Speaker 1: Hello, friends, Welcome to our latest episode. In this video,
Speaker 1: we bring you mysteries of New England. Known for its
Speaker 1: quaint small towns, colonial roots, crisp autumn colors, almost fifteen
Speaker 1: million New Englanders called this region home. Though full of
Speaker 1: natural wonder and extraordinary beauty, New England is no stranger
Speaker 1: to the unexplained and has some incredibly dark secrets in
Speaker 1: its illustrious past. New Englanders are fascinated by unsolved cases
Speaker 1: that engage them emotionally and play on their fears, from
Speaker 1: the unsolved lizzieboord Nax murders to the disappearance and murder
Speaker 1: of teenage lifeguard Molly Bush. In this video, we'll examine
Speaker 1: ten of New England's most prolific and unexplained mysteries, murders,
Speaker 1: and disappearances. Join me, let's walk and see the murders
Speaker 1: of Andrew and Abbey Borden aka the Lizzie Borden Axe
Speaker 1: murders on a hot summer morning in August of eighteen
Speaker 1: ninety two. One of the most infamous mysteries and murder
Speaker 1: cases in American history occurred in Fall River, Massachusetts, when
Speaker 1: seventy year old Andrew Borden and his wife Abby, were
Speaker 1: murdered by an axe in their home. Andrews's then thirty
Speaker 1: two year old daughter, Lizzie, reportedly found her father's body
Speaker 1: after returning home from morning errands. The famili's maid, Bridge
Speaker 1: at Sullivan, discovered Abbey's body in the second floor guest room.
Speaker 1: Though generally reviewed as a reputable community member, Lizzie was
Speaker 1: deemed a suspect in the double homicide, and her trial
Speaker 1: began on June five, eighteen ninety three. Prosecutors alleged she
Speaker 1: tried to purchase poison the day before the murders and
Speaker 1: burned one of her dresses several days later. Fingerprint testing
Speaker 1: was common in up at the time, but the Fall
Speaker 1: River police were skeptical of its accuracy and never tested
Speaker 1: for prince on a hatchet found in the Bordon's basement.
Speaker 1: The fact that no blood was found on Lizzie helped
Speaker 1: convince the all male jury that she was incapable of
Speaker 1: the gruesome crime, and she was acquitted on June twentieth,
Speaker 1: eighteen ninety thirty. Some speculated that the killer was Andrew
Speaker 1: Borden's illegitimate son, William Borden, who snapped after Andrew failed
Speaker 1: to submit to his extortion demands regarding finances. However, no
Speaker 1: other suspects were ever charge of the murders, and Lizzie
Speaker 1: succumbed to pneumonia and fall river on June first, nineteen
Speaker 1: twenty seven. The Borden family home has since been transformed
Speaker 1: into the Lizzie Borden Bed and Breakfast Museum, which continues
Speaker 1: to attract visitors to this day. Located at two thirty
Speaker 1: Second Street, visitors at the Bed and Breakfast report doors
Speaker 1: opening and closing on their own, along with the mysterious
Speaker 1: floral scent to some attribute to the Borden's restless spirits. Next,
Speaker 1: we had the kidnapping and murder of Holly Parainen. On
Speaker 1: August five, nineteen ninety three, ten year old Holly Parainen
Speaker 1: returned to her grandparents' royal summer cottage on South Pond
Speaker 1: in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, where she was vacationing with her family.
Speaker 1: Holly spent the morning swimming with her father and two brothers.
Speaker 1: After returning to the cottage, Holly and her five year
Speaker 1: old brother, Zach, walked a few hundred yards to a
Speaker 1: fence at the back of a neighbour's yard to visit
Speaker 1: a litter of Collie puppies. Zach returned without Holly. A
Speaker 1: short time later, the family looked for Holly, but only
Speaker 1: one of her sneakers was found near the roadway. A
Speaker 1: massive search was launched, but sadly, seventy three days later,
Speaker 1: on October twenty third, nineteen ninety three, Holly's remains were
Speaker 1: found in a wooded area near five Bridge Road in Brimfield, Massachusetts. Now,
Speaker 1: while there's no shortage of persons of interest, Holly's killer
Speaker 1: has never been found. In twenty twenty three, the District
Speaker 1: Attorney's office announced a slight breakthrough after a tank top
Speaker 1: was located at the crime I'm saying and the public
Speaker 1: was asked to help identify where the shirt came from
Speaker 1: or who it belonged to. Anyone with any information on
Speaker 1: the disappearance and murder of Holly is asked to call
Speaker 1: the Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit at four one three
Speaker 1: five zero five five nine nine three, or text a
Speaker 1: tip to Crimes that's two seven four six thirty seven
Speaker 1: and type solve Holly Parining and your tip in the message. Now,
Speaker 1: we have the kidnapping and murder of Molly bish On
Speaker 1: June twenty seventh, two thousand, sixteen year old Molly bish
Speaker 1: A Warren, Massachusetts, vanished just a day after she started
Speaker 1: working as a lifeguard at a pond in her hometown.
