Episode 226: Grounded (ad-free) (Patreon)

Folklore is typically invisible, buried in the stories we tell and the words we use. But every now and then it takes on physical shape…with terrifying results.

Written and produced by Aaron Mahnke, with research by Cassandra de Alba and music by Chad Lawson.

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Further Reading

1. “The Legend of Jonathan Buck,” Bangor Daily News, October 2015, http://bangordailynews.com/2015/10/28/living/a-close-look-at-the-legend-of-jonathan-buck.
2. “Colonel Buck's Cursed Tomb,” Roadside America, date unknown, http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/6159.
3. Allen, Tim. “A Fiery Preacher in the Old North State.” Carolina Country, September 2016. https://www.carolinacountry.com/departments/departments/feature-story/a-fiery-preacher-in-the-old-north-state
4. Allison, Christopher Mark Brady. “Encountering and Collecting the Sacred Body Through Relics in Early American Protestant Culture, 1750-1870.” Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, 2017. https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/41140250/ALLISON-DISSERTATION-2017.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
5. Andrews, John Richard. George Whitefield: A Light Rising in Obscurity (Morgan & Chase, 1864). https://www.google.com/books/edition/George_Whitefield_a_light_rising_in_obsc/JD0BAAAAQAAJ
6. Armstrong, Roy, II. “Miss Emily and Miss Olive and the Legend of the Devil’s Hoof Prints of Bath.” North Carolina Folklore Journal 36(2), 1989: 121-127. https://digital.ncdcr.gov/digital/collection/p16062coll43/id/3544
7. Barefoot, Daniel W. “Devil’s Horse’s Hoof Prints.” In The Encyclopedia of North Carolina, ed. William S. Powell (University of North Carolina Press, 2006). https://www.ncpedia.org/devils-horses-hoof-prints
8. Barrowclough, David A., & John Hallam. “The Devil’s Footprints and Other Folklore: Local Legend and Archaeological Evidence in Lancashire.” Folklore 119(1), 2008: 93-102. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30035462
9. “The Bath Hoofprints a/k/a The Devil's Hoofprints.” North Carolina Ghost Guide. Accessed July 2, 2022. http://www.ncghostguide.byethost12.com/bath.htm?i=2
10. Belanger, Jeff (ed.). Encyclopedia of Haunted Places: Ghostly Locales From Around the World (New Page Books, 2005). https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofha0000unse
11. Belanger, Jeff (ed). Weird Massachusetts: Your travel guide to the Bay State's local legends and best kept secrets (Sterling Publishing Company, 2008). https://archive.org/details/weirdmassachuset0000bela
12. Bennett, Paul. “Devil’s Apronful, Pendle Hill, Lancashire.” The Northern Antiquarian, September 12, 2008. https://megalithix.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/devils-apronful-pendle
13. Bord, Jan. Footprints in Stone: Imprints of giants, heroes, holy people, devils, monsters and supernatural beings (Heart of Albion, 2004). https://archive.org/details/footprintsinston0000bord
14. Brown, Alan. The Haunted South (Arcadia Publishing, 2020). https://books.google.com/books?id=rDj4DwAAQBAJ
15. “The Chimney Rock Apparitions.” North Carolina Ghosts. Accessed July 2, 2022. https://northcarolinaghosts.com/mountains/chimney-rock-apparitions
16. Citro, Joseph A.. Weird New England: Your Travel Guide to New England’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets (Sterling Publication Company, 2005). https://archive.org/details/weirdnewenglandw00jose
17. Clark, Dale Potter. “Early Churches in Readfield, Maine.” Readfield, Maine in Kennebec County: A Historical & Genealogical Home Page. Accessed July 2, 2022. https://sites.rootsweb.com/~mecreadf/rdfldchc.htm#Early%20Churches
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19. Dash, Mike. “The Devil's Hoofmarks: Source Material on the Great Devon Mystery of 1855.” Fortean Studies 1, 1994: 71-150. https://www.academia.edu/251735/The_Devils_Hoofmarks_Source_Material_on_the_Great_Devon_Mystery_of_1855
20. deLue, Willard. “Demons, Devils and Witches.” The Boston Globe, January 30, 1952. https://www.newspapers.com/image/433347180
21. “Der Teufelstritt (The Devil's Footprint).” Atlas Obscura. Accessed July 2, 2022. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/der-teufelstritt-devils-footprint
22. “Devil’s Footprints Outlast 125 Years.” San Pedro News Pilot, May 27 1944. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SPNP19440527.2.48&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1
23. Dix, John Ross. Local Loiterings, and Visits in the Vicinity of Boston. (Redding & Co, 1845). https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081903027
24. Docevski, Boban. “The 1855 ‘Devil’s Footprints’ mystery in Devon, England.” The Vintage News, October 12, 2016. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/10/12/the-1855-devils-footprints-mystery-in-devon-england/?chrome=1
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27. “Footprints of the Buddha.” BuddhaNet. Accessed July 2, 2022. http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/b_feet.htm
