How Massachusetts Came to Have Its Own Bermuda Triangle

The spot isn’t easy to find. It’s only by crabwalking across stones and painfully ducking under the rock that forms the ceiling of King Philip’s cave, you can rest in the spot where Metacomet, chief of the Massachusetts Wampanoags, likely spent one of his final nights. The leader was slaughtered by one of his own men and beheaded by English settlers in 1678, in a war that pitted Algonquin nation against the white settlers.

In such a lovely spot, you almost forget you are in a quiet neighborhood full of upper middle class houses in the quiet Boston suburb of Norton, Massachusetts. But there’s an undeniable chill in the air: The rock formation is one of many such sites in a 200-square mile area of Southeastern Massachusetts that locals and paranormal enthusiasts call the “Bridgewater Triangle”.

That’s right: A mystical swamp-zone within commuting distance of Boston. 

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