New England’s Scariest Stories And Urban Legends

by Summer Paradis & Cathy McManus

Journey through New England’s darkest places and read 22 of its scariest stories and urban legends.

Explore mysterious cryptids like the Dover Demon, Pigman, the Sea Serpent of Gloucester, the Dublin Lake Monster, and the Derry Fairy. Meet Champ, the legendary lake monster of Lake Champlain, and a fisherman who found himself thirty feet from the beast.

See the grave of Midnight Mary and the Desert of Maine, and judge for yourself if their curses are real. Try to walk with the Leather Man and wonder why he chooses to walk alone.


Visit The House of the Seven Gables and The Shunned House, both famous in literature, and learn of ghosts that still linger there. Cross Emily’s Bridge in Vermont, creep over the alleged vampire Mercy Brown’s grave in Rhode Island, and more. New England promises to scare you!

Size: 6″ x 9″ | 73 color images | Index | 144 pp
ISBN13: 9780764341229 | Binding: soft cover

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Huge Amber Colored Ball Of Light Over Arabian Sea United Arab Emirates

 

Date:  January 27, 2012

Time:  Between 00:30 to 00:40

 

Hi, I read you post at http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com/ (in fact I was searching for the same). I'm from UAE (GMT +4:00). Yesterday night (27th January, between 00:30 to 00:40) we saw exactly the same which you described in your post.

 

Big amber color ball, at least 10 times bigger than a star we see, moving in the sky. We saw it exactly above the Arabian sea. I was driving, it was feeling like someone was flying a kite with flaming material (we use to see in our native place in India).

 

It was not sky-high, and was impossible for someone to fly a kite in the middle of the sea (in 12 c). It was quite, fascinating! We saw it for maximum of 1 minutes. When I got down to see it properly and take a picture, it was disappeared. We really don't know how and when it disappeared.

 

We are damn sure it was something that we've never seen before. It was not an aeroplane. We drove many kilometers after that to find it, but we could not find it.

 

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

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Bright Orange Lights Over The Sea At Port Alfred Eastern Cape South Africa

 

Date:  January 1, 2012

Time:  8:00 p.m.

 

Number of witnesses: 2

Number of Objects: 3

Shape of Objects: Spherical.

 

Full Description of Event/Sighting: I was interested to read about the orange lights seen in the sky last night in Australia. I am living in Port Alfred Eastern Cape South Africa. At 8 o'clock this evening, 1st January 2012 I went to open the bedroom window which faces south and saw a bright orange light over the sea moving from west to east.

 

As we never see aircraft over the sea, I went to the large east facing window to watch the light. It was travelling fast and soon disappeared behind some very light cloud, within seconds I looked up and saw another orange light directly overhead, and shouted to my husband to come and watch.

 

This light also moved quickly and there was absolutely no sound whatsoever and once again it disappeared. Within seconds a third orange light appeared over the sea and followed the same pattern as the first.

 

This sighting was really strange and I did try and take a picture with my cell phone of the third light, but it seems it has not come out. I would love to hear your thoughts.

 

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

The Vike Factor (Brian Vike) http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com/

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Bright Orange Light Over Eastwood Road Eastwood Leigh On Sea Essex UK

 

Date:  December 25, 2008

Time:  Approx: 7:30 p.m.

 

Hi, I’ve never commented on anything like this before, only because I have never seen anything like this.

But last night, Christmas Day 2008, we was on our way home in Eastwood Road, Eastwood, Leigh on Sea, Essex, UK and around 7:30 p.m. when my 9 year old son saw a bright orange light in the sky. It was like a flame orange colour, very visible.

 

My husband made me pull over the car so we could look more closely and all 4 of us could see it. It looked like it was moving, but it wasn't going anywhere.

 

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

The Vike Factor (Brian Vike) http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com/

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Approximately 25 Orange White Lights Over Sea Mills Bristol UK

 

Date:  August 30, 2008

Time:  Approx: 9:30 p.m.

 

I just saw the same lights in Sea Mills Bristol, looked like they were over towards Pill on the horizon, they climbed and vanished into the cloud's.

Time was 21:30 ish Saturday the 30th August, about 15 lights, then a small gap then about another 10, have got a small video clip taken with my phone only about 4 seconds but does show them, also a few pictures.

Lights were orange and white, no sound at all very odd.

My brother and my sister in law were also there they also seen it all.