Speaker 1: The search definder became the most extensive search for a
Speaker 1: missing person in Massachusetts history. Molly's story would later become
Speaker 1: the focus of a two thousand and two featured by
Speaker 1: Mel Allen, an editor for Yankee Magazine. At the time
Speaker 1: of the article, Molly's parents still had hopes that their
Speaker 1: daughter was alive. Sadly, Molly's remains were recovered just five
Speaker 1: miles from her home the following year. The party or
Speaker 1: parties responsible have never been found, making Molly's case one
Speaker 1: of New England's most frustrating unsolved mysteries. Massachusetts State Police
Speaker 1: encourage anyone with information on Molly's case to call their
Speaker 1: anonymous tip line at five zero eight four five three
Speaker 1: seven five seven five. Next. The Smutty Nose murders. On
Speaker 1: March sixth, eighteen seventy three, Karen Christensen and her sister
Speaker 1: in law, Anathay, were brutally murdered by an axe after
Speaker 1: midnight on the island of Smutty Nose. Located off the Portsmouth,
Speaker 1: New Hampshire coast. Karen's sister, Maren Honvedd, survived the attack
Speaker 1: and testified in the trial against the accused killer, Louis Wagner. Wagner,
Speaker 1: a drifter, was once a border at their Smuddy Nose house.
Speaker 1: Maren's accounts of the attack horrified and fascinated the nation.
Speaker 1: Wagner was convicted and hanged at the Main State Prison
Speaker 1: in Thomaston on June twenty fifth, eighteen seventy five. Whether
Speaker 1: Wagner was actually responsible for the murders has been up
Speaker 1: for debate since his arrest in subsequent hanging. In March
Speaker 1: from nineteen eighty, Yankee magazine published a story about the
Speaker 1: gruesome crime, which sparked a letter from L. Morrole Burke,
Speaker 1: an associate professor at the University's Southern Maine. Burke concluded
Speaker 1: quote the blood on Wagner's clothes was likely fish blood
Speaker 1: end quote. The real culprit in his analysis was Maren onvet.
Speaker 1: Professor Burke claimed that the wounds on the two victims
Speaker 1: were radically placed, superficial and inflicted by a quote feminine
Speaker 1: arm rather than a man who could grow The twelve
Speaker 1: miles to Smutty Nose in a dory end quote. Burke
Speaker 1: went on to say, not only did Maren survive the attack,
Speaker 1: but she was completely uninjured. Others speculate Maren's husband, John
Speaker 1: as the killer. The Smutty Nose murders remained one of
Speaker 1: New England's most puzzling mysteries. The Burke Share UFO incident,
Speaker 1: also known as the Great Barrington UFO siding, as one
Speaker 1: of American history's most famous UFO sidings. It occurred on
Speaker 1: the night of September first, nineteen sixty nine, in the
Speaker 1: small town of Sheffield, Massachusetts, located in the Berkshire Mountains.
Speaker 1: The incident began when a thirty six year ollow farmer
Speaker 1: named tom Ma Reid drove home from a family gathering
Speaker 1: with his mother, brother, and two friends. As they drove
Speaker 1: along a deserted road, they saw a bright light in
Speaker 1: the sky that seemed to follow them. The light grew
Speaker 1: larger and brighter until it was directly over their car. Suddenly,
Speaker 1: the car's engine stalled and they heard a loud, pulsating sound.
Speaker 1: The next thing they knew, they were sitting in the
Speaker 1: car on the side of the road, about three hundred
Speaker 1: feet from where they had been previously. They all had strange,
Speaker 1: unexplainable injuries and a sense of confusion and disorientation. Tom
Speaker 1: Reid later reported that he had a triangular burn mark
Speaker 1: on his neck, while his mother had a similar pattern
Speaker 1: on her wrist. The group returned home and reported the
Speaker 1: incident to the local police. The story quickly made headlines,
Speaker 1: and soon other witnesses came forward with their accounts of
Speaker 1: strange lights in the sky that night. The most compelling
Speaker 1: testimony came from a local radio station employee who claim
Speaker 1: they have seen a large, metallic craft hovering over the town.
