ghost Journal". A way to keep up to 28 locations, with pages from pre-investigations, early captures from photos, video, evp's, emf's... To documenting five witnesses to help with your main investigation. Which also sees the format of captures again, minus the witnesses. However you can then use the main investigation to describe your night. Another thing you can add are the dates, weather and moon phase as well. So you can really get an idea of what works and doesn't work for you later on down the road, or maybe you'd like to just document the same place, hoping to get different results.

The journal itself contains 200 pages, 28 locations you can add total. Add 5 witnesses, document your captures from Photos, Videos, EMFs, EVPs... It's quite big yes, but we wanted it to be the perfect size to write down enough information and more. "My Ghost Journal" is available now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble or wherever you get your books.

Katy Elizabeth was born in Warwick Rhode Island.  She is  the worlds leading authority on the Lake Champlain Monster. Katy has been studying the existence of Champ since a child She made her life long dream into reality when she had her own sighting and experiences of this elusive creature on Lake Champlain.

It prompted her to start her own group called “Champ Search”. The group's goal is to study, investigate, prove the existence and most importantly protect the unique animals that inhabit New York and Vermont’s beautiful Lake Champlain. Katy currently resides on the shores of Lake Champlain in Ferrisburgh VT. 

In 2018 she was honored with an official world record as the only full-time Dedicated Woman Lake Monster Hunter in the world. Also in 2018, Katy approached the town of Port Henry NY known as the "Home of Champ" with a written resolution to protect Champ. April of 2018 this law was passed. 

She has been featured on an extensive amount of radio and television programs across the globe including the History Channel's "In Search of Aliens" with Giorgio Tsoukalos, The Travel Channel (Expedition X with Josh Gates), Discovery Channel, The Science Channel, as well as NBC. She is author of the book “Water Horse of Lake Champlain: The Search.”

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Betty and Karen from Paranormal Investigators of New England, aka PINE for short. Joins Paul to discuss some theories, stories and a little bit of advice to some paranormal aspects. Whether you believe or not, it’s a fun little chat. And I hope we can chat again down the road.

If you need a second opinion, or have a haunting of your own going on. Please reach out to them, as I’d recommend them HIGHLY professional, and great people with good insights. They’ve helped tons of people, and have investigated some really cool places.

Plot; Lucy and the Lake Monster is the story of Lucy, an orphan girl, who believes in "Champ," the legendary sea serpent of Lake Champlain. Lucy and her grandpa, "Papa Jerry," look for Champ despite mockery and mercenary forces opposing them.

Richard and Kelly are setting out to make not just a film, but a book series as well to make awareness of Champ, the lake monster of Lake Champlain. They also were raising funds for their projects on Indiegogo with a goal of $50k, and by the end of the campaign, they raised about 10%. So what's the next step to help gain funds? Also they will be looking for local extras, learn more by listening.

Emma calls in to chat a little bit as well. We discuss her acting, hearing about this film and a little bit more.

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Back in Vintage Market Days 2021, Tessa and I tried out this event for the first time. Although I felt the prices are kind of high to just enter this event, just to then spend more money once entered inside the Vermont State Fairgrounds in Rutland. Cody's stand quite stood out amongst the others, as it was a cozy, small redone over animal trailer. Possibly a horse trailer? Don't quote me....

As we talked and smelled all her lovely soaps, we noticed she had a lovely print of Champ from Lake Champlain, while some cool little stickers. From there we grabbed her business card, kept in touch throughout the rest of 2021. And, after examining her website more, I suggested why not have a Champ Bundle? Which includes that same 11x17 print, and 2 Stickers. Which is currently unavailable.

Today, we invite Cody to talk about her Art, Champ, and the difficulties of running a soap business. While trying to stay creative, and how Cody and her mother (Pam Putnam) are possibly gonna go about their book project.

Check out North Road Soap Co.

Note: At this time, Haunted Hikes of Vermont is currently Out Of Print.

The latest title in the Haunted Hikes series, Haunted Hikes of Vermont is great for everyone in the family whether they like history, ghosts, or simply the outdoors. This fun and spooky hiking guide provides both storied history and fanciful legend along the trails of Vermont's Green Mountains and beyond. Discover the haunts of hikers gone by and determine whether these ghost tales are fact or fiction. The book includes details on what surrounds each area, how to get there, and a map of each trail with points of interest. Hikes are rated according to difficulty and spookiness with something for every family member. As with the previous title in the series, the cover glows in the dark!

