The Shadow over Newburyport

[rashore]

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Some places are unavoidably creepy.  Like the windowless, black room in your neighbor’s basement, or Chuck E. Cheese, or when your humble little town serves as a template for an H.P. Lovecraft story.  Newbury Plantation (about 30 miles northeast of Boston) was settled and incorporated in 1635 by a group of about 100 colonists from Wiltshire, England.  In 1764, the General Court of Massachusetts declared the part of Newbury bordering the Atlantic Ocean to be a new town named Newburyport, consisting of 647 acres and 357 homes, the smallest town in Massachusetts at the time. The logic was that the residents of Newbury were largely farmers, while those in Newburyport were typically engaged in activities related to shipping (merchants, shipwrights, etc.), leading to discord in public affairs, and they decided to be quite literal, rather than fast and loose with the naming conventions.  Newburyport prospered from the Atlantic slave trade, privateering (during the American Revolution and War of 1812), molasses importing from the West Indies and associated distilling operations, shipyards, whaling, and a substantial fishing fleet that trawled the George’s Banks, but by the opening of the 20th Century, very little remained of its former maritime importance.  Thus, when H.P. Lovecraft needed a prototype for a decrepit New England fishing village for his 1931 novella “The Shadow over Innsmouth”, he found fertile ground in a visit to Newburyport, later admitting, “Innsmouth is a considerably twisted version of Newburyport”.

https://esoterx.com/2020/12/09/the-shadow-over-newburyport/

 

[papageorge1]

I wonder if some kind of portal location is also involved in these kind of things making it easier for spirits to manifest physical activity?

Papameter starts at 90% Paranormal on this one.

I wonder if modern investigators could rustle something up or if they have already tried. Or possibly the school no longer exists.

The sticks and stones pelting sounds poltergeisty too.

Edited December 15, 2020 by papageorge1