1 00:00:02,960 --> 00:00:05,120 Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning. 2 00:00:05,240 --> 00:00:08,200 In this episode, we're talking about the Bridgewater Triangle. 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,840 That's correct, the Bridgewater Triangle. 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,360 And if we go to Wikipedia, we'll find out that the Bridgewater 5 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:17,880 Triangle is an area of about 200 square miles, and it's located 6 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:20,760 in southeastern Massachusetts in the United States. 7 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:26,120 Now there's claims that this is the site of paranormal phenomena 8 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:29,960 that ranges from UFO's to poltergeist, and also other 9 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:34,600 spectral phenomena like Bigfoot, giant snakes and Thunderbirds, 10 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,920 and the term was coined by New Englandbased crotologist Lauren 11 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,480 Coleman. Now the specific boundaries of 12 00:00:41,480 --> 00:00:44,520 the Bridgewater Triangle were first described by this 13 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:48,240 individual, Lauren Coleman, who coined the term in the 1970s and 14 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,080 later in his book Mysterious America. 15 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:54,940 And if we look at some of the landmarks around this area, you 16 00:00:54,940 --> 00:00:58,300 got Freetown, Fall River, State Forest, Profile rock, 17 00:00:58,300 --> 00:01:01,500 Bridgewater State University, Taunton State Hospital in 18 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:03,300 horrifying school. And look at some of those later. 19 00:01:03,620 --> 00:01:07,180 But some of the paranormal claims involve unidentified and 20 00:01:07,180 --> 00:01:09,740 flying objects. That's UF O's the often in the 21 00:01:09,740 --> 00:01:13,780 form of bright lights or large unusual spacecraft, You've got 22 00:01:13,780 --> 00:01:17,260 unnatural animal sightings, ranging from reports of animals 23 00:01:17,260 --> 00:01:20,980 that are not found within the area, such as Panthers and 24 00:01:20,980 --> 00:01:24,080 bears, to more supernatural claims like giant snakes and 25 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:27,200 enormous, vicious dogs. We've also got sightings of 26 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:30,760 paranormal humanoids, including sightings of Bigfoot ghosts, 27 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,520 poltergeists, and shadow people. And you've got Thunderbird 28 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:36,520 sightings. This is giant birds of the the 29 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:40,160 paradoctoral type flying bird. Dinosaur bird creatures with 30 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,600 wingspans of the 12 feet have also been claimed to be seen in 31 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:46,920 in Hakamak Swamp and the neighboring Taunton and Easton, 32 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:52,120 and this even included a report by Norton Police Sergeant Thomas 33 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,400 Downey. Now there are reports of cult 34 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:58,680 activity like especially animal mutilations, and this is various 35 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,280 instance of animal mutilations have been reported, particularly 36 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:04,600 in Freetown of Fall River where local police were called to 37 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:07,040 investigate mutilated animals believed to be the work of a 38 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:08,520 call. You got to wonder if those 39 00:02:08,520 --> 00:02:11,680 aren't some of the, like, cattle mutilation type stuff we see, 40 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:14,520 you know, in the Midwest and western United States. 41 00:02:15,050 --> 00:02:18,090 Two specific incidents it says in 1998 were reported, one of 42 00:02:18,090 --> 00:02:21,250 which, a single adult cow was found butchered in the woods. 43 00:02:21,890 --> 00:02:24,490 The other, in which a group of cows were discovered in a 44 00:02:24,490 --> 00:02:28,210 clearing, grotesquely mutilated, is a part of a ritual sacrifice. 45 00:02:28,210 --> 00:02:31,930 A lot of times people do mistake these UFO cattle mutilations for 46 00:02:31,930 --> 00:02:35,130 for cultic sacrifices. Maybe they are some kind of call 47 00:02:35,130 --> 00:02:37,410 it What do we know? And then it talks a little bit 48 00:02:37,410 --> 00:02:40,010 about Native American curses and it says, according to one tale, 49 00:02:40,010 --> 00:02:43,170 Native Americans had cursed the swamp centuries ago because of a 50 00:02:43,170 --> 00:02:45,610 conflict with colonial settlers. And we'll get into that in a 51 00:02:45,610 --> 00:02:48,290 little bit too. A revered object of the 52 00:02:48,650 --> 00:02:53,050 Wampanoag people, this is a belt known as Wampanoag belt was lost 53 00:02:53,050 --> 00:02:57,010 during King Philip's War and legend says that the area owes 54 00:02:57,010 --> 00:03:00,130 his paranormal unrest to the fact this belt was lost from the 55 00:03:00,130 --> 00:03:03,900 native people. Now that Pekkawaji, it's a 56 00:03:03,900 --> 00:03:07,980 creature from the Alagonquin Fork War and the local Wampanoag 57 00:03:07,980 --> 00:03:11,700 people consider them to be dangerous tricksters, and they 58 00:03:11,700 --> 00:03:14,740 have been especially associated with the Freetown State Forest 59 00:03:14,740 --> 00:03:17,780 within the Bridgewater Triangle. And we'll talk about these 60 00:03:17,780 --> 00:03:21,980 creatures also. Now it seems like the folks from 61 00:03:21,980 --> 00:03:25,220 Skinwalker Ranch, or at least the folks from beyond Skinwalker 62 00:03:25,220 --> 00:03:28,900 Ranch, are responsible for bringing the Bridgewater 63 00:03:28,900 --> 00:03:32,420 Triangle back into focus this week, at least at least online. 