Link to witnesses blog with pictures and small video clip: http://jerryteflon.blogspot.com/

 

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

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3 Orange Lights In The Sky Over Southend On Sea Essex UK

Date: October 2010

Time: Evening.

Hi, I was browsing the internet and decided to Google something I saw last year when I came upon your post here http://worldufos.blogspot.com/2010/12/3-orange-lights-in-sky-over-kent.html

I thought you'd be interested in my sighting.

It was in October 2010 and I was having a ciggy in the garden of my house, in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and watching the stars when I saw 3 orange lights in the sky. They were in a triangle formation (appeared to be fixed) and possibly there was a dimmer light in the middle of them, I didn't get a good look as they were moving very quickly.

The thing that struck me as odd was that they appeared out of nowhere and disappeared as quickly as the came, after quickly traveling in a straight line in the direction towards the seafront, also there was no engine noise.

I'm on the fence about things like this and can only assume that it was an unknown aircraft of some sort, maybe military.

Anyway I hope this interests you. I don't really have any other information and I haven't seen anything like this before or since.

Best wishes.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

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Lights On UFO Seen Over Frinton On Sea UK

Date: December 24, 2008

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Location of Sighting: Frinton On Sea UK.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of Objects: 1
Shape of Objects: Rectangular, shape glowing.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: I was outside my back door when I saw an orange light just above the trees moving towards my rear garden. It was becoming larger as it moved closer, the object passed my garden and went between my house and the house next door. It was about 30 feet up and seemed the size of two helicopters, it was glowing bright orange, but there was not a sound coming from it.

It was completely silent. I could not believe what was happening, but went inside to get my binoculars, and ran out the front of my house to see it again. It was only about 10 seconds before I looked through my binoculars to find it had travelled very high in the sky, but still clear through binoculars, it was now more round in shape and had 5 or 6 much brighter lights on the right side like numbers on a clock face.

I will never forget this and it really as it overshadowed my Christmas, I can still see this object now, the event will never fade in my mind. I have experienced people not believing me or taking the mickey, as this was Christmas Eve. What I witnessed was real, frightening, and was not in any way or form a Chinese lantern.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

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Red Cigar Shaped UFO Over Southend On The Sea UK

Date: Either July 1st or July 2, 2010

Time: Late evening.

Hello Brian, I was interested in your sighting because of something I saw in the sky at the beginning of July. It was either Thursday 1st or Friday 2nd July, I am not entirely sure which night because I had been ill all that week and one day kind of merged into another. However, I had gone downstairs to get a glass of water and as I returned to my bedroom I glanced through the window and saw a very bright glowing red/orange light in the eastern sky.

It was not moving and it certainly didn't look like a planet or star and despite still not feeling well I was riveted to the sight because it was so intriguing. It seemed to be a cigar shape for want of a better term and the brightest glowing red colour I had ever seen. I watched it for a few minutes and willed it to move so that I could check out its speed or at the very least get more of an idea as to what it really was.

As I had this thought the object seemed to merge into a cloud that was behind it and then almost immediately I noticed it in another part of the sky in a more NNW direction. I didn't see it move, nor did it make a sound, but it must have moved at some speed to cover the distance it traveled in a matter of 2 or 3 seconds. At least, that's how long it took me to notice it, it may well have moved quicker than that.

I saw something similar last night around 8.40pm. It was the same glowing red colour, and this was attracted me to it, but this time it was moving across the sky in a west to east direction. It didn't seem to be moving very fast but again I am pretty sure it wasn't any aircraft. Again it made no noise and eventually just merged into the clouds.

I'm not a UFO fanatic and I don't go around looking for them but I do believe they exist and that it's possible more and more people are going to be spotting them leading up to 2012.

Your sighting sounds absolutely awesome. I wish I could have got some photographic evidence for mine but thought that by the time I had got my camera sorted the craft would probably have disappeared anyway.

Exciting stuff which ever way you look at it.

Regards.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

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Four Massive Glowing Orange Lights Over Westcliff On Sea Essex UK

Date: July 28, 2010

Time: 11:00 p.m.

Location of Sighting: Westcliff On Sea Essex UK.
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of Objects: 1
Shape of Objects: Square or diamond shaped.

