Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about the Bridgewater Triangle.
That's correct, the Bridgewater Triangle.
And if we go to Wikipedia, we'll find out that the Bridgewater
Triangle is an area of about 200 square miles, and it's located
in southeastern Massachusetts in the United States.
Now there's claims that this is the site of paranormal phenomena
that ranges from UFO's to poltergeist, and also other
spectral phenomena like Bigfoot, giant snakes and Thunderbirds,
and the term was coined by New Englandbased crotologist Lauren
Coleman. Now the specific boundaries of
the Bridgewater Triangle were first described by this
individual, Lauren Coleman, who coined the term in the 1970s and
later in his book Mysterious America.
And if we look at some of the landmarks around this area, you
got Freetown, Fall River, State Forest, Profile rock,
Bridgewater State University, Taunton State Hospital in
horrifying school. And look at some of those later.
But some of the paranormal claims involve unidentified and
flying objects. That's UF O's the often in the
form of bright lights or large unusual spacecraft, You've got
unnatural animal sightings, ranging from reports of animals
that are not found within the area, such as Panthers and
bears, to more supernatural claims like giant snakes and
enormous, vicious dogs. We've also got sightings of
paranormal humanoids, including sightings of Bigfoot ghosts,
poltergeists, and shadow people. And you've got Thunderbird
sightings. This is giant birds of the the
paradoctoral type flying bird. Dinosaur bird creatures with
wingspans of the 12 feet have also been claimed to be seen in
in Hakamak Swamp and the neighboring Taunton and Easton,
and this even included a report by Norton Police Sergeant Thomas
Downey. Now there are reports of cult
activity like especially animal mutilations, and this is various
instance of animal mutilations have been reported, particularly
in Freetown of Fall River where local police were called to
investigate mutilated animals believed to be the work of a
call. You got to wonder if those
aren't some of the, like, cattle mutilation type stuff we see,
you know, in the Midwest and western United States.
Two specific incidents it says in 1998 were reported, one of
which, a single adult cow was found butchered in the woods.
The other, in which a group of cows were discovered in a
clearing, grotesquely mutilated, is a part of a ritual sacrifice.
A lot of times people do mistake these UFO cattle mutilations for
for cultic sacrifices. Maybe they are some kind of call
it What do we know? And then it talks a little bit
about Native American curses and it says, according to one tale,
Native Americans had cursed the swamp centuries ago because of a
conflict with colonial settlers. And we'll get into that in a
little bit too. A revered object of the
Wampanoag people, this is a belt known as Wampanoag belt was lost
during King Philip's War and legend says that the area owes
his paranormal unrest to the fact this belt was lost from the
native people. Now that Pekkawaji, it's a
creature from the Alagonquin Fork War and the local Wampanoag
people consider them to be dangerous tricksters, and they
have been especially associated with the Freetown State Forest
within the Bridgewater Triangle. And we'll talk about these
creatures also. Now it seems like the folks from
Skinwalker Ranch, or at least the folks from beyond Skinwalker
Ranch, are responsible for bringing the Bridgewater
Triangle back into focus this week, at least at least online.
And this article from the express dot CU dot UK is titled
UF O's Accidentally Spotted as Investigators Probe Ancient
Native Curse and it's written by Jacob Kelscher, dated August
16th, 2023. Subtitles says Among
enthusiasts, the Bridgewater Triangle, an area encompassing 3
Massachusetts towns, has become famous for UFO sightings.
Then, it says, recent reports have shed light on the presence
of unidentified flying objects, all within the Erie confines of
a swampy area known for its ties to an ancient legendary
creature. Situated around 50 miles South
of Boston, MA. This enigmatic zone is referred
to as a Bridgewater Triangle, spanning the towns of Abington,
Riobath and Freetown. When it goes on, it says.