64 00:03:32,890 --> 00:03:37,450 And this article from the express dot CU dot UK is titled 65 00:03:37,490 --> 00:03:42,090 UF O's Accidentally Spotted as Investigators Probe Ancient 66 00:03:42,090 --> 00:03:45,370 Native Curse and it's written by Jacob Kelscher, dated August 67 00:03:45,370 --> 00:03:48,410 16th, 2023. Subtitles says Among 68 00:03:48,410 --> 00:03:52,290 enthusiasts, the Bridgewater Triangle, an area encompassing 3 69 00:03:52,290 --> 00:03:56,050 Massachusetts towns, has become famous for UFO sightings. 70 00:03:56,800 --> 00:03:59,480 Then, it says, recent reports have shed light on the presence 71 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:03,320 of unidentified flying objects, all within the Erie confines of 72 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:07,040 a swampy area known for its ties to an ancient legendary 73 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:09,800 creature. Situated around 50 miles South 74 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:13,480 of Boston, MA. This enigmatic zone is referred 75 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:17,360 to as a Bridgewater Triangle, spanning the towns of Abington, 76 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:21,640 Riobath and Freetown. When it goes on, it says. 77 00:04:21,640 --> 00:04:24,800 Legend has it that the Bridgewater Triangle harbors and 78 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:30,640 otherworldly being known as the Pukwaji, A shapeshifting entity 79 00:04:30,640 --> 00:04:33,880 from the Native American folklore and the latest 80 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:35,640 sighting. History Channel researchers 81 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:38,320 claim to have used something with ties to Native American 82 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:42,680 lore and investigative findings from Paul Beebin and Andrew 83 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:46,440 Bustamante, documented in their series Beyond Skinwalking Ranch, 84 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:50,800 delve into the mysteries of the supernatural realm in the latest 85 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:52,920 sighting, History Channel researchers claim to have viewed 86 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,680 something with ties to the Native American, Lord says. 87 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:59,520 And then, according to analytical chemist Matt Moniz, 88 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,720 the Picawaji emerges as a recurrent figure in Native 89 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,320 American accounts. Moniz says that the Alagonquin 90 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,920 people have recounted numerous encounters with these small 91 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:11,840 people possessing distinctive features, notably hairy bodies 92 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:13,840 and pot bellies. Over the course of more than a 93 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:17,450 century, these entities allegedly lure individuals into 94 00:05:17,450 --> 00:05:21,530 the wilderness with luminous spheres and entrancing and an 95 00:05:21,530 --> 00:05:24,250 entrancing call. Follow me, follow my light, 96 00:05:24,250 --> 00:05:26,770 follow my voice. According to the Native American 97 00:05:26,770 --> 00:05:32,290 lore, the Pakouji are also soul Steelers and adept shapeshifters 98 00:05:32,530 --> 00:05:35,130 with an Infinity for assuming the form of coyotes. 99 00:05:35,490 --> 00:05:38,370 It's almost sounds like the shapeshifters we hear about out 100 00:05:38,370 --> 00:05:41,930 West, the Skin Walkers. The the Beyond Skin Walker Ranch 101 00:05:41,930 --> 00:05:44,730 team therefore decided to conduct their own exploration 102 00:05:44,730 --> 00:05:48,250 within the Bridgewater Triangle. Venturing into the swamp with 103 00:05:48,250 --> 00:05:51,090 infrared equipped drones, the team embarked on a mission to 104 00:05:51,090 --> 00:05:53,730 locate at Pejwaji. However, their quest took an 105 00:05:53,730 --> 00:05:56,810 unforeseen tune, an unforeseen turn. 106 00:05:56,810 --> 00:06:02,090 When they found UF O's, They saw luminous orbs, unconventional 107 00:06:02,090 --> 00:06:05,320 flight patterns, a spectacle that's done the team, these 108 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,080 unidentified anomalies exhibiting remarkable luminosity 109 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:10,800 in motion, defying conventional aircraft characteristics. 110 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:14,560 The findings fuel questions about UFO activities in the area 111 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:17,040 and the animatic presence of the Pawaji. 112 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:20,640 Other UFO sightings have also been spotted by the same team 113 00:06:20,640 --> 00:06:23,040 investigating the Bridgewater Triangle. 