Rhode Island
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woods and swamps around Chepachet/Glocester of Rhode Island
Fire-breathing or fearsome beast said to haunt Glocester woods; some versions make it a hellhound guarding Captain Kidd’s treasure, others just a bear or misidentified animal.
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Woods / old settlement area of Rhode Island
Smithfield-area abandoned settlement with stone foundations and competing explanations for what it was and why it disappeared.
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Tuckerman Avenue / Second Beach of Rhode Island
Legends say a pursuing man fell to his death at the chasm while chasing a woman who escaped; his ghost supposedly remains trapped there.
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Touro Park of Rhode Island
Round stone tower long claimed by fringe theories to predate Newport, though mainstream research and carbon dating place it in the colonial era as a windmill associated with Benedict Arnold.