Tim is trying to get the rights to his book, then we'll be able to see a NEW Updated Edition. Which we go over as well as a little bonus.

Tim Simard Social's

Andrea has assumed the role of planning, scheduling and just making sure, that Champ Day happens ever since she took over in 2020. We get to understand in her view what it means, a little history and what to expect and keep up to date.

Kyle is also part of the Champ Day Committee, and also Owns the Online Shop, Home for Champ.

We also pick there minds on their thoughts of Champ, share stories and more.

Pam Putnam is the author and illustrator behind this very informative children's book. Champ, the little plesiosaur. We talk the process, stories, ideas and what the paranormal aspect means to her.

Jason was born in Vermont and have lived here his whole life. Jason has always been fascinated by stories of the paranormal and particularly any stories that are based in Vermont and the other New England states. At one time, Jason was active in local, independent filmmaking and started researching the Eddy family to write a screenplay about their story. Since then he has gathered thousands of pieces of research on the story, including newspaper articles, vital records (birth, marriage, and death certificates), funeral records, letters, real estate records, military records, education records, and more.

More of the Eddy Brothers can be read from Henry Olcott's book, "People from the Other World".

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Mr. Bissette is known for some very cool and believable illustrations we have witnessed throughout works of numerous projects. I'll let this interview Episode speak for itself.

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Security Guards witness ghostly voices call out their names. Others have witnessed faces and uneasiness feelings, this makes you wonder who or whom are watching the past students of Austine School for the Deaf. Unfortunately, this School was permanently shut down in June 2014.

The Blue Coyote Podcast might ring a bell for you. Why? Because I've appeared twice on Kolby's show, where the Podcast is made "For the People". Kolby also describes his show as "Truth Seeking, Living on a Motionless Plane and Supporting Artists and Entrepreneurs".

Let's meet the man behind the podcast, while learning about the supernatural aspects of his journey's into the unknown.

People hear laughing from little girls, a girl supposedly hung herself and now appears during plays in 1900's fashion. Others have a game to play to calm the spirits. Lyndon State College converted to Northern Vermont University.

Justin Heath and I met back in 4th grade in Middle School, so it's been years since I've known this guy. I wanted to interview Justin for a while now and especially for Haunted Vermont, which is another page I created and run. If you're interested in learning Vermont Haunted History or Stories, please head over and give the page a like! 

Colleges, known to be a part of a learning community to help those in need. However, some locations weren't ever a School to begin. Such like Southern Vermont College, it was once the Estate of Mr. & Mrs. Everett's summer home in Vermont. What lurks within the halls and rooms within?

Have a story of your own? Let us know today. To be featured on an upcoming episode.

Vermonters are a frugal bunch and have been for many generations. In order to save energy during a long, cold Vermont winter, the truly ingenious old-time Vermont natives would find a way conserve food and heat….by freezing their old folks, for the duration of winter, and thawing them out in the spring time!

One man’s Insurance against premature burial in Vermont. Things are looking up…for someone who’s been dead for over 100 years. Discover Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven, Vermont, final resting place of Timothy Clark Smith, whose 1893 crypt includes a window to help him escape in case he was buried alive.

During a bitterly frigid winter night in the late 1800’s, a fire occurred on the original railroad trestle in Hartford, VT. The Montreal Express, a train with passenger cars carrying 78 people, derailed and burned. Tragically, thirty-six people were crushed, drowned or burned alive, including a boy and his father. To date, this was Vermont’s worst railroad disaster.

Over the last two centuries, people with enterprising ideas have envisioned it as a place of business. Four hotel fires later, they were left to wonder: was it coincidence that led to their failure, or the curse of Brunswick Springs?

Brunswick Springs is located well off the main road in Brunswick, VT., a town of approximately 100 residents in the Northeast Kingdom. There are six individual springs at the spot, and each allegedly contains a different mineral-iron, calcium, magnesium, sulfur, bromide and arsenic-that flow into the Connecticut River 65 feet below.

The Bennington Triangle Missing and More.

In 1874 he became aware of the séances of the Eddy Brothers of Chittenden, Vermont. His interest aroused, Olcott wrote an article for the New York Sun, in which he investigated Eddy Farms. His article was popular enough that other papers, such as the New York Daily Graphic, republished it. His 1874 publication People from the Other World began with his early articles concerning the Spiritualist movement.