114 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,360 The team of scientists and UFO enthusiasts for the history 115 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:28,540 channels. The secret's going to walk a 116 00:06:28,540 --> 00:06:32,380 ranch and the sister show to to beyond Skinwalker Ranch 117 00:06:32,380 --> 00:06:35,380 previously launched rockets into the sky Skinwalker Ranch located 118 00:06:35,380 --> 00:06:37,420 in Utah. Astonishingly, the Rockets 119 00:06:37,420 --> 00:06:39,820 appeared to encounter in the visible barrier mid flight, 120 00:06:39,820 --> 00:06:42,540 altering their trajectories. And then it talks about the 121 00:06:42,540 --> 00:06:46,380 YouTube clip and you can watch that this this whole thing 122 00:06:46,380 --> 00:06:51,420 interests me because of the intersection of the paranormal 123 00:06:51,420 --> 00:06:55,260 with UF O's. And we see this happening over 124 00:06:55,260 --> 00:06:57,890 and over again where these things aren't just mechanical 125 00:06:57,890 --> 00:07:02,210 devices that somehow they they constantly intersect with things 126 00:07:02,210 --> 00:07:07,210 like Ghost, Bigfoot, these Puck, Wojee little people, all these 127 00:07:07,210 --> 00:07:11,090 paranormal activities that seem to be accompanied by UFL 128 00:07:11,090 --> 00:07:14,730 sightings. Now a lot of people have some 129 00:07:14,730 --> 00:07:16,770 negative things about the Skin and Walker Ranch crew. 130 00:07:16,970 --> 00:07:20,450 I view it more as entertainment than is scientific research, but 131 00:07:20,530 --> 00:07:24,250 is entertainment. It's entertaining and I find it 132 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:27,120 interesting that they've brought so much attention to this 133 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,440 Bridgewater area. Now I want to delve into a 134 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:32,360 little bit more about this pug walkie creature because we've 135 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:36,240 talked a lot about different Native American cryptids and 136 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:38,320 pultergeist type creatures in the program. 137 00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:41,360 So I want to take a look at this next article a little bit on the 138 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:43,600 history of that particular thing. 139 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,320 Now, the Pekwaji. The name literally translates to 140 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,320 Person of the Wilderness, and they were said to be small 141 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:55,640 creatures that range from knee height to about 3 foot tall that 142 00:07:55,640 --> 00:08:00,240 had humanlike figures, yet their noses and their ears and fingers 143 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:03,240 were really too big for their size. 144 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:07,720 Now the skin was described as Gray and smooth, and they've 145 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:10,240 often been compared to trolls and goblins. 146 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,960 Now I really like the idea to hear that the skin is Gray. 147 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:17,760 Reminds me a little bit of these small Gray aliens we hear about, 148 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:22,410 but these things are more of a slightly humanoid look to him 149 00:08:22,490 --> 00:08:25,090 because of the fact that they have eyes, ears and nose with 150 00:08:25,090 --> 00:08:29,370 these, you know, elongated features with their fingers and 151 00:08:29,370 --> 00:08:33,370 their nose and they just misshapen and they really do 152 00:08:33,370 --> 00:08:36,090 look like trolls. Of course, these Pequogi, these 153 00:08:36,530 --> 00:08:38,210 come from the Native American tradition. 154 00:08:38,210 --> 00:08:40,809 Now let's look at this next article, what kind of expounds 155 00:08:40,809 --> 00:08:43,289 on that little bit, and where the idea of these things really 156 00:08:43,289 --> 00:08:46,540 goes back to. So I think this next article 157 00:08:46,540 --> 00:08:49,700 will give us a little bit of insight into this Bridgewater 158 00:08:49,700 --> 00:08:52,420 Triangle from the Native American perspective. 159 00:08:53,100 --> 00:08:55,500 It comes to us from atlasobscure.com. 160 00:08:55,500 --> 00:08:59,540 The title says How Massachusetts came to have its own Bermuda 161 00:08:59,540 --> 00:09:03,020 Triangle, and the subtitle says the story behind some very 162 00:09:03,020 --> 00:09:05,700 mysterious rocks. Written by Jake Robertson, June 163 00:09:05,700 --> 00:09:10,920 13th, 2016, goes on. It says the spot isn't easy to 164 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:13,320 find. Only by crab walking across 165 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:16,200 stones and ducking under the rock that forms the ceiling of 166 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:20,600 King Phillip's Cave can you rest in the spot where Metacomet, 167 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:24,760 chief of the Massachusetts Wampanoag, likely spent one of 168 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:27,720 his final nights? The leader was slaughtered by 169 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:32,080 one of his own men and beheaded by the English settlers in the 170 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:36,120 16 Seven in 1678 in a war that pitted the Alegonfan nations 171 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:39,350 against the white settlers in such a lovely spot. 172 00:09:39,350 --> 00:09:43,070 You almost forget you're in a quiet neighborhood full of upper 173 00:09:43,070 --> 00:09:46,830 middle class houses in the quiet Boston suburb of Norton, MA. 174 00:09:47,230 --> 00:09:49,550 But there's an undeniable chill in the air. 175 00:09:50,070 --> 00:09:53,430 The rock formation is one of many such sites in a 200 square 176 00:09:53,430 --> 00:09:56,230 mile area of southeastern Massachusetts that locals and 177 00:09:56,230 --> 00:09:58,950 paranormal enthusiasts called the Bridgewater Triangle. 