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Lady in Black
The most famous ghost of the Harbor is the Lady in Black at Fort Warren, seven miles out to sea on George’s Island. Legend has it that in 1862, Mrs. Melanie Lanier came to the fort from South Carolina to rescue her husband, a confederate soldier, who was being held prisoner there. She snuck and lied her way into the prison and managed to rescue her husband and the others imprisoned there. Unfortunately for Melanie Lanier they were apprehended. She fired at the nearest guard, but the archaic weapon backfired in her hand.
A piece of shrapnel from the explosion lodged itself in her husband’s head, and therefore Melanie Lanier had accidentally killed her own husband in her effort to rescue him. She was then tried and hung in a black robe as a traitor on George’s Island on February 2, 1862. It is in this black robe that she is still seen to this day in various ways about Fort Warren and George’s Island as a whole. |
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The North End Tunnels
 The North End of the city is home to many secrets and dark corners. One such story was written best by H.P Lovecraft – describing creatures that lived beneath the streets of Boston. “These figures were seldom completely human, but often approached humanity in varying degree… The texture of the majority was a kind of unpleasant rubberiness... they were usually feeding- I won’t say on what… on Copp’s Hill among the tombs, or in underground passages… squeezing themselves through burrows that honeycombed the ground..”
Tunnels dating back to the 1700's have been found in the North End - no one truly knows who built the tunnels or why. |
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Day of Darkness
It was on May 19, 1780 that an unexplained darkness fell over the entire state of Massachusetts. The sun rose, as usual, but with hints of a dark cloud arriving on the western horizon. By 1:00 that afternoon, that hint of a cloud had become a mysterious, mist-like darkness that reduced visibility to a few inches _ in the middle of the day! But instead of daylight, Massachusetts residents had a profound darkness so terrifying they were convinced that the apocalypse was upon them. Trying to adjust, some residents hung lanterns or lit candles on their porches - only to see those lanterns emit an eerie, greenish glow instead of their usual light.
 Night time arrived, though no one could tell the difference, as neither moon nor stars were visible as residents tossed in their beds. Finally, at 1 am those still restlessly awake peered out their windows to see a blood red moon emerge slowly on the horizon. Stars soon followed, and by the next morning, the sun shone brightly in the morning sky.
What brought this day of darkness? Was it an atmospheric phenomenon or something stranger still? To this day, no theory fully explains the strange events of May 19, 1780. |
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