Full Description of Event/Sighting: As the other person from Westcliff On Sea reported. It would have been the night of Wednesday 28th July 2010. I just pulled up after picking my daughter up. We both looked up and watched this square shape with four massive glowing orange lights go over head. Not a sound coming from it. I said that's not a plane, I know as I see them quite often with flashing green red beacons flashing. The object heading south, weird. I wondered about a space station or satellite.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Orange Ball Of Light Over Westcliff On Sea

Date: July 29, 2010
Time: Between midnight and 2:00 a.m.

Hi, I saw an orange ball of light last night over southend-on-sea looking at it through binoculars I could see nothing. Do you know what this was? Between midnight and 2:00am and Over Westcliff-on-Sea travelling South. All the aircraft that comes over our house goes east to West and Visa versa.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

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Bright Orange Glowing Object Over Southend On The Sea Essex UK

Date: April 28, 2010
Time: 7:40 p.m.

Hi Brian, thank you for giving me an avenue to express my emotions. I have contacted CNN in America, CNN in the UK and BBC in the UK and all the newspapers international. I called national radio Talksport and on there I got to say what had happened to me, but the show was half joking, so I need to put it across with fun or they would have cut me off. The producer said to me after the call, that they want to get me back on when they do a longer show. It's such a horrible feeling to not be able to say what you have seen. If I had seen an accident, I can call 999 and the ambulance would come and the police would take my statement. I then would have some kind of closure, but this feeling is just horrible.

The sighting happened on 28/4/10 at 7:40pm in the United Kingdom, Southend on the Sea Essex, it was still very light and I just popped down to my local shop to get a few beers for the Barcelona Milan semi final football. As I turned the corner of the street, I noticed a very bright orange glow in the north sky. It was coming from the direction of the local Southend airport.

At first I thought, police helicopter and then I thought, no they have a bright white light. As I walked and watched, it got bigger and bigger and bigger. I stood behind a telegraph pole, this object swerved to the left and flew down my road at about 300 feet high. This thing was massive. I would estimate the size of a large detached house, maybe bigger. It was glowing and pulsing and burning fire, but this was a fire that I've never seen before.

It was like lava from a volcano and it was a perfectly round from the front and from the underside. As it went over me, I cupped my hands together to increase what I could hear, I can tell you categorically that this made no sound whatsoever. I just wish that my car ran like that. As it passed me it was round from the rear and then all of a sudden it veered left again and within seconds it was gone.

One very strange thing that happened, was that there was 3 other people that I called and they saw it as well, but we seemed to go our separate ways without discussing what we saw. Now I'm getting a real freaked out feeling, of course I remember we just walked away and said, my god how strange. Sorry Brian, that has just come flooding back to me as I'm writing this now. I said to the wife yesterday, that I was proud to be human, that's the first time I've ever said that.

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Sightings.com website: http://www.sightings.com/

Ball Of Golden Yellow Light Over The Thames Estuary Leigh On Sea UK

Date: January 1, 2010
Time: Approx: 12:05 a.m.

My partner and I were in the garden watching the fireworks. Approx: 12:05am. We both saw a yellow ball of light travel horizontally across the sky; quite low. We thought it was a plane on fire, but as it lowered and started to turn, we realized it looked like a ball of golden yellow light. It looked as if it was going over the Thames Estuary. Never experienced anything like this before. Leigh on Sea Essex.

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Clacton On Sea, Essex, England 10 To 12 Orange Lights

Posted: April 27, 2009

Date: April 10, 2009
Time: 20:31hr.

Number of witnesses: 7
Number of objects: 10 - 12
Shape of objects: Round
Weather Conditions: Reasonable

Description: I was driving home along the bypass into Clacton on sea and saw 4 orange lights in the sky. 3 in a triangle and 1 following a short distance behind. I had to turn off and didn't give them a second thought until I got close to home. I got to the junction of Rosemary road and St Johns road and would normally turn right, however I saw the same lights to the left so yes I turned left. I drove maybe quarter mile and pulled over to video with my phone. Suddenly several more lights came from the direction of the sea, all following each other. Prior to stopping i called home to let them know what was happening. They too saw the lights. Even if they were not UFO's they were pretty bizarre but amazing to watch and very slow to move.

Thank you to UFOINFO for this report. http://www.ufoinfo.com/

Westcliff On Sea, Essex Close to the Thames Estuary Large Orange Object

Posted: February 12, 2009

Date: January 1, 2009
Time: 00.02

Number of witnesses: 3
Number of objects: 5
Shape of objects: Not quite circular seemed to be flat on one edge.
Weather Conditions: Dry with some patchy cloud.

