The Bridgewater Triangle
Posted: 05.13.2024 | Updated: 11.18.2024
The Bridgewater Triangle is a curious spot in southeastern Massachusetts that’s known for all manner of wacky, unexplainable hijinks. The area compromising the Bridgewater Triangle is about 200 square miles – 520 square kilometers for everyone else in the world. It is a smorgasbord of strange phenomena, ranging from ghosts, poltergeists, demons, and specters to UFOs, balls of fire, St. Elmos’ fire, and various monster sightings.
Where is the Bridgewater Triangle Located?
Renowned cryptozoologist Loren Coleman first drew up the specific borders of the Bridgewater Triangle. The term was coined by the man himself in the 1970s and then made popular in his book Mysterious America, a sort of guide/road map/ travel diary of all the weird things America has to offer.
Coleman jotted down that the Bridgewater Triangle encompasses the towns of Abington, Rehoboth, and Freetown at the points of the triangle. The towns of Brockton, Whitman, West Bridgewater, East Bridgewater, Bridgewater, Middleboro, Dighton, Berkley, Raynham, Norton, Easton, Lakeville, Seekonk, and Taunton have agent Mulder and Skully on speed dial. In the 1980s, paranormal investigators broadened the triangle and included an area in neighboring Vermont called the Bennington Triangle. To learn more about the haunted locations around Salem, book a ghost tour with Salem Ghosts today.
Points of Interest In the Bridgewater Triangle
Profile Rock: this is, according to legend, is where a rock formation looks like the profile of a Wampanoag Chief. On certain days, right before sunset, the ghost of a man can be seen sitting as if praying.
Dighton Rock: gray-brown crystalline sandstone with a medium to coarse texture. It’s inscribed with Petroglyphs of mysterious origins.
Hockomock Swamp: one of the most haunted central sites to the legend of the Triangle. In Algonquian, it means “the place where the spirits dwell.”
Freetown-Fall River State Forest: The Freetown-Fall River State Forest has reportedly been the place of ghostly activity as well as quite a bit of crime. There are also rumors of Satanists performing sacrifices in the forest.
Solitude Stone: yet another weird, enigmatic inscribed stone. It’s located near Forest Street in West Bridgewater. A man’s body, who may have died by suicide, was found near the stone. The rock is also known as “suicide stone.” Carved unto its surface:
“All ye, who in future days, Walk by Nunckatessett stream Love not him who hummed his lay Cheerful to the parting beam, But the beauty that he wooed.”
Things that go bump in the night
Near Hockomock Swamp, reports abound of Bigfoot sightings. Huge creatures, ape-like in appearances, skulking about.
Norton Police Sergeant Thomas Downy claims—and even files a report—that he had witnessed a thunderbird. The mythical Thunderbird, a giant pterodactyl-like flying monstrosity with 12-foot wingspans, is constantly spotted in the area near Hockomock Swamp and neighboring Taunton.
Ghosts and poltergeists are said to haunt most of the area. Some are said to be Native Americans trapped in an endless loop of violence, reliving those first hostile encounters with Invading European forces.
Freetown and Fall River are particularly nasty hotspots. The area is shrouded in staggering accounts and numbers of animal mutilations. Police are constantly being called to investigate an alleged cult’s handiwork. Two specific incidents, both in 1998, still haunt the community. One in which a cow was found butchered in the woods. The other in which a group of calves and goats mutilated, grotesquely, in a clearing. Both were thought to be part of a ritual sacrifice.
Haunted Salem
Another factor that contributes to the madness of The Bridgewater Triangle is the fact that local criminals and mob outfits have laid a claim to the area. They use its remote location and bizarre negative energy output to hide their dirty, dark deeds.
According to legend, another reason why the Bridgewater Triangle is such a hot zone of paranormal activities is that the Native Americans cursed the swamp centuries ago. The Natives put a malady in the area on account of the poor treatment they received from Colonial settlers. To learn more about the haunted history of Salem, book a ghost tour with Salem Ghosts. Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok, and keep reading our blog for more real Massachusetts hauntings.
Sources:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/profile-rock
https://newengland.com/travel/massachusetts/the-mystery-of-dighton-rock
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/experiences/massachusetts/haunted-forest-freetown-ma
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/solitude-stone
Profile Rock
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