THE NORTHERN ARMY
In the summer of 1770, the mysterious "Northern Army" descended upon the town of Guildhall, Vermont, and the citizens feared all would be lost.
Though the hardy locals had battled Indians and Tories, bears and big cats, abusive Vermont winters, and occasionally each other, this new band of invaders was like nothing anyone had ever seen before. For these intruders – inching steadily southward, innumerable in multitude – were a plague of biblical proportions. They were a giant army... of worms
Mad Anthony’s Ghosts & Multiple Memphre
And more than one unbelieving observer has seen this strange ghostly sight become even stranger. Occasionally, when the moon is right and the shadows are long, the spectral Colonel will pause, turn, and face the water. Then, as if spotting something appealing on the far shore, the Colonel’s ghost will decide to cross the lake. He does so at any point simply by walking across the top of the water.
Groton’s Godzilla & Hearing Things
Suddenly they saw movement at the roadside. As Mrs. Desorda recalled, "I stopped, and he stopped. And here was this huge thing, I don't know what it was. It had come up partway across the road... And I could see it as it went by. It looked just like a dinosaur. It came from the right side of the road.
Panthers and Lake Monsters
As the story goes, in the middle of the night on May 20, 1968, three excited young people burst into the Littleton Police Department. The officer on duty, Officer Miller, saw that they were terrified, raving about something in the water… a monster!
DOOR TO ... SOMEWHERE?
The maternal side of Mark's family came from Scotland during the 1700s and settled in the Ryegate area. There, James Whitehill, Mark's ancestor, built a stone house on his 600 acres. The house still stands; each year it hosts the family reunion.
Mark enjoys many childhood memories of the place. But there are other memories, too: the most profoundly puzzling incident of his life occurred there when he was in his early teens.
END OF THE WORLD...VERMONT STYLE
Tsunamis. Tornadoes. Avalanches. Mudslides. Terrorism and war. And Religious leaders and crackpots spouting myriad end-of-the-world scenarios. It feels like disasters are all around us.
Could we be living in the final days? Is the Rapture just around the corner? Even dyed-in-the-wool skeptics like me are beginning to get just a wee bit edgy.
OLD SLIPPERYSKIN & MUSIC OF THE SPHERES
This fearsome oddity came to be known as "Old Slipperyskin." The creature was said to resemble a huge bear, but unlike any known bear, it always walked upright, on its hind legs. It was said to have a mean disposition, and sometimes sought revenge against individuals who had offended it.
Berlin and Canada
Sometimes I think we need a miracle. The last one that I know of took place not so very long ago, and in – of all places -- Berlin, New Hampshire.
The amazing event began on Thursday, June 1st in the year 2000. On that day, between 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., Mr. George Arsenault, a Eucharistic minister, came face-to-face with the supernatural.
Springs and Ponds
First, they are a geological anomaly comprised of six individual springs, side by side on a knoll, forming a semi-circle of about fifteen feet. Though nearly as close together as spigots on a soda fountain, the mineral content of each is said to be completely different from that of its neighbor. Moving left to right, they are: Iron, Calcium, Magnesium, White Sulfur, Bromide and -- if you are brave enough -- Arsenic.
From Fairlee to Lyndonville: Six Strange Tales
Mark Massie recalls a ghostly experience from his early adolescence. He and his brother Matt were playing near the family place in Ryegate. While exploring, they found a hill with a wooden door in its side. This wood-plank door looked ancient. So did its rough iron bolts, oversized hinges, and huge rusty padlock.
The Lead Tube & Giant Eels
Before that, back in 1935, the mayor of Newport, Frank D. Burns, disappeared and was presumed drowned. Divers looking for his body said they had seen giant "eels six to eight feet long and as thick as a man's thigh."
Goonyak & The Lead Tube
Game wardens speculated that someone might have seen the skinned carcass of a bear. Something like that could appear half-human at a glance. In any event, they guessed, the myth was probably conjured up by a deer hunter.
And Morris Shulham was a deer hunter.
NO UFO
I was living in Burlington at the time, not far from Lake Champlain. One night, my telephone rang sometime after midnight, waking me up. A little late for a phone call, I thought, and somewhat nervously, I picked up. It was my friend Bob who lived up north, not far from the Canada border.