Description: We were seeing the New Year in on our balcony, watching fireworks when a large creamy coloured light with an orangey edge about the size of a tea plate appeared above us coming from the NW. We thought it was a helicopter but quickly realized that it was making no noise and there were none of the lights that we regularly see on helicopters overhead. Nor was it an aircraft. It progressed very smoothly towards the Thames Estuary and at a certain point seemed to stop then started to shrink in size until a pin prick and disappeared. Almost immediately three more lights appeared to the SE of us over the Thames. They were identical to the first light only smaller and moving in a triangular formation as they came towards us, and when each light reached the place where the first light had disappeared it in turn shrank and disappeared.

Moments later a fifth light appeared from the same direction as the last three (from the S.E.) and glided to the same spot where the other four lights had disappeared, then it shrank and disappeared. While this was taking place hundreds of fireworks were being set off to mark the New Year. My son had been watching the fireworks from a friend's garden in Leigh-on-Sea - slightly further inland and to the west of us. When my husband and I told him what we had seen, he said he and his friends had been watching these lights too and were wondering what they were.

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UFOINFO Note: As with other similar reports I asked the witness to have a look at the UFO Balloons website to see if this is what might have been seen and received the following reply:

Hello John

I have looked at the video and doubt whether the balloons are what we saw. The lights we saw were moving too steadily. If they had been balloons they would have been moving on an air current or in the wind so would have been moving in more or less the same direction. Whereas, the first light we saw definitely came over our roof top from behind us - from the north west, while the other four lights were coming towards us from the south east. The three light that were in a triangle kept the same distance from each other until each one disappeared. Sometimes there are laser light shows from South end over the estuary and I wondered if it might have been this ... but my son and his friend would not have been able to see the laser lights from where they were watching. I had almost forgotten about the lights until I read a report about a similar sighting this week made by a farmer in Lincolnshire. The lights he saw sounded similar.

Best wishes.

Thank you to UFOINFO for this report. http://www.ufoinfo.com/

Clacton-On-Sea, Essex, England Round Orange Light

Posted: January 29, 2009

Date: January 10, 2009
Time: 10:00 p.m.

Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Round and Orange.
Weather Conditions: Crystal Clear.

Description: 10pm my girlfriend shouted to me to come downstairs and come and see something, she was putting the dog out.

I run down stairs to the back door. Right up in front of me coming inland from the sea direction was a quite large orange bright light moving about an aeroplane speed if it was quite low. There was no noise what-so-ever and it certainly weren't no plane. It passed across our house, so I had to go to the front porch to see it, then it moved off away from me and the bright orange light started to get smaller. So I thought if that was a plane or something then when it turned, you would not see the light, certainly not as bright and certainly not orange. So who know what it was !

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Additional information:

Hello. I see one of what they are showing here http://www.ufoinfo.com/sightings/uk/081231a.shtml

Do you know what it is ?

Thank you to UFOINFO for this report. http://www.ufoinfo.com/

Frinton On Sea, Essex, England Amber/Orange Colored Light

Posted: January 26, 2009

Date: December 24, 2008
Time: 7:25 p.m.

Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Round glowing.
Weather Conditions: Clear night sky.

Description: I was closing my chicken run,when I reached the back door, turned to see a bright orange light in the sky, it was very low, just above the tall trees, I would say that it seemed larger than a helicopter flying at the same height. It was going to pass on the right of my back garden, which would make this object flying along the coast towards Clacton-on-sea,as I live 100 mtrs from the seafront. There was no sound from it at anytime, it was flying very slowly, in a straight line at the same height. I ran indoors to get my binoculars,and went out the front of the house,as it was heading in that direction. It was much higher now, and had slowed right down.

Through the binoculars it was round, on the right hand side of the ball shape were 5 bright lights within it, like 1-2-3-4-5 of a clock face. I ran in again to get my camera, it had completely gone in about 8 seconds. I have looked at the UFO balloons, I doubt if what I saw was a balloon, the light was immense, very very bright amber/orange, it was flying straight.

Thank you to UFOINFO for this report. http://www.ufoinfo.com/

Clacton-On-Sea, Essex, England A Bright Orange Glow/Light

Posted: January 7, 2009

Date: January 1, 2009
Time: 1:30 a.m.

Number of witnesses: 4
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: It wasn't a shape it was a bright orange glow it moved really slow and the was no sound.
Weather Conditions: Still really clear.

