BIN Paranormal Exclusive: Interview with Manny Famalore and Kristen Good, Researchers of the Bridgewater Triangle
Manny Famolare is a 34-year old paramedic from East Bridgewater, Massachusetts. Manny first learned of the paranormal phenomenon in the Bridgewater Triangle when he was a child after he heard about a horse and carriage that vanished after going around a small, winding bridge back in the 1800s. He’s been hooked since. Kristen Good lives on the fringes of the Bridgewater Triangle in Halifax. She’s seen lots of bizarre things growing up near the triangle, including two UFOs. A Bridgewater Triangle and local Native American historian, Good teamed up with Famalore last year to produce a documentary on the infamous Bridgwater Triangle. Together they run the Bridgewater Triangle facebook page, which they keep up to date with the latest Bridgewater Triangle news and sightings.
BIN: What is the Bridewater Triangle…and where is it?
Kristen: In the 1970s, a local Cryptozoologist named Loren Coleman noticed an inundation of reports coming from an area centralized by the three Bridgewaters–Bridgewater, East Bridgewater, and West Bridgewater. He documented incredible accounts of strange creatures from Sasquatch to Thunderbirds, snakes “as thick as tree trunks,” black panthers and other out-of-place animals for the area. Coleman also told stories of Native American ghosts and a phantom hitchhiker who supposedly terrorizes travelers of Route 44 in Rehoboth. He also compiled a list of very credible UFO sightings as well as documented some pretty horrific murders that occurred in the triangle. After publishing these finding first in the Fringe section of Boston Magazine in 1980 and then later again in 1983 in his book Mysterious America, these legends became famous among paranormal enthusiasts of New England…and beyond. To this day, Coleman’s legends are the most famous.
When I was a kid, I always had this memory of a monster dog on the loose. I was petrified. I climbed to the top of the tallest tree in my yard and hid there for most of the day. Years after, whenever I mentioned my memory of the monster dog of Abington all I would get was shaking heads and “I don’t remembers.” I chalked the memory up to a figment of my childhood imagination…until I read about it in Loren Coleman’s Mysterious America. I talked to people that grew up in Abington and many of them clearly remember schools being closed and then when reopened, having police officers escort them to their buses with rifles. The dog story is true. I have spoken to the son of the police officer who last saw the dog who confirmed that indeed his father, Frank Curran responded to a call in about a sighting by the railroad tracks by Summer Street in Abington. According to Coleman’s account “the officer fired a shot but missed and the black dog merely turned away and walked off slowly in the other direction.” Creepy stuff. Manny recently obtained a copy of the original newspaper article about the monster dog of Abington in the local paper.
Since it was the 1970s and with the discovery of The Bermuda Triangle during that time, Coleman delineated a triangle on a map of southeastern Massachusetts from the towns of Abington (at its northern apex) and Rehoboth and Freetown at its southern apexes. With those three towns as the points of the triangle and all the towns in between, the “triangle” covers about 200-square miles.
But we strongly feel that the area of strange phenomenon stretches all the way to southern Rhode Island to the south and to the north, possibly all the way to the Weymouth/Quincy area, which is just south of Boston. The paranormal activity of the triangle definitely spills over into areas outside the triangle. Some towns outside the triangle have high instances of similar Bridgewater Triangle phenomenon, while some towns within the triangle have none. It is one of our theories that the areas that have the most paranormal activity are those that were sacred Native American sites, especially those stained by the blood of King Philip’s War–America’s most brutal conflict. King Philip’s War lasted from June of 1675 to August of 1676. The war ended with the beheading and quartering of King Philip’s body. His head was spiked and displayed at Plymouth fort for over 25 years, while his body was tied in trees for the birds to pluck. The tortures and violations of this war were so horrific that the energy remains in spots.
BIN: You live in East Bridgewater. Have you ever experienced anything yourselves?
Manny: It’s actually me who lives in East Bridgewater. Kristen lives in Halifax, one town over. Halifax is one of those towns that we would include as part of the “triangle” area, but as of now, as the map is laid out it is on the fringes of the Bridgewater Triangle.
Even though East Bridgewater is a small town, it is big on history and bizarre events. Not far from my house is Sachem Rock, the site of the first inland land sale in the United States where Massasoit unknowingly sold off 95-square miles to the settlers for a couple of coats and some cotton. Areas of the town are extremely active, so active that there is even a ghost tour you can go on of the most haunted part of town. One of the stops on the ghost tour is the East Bridgewater Town Hall, where footsteps are heard when no one is there, and where the spirits of the former owners–the Hobart family-take ghost rides on the elevator, which is said to operate on its own at times.
