https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/slate-and-shadow--7356695enHistoryCopyright The XCast Radio Networkhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a58feabcdd4ceb60bd70886988b8c9de.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/slate-and-shadow--7356695Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:07:12 +0000The XCast Radio NetworkThe XCast Radio Networkslateandshadow112@gmail.comThere is a particular kind of dark in New England. Not Hollywood dark. The dark of a mill river in November. A dirt road after the last porch light. A slate roof holding snow and older weather than that.Slate & Shadow began as walking stories —...false19904024-e4a7-5056-8afe-c454dde06434episodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-devil-s-book-salem-s-other-story--75438944https://api.spreaker.com/episode/75438944Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:00:30 +0000The XCast Radio NetworkIn 1671, a servant girl in Groton said an old man walked out of a meadow with a book and guided her hand because she could not write. Twenty-one years later, in a Salem jail, Abigail Hobbs said she had met him in the woods at Casco Bay and put her...1383abigail,bay,book,casco,cult,devil’s,elizabeth,england,folklore,groton,hobbs,knapp,margaret,massachusetts,murray,new,salem,trials,witchfalse13fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-woods-devil-of-coos-county--75240192https://api.spreaker.com/episode/75240192Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:01:02 +0000The XCast Radio NetworkIn the far north of New Hampshire, in a county with more spruce than streetlights, people have talked for a hundred years about something that is not a bear and not a man.They call it the Woods Devil.Witnesses describe a tall, thin, gray-haired figure...1502false12fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/ocean-born-mary-episode--75192384The legend that follows her is the one New England likes best: pirates over the rail, a captain who spares the ship for a baby’s name, a bolt of green silk for a wedding dress, a retired pirate waiting in the hills, treasure under a hearthstone, and a ghost on the stairs of a Henniker house.
Mary Wilson Wallace did live. She married in Londonderry, raised five children, moved to Henniker in old age, and died there in 1814. She is buried behind the town hall. Pieces of that green dress still exist.
She did not live in the house that bears her name.
This episode of Slate & Shadow tells the story the way the region tells it — then walks the records to see what remains when the lantern comes on. A birth at sea. A life that was long and mostly ordinary. A Wisconsin photographer with a shovel for rent. And the question under almost every New England legend: when the story is better than the life, which one do we owe the truth to?]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/75192384Mon, 21 Sep 2026 09:00:58 +0000The XCast Radio NetworkIn the summer of 1720, somewhere on the Atlantic, Elizabeth Wilson gives birth on a ship bound for a new grant in New Hampshire. The child is named Mary. The town will call her Ocean-Born Mary for the rest of her life — and long after it. The legend...The legend that follows her is the one New England likes best: pirates over the rail, a captain who spares the ship for a baby’s name, a bolt of green silk for a wedding dress, a retired pirate waiting in the hills, treasure under a hearthstone, and a ghost on the stairs of a Henniker house.
Mary Wilson Wallace did live. She married in Londonderry, raised five children, moved to Henniker in old age, and died there in 1814. She is buried behind the town hall. Pieces of that green dress still exist.
She did not live in the house that bears her name.
This episode of Slate & Shadow tells the story the way the region tells it — then walks the records to see what remains when the lantern comes on. A birth at sea. A life that was long and mostly ordinary. A Wisconsin photographer with a shovel for rent. And the question under almost every New England legend: when the story is better than the life, which one do we owe the truth to?]]>1961henniker,historical legends,new england ghost stories,new hampshire folklore,ocean-born maryfalsefull