Creepy Places of New England: The Lafayette-Durfee House
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In our New Years themed episode (and our first one of 2016), Charles, Stephen, and several friends (including Buddy from Ocean State Paranormal) investigates the Lafayette-Durfee House in Fall River, Massachusetts. The house was built around 1750 by Judge Thomas Durfee, and the house and property at the time was large for the era. He a big supporter of the Revolutionary War and mortgaged his house and land to help support financially the efforts. His eldest son was Joseph Durfee, fought at the Battle of Brooklyn, the Battle of White Plains, and the Battle of Rhode Island. It was during this time that Joseph developed a friendship with the Marquis de Lafayette. In 1778, Lafayette visited the house and stayed in the southwest room on the second floor. In terms of paranormal events, claims includes phantom foot steps, voices of children, the giggling of door handles, and objects being moved. Happy New Years to all our fans and friends!
What is the Lafayette-Durfee House at 1:00 (Sydney)
The House at 4:54 (Taipei)
Investigation: Attic at 9:42 (Dubai)
Second Floor at 11:42 (Paris)
First Floor at 19:07 (London)
EVP #1 at 24:21
EVP #2 at 26:12
EVP #3 at 43:04
Jiggling of handle at 44:39
EVP #4 at 45:30
End at 46:14 (New York)
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Ocean State Paranormal:
Watuppa Pond Ice house ~ Fall River
I spotted this structure across the water while on Route 24. I thought it was an old castle. I heard it was an icehouse and turns out, it was. The beauty of the stonework has to be appreciated in person. This old icehouse is massive in size and in researching info on it, I found it to be quite interesting. It was a beautiful rainy afternoon and not a human being in sight... it was perfect. When nature collides with ruins of the past... the setting could not be more stunning. You gotta fuel your passions and I definitely exist for moments like these. As always... Happy Exploring ????
North Watuppa Pond ice house. It was a rich man's playground and also a place where they stored ice for all kinds of people.
The Interlachen Peninsula, sticking out into North Watuppa Pond, still shows traces of the massive granite ice houses that once stored ice for thousands of tenement ice boxes. There are no real traces of the mansion and the stables that once housed Arabian horses.
The ice houses, owned by Arctic Ice Co., were destroyed by fire in 1933. The Interlachen Estate, its houses, outbuildings and stables, were all nearly demolished after the city's Water Department acquired the property in 1939.
Driving by on Route 24, you can still see bits and pieces of the massive ice house walls. In the city's earlier days, ice was cut from Watuppa pond in the winter and stored until the summer in huge buildings whose thick walls helped hold in the cold and hold out the heat.
The mansion at Interlachen was built sometime in the early 1890s (the date I saw on the building reads, 1864) and it was home to Spencer Borden, the founder of the Fall River Bleachery. Borden was the largest breeder of Arabian horses in the United States.
After Borden died, it became the home of Alan H. Andrews, president of the Textile Paper Tube Co. He was the last private owner.
In the decades since the property ceased to be privately owned, there has been an occasional tour of the property, sponsored by this group or that, but the peninsula is an environmentally protected area. The only visitors allowed are wildlife and the elements. But people can still see the ice house remains, maybe wonder what they are as they zip by in their cars, headed someplace in the modern world.
195 Things: Ruggles Park bubbler has quenched thirst of generations
FALL RIVER — Don’t call it a “fountain.” You’re not in Iowa.
It’s a “bubbler.” Better yet, it’s a “bubbla.”
In Ruggles Park, at the corner of Pine and Seabury, built to last and still lasting, stands the bubbler that quenched generations of thirst ion Ruggles Park, back in the days before even little kids brought bottled water to a baseball game.