Disappearing Lakes & Monster Snakes: Mysteries of Raynham
Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) workers clear a swamp. |
“Huge mystery snakes have been sighted before in the Hockomock region. In 1939, Roosevelt-era CCC workers, completing a project on King Philip’s Street at the edge of the swamp, reported seeing a huge snake as large around and black as a stove-pipe.’ The snake coiled for a moment, raised its spade-like head and disappeared into the swamp. Local legends claim that a huge snake appears every seven years.” Loren Coleman, Mysterious America: The Ultimate Guide To The Nation’s Weirdest Wonders, Strangest Spots, and Creepiest Creatures.
Raynham, King Philip, Pine Swamp and Fowling Pond
Almost every Bridgewater Triangle enthusiast knows this story. But there is much more to this legend. What Coleman didn’t mention is that the King Philip’s Street, located in Raynham (not Bridgewater), is home to the former summer camp of King Philip (hence the name of the street.)
King Philip’s Street, Raynham. Photo by Kristen Good.
In researching Fowling Pond recently, I was stunned when I stumbled across information that proved that Fowling Pond–a lake reported to have been a sizable body of water that mysteriously disappeared by the turn of the century–was on a tract of land now known as Pine Swamp. THIS, not Hockomock Swamp–as legend has it–is the true location of the Civil Conservation Corps workers terrifying sighting in the 1939.
Fowling Pond, I learned (a very sacred spot to the Wampanoag) was the summer home of the great King Philip, Metacom, Chief of the Wampanoag Tribe, until the end of the war that was named after him; when he has shot, dismembered, his remains being intentionally scattered throughout southern Massachusetts so that his “soul would never rest.” In times of peace Metacom spent many a summer night on the shores of Fowling pond in Raynham.
Carolyn Owen, former Old Colony Historical Society Archivist speculated on the mysterious disappearnce: “Perhaps a great storm cut a swath through the embankment and drained the pond, it is one of nature’s curiosities where once King Philip rested and summered on the banks of a beautiful body of water and the tribe stocked to food to last through the long cold months ahead, there is now nothing left but the tall trees rising from a murky swamp.”
Source: http://www.thebridgewatertriangle.com/2012/10/disappearing-lakes-monster-snakes.html
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