Description: There was three of my girlfriends family and me. Just dropped her grandma off and my girlfriend said there is a orange glow so we looked towards it. It took at least a few mins to go over a passing house, so I got my girlfriends mothers phone and started to record, but when I got it up it started to move away /fade/disappear if any 1 has seen this plz contact me on my email. I'm not the sort of person to believe in this sort of stuff.

Out To Sea St Elizabeth Jamaica, West Indies Huge Glowing Green UFO

Posted: October 23, 2008

Date: October 23, 2008
Time: 6.45 p.m.

Location of Sighting: Out to sea off Black River, St Elizabeth Jamaica, West Indies.
Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Round ball.

Full Description of event/sighting: I live 2200 feet above sea level, looking out to the west in the Santa Cruz mountains on the south side of Jamaica, and the view is towards the sea. I was writing outside and caught sight of a large glowing green ball falling from the sky. It had a smaller interior ball of yellow/orange. It "fell" in a straight line at a relatively slow speed. It was not a shooting star, much bigger and travelling much slower. It went through a cloud and never came out at the bottom. It is difficult to judge how big it was, but giving the distance I was away from it, I imagine it to be large. I have to compare its size to ships that I've seen, seemingly within that same distance from me and I would estimate it to have been the size of at least five or more large ocean liners. The really odd thing was that I was expecting it to come out below the cloud and into the sea and it didn't. It just seemed to have disappeared.

Thank you to the witness for the interesting report.

Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research and host of the Vike Report UFO Eyewitness radio show. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/

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Clacton On Sea, Essex, England A Spherical UFO

Posted: July 31, 2008

Date: July 19, 2008
Time: 8:00 p.m.

Number of witnesses: 1
Number of objects: 1
Shape of objects: Spherical.
Weather Conditions: Dry, Partly Cloudy/Sunny Spells.

Description: I spotted the object for only a second or so from my brothers living room window. It was spherical in shape and very bright Orange in colour.Difficult to judge the size, but if I had to guess it was probably about 2 to 4 metres wide and travelling North at what I can only describe as very high speed. The object appeared to be descending at around 45 degrees and then it leveled out. It was the way in which the object moved that has stuck in my mind. The object appeared to be only a few hundred metres away, in broad daylight, which is why I'm convinced this was not any type of aircraft, meteorite or weather balloon etc.

There were three other adults with me at the time and although no one else spotted it, they all heard me mutter something along the lines of "I don't believe
what I've just seen" It was not until I spotted a report of a similar sighting on a Suffolk Newspapers Website today that I felt compelled to share my experience. I then found a link to this site and after reading the recent reports decided to post this. Hope it's of interest to some of you as I have never seen anything quite like it before, really weird.

TV/Radio: Not my actually sighting but similar object reported in East Anglian Daily Times, with photograph, taken on 13th July in Ipswich, which is about 25 miles north of Clacton.

Thank you to UFOINFO for this report. http://www.ufoinfo.com/

St. Leonards On Sea, East Sussex, UK Stretched Oval Shaped UFO

Posted: July 28, 2008

Date: July 27, 2008
Time: 9:30 p.m.

Location of Sighting: St. Leonards On Sea, East Sussex, UK
Number of witnesses: 2
Number of objects: 2
Shape of objects: Stretched oval shape with 5 thick long prongs.

Full Description of event/sighting: Very clear summer evening, sun going down, stars appearing. I noticed a black object in the sky, slowly moving and very high in the sky. When I looked through binoculars I had a shock, it was black and similar shape to a Chinook helicopter but no propellers, but had 5 prongs that were thick and long hanging from it. One from underneath, 3 from above and 1 that looked like it was sticking out from the front, we watched it move slowly above us until it went out of sight. As we were discussing what we had seen, another one appeared, exactly the same shape color and position in the sky traveling in the same direction. No noise, no vapor trail, no lights.

Thank you to the witness for their report.

Brian Vike, Director HBCC UFO Research and host of the Vike Report UFO Eyewitness radio show. email: hbccufo@telus.net Website: http://www.hbccufo.org http://www.brianvike.com, http://www.hbccufo.com, http://www.hbccufo.net HBCC UFO Research International: http://www.hbccufointernational.org/

Just added, the Vike Report Radio Show Blog. You can check the blog out for archived radio shows and all the new and upcoming programs I do.
http://thevikereport.blogspot.com/

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