178 00:09:59,630 --> 00:10:02,870 That's right and mystical swamp zone within commuting distance 179 00:10:02,870 --> 00:10:06,430 of Boston. For centuries, locals have 180 00:10:06,430 --> 00:10:10,430 reported strange activity in and around the swamp, from Bigfoot 181 00:10:10,430 --> 00:10:13,190 sightings to ghosts, strange orbs that weave through the 182 00:10:13,190 --> 00:10:17,590 trees, UFO's, unmarked black helicopters, satanic rituals and 183 00:10:17,590 --> 00:10:20,310 cattle mutilation. That's pretty much cover 184 00:10:20,310 --> 00:10:23,430 everything, I think. In 1980, Boston Magazine 185 00:10:23,430 --> 00:10:26,670 reported that Police Sergeant Thomas Downey spotted a six foot 186 00:10:26,670 --> 00:10:31,110 tall wind creature while driving late at night on a country Rd. 187 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:34,280 Some paranormal aficionados asserted that this was the 188 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:38,000 mythical Thunderbird, prominent and local indigenous pathology, 189 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:40,920 and around the same time, famed cryptologist and folklorist 190 00:10:40,920 --> 00:10:44,520 Lauren Coleman brought wider attention to the area in his 191 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,320 spooky reputation in his best selling book, Mysterious 192 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:49,960 America. In it, he traced an area from 193 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:54,000 Abington to Riobauth and Freetown, encompassing the swamp 194 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:57,640 and the surrounding towns, delineating the invisible border 195 00:10:57,640 --> 00:10:59,320 of the Triangle for the first time. 196 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,560 The Hockomock Swamp, an enormous swath of marshland that 197 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:07,240 compromises the single largest freshwater basin in all of 198 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,680 Massachusetts, was a final holdout for Metacomet and his 199 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:13,720 warriors in the days leading up to their annihilation by the 200 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,360 English. By the end of King Phillips War, 201 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:20,280 nearly 3000 Mumpanoag men, women, and children were killed 202 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,000 or sold on the slave ships bound for the West Indies. 203 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:26,360 The landscape is dotted with stone monuments to their lives 204 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:28,660 forever. Their ghosts have morphed over 205 00:11:28,660 --> 00:11:30,380 the centuries, and they're foreboding fairy tales of 206 00:11:30,380 --> 00:11:33,700 fantastic creatures and faint entities that tell us more about 207 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:36,860 the ancestral guilt and paranoia of the conquerors than the 208 00:11:36,860 --> 00:11:40,460 natives themselves. Wow, sounds like a lot of trauma 209 00:11:40,460 --> 00:11:43,940 in this area. A profile rock and Freetown, a 210 00:11:43,940 --> 00:11:47,300 natural granite formation resembling a human face, watches 211 00:11:47,300 --> 00:11:50,060 over the woods. Locals claim the natives believe 212 00:11:50,060 --> 00:11:54,260 the face to be an image of Chief Massanoa Phillips father who was 213 00:11:54,260 --> 00:11:55,860 friendly to the newly arrived English. 214 00:11:56,470 --> 00:12:00,390 Today crude graffiti Mars the walls of the sacred Cliff face 215 00:12:00,390 --> 00:12:03,910 and then it has a picture of this inscription. 216 00:12:03,910 --> 00:12:06,710 Here it goes on it says. A few miles away in the hamlet 217 00:12:06,710 --> 00:12:10,670 of West Bridgewater, at the base of the wooden bridge is hidden 218 00:12:10,670 --> 00:12:13,950 the solid stone lost for nearly a century beneath Moss and 219 00:12:13,950 --> 00:12:16,390 overgrowth. The stone bears on 150 year old 220 00:12:16,390 --> 00:12:19,550 inscription and thought to be carved by Reverend Timothy Otis 221 00:12:19,550 --> 00:12:22,470 Payne of the New Church of Jerusalem, a Christian sect 222 00:12:22,470 --> 00:12:25,830 founded on the principles of Ocaultus Emmanuel Swedenborg, 223 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:29,920 whose philosophies purportedly influenced Freemasonry and his 224 00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:32,960 doctorate Correspondent. Swedenberg asserted that the 225 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:37,160 physical world was a result of spiritual causes, and the laws 226 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:41,360 of nature were reflections of spiritual laws, the mysterious 227 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:45,680 inscription reads. All ye who in future days walked 228 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:51,240 by Nucket set at Stream Love. Not him who hummed his lay 229 00:12:51,680 --> 00:12:56,500 cheerful to the parting beam, but the beauty that he wooed in 230 00:12:56,540 --> 00:13:00,820 this quiet solitude. Wow, that's strange. 231 00:13:02,220 --> 00:13:04,900 Very strange. They described this as a 232 00:13:04,900 --> 00:13:07,940 Christian sect on the principles of an occultist. 233 00:13:07,940 --> 00:13:10,540 Now that doesn't seem like it makes a lot of sense to me. 234 00:13:10,980 --> 00:13:14,220 And perhaps the most interesting spot in this area is the Dinton 235 00:13:14,220 --> 00:13:16,460 Rock. People of unknown origin carved 236 00:13:16,460 --> 00:13:19,540 figures of people, animals, and symbols into the flat side of 237 00:13:19,540 --> 00:13:22,450 this trap as a little boulder roughly the size of a 238 00:13:22,450 --> 00:13:24,970 Volkswagen. The origin and meaning of the 239 00:13:24,970 --> 00:13:28,050 markings has been the subject of debate for centuries, with 240 00:13:28,130 --> 00:13:31,010 theorists contributing attributing the petrographs to 241 00:13:31,010 --> 00:13:34,970 people as various as ancient Native Americans, Venetians, 242 00:13:34,970 --> 00:13:38,370 Norse, colonial Portuguese, and even medieval Chinese sailors. 