Slightly Odd Fitchburg

This post was originally shared as a Facebook and Instagram "DID YOU KNOW" post. I share them and you can get in on the fun by liking my page at  Facebook.com/TheNewSlightlyOddFitchburg  and following me at  Instagram.com/SlightlyOddFitchburg ! Now onto the haunting story! DID YOU KNOW there's a hitchhiking ghost in Maine called The Girl in the Snow? Yeah, so if you’ve ever driven Route 2A through Haynesville Woods in northern Maine during the dead of winter, you know the kind of road we’re talking about here. They’re narrow, twisting, hemmed in by skeletal trees and just waiting for the next accident. It’s the sort of place where headlights feel more like flashlights in a cave than actual illumination. If you happen to be on this road in the winter, you might just meet the hitchhiker ghost that’s been terrifying truckers and travelers since the 1960s. The legend goes like that, on icy nights when the snow is blowing sideways and the thermometer has given up entirely, dri...

The Shrieking Thanksgiving Ghost This one brings us to Geneva, New York . That’s the state with that really big city that smells like the Dutch . Every other holiday has a ghost and Thanksgiving isn’t any different, it’s just a little surprising. I mean, nothing bad ever came out of that day for any person or group of people, right? Hold on, my producer is talking in my ear… Oh? OH! oh. Well, that was disappointing to learn. Anyway, let’s get into the ghost story! The When and Where Told you so. This ghost story takes place back 1902, a few years before the world was going to start having fun with the Great Worcester Airship Hoax . It was the night of Thanksgiving Day and a train was approaching Marsh Bridge in Geneva, New York. It's bad enough when you have to work on Thanksgiving, but things were about to get weird for the engineer and fireman driving this thing. They were both in the train’s… cockpit? Engine car? Driver’s seat? I don’t know, I’m not a train guy. By...

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This post was originally shared as a Facebook and Instagram "DID YOU KNOW" post. I share them and you can get in on the fun by liking my page at  Facebook.com/TheNewSlightlyOddFitchburg  and following me at  Instagram.com/SlightlyOddFitchburg ! Now onto the haunting story!   DID YOU KNOW that Pittsfield, Massachusetts has a ghost train? Back in 1958, a guy by the name of John Quirk was in the Bridge Diner which sat right next to train tracks. He was just minding his own business when a phantom train drove right by the place. He got a good look at it and told people it had five or six coaches, a baggage car, and a tender with coal in it. The same thing happened one month later at 6:30am and he contacted railway officials about it. They looked into what happened, since they had no idea why a steam engine was using their tracks and confirmed that a train running on coal hadn’t operated on them for many years. The whole thing played out again a few months later, and the ...

This post was originally shared as a Facebook and Instagram "DID YOU KNOW" post. I share them and you can get in on the fun by liking my page at  Facebook.com/TheNewSlightlyOddFitchburg  and following me at  Instagram.com/SlightlyOddFitchburg ! Now onto the funny story! DID YOU KNOW that Gladys Spooner was so mean she died twice? She was an elderly woman spending her twilight years in Cavendish, Vermont , and earned a reputation as the local shrew. She was one of those people who “tell it like it is” when no one ever asks them. It was said that a week never passed without her giving someone a piece of her mind and no one had it worse than her husband, the henpecked Harley. She passed away in 1919 and pretty much the entire population of Cavendish attended her funeral. It’s a safe bet they all showed up just to make sure she was dead, and her new widower spent the whole service quietly staring at the floor. The funeral ended and Gladys got loaded into the back of a wagon ...