I moved to East Bridgewater when I was about six-years old and was always interested in the unknown. As a kid, Unsolved Mysteries was my favorite show. Around the age of 10, my mother’s friend who was a excellent town historian told me about this bridge in East Bridgewater where hundreds of years ago, a horse and carriage vanished while crossing it. No trace of the horse, the carriage, or the people were ever found. I fell in love with the story and started researching what is now known as the Bridgewater Triangle.
My house is right behind the Central Cemetery and there I have seen shadows, heard strange noises and strange whispers in the wind. But for years the thing that has stuck with me are all the stories from people in town that tell of their own personal ghosts and spirits in their houses. I remember in high school we would go to a area known as the “Clay Banks” to hang out . There was saw odd things, such as people that appear out of place, almost like there in there own time zone. When we looked back, or asked them something they would vanish, and be gone. I remember their clothes were out of place, like they were from the 1800s or something. I remember one story from my friend Kevin who told me that he was fishing in a pond with his friends and saw a man dressed in old ragged clothes with an old rifle. He walked by them and was almost in a trance state. When they looked back moments later he was gone. There is a ancient burial ground near a pond that has a small island called Osceola Island that has had stories of bizarre canoe accidents dating back hundreds of years ago. Many bizarre deaths have been reported in East Bridgewater with a history behind them.
BIN: A Thunderbird is a legendary supernatural creature from Native American Mythology, or is it? There have been sightings of this creature in the Bridgewater Triangle, could you tell us about that?Kristen: Yes, thunderbirds are legendary creatures that figure prominently in Native American mythology. The name “thunderbird” derived from the native belief that these creatures had wings so powerful they could invoked thunder. Eyewitnesses of thunderbirds in the Bridgewater Triangle describe the creature as having black feathers and a wingspan of up to 12 feet, though thunderbirds across the country have been seen with wingspans of up to 25 feet.
There have been more than a few sightings of the infamous thunderbird in the Bridgewater Triangle, the most famous one involving a cop. Police Sergeant Thomas Downey was driving home from work one very late summer night when he had a very strange encounter with a thunderbird as he slowed at an intersection. The officer claimed that a six-foot tall, winged creature was standing in the middle of the road. The creature looked at him and then darted straight up the air. As it rose up in the air and flew into woods, Downey noticed that the creature had a wingspan of 8-12 feet. This report appeared in the Boston Magazine article in 1980.Another famous Bridgewater Triangle thunderbird legend is the “dueling thunderbirds.” The story goes that two huge black birds were seen in the swamp fighting in the air. A couple of other thunderbird reports come from the book Weird New England written by Joseph Citro and Jeff Belanger. The book has a great chapter on the Bridgewater Triangle. One sighting in 1988 involving two young boys who followed enormous three-toed tracks into the woods only to encounter a terrifying creature with “a black wrinkled face, dark feathers and long brown legs that dangled behind it as it flew off into the forest.” The other thunderbird sighting reported in Weird New England occurred in 1992 in Taunton–a town not far from Bridgewater known for its haunted mental hospital and other haunted places. Both of these accounts have eyewitnesses reporting the same wingspan as Thomas Downey–about 12 feet. And in 1993, a mother and daughter found an enormous black bird dead in a field behind their house. They dragged it back to the house, wrapped its remains in aluminum foil and put it in an empty trash can. The two women had to go out. When they returned to the house they found that the evidence what they believed to be a thunderbird was gone, already dragged off by some kind of animal. All that remained were scraps of aluminum foil littered all over the ground.
BIN: You have a Black Helicopter as your Facebook Profile photo, what is the story behind Black Helicopters and the Bridgewater Triangle?Kristen: The Black Helicopter phenomenon in the Bridgewater Triangle is one of our favorite mysteries. We don’t know where they are going or where they come from, but we have our theories. From February of 2010 to May 2010, residents of the area were unnerved by the almost daily stream of black helicopter activity. There seems to be two kinds of these unmarked helicopters that scan the area, one of them most definitely being a Blackhawk. These crafts fly very low, often just above the tree line. The photo on the face book page was taken from my backyard in Hanson last May. I managed to be get some clear shots of the black helicopters at different times having my camera always at the ready next to the door, but the photo we posted is by far the best shot I was able to capture.