Legend has it that the Bridgewater Triangle harbors and
otherworldly being known as the Pukwaji, A shapeshifting entity
from the Native American folklore and the latest
sighting. History Channel researchers
claim to have used something with ties to Native American
lore and investigative findings from Paul Beebin and Andrew
Bustamante, documented in their series Beyond Skinwalking Ranch,
delve into the mysteries of the supernatural realm in the latest
sighting, History Channel researchers claim to have viewed
something with ties to the Native American, Lord says.
And then, according to analytical chemist Matt Moniz,
the Picawaji emerges as a recurrent figure in Native
American accounts. Moniz says that the Alagonquin
people have recounted numerous encounters with these small
people possessing distinctive features, notably hairy bodies
and pot bellies. Over the course of more than a
century, these entities allegedly lure individuals into
the wilderness with luminous spheres and entrancing and an
entrancing call. Follow me, follow my light,
follow my voice. According to the Native American
lore, the Pakouji are also soul Steelers and adept shapeshifters
with an Infinity for assuming the form of coyotes.
It's almost sounds like the shapeshifters we hear about out
West, the Skin Walkers. The the Beyond Skin Walker Ranch
team therefore decided to conduct their own exploration
within the Bridgewater Triangle. Venturing into the swamp with
infrared equipped drones, the team embarked on a mission to
locate at Pejwaji. However, their quest took an
unforeseen tune, an unforeseen turn.
When they found UF O's, They saw luminous orbs, unconventional
flight patterns, a spectacle that's done the team, these
unidentified anomalies exhibiting remarkable luminosity
in motion, defying conventional aircraft characteristics.
The findings fuel questions about UFO activities in the area
and the animatic presence of the Pawaji.
Other UFO sightings have also been spotted by the same team
investigating the Bridgewater Triangle.
The team of scientists and UFO enthusiasts for the history
channels. The secret's going to walk a
ranch and the sister show to to beyond Skinwalker Ranch
previously launched rockets into the sky Skinwalker Ranch located
in Utah. Astonishingly, the Rockets
appeared to encounter in the visible barrier mid flight,
altering their trajectories. And then it talks about the
YouTube clip and you can watch that this this whole thing
interests me because of the intersection of the paranormal
with UF O's. And we see this happening over
and over again where these things aren't just mechanical
devices that somehow they they constantly intersect with things
like Ghost, Bigfoot, these Puck, Wojee little people, all these
paranormal activities that seem to be accompanied by UFL
sightings. Now a lot of people have some
negative things about the Skin and Walker Ranch crew.
I view it more as entertainment than is scientific research, but
is entertainment. It's entertaining and I find it
interesting that they've brought so much attention to this
Bridgewater area. Now I want to delve into a
little bit more about this pug walkie creature because we've
talked a lot about different Native American cryptids and
pultergeist type creatures in the program.
So I want to take a look at this next article a little bit on the
history of that particular thing.
Now, the Pekwaji. The name literally translates to
Person of the Wilderness, and they were said to be small
creatures that range from knee height to about 3 foot tall that
had humanlike figures, yet their noses and their ears and fingers
were really too big for their size.
Now the skin was described as Gray and smooth, and they've
often been compared to trolls and goblins.
Now I really like the idea to hear that the skin is Gray.
Reminds me a little bit of these small Gray aliens we hear about,
but these things are more of a slightly humanoid look to him
because of the fact that they have eyes, ears and nose with
these, you know, elongated features with their fingers and
their nose and they just misshapen and they really do
look like trolls. Of course, these Pequogi, these
come from the Native American tradition.
Now let's look at this next article, what kind of expounds
on that little bit, and where the idea of these things really
goes back to. So I think this next article
will give us a little bit of insight into this Bridgewater
Triangle from the Native American perspective.
It comes to us from atlasobscure.com.
