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Spooky headstones at Riverside Cemetery
For years, I would look at the replica headstones stores carry at this time of year and think “Wow, that looks nothing like any gravestones I’ve ever seen.” That’s because I’m most familiar with a...
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Exercising inner eyes
Around a table in the Senior Center’s craft room, women were breathing with intense focus — in through the nose, out through the mouth — and looking within themselves for insight. Each held a personal...
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Well! That was unexpected
I was visiting Tufts today (more on that later) when, on a whim, I decided to track down the old Grafton State Hospital cemetery. I had a rough idea of where it was, and the leaves are off the trees,...
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Old graves, lost stories at Oak Street Cemetery
Somewhere in this house there is a reporter’s notebook and in that notebook are the notes taken on Election Day while I was wandering around the Oak Street Cemetery. Now, reporter’s notebooks are...
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Ghosts?
Submitted for your consideration. Do not adjust your computer screens. What’s behind door #7 at the Grafton Inn? Some people believe they are seeing… things. My photo from yesterday: Same day,...
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Agatha Christie at the biosafety lab
If I took anything away from Monday’s dedication of the New England Regional Biosafety Laboratory at Tufts, it’s this: when I get around to writing a murder mystery, I’m setting it inside one of these....
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Grafton State Hospital’s cemetery: Now with less spookiness!
Maybe it’s the difference between summer and fall. Maybe it’s the recent cleanup by the Grafton Job Corps. But my favorite spooky place in Grafton, Grafton State Hospital’s old cemetery filled with...
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At long last, the Wooba Gooba with the Green Teeth
I believe he musta, you know I think he musta, he musta got lost! Yeah, it’s not October until you’ve been passed by the hearse topped with a scary clown jack-in-the-box. And the geek in me has to ask:...
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Body parts found at Grafton Inn
Martha the ghost now has company. It’s funny, the way people react when they see something that’s just a bit off kilter (and this, if it wasn’t a mannequin, could have been a LOT off kilter). I grabbed...
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How to become a Coke can for Halloween
Yes, it’s a little late for this year, but you have 364 days to plan for Halloween 2014, right? My extremely creative 13-year-old daughter likes to make her own Halloween costumes. I have an abundance...
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