The Bridgewater Triangle

(NECN: Greg Wayland, Bridgewater, Mass.) - I took a bumpy four-wheel drive to the heart of darkness...and, ultimately for me, it a walk on the wild and mysterious side.




We were exploring forest and swampland that's become all the rage among folks looking to scare themselves silly, dating back to writer Loren Coleman's 1983 book "Mysterious America" which singles out this 200 square mile triangle of southeastern Massachusetts as a place of curses, cults, strange creatures and age-old mysteries.




He called it the Bridgewater Triangle -- bounded by the towns of Abington, Freetown and Rehoboth.




It encompasses twelve communities, including the town of Bridgewater, the 5000-acre Freetown Forest and the 17,000- acre Hockomock Swamp.
"Hockomock" is Algonquin for "place where spirits dwell" or "dark place."

The Indians during the King Phillips War allegedly put a curse on this land.




Our destination was the Assonet Ledge, deep in the Freetown Forest - a canyon of jutting, graffiti-riddle granite looming 80 feet over a dark, unfathomed pond.




"Lot of reports of bodies being found in the water here," said John Brightman.




Our guide was Brightman, founder of New England Paranormal Research. He says the ledge, known for paranormal occurrences, was once special to Native Americans.

"They would come here and use this area kind of as a lookout point for hunting, to see who's coming to their land," said Brightman.




Intruders, even today, get more than they bargained for.

"Kids will come out here, party and drink and the next thing you know, they're looking up top and they'll see an apparition of a female or a male walk by," said Brightman.

It's the spirits of star-crossed lovers, according to the legend, who plunged to their death in these waters, never to surface.

Ghosts abound in the triangle.

The unsettled spirit of a revolutionary war soldier allegedly wanders Rehobeth's village cemetery.




"Multiple people have told me that they've seen that soldier walking through there," said Brightman.

There's said to be a phantom hitchhiker on route 44.

"You'll ask him if he needs a ride, he'll get in the car, you'll be driving, then he just disappears."

There are unexplained lights and phantom fires.




"They've followed big balls of light down through the pass here in the forest. There's danger all around."




"There's actually quick sand in there. People have disappeared in there."

Then, the real scary stuff: half-man, half-beast creatures on the prowl.




"People have footprints that are supposedly from the big foot cast in plaster."

Makes you want to run right down there, doesn't it? At night!!

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Greg Wayland
• Bridgewater Triange
• Bridgewater
• Massachusetts
• Bermuda Triangle

[karnela4ever]

I was the Six Hundred and Sixty sixth person to view this video! :O

[RootBoot22]

Ive been there multiple times, every time something weird happens. very weird.