The title says How Massachusetts came to have its own Bermuda
Triangle, and the subtitle says the story behind some very
mysterious rocks. Written by Jake Robertson, June
13th, 2016, goes on. It says the spot isn't easy to
find. Only by crab walking across
stones and ducking under the rock that forms the ceiling of
King Phillip's Cave can you rest in the spot where Metacomet,
chief of the Massachusetts Wampanoag, likely spent one of
his final nights? The leader was slaughtered by
one of his own men and beheaded by the English settlers in the
16 Seven in 1678 in a war that pitted the Alegonfan nations
against the white settlers in such a lovely spot.
You almost forget you're in a quiet neighborhood full of upper
middle class houses in the quiet Boston suburb of Norton, MA.
But there's an undeniable chill in the air.
The rock formation is one of many such sites in a 200 square
mile area of southeastern Massachusetts that locals and
paranormal enthusiasts called the Bridgewater Triangle.
That's right and mystical swamp zone within commuting distance
of Boston. For centuries, locals have
reported strange activity in and around the swamp, from Bigfoot
sightings to ghosts, strange orbs that weave through the
trees, UFO's, unmarked black helicopters, satanic rituals and
cattle mutilation. That's pretty much cover
everything, I think. In 1980, Boston Magazine
reported that Police Sergeant Thomas Downey spotted a six foot
tall wind creature while driving late at night on a country Rd.
Some paranormal aficionados asserted that this was the
mythical Thunderbird, prominent and local indigenous pathology,
and around the same time, famed cryptologist and folklorist
Lauren Coleman brought wider attention to the area in his
spooky reputation in his best selling book, Mysterious
America. In it, he traced an area from
Abington to Riobauth and Freetown, encompassing the swamp
and the surrounding towns, delineating the invisible border
of the Triangle for the first time.
The Hockomock Swamp, an enormous swath of marshland that
compromises the single largest freshwater basin in all of
Massachusetts, was a final holdout for Metacomet and his
warriors in the days leading up to their annihilation by the
English. By the end of King Phillips War,
nearly 3000 Mumpanoag men, women, and children were killed
or sold on the slave ships bound for the West Indies.
The landscape is dotted with stone monuments to their lives
forever. Their ghosts have morphed over
the centuries, and they're foreboding fairy tales of
fantastic creatures and faint entities that tell us more about
the ancestral guilt and paranoia of the conquerors than the
natives themselves. Wow, sounds like a lot of trauma
in this area. A profile rock and Freetown, a
natural granite formation resembling a human face, watches
over the woods. Locals claim the natives believe
the face to be an image of Chief Massanoa Phillips father who was
friendly to the newly arrived English.
Today crude graffiti Mars the walls of the sacred Cliff face
and then it has a picture of this inscription.
Here it goes on it says. A few miles away in the hamlet
of West Bridgewater, at the base of the wooden bridge is hidden
the solid stone lost for nearly a century beneath Moss and
overgrowth. The stone bears on 150 year old
inscription and thought to be carved by Reverend Timothy Otis
Payne of the New Church of Jerusalem, a Christian sect
founded on the principles of Ocaultus Emmanuel Swedenborg,
whose philosophies purportedly influenced Freemasonry and his
doctorate Correspondent. Swedenberg asserted that the
physical world was a result of spiritual causes, and the laws
of nature were reflections of spiritual laws, the mysterious
inscription reads. All ye who in future days walked
by Nucket set at Stream Love. Not him who hummed his lay
cheerful to the parting beam, but the beauty that he wooed in
this quiet solitude. Wow, that's strange.
Very strange. They described this as a
Christian sect on the principles of an occultist.
Now that doesn't seem like it makes a lot of sense to me.
And perhaps the most interesting spot in this area is the Dinton
Rock. People of unknown origin carved
figures of people, animals, and symbols into the flat side of
this trap as a little boulder roughly the size of a
Volkswagen. The origin and meaning of the
markings has been the subject of debate for centuries, with
theorists contributing attributing the petrographs to
people as various as ancient Native Americans, Venetians,
Norse, colonial Portuguese, and even medieval Chinese sailors.
In the 1950s, the stone was removed from the river by crane
and deposited on the shore where a museum was built up around it.
