New England Horror Files

12/07/2025

12/07/2025

Our latest episode…just us baggin’ on the comments section of Haunted Places.
With all the best intentions, of course 😁😇

Except for this Pat Gray character in Vermont

Ep. 15: The Legend of Pat Gray
https://youtu.be/LABn4wZb-wo.

On this week's episode, we explore the Legend of the enigmatic Pat Gray, and other creepy accounts. =========================================================...

10/07/2025

I’m just finishing “Bones in the Basement : Surviving the SK Pierce Haunted Victorian Mansion “
What a story! Set in Gardner, MA
Has anyone read this book?

10/07/2025

SK Pierce Victorian Mansion, Gardner, MA

10/07/2025

Hello, there!

Thanks for joining us on this journey of all things horrifying in New England!

Have you followed us on YouTube, yet? That’s where the magic really happens 👻💀👽

09/07/2025

Good ole’ Salem and a thunderstorm

09/07/2025

Dark Maine History: 1806

On the warm summer night of July 8th, 1806, in the frontier town of Bowdinham (before Maine was even a state), Captain James Scales Purrington took an axe and a straight edge razor, and murdered his wife and 7 of their children before taking his own life.

James Jr, their oldest son, awakened in the middle of the night to his father entering his room with the axe. James Jr. narrowly escaped with a gash in his back after his father’s swing missed its intended target in the darkness. The teenager ran to the neighbors house to get help.

By the time he returned to his home with help, his entire family would be gone.

This horrifying act shocked the town. What kind of man would slaughter his wife and children?

🔸 Learn more: https://www.murdershetold.com/episodes/james-purrington

The Purrington’s neighbor, Martha Ballard, was a well known and respected midwife who recorded her life in a diary. Today, Martha’s Ballard’s Diary is regarded as one of the most important pieces of historical documentation from this time period in early American life. It’s also one of the reasons we know what happened that fateful July night.

What we don’t have, and probably never will, is answers as to why it happened. We can surmise and speculate, but we will never know. Did James Purrington have a psychotic break? Was this tragedy a planned event? Why did he kill his entire family?

Today we remember the lives taken. These aren’t historical figures. They were people—children. Sacred to the memory of the victims of the Purrington tragedy: Betsey, Polly, Benjamin, Anna, Nathaniel, Nathan, Louisa, Martha, and baby Purrington.

🎧 Revisit this classic episode of Murder, She Told today and learn more about this dark chapter of Maine history.

If you’re having suicidal thoughts, help is available 24/7. Please call the su***de prevention lifeline at 988 or learn more at 988lifeline.org.

07/07/2025

👻Have you ever stayed in a haunted hotel? 👻

In the comments, I’ll share our Newport, RI episode where we discuss an experience at the Jailhouse Inn!

12/03/2024

The story at 8 minutes is slightly terrifying 😳😳