243 00:13:38,930 --> 00:13:42,810 In the 1950s, the stone was removed from the river by crane 244 00:13:42,810 --> 00:13:47,570 and deposited on the shore where a museum was built up around it. 245 00:13:48,310 --> 00:13:51,710 Today, a small but knowledgeable fellowship of local citizens 246 00:13:51,710 --> 00:13:55,230 runs the museum and even organizes lectures exploring the 247 00:13:55,230 --> 00:13:58,910 history of the area and the theories surrounding the stone 248 00:13:58,910 --> 00:14:01,830 and its markings. We don't normally associate 249 00:14:03,590 --> 00:14:06,990 ancient Native Americans with with writing, although they do 250 00:14:06,990 --> 00:14:10,030 have petroglyphs and and that sort of thing, you know, we've 251 00:14:10,030 --> 00:14:12,950 seen all over the Southwest. But this sounds like it's almost 252 00:14:12,950 --> 00:14:18,480 like it's almost like script that the Norse used or something 253 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,120 weird. The museum was open for a 254 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:23,080 selfguided. The museum was open for 255 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:25,120 selfguided tours by appointment only. 256 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:28,400 On this particular day, I had not called for an appointment 257 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:30,920 and Crestfall and I was ready to quit the woods when I 258 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:35,080 encountered two women, one strolling 1, rolling hardly in 259 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:39,250 her electric wheelchair along the wooded Rd. who told me they 260 00:14:39,250 --> 00:14:42,290 were friends of the Dyton Rock Museum and they happened to have 261 00:14:42,290 --> 00:14:44,570 a key. They were kind enough to help me 262 00:14:44,570 --> 00:14:46,370 set up an appointment with the Park Service. 263 00:14:46,930 --> 00:14:49,010 The woman in the wheelchair didn't buy the single origin 264 00:14:49,010 --> 00:14:50,690 humdrum. Personally, I think it's from a 265 00:14:50,770 --> 00:14:54,330 multiplicity of cultures. I agree to meet them the next 266 00:14:54,330 --> 00:14:56,410 morning. The next day I was allowed to 267 00:14:56,410 --> 00:14:59,810 spend an hour with the stone. Indeed, the markings were seen 268 00:14:59,810 --> 00:15:03,210 to signal a mishmash of cultures with geometric shapes and 269 00:15:03,210 --> 00:15:06,750 humanoid figures that recall Paleolithic paintings from 270 00:15:06,750 --> 00:15:10,470 Australia and Central Africa, as well as formally striking 271 00:15:10,470 --> 00:15:12,790 representations of deer and a seal. 272 00:15:13,350 --> 00:15:17,710 These primordial images commingle with etchings that 273 00:15:17,710 --> 00:15:22,590 appear almost modern, with their Roman letter R&F clearly defined 274 00:15:22,590 --> 00:15:26,190 at the center of the stone, which may very well be colonial 275 00:15:26,190 --> 00:15:29,430 graffiti, but which has inspired theories that the markings are 276 00:15:29,430 --> 00:15:33,190 proof that lost Portuguese explorers or even Vikings made 277 00:15:33,190 --> 00:15:35,430 it to the New World. That's wild. 278 00:15:35,430 --> 00:15:38,990 So it's like you've got these, these typical etchings of deer 279 00:15:38,990 --> 00:15:41,350 and seal, you know, animal petroglyph type stuff that you 280 00:15:41,350 --> 00:15:44,990 would expect from ancient Native Americans. 281 00:15:45,350 --> 00:15:48,750 But then you also have what appear to be letters carved into 282 00:15:48,750 --> 00:15:52,110 this thing. One theory from the 1700 states 283 00:15:52,110 --> 00:15:55,270 that ancient Phoenicians, after making it to New England shores 284 00:15:55,670 --> 00:15:59,190 and grave the stones with images from their cosmogenate with the 285 00:15:59,190 --> 00:16:03,190 past, present and future represented simultaneously in 286 00:16:03,190 --> 00:16:06,710 symbol strewn vignettes that bleed into one another on the 287 00:16:06,710 --> 00:16:10,270 tight facing side of the stone. If you look closely, you can 288 00:16:10,270 --> 00:16:14,750 find the most recent carvings as signature made in the 1920s by a 289 00:16:14,750 --> 00:16:16,750 guy named Jesse. And that's awesome. 290 00:16:17,350 --> 00:16:20,870 The Friends of the Dyton Rock Museum, although careful to 291 00:16:20,870 --> 00:16:23,630 preserve an air of suspended judgment, cannot help but offer 292 00:16:23,630 --> 00:16:26,750 their own theories. The human figure on the left, 293 00:16:26,750 --> 00:16:29,630 they say, is a symbol of a femininity and fertility. 294 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:34,320 The symbol resembling an X with an upside down V above it, they 295 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:38,800 say, signifies separation. Yeah, this thing's just got 296 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:43,520 marks all over it as far as I know, no theories definitive, 297 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:45,720 says Ramona Peters, director of historic preservation of the 298 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:48,960 Massachusetts Wampanoag tribe. There is one theory saying the 299 00:16:48,960 --> 00:16:52,120 Chinese left the artifact. They would use the language of 300 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:55,280 the people they were hanging out with before, which accounts for 301 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:56,880 the European letters on the stone. 302 00:16:57,200 --> 00:16:58,560 Yeah, it doesn't make any sense to me. 303 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:01,920 Another favorite theory, heard around the picnics and public 304 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:06,440 lectures of the Diet and Rock Museum, pauses that the stone is 305 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,240 the last record of a doomed Portuguese expedition to the 306 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:13,119 area, which ended with a violent confrontation with the region's 307 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:15,800 indigenous people. The carving, they say, was a 308 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:17,880 historic record left by survivors of that doomed 309 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:21,000 expedition. The symbols do not speak to us 310 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:24,599 as much, offers Peters. And by we, I mean our tribe and 311 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:27,849 our other native people. We do have pector glyphs in our 312 00:17:27,849 --> 00:17:30,290 culture, but the symbols here are not familiar. 