Wicked Curious Radio - The Ghostly Horse & the Headless Rider: Berkshires Darkest Legends

About this episode

This episode explores chilling legends from the Berkshire Mountains, including a vanishing peddler and encounters with phantom lights.

Send us Fan Mail In the shadow of the Berkshire Mountains, two chilling legends have endured for more than two centuries. In Williamstown, a traveling peddler vanishes after visiting a remote farmhouse. Strange lights are seen in the night, a deserted house is discovered, and a horse with muffled hooves becomes the center of one of Massachusetts' most enduring ghost stories. Miles away on Three Mile Hill near Great Barrington, travelers report terrifying encounters with phantom lights, a head...

People in this episode

Host: Roxie Zwicker

Topics covered

• ghost stories
• legends
• Berkshires
• paranormal
• travel
• history

Keywords

• Berkshire Mountains
• ghost stories
• headless rider
• phantom lights
• Williamstown
• Great Barrington
• legends
• travel
• paranormal

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Books & works: Wicked Curious Radio

Places: Berkshire Mountains, Williamstown, Great Barrington

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