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Local Legends in Massachusetts

Folklore and local ghost stories tied to the places and communities where they are told.

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Jenny Lind Tower

Truro, MA

The Jenny Lind Tower rises improbably from the Truro moors of Cape Cod — a granite turret carried from a demolished Boston depot in 1927, named for the Swedish Nightingale. Cape telling gives the lonely tower her voice on the wind at dusk.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Quabbin Reservoir Drowned Towns

Belchertown, MA

Beneath the Quabbin Reservoir lie four Massachusetts towns — Dana, Enfield, Greenwich and Prescott — disincorporated and flooded in the 1930s for Boston's water. Their cellar holes edge the shores, their dead were moved, and valley telling keeps their bells.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Freetown-Fall River State Forest

Assonet, MA

Freetown State Forest darkens the heart of Massachusetts' Bridgewater Triangle — 5,000+ acres of Wampanoag homeland, the Assonet Ledge's legends, Profile Rock's honoured history and decades of strange telling that earned it the name of New England's most haunted woods.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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Haywardville (Middlesex Fells)

Stoneham, MA

Boston's Middlesex Fells hide Haywardville — a rubber-mill village that thrived and vanished when the reservation came in the 1890s. Cellar holes and dam traces line Spot Pond's brooks, and Fells telling adds lantern lights and voices to the evening woods.

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Editorial rating (not community score) Moderate

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About local legends in Massachusetts

Massachusetts's local legends are compiled from local history, published folklore and visitor reports. Many are open to the public, and several offer tours or overnight stays.

Stories are recorded as accounts rather than established fact. Browse by city above, or open the full map to explore everything near you.