313 00:17:30,450 --> 00:17:33,730 That's interesting. Figure representation and Mopega 314 00:17:33,930 --> 00:17:37,170 and Mulpanola art, like the human forms depicted on its own 315 00:17:37,570 --> 00:17:40,650 or especially uncommon. The people, she says, did not 316 00:17:40,650 --> 00:17:42,650 put themselves above other things. 317 00:17:43,290 --> 00:17:44,930 Yeah, that's interesting. You don't. 318 00:17:44,930 --> 00:17:48,210 You don't see that in the ancient Native American art 319 00:17:48,210 --> 00:17:51,770 where they're they're making illustrations of themselves. 320 00:17:51,770 --> 00:17:55,410 Not maybe like in the more recent historic stuff, you'll 321 00:17:55,410 --> 00:17:57,730 see drawings and illustrations of battles and stuff where 322 00:17:58,250 --> 00:18:00,890 they'll draw different people. But even then, it doesn't seem 323 00:18:00,890 --> 00:18:06,090 like they depict different individuals in a way that 324 00:18:06,090 --> 00:18:08,970 they're really recognizable. It's almost like it's almost 325 00:18:08,970 --> 00:18:12,770 like the they're just they're just made to be anonymous. 326 00:18:12,770 --> 00:18:15,250 I don't know, maybe I'm wrong about that, but I think that's 327 00:18:15,250 --> 00:18:17,050 what she's trying to say and that's how I see it. 328 00:18:18,030 --> 00:18:20,390 Anyway, this is part of that part of that triangle. 329 00:18:20,390 --> 00:18:23,230 Now there's other weird stuff going on here in this triangle, 330 00:18:23,310 --> 00:18:25,070 and we'll take a look at this next article. 331 00:18:26,030 --> 00:18:28,790 And so I want to finish up here by looking at some of the 332 00:18:28,790 --> 00:18:32,430 different towns and sites that make up this Bridgewater 333 00:18:32,430 --> 00:18:34,630 Triangle, because I think it's good to get an overview of this 334 00:18:34,630 --> 00:18:37,270 whole area with so much stuff going on out there. 335 00:18:37,270 --> 00:18:40,310 And this article comes to us from roadtrippers.com. 336 00:18:40,910 --> 00:18:43,350 It says their Bridgewater Triangle Massachusetts 337 00:18:43,350 --> 00:18:47,150 Paranormal Vortex and the subtitle is one of the most 338 00:18:47,230 --> 00:18:50,990 active paranormal hotspots in the East Coast. 339 00:18:52,350 --> 00:18:55,230 It begins by saying just 30 miles South of Boston lies the 340 00:18:55,230 --> 00:18:59,230 mysterious Bridgewater Triangle, a 200 square mile vortex of 341 00:18:59,270 --> 00:19:03,670 unexplained paranormal activity. The Bridgewater Triangle is 342 00:19:03,670 --> 00:19:07,870 allegedly home to UFO sightings, animal mutilations, ghost orbs, 343 00:19:07,870 --> 00:19:10,830 Bigfoot sightings, poltergeist, and other crypto zoological 344 00:19:10,950 --> 00:19:13,720 oddities. Right now, cryptologist Lauren 345 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,200 Coleman was the first person to call the area of Bridgewater 346 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,080 Triangle in the 1970s. The town that makes up the 347 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,600 points of the triangle included Rehoboth Abington and Freetown 348 00:19:22,600 --> 00:19:26,160 with Bridgewater in the center. Other towns include Included in 349 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:30,600 the vortex are Raynham, Brockton, Norton, and Totten. 350 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,960 As a paranormal researcher, Coleman has been intrigued by 351 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:37,920 the paranormal accounts in the area and has traced paranormal 352 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:39,880 activity back to the 70s sixties. 353 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:44,280 It was chronicle that on the morning of May 10th, 1760, 354 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:46,720 witnesses reported seeing what they described as an 355 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:50,280 inexplicable sphere of light in their Bridgewater and Roxbury 356 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,520 areas that was even brighter than the sun. 357 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:56,960 Now that doesn't sound like the planet Venus to me. 358 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:01,480 And we we know they certainly didn't have drones back then. 359 00:20:02,480 --> 00:20:04,720 And the towns of Freetown of Fall River, there have been 360 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,720 several cases that reported animal mutilations. 361 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,080 When the local police investigate, their findings 362 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,880 indicated that mutilations were the work of a local call. 363 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:16,840 You know, here you go, man. More propaganda. 364 00:20:16,840 --> 00:20:20,320 Their mutilations were the work of a local call. 365 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:25,160 Was there ever a single person charged with a crime with that? 366 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:26,240 That's what I would like to know. 367 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:29,840 After a cow was found carved up in the woods, a group of young 368 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:33,160 calves were discovered in a glade so gruesomely mutilated 369 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,920 that appeared that it appeared to be a ritual sacrifice. 370 00:20:37,980 --> 00:20:40,060 Well, they call it a ritual sacrifice and they imply that 371 00:20:40,060 --> 00:20:42,460 it's a Satanic cult. Now, I'm not trying to defend 372 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:46,500 Satanic cults, but let's be honest, was anybody ever was it? 373 00:20:46,540 --> 00:20:50,220 Was anybody ever charged? Just off Route 24, the 374 00:20:50,220 --> 00:20:53,100 mutilations and alleged animal sacrifice were discovered in the 375 00:20:53,100 --> 00:20:55,620 Freetown Fall River State Forest. 