Also in 1874, Olcott met Helena Blavatsky while both were visiting the Eddy farm. His foundational interest in the Spiritualist movement and his budding relationship with Blavatsky helped foster his development of spiritual philosophy.

The Eddy Brothers were William and Horatio Eddy, two American mediums best known in the 1870’s, who claimed psychic powers.

Pittsford Haunted House, was once known as The Caverly Preventorium or “The Vermont Sanitorium”. Housing 100 patients that contracted the dreaded disease at the time with no cure, tuberculous. It held dark experiments from doctors, and lost fundings eventually leading to it’s closure in 1967. It became part of what is now known as the Vermont Police Academy and then went to the Vermont Fire Department, where even today it is opened to the public during October for their annual Pittsford Haunted House.

Back in the fall of 2013, film makers Owen Mulligan and Jay Vos contacted Paul Dulski who runs Haunted Vermont to help find a location to shoot there last and final tale of there film that was released on October 27th 2014, known as DEAD STATIC. The tale takes on the true facts of witnesses claiming to see a small female child staring out on the second floor window. However since it’s a horror film, not everything is true.

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Season One Episode Four takes us to Stowe, Vermont. Gold Brook Bridge is considered to be Haunted by a entity named Emily, her story is supposedly said that she committed suicide by hanging herself on the bridge while waiting for her groom that never arrived. However it is also said, this could be the bridge that isn’t actually the one that is haunted. And if that’s the real deal, how come this particular bridge is known to have someone or something there.

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A copper statue located at Green Mount Cemetery in Montpelier, Vermont is that of a male figure, sitting with closed eyes looking upwards, his head covered with a shawl. Like many similar legends, “Black Agnes” supposedly is cursed with the power to some pretty vile things to those who may be tempted to sit on his lap. The list of not so wonderful circumstances include a certain death within seven days and a range of just plain, bad luck.

One thing remains a fact. The statue is bestowed with the title “Thanatos” (Greek for the word “death”). John Erastus Hubbard (1847 – 1899) was a Montpelier businessman with enough wealth to have the statue created and watching over his final resting place.

John Hubbard was a business man in the Montpelier area in the 1800’s. It was said that he contested and inherited a sizable amount of money from a wealthy aunt, (who had originally left the city of Montpelier a virtual fortune). He set about the task of building a public library for Montpelier, but at about 1/3 of the cost his deceased aunt had intended. Needless to say people in the area considered him greedy and mean spirited.

Some of the reported odd occurrences surrounding “Black Agnes” included glowing red eyes at night, blood curdling screams and other creepy noises. Some people believe that the statue was haunted due to the misdeeds and demeanor of Hubbard, while he was still alive. Stories were told about a number of people who dared to sit in the lap of Black Agnes only to be found dead later.

Welcome to the Premiere of HAUNTED VERMONT PODCAST, on this debut Episode we learn the History behind the 19th Century Castle. Which is the ONLY REAL one ever built in the heart of the Green Mountains. A place that is still available for weddings, but within these walls. Could one of the Wilson family members still be lingering around?

In this Episode I talked with the owner of the castle, Denise and volunteers Andy and Sheila.

Also appearing is Steve from South Glens Falls Paranormal Society, and John Dean known for his Terrorealm haunted attractions.

ABOUT THE CASTLE: The Castle has been the home of five generations of the Wilson family. It’s design is a blend of European styles. Part of the estate is presently in the Wilson Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization, to preserve its longevity.

The facade of the Castle is set with English brick and marble, and is dominated by nineteen open proscenium arches and shadowed by a towering turret, parapet, and balcony.

The residence of the 115 acre estate has three floors spaciously divided into 32 rooms. The interior features are highlighted with 84 stained-glass windows and 13 fireplaces finished with imported tiles and bronze. The Castle’s furnishings include Far Eastern and European antiques and museum pieces, complemented by statuary, Chinese scrolls, and Oriental rugs. The various rooms with their distinctive features provide an elegant and richly gracious interior – perfect for the wedding of your dreams.

On the grounds are cattle barns, stables, the carriage house, and the glass house and plenty of space in the scenic Vermont countryside.

Tristin Notte takes the host seat and chats with Paul Dulski and Tessa Baker about their recently debut short film, The Passenger: A Vermont Urban Legend.