BIN: Your Researching the history of the Bridgewater Triangle back to the 1600′s. Could you tell us a little bit about that?
Manny: One of the reasons Kristen and I chose to work together is our common approach to research. We don’t just read books on the subject of The Bridgewater Triangle…we read articles. We want credible sources. That is what we are interested in. We feel the most credible resources are historical newspapers. You can often find us combing through the newspaper archives at local libraries or with our faces buried in a book at a historical society. Recently, I have been on a quest to find a copy of the May 10, 1760 article about a UFO sighting. This was the first official reported UFO sighting in the United States.
Kristen: One of our best resources has been The Boston Public Library, whose archives go back to the 1600s. It has always been our goal to not just regurgitate the same old legends and stories, but to broaden the knowledge of how far this strange phenomenon in the area goes back. The murders, the insanity, the freak accidents that occur in the triangle–they go back to the beginning of the settlement of Bridgewater: matricides, patricides, suicides. Historically, the murders (especially in the Bridgewaters) are extremely brutal. Hatchets, screwdrivers, cart spikes…horrible weapons have been used in these crimes, so often occurring within families. And the motives are bizarre. A father scolding his son over the improper storage of potatoes to a mother refusing to cook for her son dinner have resulted in the brutal bloodbaths with the victims brains bashed in. There is something going on in this area for sure. And it is still going on to this day. Recently there were two bizarre incidents. One involved a man attacking his wife with a screwdriver, while the other involved a fight between to friends. The murderer appeared at the police station covered in blood, telling police as if in a trance, “I think I did something really bad.”
The freak accidents are another story. Those go back to the beginning as well. Again, they are still occurring. Recently we found an article about an accident that killed a Bridgewater man when his Harley Davidson collided with an owl. We found another of an accident, where a cow ended up in the backseat of a car. And had no injuries! It is those bizarre occurrences that seem to be almost commonplace in the triangle.
BIN: Tell us about Hockomock Swamp?
Manny: Hockomock Swamp is the “heart of the triangle.” Many Bigfoot, Thunderbird and monster snake sightings and other creatures have been witnessed just outside of the swamp and many believe that these creatures live within it. Others consider these creatures “spirit entities” that seldom appear in our realm. We’ve heard first hand stories of people seeing everything from a four-foot high panther with glowing red eyes to ghosts of Native American spirits. We’ve also heard first hand stories of freaky fish caught in the swamp. It is filled with all kinds of crazy stuff. One of the local legends is of a turtle “as big as a Volkswagen beetle“. Another person told us that in the 90s he and his friends found what appeared to be a Bigfoot dwelling made out of twigs and grass. The witness told us the dwelling was “huge” and “stunk really bad.”
Kristen: Hockomock Swamp, along with Freetown Forest was named one of the USA Today’s “Top Ten Great Haunts” in 2008. Freetown Forest is in Freetown, the southeastern apex of the triangle. It is place filled with negative–many even say evil–energy. The forest is most famous for its murders–especially those of committed by satanic cults. To this day satanic activity is taking place in the forest and it is not uncommon to see the “hooded people” practicing rituals there. Hockomock Swamp is also a place where satanic activity is said to occur and every once in awhile, you will come across a tree in the swamp with strange markings. Voodoo is also practiced in the swamp. The word “Hockomock” is Algonquin for “place where spirits dwell.” The colonists called it “Devil’s Swamp,” no doubt because they feared the unknown terrain of the New England swamps. These thick, seemingly unsurpassable wetlands filled with wolves ready to attack, quicksand, and the sounds of nocturnal animals screeching in the darkness had the colonists scared out of their minds. One of the first recorded order of business for Bridgewater in 1659 was to order wolf traps to place around the swamp. Legend has it that more than a few colonists who entered the swamp, became disorientated and never came out. Many people have reported getting lost in the swamp, even those who are familiar with the terrain. Just two years ago two seasoned hunters suddenly became disorientated and lost their way. The two men had a terrifying ordeal being lost in the once familiar swamp for hours before being found.