376 00:20:56,420 --> 00:20:58,860 It's long been believed to be the site of rituals, not just 377 00:20:58,860 --> 00:21:01,820 animal sacrifices, but human murders that were committed by 378 00:21:01,820 --> 00:21:03,820 satanic cults. This force is also the site of 379 00:21:03,820 --> 00:21:06,780 many suicides, which adds to its eerie atmosphere. 380 00:21:07,950 --> 00:21:11,510 You know, I've got to say if you've got that big of a problem 381 00:21:11,510 --> 00:21:14,110 with the satanic calls and you need to have some sort of task 382 00:21:14,110 --> 00:21:18,870 force to deal with this because this is not a good situation, it 383 00:21:18,870 --> 00:21:20,190 says. Next up in the Ridgewater 384 00:21:20,190 --> 00:21:24,310 Triangle road trip is Profile Rock, located in the Freetown 385 00:21:24,310 --> 00:21:27,910 Fall River State Forest. This site has spiritual 386 00:21:27,910 --> 00:21:30,710 significance to the Wampanoag people and historic 387 00:21:30,710 --> 00:21:34,040 significance, and that it's allegedly where Anawan, A 388 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:37,560 Wampanoag figure, received a lost wampum belt. 389 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,280 Some visitors to Profile Rock have claimed to see a ghostly 390 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,080 figure of a man sitting on the rock. 391 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:46,160 According to local legend, Native American Prize people had 392 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:51,080 Warrior Ghost Dancers perform ceremonial dances on the rock. 393 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:53,880 Wow. Yeah, that's. 394 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,240 It does look like a profile of a person. 395 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:58,520 I have to say. It's really, you know, one of 396 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:02,740 these things is, you know, my goodness, if you wanted to carve 397 00:22:02,780 --> 00:22:06,500 a side of a Native American into a rock, it looks like that. 398 00:22:06,500 --> 00:22:07,660 That's what it looks like happened here. 399 00:22:07,660 --> 00:22:09,540 And it's just a natural formation, apparently. 400 00:22:10,380 --> 00:22:13,620 Now, this is a Dington Rock State Park, and we talked a 401 00:22:13,620 --> 00:22:16,060 little bit about that in that last article where this rock, 402 00:22:16,300 --> 00:22:20,300 they apparently dredged this thing up out of the Creek in the 403 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:24,660 1950s and built a museum for it. Another mysterious geological 404 00:22:24,660 --> 00:22:26,900 feature at Bridgewater Triangle is the Dington Rock. 405 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:30,760 The rock is just across from Hockomock Swamps, grassy island 406 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:34,000 burial grounds, and it has some pretty inexplicable etchings 407 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,720 described in the rock. Some people have alleged that 408 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,160 the inscriptions come from Vikings or Native Americans, and 409 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,200 some theory speculate that they come from the ancient 410 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,920 Phoenicians and it says the Hockomock Swamp Canoe Company. 411 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:49,680 Next up, the ultra creepy Hockomock Swamp, a 5000 acre 412 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:53,520 swamp man that's enormous smack dab in the western part of the 413 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,960 Bridgewater Triangle. This is the largest swamp in all 414 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:59,920 of New England, home to a mysterious 8000 year old Native 415 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:02,680 American burial ground. When discovered by 416 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,680 archaeologists, their bodies disappeared upon excavation. 417 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,000 Oh man, that's troubling. I wonder if they went to the 418 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:14,200 Smithsonian, you know? I mean, I don't know. 419 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,440 Digging up graves and then robbing the bodies, that's 420 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,080 that's not cool. The wampanoagan people call the 421 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:21,720 swamp the place where spirits dwell. 422 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,000 And after visiting, you might believe that yourself. 423 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,200 There have been several Bigfoot sightings in the swamp and 424 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:31,200 several accounts of a large half man, half ape, hairy creature 425 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,960 prowling the area. There have also been reported 426 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,600 sightings of a cryptozoological being called the Thunderbird, 427 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:41,440 which is best described as a massive petrodactyl like bird 428 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:45,280 with a large wingspan between 8:00 and 10:00 feet long. 429 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:49,240 Yeah, we've talked about these things ranging from Thunderbirds 430 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,920 to these almost these, you know, dinosaurlike creatures. 431 00:23:52,550 --> 00:23:56,230 Also nearby is the Annawan Rock where Chief Annawan allegedly 432 00:23:56,230 --> 00:23:59,950 surrendered to the Colonia to the colonists, thereby bringing 433 00:23:59,950 --> 00:24:03,950 into King Phillip's War. According to local folklore, 434 00:24:03,950 --> 00:24:06,870 some people have reported seeing ghost dancing by angry warrior 435 00:24:06,870 --> 00:24:10,790 spirits of Chief Annawan. If you visit Hockomock Swamp, be 436 00:24:10,790 --> 00:24:12,550 prepared that cell service is spotty. 