Legends, lore, ghosts and more

books:

	• Weird Massachusetts: Your Travel Guide to Massachusetts' Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets Jeff Belanger Sterling, 2008 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
	for more information click here

highly recommended

great read

Very much enjoying the stories from my home state. Many of which I was
familiar with but curious to see if included. Definitely would recommend
this to others.

Legends, lore, ghosts and more

Who would have thought there are so many bizarre and unique goings-on in my own innocent Bay State? This volume is stuffed full of fun facts, local history, and little-known oddities in this great new addition to the "Weird" series.

This book is so engagingly written I often had a hard time putting it down for the night. Jeff Belanger has really done the legwork in unearthing every stone and peering into every nook and cranny to uncover the little known people, places and things that have influenced the Bay State. A floating island crashing into waterfront backyards? Cars rolling uphill? Ghost ships, balancing rocks and Bigfoot? It's all here - amusing, mysterious, scary and strange! There are giant chairs, spooky abandoned asylums and the Cat in the Hat. (Did you know Dr. Seuss was from the Bay State?) How about a Sacred Cod in the House of Representatives and a Holy Mackerel in the State House?

You will enjoy this wacky ride from one end of Massachusetts to the other, and you can rest assured you won't be missing anything along the way. I haven't had this much fun between the pages of a book in a long time!

Here's the award for the funniest (and most devious) story in the book: The Cape Cod Canal Resident Tunnel Permit. How many tourists have driven the length of the canal hoping to find this local oddity? (C'mon, was it you?)

for more information click here

The Weirder, The Better!

This book was purchased as a gift for a family member who has recently relocated to Salem, MA. While I did not read the book in its entirety, I already own a copy of Weird Pennsylvania by the same authors, so I knew before I opened it, that the MA version would be just as cool and weird as the PA one! The family member who received the MA book said he couldn't wait to start paging through it!

Good Book on Massachusetts

This was a good book, but I wish they had more information on some of the locations. I found myself writing down the names of the places to do my own research on it. All in all, it's a good place to start for weird things in Massachusetts.

for more information click here

Weird stuff