Legend also has it that the Womapanoags (King Philip’s people) also feared the swamp and would seldom enter it–even in the light of day. This seems unlikely though, as native artifacts found in the swamp date back the 300 AD. It seems more likely this legend was created to keep people out of Hockomock Swamp. Because, no doubt. There is something going on there. We have sources that claim there is an underground base in the area. We believe that base is in the swamp. We have witnesses that claim to have worked there. The mysteries of the Bridgewater Triangle go far beyond the legends that everyone is fixated upon. People that live on the edge of the swamp report paranormal activity in their homes at record levels. There are so many unreported stories out there, and that is a shame. We have a page on facebook where we encourage people to send in stories of bizarre experiences in the triangle. People have told us some very strange accounts that we would never would have heard if we didn’t have Bridgewater Triangle Facebook page.
BIN: In your research you have found an unusual high number of suicide, murders and accidents, what is your explanation for this?
Kristen: Absolutely! The proof is right in the demographics. You should look at a chart comparing suicides, murders and accidents to the national average. When you see these statistical graphs, even the most skeptical person must admit how alarming it looks on paper–how the amount of accidents, murders and suicides in the triangle area towers over the national average…in a big way. Historically, this has been going on since colonial times. Last summer there were at least 50 deaths in motor vehicle accidents where weather and other adverse conditions were not a factor. And accidents on Route 24 in the Bridgewater Triangle since last May have been off the charts. Almost all accidents seemed to have no reason. At the scene of one the Route 24 accidents last summer a local fire chief on the scene told a local reporter that the reason for all the accidents on that stretch of road has officials a bit stumped.
BIN: Among the plethora of supernatural phenomenon in the triangle, there are plenty of ghosts. Could you tell us little bit about the Hauntings in the Bridgewater Triangle?
| Painting by Taunton Artist, Mark Phelan. This is the latest piece in a Bridgewater Triangle pop art series. |
Kristen: There are so many Bridgewater Triangle ghost stories out there. The “hotspots” for ghosts seem to be the towns of East Bridgewater, Bridgewater, Freetown, and Rehoboth. I think its safe to say in the Bridgewater area, most residents have either had their own experience with a haunting, know someone who has, or have at least heard of someone that has or is experiencing a haunting. Even I think I saw a ghost. It was last summer in Rehoboth, next to a cemetery famous for its hauntings. What I saw was bizarre to say the least. I saw a very old, very tall man with long white straggly hair. His clothes were covered in dirt and looked to be from the 1800s. The man was barefoot, wearing a black jacket with coat tails, and his pants were torn at the bottom and about four inches too short. He appeared to be a regular person, but oddly misplaced. And the way he moved weird. It’s hard to describe. Maybe he was an actor returning home in costume. That is the only logical explanation I could come up with.
The most famous ghost story in the triangle by far is “The Red Headed Hitchhiker of Route 44.” The ghost is said to have red hair, a beard, wears a red flannel shirt, has a “maniacal” laugh…and really, really likes messing with people. He is rumored to appear on the Rehoboth/Seekonk town line, not far from where I had my own strange encounter. The first red headed hitchhiker story dates back to 1969 and the legends made famous by local author, Charles Turek Robinson in his book The New England Ghost Files span to the 1980s. My favorite red headed hitchhiker story happened in 1984. A local couple’s car broke down. The man told his wife to stay in the car while he tried to find a pay phone to call AAA. “I was hoping to find a house with a light on,” the man said. “Suddenly I saw a man sitting on the side of the road. He was a sloppy looking guy, with red messy hair.” The man asked the stranger if he knew where the closest pay phone was. The stranger did not answer. The man asked him again, and again…and again. And still no answer. He just looked at the man with an odd grin. So the man asks the stranger if he is okay. The man said in Robinson’s book, “Suddenly, the man’s face got very strange. He stopped grinning, he twisted his mouth and I noticed that there was something wrong with his eyes. They were all clouded over–no pupils or anything–and all white.” The man runs back to towards the car only to hear this crazy laughter behind him. He turns and looks and the guy is gone, but the laughing is still really loud, like he is still behind him. But the story gets weirder. When the guy gets back to his car he finds his wife standing outside of it, scared out of her mind. Apparently she had turned on the car radio while she was sitting there waiting when suddenly a creepy voice cut right through the song that was playing. It started taunting her, calling her by her name…and laughing hysterically. That’s just one ghost story. The Bridgewater Triangle has hundreds more. And Bigfoot stories, and thunderbird stories, and UFOs. And just about anything else you can think of that’s paranormal.
2012-09-04 08:42:27
Source: http://www.thebridgewatertriangle.com/2010/12/bin-paranormal-exclusive-interview-with.html
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