Today, a small but knowledgeable fellowship of local citizens
runs the museum and even organizes lectures exploring the
history of the area and the theories surrounding the stone
and its markings. We don't normally associate
ancient Native Americans with with writing, although they do
have petroglyphs and and that sort of thing, you know, we've
seen all over the Southwest. But this sounds like it's almost
like it's almost like script that the Norse used or something
weird. The museum was open for a
selfguided. The museum was open for
selfguided tours by appointment only.
On this particular day, I had not called for an appointment
and Crestfall and I was ready to quit the woods when I
encountered two women, one strolling 1, rolling hardly in
her electric wheelchair along the wooded Rd. who told me they
were friends of the Dyton Rock Museum and they happened to have
a key. They were kind enough to help me
set up an appointment with the Park Service.
The woman in the wheelchair didn't buy the single origin
humdrum. Personally, I think it's from a
multiplicity of cultures. I agree to meet them the next
morning. The next day I was allowed to
spend an hour with the stone. Indeed, the markings were seen
to signal a mishmash of cultures with geometric shapes and
humanoid figures that recall Paleolithic paintings from
Australia and Central Africa, as well as formally striking
representations of deer and a seal.
These primordial images commingle with etchings that
appear almost modern, with their Roman letter R&F clearly defined
at the center of the stone, which may very well be colonial
graffiti, but which has inspired theories that the markings are
proof that lost Portuguese explorers or even Vikings made
it to the New World. That's wild.
So it's like you've got these, these typical etchings of deer
and seal, you know, animal petroglyph type stuff that you
would expect from ancient Native Americans.
But then you also have what appear to be letters carved into
this thing. One theory from the 1700 states
that ancient Phoenicians, after making it to New England shores
and grave the stones with images from their cosmogenate with the
past, present and future represented simultaneously in
symbol strewn vignettes that bleed into one another on the
tight facing side of the stone. If you look closely, you can
find the most recent carvings as signature made in the 1920s by a
guy named Jesse. And that's awesome.
The Friends of the Dyton Rock Museum, although careful to
preserve an air of suspended judgment, cannot help but offer
their own theories. The human figure on the left,
they say, is a symbol of a femininity and fertility.
The symbol resembling an X with an upside down V above it, they
say, signifies separation. Yeah, this thing's just got
marks all over it as far as I know, no theories definitive,
says Ramona Peters, director of historic preservation of the
Massachusetts Wampanoag tribe. There is one theory saying the
Chinese left the artifact. They would use the language of
the people they were hanging out with before, which accounts for
the European letters on the stone.
Yeah, it doesn't make any sense to me.
Another favorite theory, heard around the picnics and public
lectures of the Diet and Rock Museum, pauses that the stone is
the last record of a doomed Portuguese expedition to the
area, which ended with a violent confrontation with the region's
indigenous people. The carving, they say, was a
historic record left by survivors of that doomed
expedition. The symbols do not speak to us
as much, offers Peters. And by we, I mean our tribe and
our other native people. We do have pector glyphs in our
culture, but the symbols here are not familiar.
That's interesting. Figure representation and Mopega
and Mulpanola art, like the human forms depicted on its own
or especially uncommon. The people, she says, did not
put themselves above other things.
Yeah, that's interesting. You don't.
You don't see that in the ancient Native American art
where they're they're making illustrations of themselves.
Not maybe like in the more recent historic stuff, you'll
see drawings and illustrations of battles and stuff where
they'll draw different people. But even then, it doesn't seem
like they depict different individuals in a way that
they're really recognizable. It's almost like it's almost
like the they're just they're just made to be anonymous.
I don't know, maybe I'm wrong about that, but I think that's
what she's trying to say and that's how I see it.
Anyway, this is part of that part of that triangle.
Now there's other weird stuff going on here in this triangle,
and we'll take a look at this next article.
And so I want to finish up here by looking at some of the
different towns and sites that make up this Bridgewater
Triangle, because I think it's good to get an overview of this
whole area with so much stuff going on out there.
