Freetown-Fall River State Forest

Deep in the dark, silent wilderness, some forests carry legends that stand the test of time, leaving a haunting presence that precedes them.

But what's really behind these terrifying tales of creatures and ghosts? Can they be explained, or are these ancient places truly beyond our understanding? Today, we explore the grisly true crime history that's shaped the haunting paranormal stories behind the Freetown State Forest.

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Welcome back, Task Force, to another episode of Red Web, the podcast all about unsolved mysteries, true crime, and a little bit of the unknown.

We'll start with the true crime and then slowly weasel our way into the folklore and then the paranormal.

All right.

So, the Freetown Fall River State Forest, also known as Freetown State Forest, it's an expansive, publicly owned forest there in the southeast reaches of Massachusetts.

A state that has a pretty colorful history when it comes to the paranormal, whether it be like the Salem Witchcraft Trials or just like a lot of colonial fright.

Deriving from the Algonquin folklore, these are described as small, gray humanoid creatures.

While often dismissed as myth, modern sightings in the Freetown State Forest describe bipedal figures roughly two to three feet tall that appear and disappear abruptly in thick brush.

And the area is not without its unexplained aerial lights, UFOs, UAPs, whatever you wanna call them.

The first recorded UFO sighting in the area dates back to 1760 when a bright light was reported hovering over Bridgewater, supposedly bright enough to cast shadows in broad daylight.

We were in the middle of the woods.

It's called the Freetown State Forest.

It's a tangent, but I feel like we're on a good note here in terms of portals.

I live in a place called the Bridgewater Triangle, so people can look it up.

It's a, it's a, I don't know how many miles, maybe about 160 to 100 mile triangle, south of Boston, where there is just endless occult activity, paranormal activity, and just weirdness UFOs, it's just weird people can look it up it's actually like kind of famous.

I live directly in the center it's kind of funny I like to say I'm part of the Bridgewater Triangle.

So we're in the Freetown State Forest, which is a popular... area of activity for the paranormal you could say and me and my friend were skeptics this was a few years ago before i was even on the path before i got into the psychedelics and things of that nature me and my friend and my dog were just literally going for a hike one day in the woods and we all of a sudden we passed this point and i started to feel sick just out of nowhere started to feel lightheaded uh nauseous just weak right so i turned to him and say hey man I think we should turn back.

I'm not really feeling that good.

You thought she raped you?

So, and I'm like, and of course, keep in mind, like, I wrote Dark Woods, Cult's Crime of the Paranormal in the Freetown State Forest.

And I had just seen Red State by Kevin Smith, which I don't know if you've ever seen.

But it's about, like, these guys that meet this girl on, like, a dating app and then go out and they end up Like, this religious sacrifice to guys and stuff like that.

Yeah.

The Freetown-Fall River State Forest, which was supposedly the site of cult activity, including ritualistic murders and animal sacrifice.

Oh, dear.

That sounds like a nice place for a camping trip.

"Make up the points with Bridgewater in the middle.

Most of the area is swampland and forest, and the most notorious is Freetown Fall River State Forest." Oh, yeah, Fall River.

That's where, uh, the Lizzie Borden house was.

"According to multiple articles, there have been several documented murders in that forest.