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The Legend of Via Tranquilla: Crafting Horror and Halloween in New Hampshire

For generations, the little red house at the end of Via Tranquilla has been home to a legend. The kind that makes your heart pound and your hair raise. A ghost story... a murder mystery... a curse. 

On this episode, the keepers of this myth share the grisly story of Via Tranquilla. And then, the truth comes out. 

Also in this episode: A walk through Haunted Overload, Eric Lowther's haunted wood at DeMerrit Hill Farm. It features towering pumpkin-headed scarecrows, a deranged circus and a scale Victorian mansion where something terrible happened many years ago...

And, why trick-or-treating takes place on different days throughout New Hampshire.

  • Via Tranquilla, urban legend and the Snow Shoe Club
  • You Asked, We Answered: Why Do Some N.H. Towns Trick-or-Treat days before Halloween?
  • Eric Lowther and Haunted Overload. You can read more about Haunted Overload, see pictures, and get ticket information here.
Hannah McCarthy first came to NHPR an intern in 2015, returned as a Fellow the following year and then bounced around as a reporter and producer before landing as co-host of Civics 101. She has reported on everything from the opioid epidemic to State House politics to haunted woods of New Hampshire.
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