And this article comes to us from roadtrippers.com.
It says their Bridgewater Triangle Massachusetts
Paranormal Vortex and the subtitle is one of the most
active paranormal hotspots in the East Coast.
It begins by saying just 30 miles South of Boston lies the
mysterious Bridgewater Triangle, a 200 square mile vortex of
unexplained paranormal activity. The Bridgewater Triangle is
allegedly home to UFO sightings, animal mutilations, ghost orbs,
Bigfoot sightings, poltergeist, and other crypto zoological
oddities. Right now, cryptologist Lauren
Coleman was the first person to call the area of Bridgewater
Triangle in the 1970s. The town that makes up the
points of the triangle included Rehoboth Abington and Freetown
with Bridgewater in the center. Other towns include Included in
the vortex are Raynham, Brockton, Norton, and Totten.
As a paranormal researcher, Coleman has been intrigued by
the paranormal accounts in the area and has traced paranormal
activity back to the 70s sixties.
It was chronicle that on the morning of May 10th, 1760,
witnesses reported seeing what they described as an
inexplicable sphere of light in their Bridgewater and Roxbury
areas that was even brighter than the sun.
Now that doesn't sound like the planet Venus to me.
And we we know they certainly didn't have drones back then.
And the towns of Freetown of Fall River, there have been
several cases that reported animal mutilations.
When the local police investigate, their findings
indicated that mutilations were the work of a local call.
You know, here you go, man. More propaganda.
Their mutilations were the work of a local call.
Was there ever a single person charged with a crime with that?
That's what I would like to know.
After a cow was found carved up in the woods, a group of young
calves were discovered in a glade so gruesomely mutilated
that appeared that it appeared to be a ritual sacrifice.
Well, they call it a ritual sacrifice and they imply that
it's a Satanic cult. Now, I'm not trying to defend
Satanic cults, but let's be honest, was anybody ever was it?
Was anybody ever charged? Just off Route 24, the
mutilations and alleged animal sacrifice were discovered in the
Freetown Fall River State Forest.
It's long been believed to be the site of rituals, not just
animal sacrifices, but human murders that were committed by
satanic cults. This force is also the site of
many suicides, which adds to its eerie atmosphere.
You know, I've got to say if you've got that big of a problem
with the satanic calls and you need to have some sort of task
force to deal with this because this is not a good situation, it
says. Next up in the Ridgewater
Triangle road trip is Profile Rock, located in the Freetown
Fall River State Forest. This site has spiritual
significance to the Wampanoag people and historic
significance, and that it's allegedly where Anawan, A
Wampanoag figure, received a lost wampum belt.
Some visitors to Profile Rock have claimed to see a ghostly
figure of a man sitting on the rock.
According to local legend, Native American Prize people had
Warrior Ghost Dancers perform ceremonial dances on the rock.
Wow. Yeah, that's.
It does look like a profile of a person.
I have to say. It's really, you know, one of
these things is, you know, my goodness, if you wanted to carve
a side of a Native American into a rock, it looks like that.
That's what it looks like happened here.
And it's just a natural formation, apparently.
Now, this is a Dington Rock State Park, and we talked a
little bit about that in that last article where this rock,
they apparently dredged this thing up out of the Creek in the
1950s and built a museum for it. Another mysterious geological
feature at Bridgewater Triangle is the Dington Rock.
The rock is just across from Hockomock Swamps, grassy island
burial grounds, and it has some pretty inexplicable etchings
described in the rock. Some people have alleged that
the inscriptions come from Vikings or Native Americans, and
some theory speculate that they come from the ancient
Phoenicians and it says the Hockomock Swamp Canoe Company.
Next up, the ultra creepy Hockomock Swamp, a 5000 acre
swamp man that's enormous smack dab in the western part of the
Bridgewater Triangle. This is the largest swamp in all
of New England, home to a mysterious 8000 year old Native
American burial ground. When discovered by
archaeologists, their bodies disappeared upon excavation.
