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Category Archives: Haunted New Hampshire
The Celebrated Ventriloquist and Professor of Legerdemain & Namesake of Potter Place, New Hampshire: Richard Potter (1783-1835)
I was reading a 1968 article in the Nashua Telegraph about how Potter Place, New Hampshire is reportedly haunted. I suppose anywhere mankind has lived and died is haunted–Potter Place not less so. Besides, the official New Hampshire state marker … Continue reading
Posted in Haunted New Hampshire, History, N.H. Historical Markers, NH Persons of Color, R.I.P, Travel
Tagged black, black art, buried, cemetery, color, conjure, dark arts, first, ghost, grave, Harris, haunt, haunted, illusion, legerdemain, magician, mesmerism, mesmerist, mulatto, necromancer, people, perform, performance, performer, person, Potter, Potter Place, Richard, Sally, stage, throw, tricks, ventriloquism, ventriloquist, voice
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100 Years Ago Halloween Was Husband Hunting Day
The traditions of Halloween have changed a great deal over the centuries. From pagan celebrations to Christian holy days, and from a day of pranks and carousing to kiddies trick-or-treating, October 31st has meant many different things to people. At … Continue reading
Posted in Haunted New Hampshire, History, Really Old News
Tagged apples, biscuits, Halloween, hunting, Husband, Matromony, peel, salt
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A New Hampshire Governor, Ghosts, and a Second Wife: Anthony & Eliza A. (Messinger) Colby
It is said that the ghost of former New Hampshire governor Anthony Colby haunts Colgate Hall at Colby-Sawyer College. That hall was built many years after his death on the spot where the former brick academy building sat. The original … Continue reading
Posted in Genealogy, Haunted New Hampshire, New Hampshire Men, New Hampshire Women
Tagged Academy, Anthony, Colby, Colby-Sawyer, college, Eliza, Governor, Hampshire, Institute, London, Messenger, Messinger, new, New Hampshire, NH, Richardson, Sawyer
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A 2015 New Hampshire Halloween
When you have been alive for longer than a half-century, you tend to have plenty of memories. Halloween used to be one of my very favorite days. But then I grew up in a time when celebrating that holiday was … Continue reading