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Haunted Vermont: Hidden Tunnels, Historic Sites and the Bowman Monument
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| Vermont’s quiet towns and wooded hills hold stories shaped by industry, institutional life, transportation and private grief. This episode visits five historic locations where unexplained footsteps, shadow figures, flickering lights and other reported activity have become part of the public memory.
At Hartness House in Springfield, the story follows inventor and former governor James Hartness into the property’s observatory and hidden underground rooms. The Vermont Police Academy in Pittsford brings a very different institutional past into view, while Shelburne Museum gathers historic buildings and objects whose stories did not always remain in their original locations. The episode also revisits the deadly Hartford rail disaster near West Hartford and the Bowman Monument in Cuttingsville. John Porter Bowman’s mausoleum and nearby Laurel Hill mansion turn a family’s losses into one of Vermont’s most distinctive memorial landscapes. Across every stop, the episode distinguishes known history from the legends that later grew around it. |
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