Oh man, that's troubling. I wonder if they went to the
Smithsonian, you know? I mean, I don't know.
Digging up graves and then robbing the bodies, that's
that's not cool. The wampanoagan people call the
swamp the place where spirits dwell.
And after visiting, you might believe that yourself.
There have been several Bigfoot sightings in the swamp and
several accounts of a large half man, half ape, hairy creature
prowling the area. There have also been reported
sightings of a cryptozoological being called the Thunderbird,
which is best described as a massive petrodactyl like bird
with a large wingspan between 8:00 and 10:00 feet long.
Yeah, we've talked about these things ranging from Thunderbirds
to these almost these, you know, dinosaurlike creatures.
Also nearby is the Annawan Rock where Chief Annawan allegedly
surrendered to the Colonia to the colonists, thereby bringing
into King Phillip's War. According to local folklore,
some people have reported seeing ghost dancing by angry warrior
spirits of Chief Annawan. If you visit Hockomock Swamp, be
prepared that cell service is spotty.
G PS: is glitchy and it's very, very dense, so it's easy to get
lost. In fact, the columns called it
Devil Swamp. Well, 5000 acres have swamp.
That's a lot of swamp, especially in this.
You know, it's in a heavily populated industrialized area
like this. And this is Taunton State
Hospital, like an old mental hospital.
Well, this thing looks spooky. If you venture Taunton, MA be
able to have be prepared to have some paranormal activities.
Allegedly, parts of the hospital were used by satanic calls
during the 60s and 70s. There were reports of specters
who touched visitors and orb sightings.
Man, you got a lot of satanic stuff overlying.
This tells you people must have really been frightened by what
happened here. A few key dates to keep in mind
with the Bridgewater Triangle. 1760 was a date for the very
first documented UFO report in the entire world.
Yeah, I don't think so. I think there have been.
There was there was one. There was it in Massachusetts
where the fellow was crossing the river and saw one night.
I I do believe that's incorrect. It was cited directly over
Bridgewater Triangle. Then in in 1908, local papers
reported another UFO sighting. So no, definitely 9/17/60 was
not the first documented UFO report.
That's that's not correct. Then in 1968, several witnesses
allegedly saw a large orb floating in the trees in the
woods are re above. Then in the 1970s, UFO sightings
were frequently reported in area newspapers.
In fact, in 1976, two UF O's were seen by witnesses to land
along Route 44 in Taunton. A Bridgewater policeman also
reported seeing a UFO in 1994 in the town of Raynham.
You know, I do like the law enforcement reports because, you
know, the court says you have to give credence to the testimony.
These guys are considered a reliable witness, right?
As I understand it, there are many reasons for the presence of
paranormal activity in the area, with many locals claiming the
cost to be Native American curses after the call and the
settled area In the in the 17th and 18th centuries, the Native
American people were treated poorly and the wampum belt of
the Wampanagan Wampanoag people was lost during subsequent
battles. This lost bill has allegedly
caused significant paranormal unrest amongst the ghost
warriors that haunted Bridgewater Triangle.
To this day. As you travel down Route 44 and
reeboth in the Seekon, keep your eyes peeled for the phantom
figure of a redheaded, heavily bearded hitchhiker.
In addition to Route 138, there also appears to be a ghostly
operation that haunts the road near Hockomock Swamp.
Copycut Rd. In Freetown is allegedly haunted
by a ghostly truck driver, while all kinds of paranormal stuff
going on in this in this Bridgewater Triangle area.
Overall, just a fascinating story, a fascinating region and
and what you were talking about things that happened back in
what, 16-7 in the 1660s and 70s with the Native American and and
Settlers Wars. Or you know throughout the
Fifties, 60s and 70s with the with the reported cult activity
of cattle mutilations, UFO sightings or even with this most
recent stuff with the Friends of Skinwalker Ranch series.
Just a hotbed of activity. Until next time, this is UFO
Warning. Over and out.