Speaker 1: The incident gained national attention, and even the United States
Speaker 1: Air Force got involved. They sent investigators to the scene
Speaker 1: and conducted a thorough investigation, which included interviews with eyewitnesses
Speaker 1: and an analysis of the physical evidence. However, the report
Speaker 1: concluded that there was no evidence to support the existence
Speaker 1: of a UFO and that the incident was likely due
Speaker 1: to quote natural phenomena end quote. Despite the Air Force conclusion,
Speaker 1: many believe the Berkshare UFO incident was an extraterrestrial encounter.
Speaker 1: Numerous books, articles, and documentaries have been written and filmed
Speaker 1: in the year since the incident, and it has become
Speaker 1: a staple of UFO lore. One of the most intriguing
Speaker 1: aspects of the Berkshare UFO incident is the number of
Speaker 1: witnesses who came forward. While the original group consisted of
Speaker 1: only five people, more than forty others reported seeing strange
Speaker 1: lights in the sky that night. Many of these witnesses
Speaker 1: were highly respected members of the community, including police officers, firefighters,
Speaker 1: and government officials. Another puzzling aspect of this incident is
Speaker 1: the physical evidence. The triangular burnmarks on Tom Reid's neck
Speaker 1: and his mother's wrist are challenging to explain, and some
Speaker 1: have suggested that there are evidence of alien abduction. The
Speaker 1: fact that the car is enginstalled in the group's sense
Speaker 1: of disorientation is also consistent with other UFO encounters. The
Speaker 1: Workshare UFO incident is one of American history's most intriguing sightings.
Speaker 1: While the Air Force investigation concluded that there was no
Speaker 1: evidence to support the existence of a UFO, many people
Speaker 1: remain convinced that the incident was an actual extraterrestrial encounter.
Speaker 1: The number of witnesses and the physical evidence make the
Speaker 1: incident challenging to dismiss, and now frozen to death. Another
Speaker 1: of New England's most unusual unsolved mysteries was chronicled by
Speaker 1: former Yankee editor in chief Judson Hale, who accounted the
Speaker 1: tale in his nineteen eighty two book Inside New England.
Speaker 1: In nineteen thirty nine, doctor Temple S Fay of Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: who experimented with freezing human organs, gave a lecture in Providence,
Speaker 1: Rhode Island, in which he related a grotesque story he
Speaker 1: believed to be valid. Face said the incident occurred just
Speaker 1: outside Montpeelier, Vermont, around nineteen hundred. Doctor Faye read from
Speaker 1: an old diary kept by his late uncle Williams. Williams
Speaker 1: visited a remote community outside Montpeelier on January seventh and
Speaker 1: found all the community's elders lying on a cabin floor,
Speaker 1: drugged and unconscious. Williams describes how the elders were nude
Speaker 1: except for a single garment, carried outside in the bitter
Speaker 1: cold air and placed on logs. Williams continued quote, and
Speaker 1: the full moon occasionally obscured by flying clouds shown on
Speaker 1: their upturned, ghastly faces, and a horrible fascination camped me
Speaker 1: by the bodies as long as I could endure the
Speaker 1: severe cold. Soon the noses, ears, and fingers began to
Speaker 1: turn white. Then the limbs and faces assumed a tallow look.
Speaker 1: I could stand the cold no longer and went inside,
Speaker 1: where I found the friends in cheerful conversation. In about
Speaker 1: an hour, I went out and looked at the bodies.