437 00:24:12,550 --> 00:24:15,630 G PS: is glitchy and it's very, very dense, so it's easy to get 438 00:24:15,630 --> 00:24:17,550 lost. In fact, the columns called it 439 00:24:17,750 --> 00:24:21,440 Devil Swamp. Well, 5000 acres have swamp. 440 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:22,880 That's a lot of swamp, especially in this. 441 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,720 You know, it's in a heavily populated industrialized area 442 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:28,200 like this. And this is Taunton State 443 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,200 Hospital, like an old mental hospital. 444 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:34,560 Well, this thing looks spooky. If you venture Taunton, MA be 445 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,560 able to have be prepared to have some paranormal activities. 446 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,920 Allegedly, parts of the hospital were used by satanic calls 447 00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:43,320 during the 60s and 70s. There were reports of specters 448 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,520 who touched visitors and orb sightings. 449 00:24:45,880 --> 00:24:48,320 Man, you got a lot of satanic stuff overlying. 450 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:51,360 This tells you people must have really been frightened by what 451 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:54,120 happened here. A few key dates to keep in mind 452 00:24:54,120 --> 00:24:58,200 with the Bridgewater Triangle. 1760 was a date for the very 453 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,120 first documented UFO report in the entire world. 454 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,080 Yeah, I don't think so. I think there have been. 455 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,520 There was there was one. There was it in Massachusetts 456 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,600 where the fellow was crossing the river and saw one night. 457 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,840 I I do believe that's incorrect. It was cited directly over 458 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:17,520 Bridgewater Triangle. Then in in 1908, local papers 459 00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:22,040 reported another UFO sighting. So no, definitely 9/17/60 was 460 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:24,280 not the first documented UFO report. 461 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:28,040 That's that's not correct. Then in 1968, several witnesses 462 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,520 allegedly saw a large orb floating in the trees in the 463 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:34,600 woods are re above. Then in the 1970s, UFO sightings 464 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,040 were frequently reported in area newspapers. 465 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:42,360 In fact, in 1976, two UF O's were seen by witnesses to land 466 00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:46,890 along Route 44 in Taunton. A Bridgewater policeman also 467 00:25:46,890 --> 00:25:50,850 reported seeing a UFO in 1994 in the town of Raynham. 468 00:25:51,530 --> 00:25:55,450 You know, I do like the law enforcement reports because, you 469 00:25:55,450 --> 00:25:58,330 know, the court says you have to give credence to the testimony. 470 00:25:58,330 --> 00:26:01,490 These guys are considered a reliable witness, right? 471 00:26:01,570 --> 00:26:04,570 As I understand it, there are many reasons for the presence of 472 00:26:04,570 --> 00:26:08,290 paranormal activity in the area, with many locals claiming the 473 00:26:08,290 --> 00:26:11,840 cost to be Native American curses after the call and the 474 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,080 settled area In the in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Native 475 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,480 American people were treated poorly and the wampum belt of 476 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:22,200 the Wampanagan Wampanoag people was lost during subsequent 477 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,200 battles. This lost bill has allegedly 478 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,600 caused significant paranormal unrest amongst the ghost 479 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,320 warriors that haunted Bridgewater Triangle. 480 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:32,080 To this day. As you travel down Route 44 and 481 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,000 reeboth in the Seekon, keep your eyes peeled for the phantom 482 00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,360 figure of a redheaded, heavily bearded hitchhiker. 483 00:26:38,100 --> 00:26:41,020 In addition to Route 138, there also appears to be a ghostly 484 00:26:41,060 --> 00:26:44,420 operation that haunts the road near Hockomock Swamp. 485 00:26:44,820 --> 00:26:47,380 Copycut Rd. In Freetown is allegedly haunted 486 00:26:47,380 --> 00:26:51,180 by a ghostly truck driver, while all kinds of paranormal stuff 487 00:26:51,180 --> 00:26:55,380 going on in this in this Bridgewater Triangle area. 488 00:26:55,780 --> 00:26:59,660 Overall, just a fascinating story, a fascinating region and 489 00:26:59,820 --> 00:27:01,940 and what you were talking about things that happened back in 490 00:27:02,100 --> 00:27:06,900 what, 16-7 in the 1660s and 70s with the Native American and and 491 00:27:06,900 --> 00:27:09,540 Settlers Wars. Or you know throughout the 492 00:27:09,540 --> 00:27:14,420 Fifties, 60s and 70s with the with the reported cult activity 493 00:27:14,420 --> 00:27:18,380 of cattle mutilations, UFO sightings or even with this most 494 00:27:18,380 --> 00:27:21,620 recent stuff with the Friends of Skinwalker Ranch series. 495 00:27:22,700 --> 00:27:26,060 Just a hotbed of activity. Until next time, this is UFO 496 00:27:26,060 --> 00:27:27,180 Warning. Over and out.