Special Report: Haunted hot spots

Jeff Belanger, author
"This is stone public house that we're sitting in right now. It was built in 1832 and the ghost legends go back quite a ways."

Author of the "Encyclopedia of Haunted Places," Jeff Belanger says this Ashland restaurant and former inn is just one of many in the state that may be...haunted.

Jeff Belanger, author
"These stairs are even more rickety."

In the restaurant’s attic, there is a blood stained dress worn by a young girl the day she died in 1862. A woman once removed the dress but returned it after strange things happened in her home....

Jeff Belanger, author
"She was hearing voices, hearing knocks. She was scared."

If you're looking to create your own ghost hunt, Belanger has some other suggestions starting with Route-44 in Seeconk. It’s there that many say a phantom hitchhiker appears. The spirit shows up and then disappears...

Jeff Belanger, author
"We don't know who he is, or who he was but just that he's been reported and now he's part of the local lore."

Also on his list, this former hotel and Emerson college dorm. It may now be apartments but to this day stories of goolish going-ons are still being told...

Jeff Belanger, author
"People report doors closing and opening, people report apparitions especially of women and then strange cold spots."

If ghost hunting on your own isn't for you...a local tour company offers an easier way to get a fright....

Freddy Flapjack, Boston’s Ghosts and Gravestones Tour
"Now for the scariest part of your night."

As dusk falls, Boston’s Ghosts and Gravestones Tour will take you on an exploration of graveyards and murder sites by candlelight.

Freddy Flapjack
"We call it the darker side of Boston the part the mayor doesn't want you to see."

This is your chance to get a play by play of some of hubs most haunted hot spots

Ghost Village

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