Author and New England Legends Co-host Jeff Belanger stops by to talk with Ray Auger on Local Raydio to discuss his show at the Singh Performance Center in Whitinsville on Saturday December 7th. Get your tickets here… https://www.openskycs.org/news-events/events/valleycast-hosts-the-fright-before-christmas-with-jeff-belanger-/ You can listen to the interview here: https://soundcloud.com/localraydio/ray-in-the-morning-jeff-belanger
Jeff Belanger joined host John Hyatt for his recent Gifts of the Wyrd podcast to talk The Fright Before Christmas. >Thump< >Thump< Is that the sound of reindeer hooves on the rooftop? A knock at the door for a surprise appearance from Santa Clause to bring gifts? Maaaayyybe. Or maybe it's Père Fouettard, Belsnickel, or Sinterklaas with his chimney Piets arriving to punish the naughty. Perhaps Krampus, Gryla, the Yule Cat or Yule Lads, or the Mari Lwyd to take you away or kill you for venturing out in the cold, harsh, dark winter. Step in to the dark roots of Christmas with The Fright Before Christmas author Jeff Belanger. From shapeshifters to mountain trolls, to elves, to heavy-handed cohorts of Saint Nicholas, the Christmas holiday has been filled with ghosts and monsters ready to dole out punishment to those who need it. The Winter Solstice is a time to be afraid. You can listen to the episode here:
Jeff joins Spaced Out Radio host Dave Scott to discuss Jeff’s book: The Fright Before Christmas: Surviving Krampus and Other Yuletide Monsters, and the Bridgewater Triangle. Spaced Out Radio is nationally syndicated on terrestrial radio stations and livestreamed online. You can watch the interview here:
On this week’s episode of The Ghost Bunny Podcast, Bridget Marquardt sits down with Jeff Belanger, the host of New England Legends and a writer for Ghost Adventures. Bridget and Jeff dive into stories about New England’s haunted places and creepy legends. And Jeff discusses his extensive career surrounding the paranormal, including some of his spookiest experiences. You can watch the episode here:
Ghosts and Witches – the new television episode of #NewEnglandLegends airs tonight on NEPM-TV (at 9pm) and Vermont Public Television (at 8:30pm)! Both channels are showcasing a night of Legends episodes. In this episode of New England Legends, host Jeff Belanger heads to Western Massachusetts, where the mountains hide a dark secret: a haunted train tunnel known as The Bloody Pit, where 200 lives were lost during its construction. Then we travel to the Green Mountain State in search of witches. In 1765, Margaret Krieger of Pownal, Vermont, was accused of being a witch and had to face a horrible test to prove her innocence. Her gruesome ordeal stands as Vermont’s only recorded witch trial.
Jeff Belanger joined GBH’s All Things Considered host Arun Rath on the radio to discuss the weird. In the town of Westford, Massachusetts, as far back as the mid-19th century, locals discovered a stone carving on a rock face that appeared to show a figure of a person. They debated whether it was carved long ago by Native Americans or more recently by local kids. It remained a local curiosity until the late 1930s, when a researcher looking for evidence of Viking expeditions to America paid a visit to Westford and declared the figure was a European-style sword. Of course, when talking about Massachusetts legends, myths and folklore, there’s no better person to turn to than Jeff Belanger, folklore expert and host of the New England Legends podcast. He joined GBH’s All Things Considered host Arun Rath for a closer look at the Westford Knight. What follows is a lightly edited transcript. You can listen to the segment and read the transcript here: https://www.wgbh.org/culture/2024-10-26/in-westford-mass-wild-and-controversial-theories-surround-a-stone-carvings-origins
Jeff Belanger again appeared on the History Channel‘s series: The UnXplained with William Shatner, Season 7, Episode 3: “The Lost.” The episode premiered October 18, 2024 on the History Channel. You can watch it here: https://play.history.com/shows/the-unxplained/season-7/episode-3 Jeff also appeared on Season 6, Episode 5, “Strange Stories of the Presidents.”
I was thrilled to work as a producer on the new series DESTINATION OF THE DAMNED starring Zak Bagans! I’ve been working with MY Entertainment for 16 years now. It’s been an amazing run working on many of their spookiest shows! These 5 episodes will binge-drop on @streamonmax and @discoveryplus on October 2nd: (more episodes episodes still to come) 1– Buried Alive The Curse of Armero, Colombia 2– The Devil’s Doorway 99 Doors Mansion, Malaysia & La Noria, Atacama Desert, Chile 3– Cursed Shores Pulau Ubin Island, Singapore & Bell Island, Newfoundland 4– Nazi Portal to Hell Houska Castle, Czech Republic & Diplomat Hotel, Philippines 5– The Asylum’s Prophet “Devil’s Roadhouse,” Nova Scotia, Canada & Volterra Asylum, Italy
Jeff sat down with Melissa Karen Sances for the October 2024 issue of Northampton Magazine to discuss all things spooky and haunted, with a focus on Mary Webster — the Witch of Hadley, whose story was the inspiration for Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale.
Congratulations to my friend Richard Estep on the publication of his latest book: In Search of Demons: Historic Cases and Firsthand Experiences from Experts and Skeptics Alikee! I’m honored to have been interviewed for the book along with many others in the field. Estep’s book covers some of the most famous cases of demonic activity including the story behind the hit horror book and film The Exorcist. This is a proper and object examination of the subject. Highly recommended. I took this photo just before I walked into the church behind me so I could sit down and read it in my favorite pew. Just as I entered the church, Richard’s book burst into flames. If that ain’t a church-bell-ringing endorsement I don’t know what is.
