The Dead People Tour - 2016

It's getting closer.....



Finalizing some details in the next couple weeks. Just making sure we can get to where I would like to go.

 

Is this a tacoma only event or can my buddy take his f150?

 

I am in for pictars

 

All are welcome.

 

Cool we will both be there!

 

My lady and I booked a yurt on Air BnB located in Wendell for the weekend. All these hype pictures are working!

 

That sounds like fun!

 

We will be gathering at the
Big Y parking lot
10 Pleasant St
(route 102)
Lee MA



If you want to fill up, there is a gas station on our way to Beartown s.f.
If you want to provision up, Big Y

We will be heading west on 102.

 

Planning to head up this weekend to Savoy to check roads.
Think there was some work going on up there.

PM'd everyone.
Check your inbox.

 

@WinSlow939
Will be great to have you on "the tour".
You coming off the rock for the day, or you gonna be around anyway?

Trying to figure out how to add you to the PM conversation......

 

I've been following this thread and wished I could make it, but alas, bad timing for me.
Not really too long a haul either,couple hours to Pittsfield metro area.
One day I'll get my azz up in that general area,lol.

 

We'll get you in next time.

 

Recon Day

 

There were other abberations and tragedies, too, as the town of Savoy waned both economically and in morale over the latter half of the 19th century. Sometimes whole families seemed blighted by this trend. Wehave delved elsewhere into the dark history of the Tower family, all of whom fell to drownings and disease in the 1850s and 60s... or, depending on your source, as the result of psychic dealings by Florinda Tower, who some say was the first Witch of Savoy. The Tower's lie buried just north from the burned out ruins of the house of Savoy's more recent and well known witch, in yet another small plot on a road gone back to nature in the sprawling hillside.
(from http://mysterious-hills.blogspot.com/2013/09/its-first-school-was-known-as-tomb.html)

 

The Hoosac Tunnel
This nearly 5-mile-long tunnel was dug out of the mountains of western Massachusetts between 1851 and 1875. At the time it was the second-longest tunnel in the world, but there were many gruesome deaths and accidents associated with its construction. For more than 150 years people have regularly claimed to have seen ghostly apparitions throughout the tunnel. It is illegal to walk the tunnel without explicit permission from the authorities – it is regularly patrolled by local police. (It also still has quite a bit of train traffic.)

Hoosac Tunnel - The Bloody Pit

The Hoosac Tunnel is an enduring engineering marvel, a railroad line that plows nearly five miles through a mountain. But engineering feats come with a price, often in terms of human life. Oddly, it's not clear just how many men died constructing the Hoosac Tunnel, though it's certain that many did and most estimates say close to 200 were killed. Soon after construction began, the crew nicknamed the tunnel project "The Bloody Pit."

In 1865, two miners were killed in an explosion at the site. A third worker, Kelly Ringo, the man who had accidentally detonated the blast, walked away unhurt. One year later, Ringo's body was found in the hole; he had been strangled to death. No living person was apprehended for the crime, if there was one. Some locals believe it was the ghosts of the two miners exacting revenge.

There are countless tales of spooky happenings in the Hoosac, where the ghosts of the many men who died there may still haunt the tunnel, lurking in the dim cold and dampness. One thing is clear, grown men have been known to blanch after spending just a few minutes inside the tunnel after dark. Some report seeing swaying lanterns and hearing wails.

Ghost hunter David J. Pitkin reports that he's interviewed several men who maintain the tunnel for the railroad today. They tend to scoff at the ghost stories, he reports, but they admit that they don't like to linger in the tunnel if they can help it.

 

Camp Windigo

Windsor State Forest

 

Holy crap are we driving through that????

 

Yup.
You have a cow catcher?

 

are we actually gonna drive through that? It would be epic!!!!!