Speaker 1: They were fast freezing. End quote. Fay continues quote. The
Speaker 1: next day, the bodies were covered with straw, placed in
Speaker 1: layers in a huge wooden enclosure to protect them from animals,
Speaker 1: and left there end quote. The following May, all the
Speaker 1: frozen elders were brought inside and placed in tubs of
Speaker 1: warm water with hymlock until they revived, after which they
Speaker 1: went about their business, refreshed by their long sleep of
Speaker 1: four months. What actually occurred in Montpeeler that winter remains
Speaker 1: a mystery that brings us to the Isabella Stuart Gardner
Speaker 1: Museum heist. On March eighteenth, nineteen ninety two, men posing
Speaker 1: as police officers responding to a disturbance call entered the
Speaker 1: Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. Ultimately, this was
Speaker 1: only a scheme to swipe valuable works of art. The
Speaker 1: suspects tied up the guards and stole thirteen pieces of
Speaker 1: art valued at more than five hundred million dollars, including
Speaker 1: works by Vermier, Rembrandt, Degas and Manette. It is the
Speaker 1: most significant theft of private property in terms of sheer
Speaker 1: value in history. It has speculated that the robbery was
Speaker 1: the work of a criminal organization, but no arrests have
Speaker 1: ever been made. The Gardener Museum continues to offer a
Speaker 1: monetary reward for information leading to the recovery of the art,
Speaker 1: and the spaces in the museum where the paintings once
Speaker 1: hung remain empty. Next the strange disappearance of Britney t
Speaker 1: On January tenth, twenty twenty three, thirty five year old
Speaker 1: Britney Tea vanished after leaving the Brookfield, Massachusetts home she
Speaker 1: shared with her boyfriend. Britney's vehicle, Befort, was not working,
Speaker 1: and she left on foot on one of the coldest
Speaker 1: nights of the year. Britney's loved ones say is unlike
Speaker 1: her to disappear without making contact. She was reported missing
Speaker 1: by her family a few days later, prompting an immediate
Speaker 1: search of the area. The case had a heavy social
Speaker 1: media presence from the beginning and a Facebook group keeps
Speaker 1: the public notified of any updates local woods, backyards, parked cars,
Speaker 1: and parks such as Lewis Field near where Brittany was
Speaker 1: last seen or searched. Among those interviewed were Brittany's boyfriend,
Speaker 1: who was described as cooperative. Authority said there is no
Speaker 1: evidence the crime was committed and no suspects have been named.
Speaker 1: Brittany t is five foot six inches tall, with brown
Speaker 1: hair and blue eyes, and was last seen wearing a
Speaker 1: black winter coat, hoodie, jeans, and work boots. As previously mentioned,
Speaker 1: temperatures were near record lows when Brittany went missing. Anyone
Speaker 1: with any information on Britney's disappearance or whereabouts is asked
Speaker 1: to call the dedicated tip line at five zero eight
Speaker 1: four five three seven five eight nine next. The Betty
Speaker 1: and Barney Hill incident. Now there have been numerous UFO
Speaker 1: sidings since the first reported one in nineteen forty seven.
Speaker 1: One of the most notable is that of Betty and
Speaker 1: Barney Hill, an American couple who became famous in the
Speaker 1: nineteen sixties, were claiming to be abducted by extraterrestrial beings.
Speaker 1: The Hills were driving back to their Portsmouth, New Hampshire,
Speaker 1: home on September nineteenth, nineteen sixty one, after vacationing in Canada.
Speaker 1: While driving through the White Mountains, they noticed a bright
Speaker 1: light in the sky that seemed to follow them. At first,
Speaker 1: they thought it was a shooting star, but it soon
Speaker 1: became apparent that it was something else Entirely. As they
Speaker 1: continued to drive, the light grew closer and brighter, and
Speaker 1: eventually they could see that it was a large, disc
Speaker 1: shaped object that appeared to be hovering above the tree
Speaker 1: tops and was utterly silent. Barney stopped the car and
Speaker 1: they got out to look closer. According to their later accounts,
Speaker 1: the Hills saw several humanoid creatures looking out at them
Speaker 1: from the craft's windows. These beings were described as about
Speaker 1: five feet tall, with gray skin and large wraparound eyes.
Speaker 1: They were wearing black uniforms and seemed to be communicating
Speaker 1: with each other in a language that the Hills could
Speaker 1: not understand. Terrified, the Hills fled to their car and
Speaker 1: left as fast as possible. They began to experience strange sensations,
Speaker 1: including a tingling sensation in their bodies and a buzzing
Speaker 1: sound in their ears. They claimed the car was vibrating
Speaker 1: and the steering wheel was becoming difficult to control. The
Speaker 1: Hills realized that they could not account for two hours.
Speaker 1: When they returned home, they also noticed physical evidence that
Speaker 1: something unusual had happened to them. Betty's dress was torn,
Speaker 1: the lighting was ripped out, and Barney's shoes were scraped
Speaker 1: and sculped in away that suggested he had been dragged.