28. Gaddis, Vincent H. “Phantom Armies Out of Time.” Journal of Borderline Research 46(6), 1990: 14-18. https://borderlandsciences.org/journal/vol/46/index.html
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30. Harris, Gordon. “The Devil’s footprint.” Historic Ipswich. Accessed July 2, 2022. https://historicipswich.org/2019/02/16/the-devils-footprint
31. Harris, Gordon. “The Devil’s Footprint, 1740.” North of Boston, May 31, 2016. https://northofboston.org/blog/2016/05/31/the-devils-footprint-1740
32. Harris, Gordon. “The story of Ipswich's Devil’s Footprint.” WickedLocal.com, May 18, 2014. https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/chronicle-transcript/2014/05/19/column-story-ipswich-s-devil/37326401007
33. Harris, Gordon. “Supercontinents, ice ages, and the hills of Ipswich.” Historic Ipswich. July 2, 2022. https://historicipswich.org/2021/03/08/supercontinents-glaciers-and-the-north-shore
34. Hasan, Perween. “The Footprint of the Prophet.” Muqarnas 10, 1993: 335-343. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1523198
35. Hood, John. “Carolina mysteries fire the imagination.” RockinghamNow, April 24, 2022. https://greensboro.com/community/rockingham_now/opinion/carolina-mysteries-fire-the-imagination/article_96ece19c-c1a3-11ec-bfa7-3375ead6fbb4.html#tncms-source=signup
36. Ibbotson, Sophie & Max Lovell-Hoare. “In the Footsteps of the Buddha.” February 22, 2019. https://www.asiangeo.com/culture/in-the-footsteps-of-the-buddha
37. James, Matt. “Who Would Check Out the Cemetery Near the ‘North Manchester Meeting House’?” 92 Moose, October 6, 2016. https://92moose.fm/who-would-check-out-the-cemetery-near-the-north-manchester-meeting-house
38. Johnson, MK. “Rediscovering Íŋyaŋ Phežúta, the lost Medicine Rock of the Lakota.” West River Eagle. October 31, 2018. https://www.westrivereagle.com/articles/rediscovering-inyan-phezuta-the-lost-medicine-rock-of-the-lakota
39. Kidd, Thomas. “The History of Misspelling George Whitefield’s Name.” The Gospel Coalition, January 30, 2018. https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/evangelical-history/history-misspelling-george-whitefields-name
40. Kosloski, Philip. “The ‘relics’ of Saint Michael the Archangel.” Aleteia. Accessed July 2, 2022. https://aleteia.org/2018/09/29/there-still-exists-a-powerful-relic-connected-to-st-michael-the-archangel
41. Kristen, Clive. Ghosts Trails of Lancashire: Lancashire’s Ghosts, Ghouls and Things That Go Bump in the Night (Andrews UK Limited, 2014). https://www.google.com/books/edition/Ghost_Trails_of_Lancashire/cyq6BAAAQBAJ
42. Küçükaşcı, Mustafa Sabri. “Sacred Relics in Istanbul.” In History of Istanbul, Vol. 5 (Türkiye Diyanet Foundation Center for Islamic Studies, 2015). https://istanbultarihi.ist/546-sacred-relics-in-istanbul
43. MacDonald, Jeffrey G. “Buried treasure.” The Boston Globe, July 19, 2019. http://archive.boston.com/news/local/articles/2009/07/19/a_famed_evangelist_lies_buried_in_newburyport_but_who_should_be_told
44. McDowell, Silas. “A Spectre Cavalry Fight.” North Carolina Folklore Journal 9(2), 1961: 23-26. https://digital.ncdcr.gov/digital/collection/p16062coll43/id/414/rec/1
45. “Medicine Rock.” Genealogy Trails. Accessed July 2, 2022. http://genealogytrails.com/sdak/potter/hx.html
46. Mitchell, Rudy. “History of Revivalism in Boston.” In New England’s Book of Acts (Emmanuel Gospel Center, 2007). https://sites.google.com/a/egc.org/newenglandsbookofacts/new-england-s-book-of-acts/section-one-overview/history-of-revivalism-in-boston
47. Mizin, V. “Footprint Stones: Summarizing a Century of Petrosomatoglyphic Study.” Time and Mind 7(3), 2014: 297-307. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1751696X.2014.950503
48. Moore, Peter. “The Curious Case of the Devil’s Foot-Prints (or the Great Devon Mystery of 1855).” Peter Moore, February 9, 2015. https://peter-moore.co.uk/blog/the-curious-case-of-the-devils-foot-prints-or-the-great-devon-mystery-of-1855
49. Muise, Peter. Legends and Lore of the North Shore (Arcadia Publishing, 2014). https://books.google.com/books?id=ag93CQAAQBAJ
50. Mullen, Aoife. “Kneeling stone connects St. Patrick to town.” Drogheda Independent. September 28, 2011. https://www.independent.ie/regionals/droghedaindependent/lifestyle/kneeling-stone-connects-st-patrick-to-town-27160051.html
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53. Newton, George. “Extraordinary Phenomena.” Carlisle Weekly Herald, October 10, 1806. https://www.newspapers.com/image/269886928
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57. Olsen, Ted. “Living History.” Christian History 81, 2004. https://christianhistoryinstitute.org/magazine/article/living-history-81
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61. Rogers, Dennis. “Racing legend in Bath is strange tale of devil’s holey ground.” The News and Observer, September 16, 1982. https://www.newspapers.com/image/654164623
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