Speaker 1: Over the next few days, the Hills began to experience
Speaker 1: strange dreams and nightmares. Betty dreamed of being taking aboard
Speaker 1: the craft and subjected to a medical examination, while Barney
Speaker 1: dreamed of being interrogated by these beings. These dreams and
Speaker 1: nightmares continued for several weeks, and the Hills became increasingly
Speaker 1: convinced that aliens had abducted them. Eventually, they sought the
Speaker 1: help of a local psychiatrist named doctor Benjamin Simon. Under
Speaker 1: hypno Betty and Varney recounted their experiences in great detail,
Speaker 1: including their encounters with the beings and the medical procedures
Speaker 1: performed on them. According to Betty, the beings had shown
Speaker 1: her a map depicting a series of interconnected lines and
Speaker 1: dots representing various stars and Star Systems. She would later
Speaker 1: draw the star map for doctor Simon. The Hill's story
Speaker 1: became the subject of much debate and controversy in the
Speaker 1: following years. Skeptics argued that the Hill's experiences could be
Speaker 1: explained by sleep paralysis or other psychological phenomena, while believers
Speaker 1: saw their story as proof of alien visitation. Despite the controversy,
Speaker 1: the Hill's story has remained one of history's most well
Speaker 1: known and influential cases of UFO abduction. It has inspired
Speaker 1: countless books, movies, and TV shows, and continues to fascinate
Speaker 1: and intrigue people worldwide. And finally, we have the disappearance
Speaker 1: of Kathy Moulton. On September twenty fourth, nineteen seventy one,
Speaker 1: sixteen year old Kathy Marie Molton disappeared after school in
Speaker 1: the downtown area of Portland, Maine, after being dropped off
Speaker 1: by her father to go shopping. Kathy was supposed to
Speaker 1: take a bus home for dinner and then attended dance
Speaker 1: at the YWCA with friends later that night, but she
Speaker 1: never returned. Her father, Roy, drove around the city looking
Speaker 1: for her, while her mother, Claire, called neighbors and friends
Speaker 1: to see if anyone had seen Kathy. The search for
Speaker 1: Kathy was marked by frustration. Investigators seemingly failed to investigate
Speaker 1: why she'd gone missing, and witnesses were unwilling to explain
Speaker 1: what happened. Retired Portland detective Kevin Katie, who worked on
Speaker 1: the case in the nineteen ninety said, quote, this wasn't
Speaker 1: in the press. This wasn't a big talked about thing
Speaker 1: like it might meet today with social media. It certainly
Speaker 1: would have gotten a lot more fanfare now end quote.
Speaker 1: The attitudes of the era were that she was probably
Speaker 1: just rebelling or protesting, or ran off with her boyfriend
Speaker 1: if he got drafted. It was not taken with the
Speaker 1: seriousness that it was to our family, said Kim Higgins,
Speaker 1: Kathy's younger sister. In the years since Kathy's disappearance, detectives
Speaker 1: painstakingly pieced together her movements on that fateful day. Nathia
Speaker 1: writes she was taken from Portland against her will by
Speaker 1: an older boyfriend and his acquaintance. She was prevented from
Speaker 1: leaving while working on a potato farm in a Roostock County,
Speaker 1: then died on a malaseat Tobek First Nations Reservation in
Speaker 1: New Brunswick. The Moultens never stopped talking about Kathy and
Speaker 1: pushing the police to do more. Roy Moulton died at
Speaker 1: age ninety two in twenty seventeen without ever knowing what
Speaker 1: happened to his daughter. Kathy's body has never been recovered,
Speaker 1: and no official suspects have been named of the case.
Speaker 1: This remains one of the oldest active missing person cases
Speaker 1: in Maine and the United States. Kathy was last seen
Speaker 1: wearing a navy short sleeve will dress, a navy double
Speaker 1: breasted box coat with brass buttons, and carried only her
Speaker 1: brown leather bag. She'd had two iteeth removed prior to
Speaker 1: getting braces. Have any information regarding the disappearance of Kathy Moulton,
Speaker 1: please contact the Portland Police Department at two zero seven
Speaker 1: eight seven four eight four seventy nine. Well, friends, there
Speaker 1: you have it. What do you think of these strange,
Speaker 1: unsolved mysteries from New England. I look forward to your comments,
Speaker 1: but please keep it friendly and respectful until we meet again.
Speaker 1: Be good to yourselves and each other. I'm Steve Stockton
Speaker 1: and I'll see you a little further on down the
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