Hockomock Swamp / Bridgewater Triangle Exploration
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[Jul 29,2009 12:23pm - arilliusbm ""]
For those of you who enjoy paranormal stuff:
If you are interested in exploring the unknown wilderness of the Hockomock swamp and/or Bridgewater Triangle youshould respond in here.
For those of you who don't know, that area has had a number of unexplained happenings/sightings/encounters over the past couple hundred years.
There's been bigfoot sightings, a large amount of UFO sightings, orbs, etc. You name it, people have reported it.
Hockomock means "place where spirits dwell" in the native tongue, as they feared what lay in the swamp. The settlers called it "the devil's swamp." During King Phillips War, the natives also fooled a small colonial army into going into the swamp, where they all perished. It also as a shitload of Indian Burial Grounds.
This place ain't no joke. I've been in there one or two times before, and there's fucking quicksand. Sadly, if you really want to explore it, you'd have to have some serious equipment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater_Triangle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockomock_Swamp
Good Day Sirs
[Jul 29,2009 12:29pm - Whoremastery ""]
i was just there last week..found some new ways in...fuckin creepy..im always down!
[Jul 29,2009 12:31pm - BSV ""]
always wanted to check this site out.
[Jul 29,2009 12:37pm - arilliusbm ""]
new ways in? damn, I haven't been there in 5 years and I had to sneak through a construction site. it was near the rayham dog track. where are the other entrances?
[Jul 29,2009 12:39pm - Seth ""]
Hell yeah i would check this shit out...
[Jul 29,2009 12:42pm - MikeOv ""]
Long lost to where no pathway goes.
[Jul 29,2009 12:42pm - Czarnobóg ""]
Fuck yeah, I grew up around there.
http://www.paranormal-encyclopedia.com/b/bridgewater-triangle/
[Jul 29,2009 12:47pm - arilliusbm ""]
"Also the site of an 8,000-year-old Native American burial ground, when archaeologists opened the graves of Grassy Island, the red ochre within the tombs bubbled and then mysteriously disappeared. Photographs taken of the excavation would not develop."
Damn
[Jul 29,2009 12:51pm - Czarnobóg ""]
I've also read articles about "satanic cults" in Freetown State Forest. Supposedly when the cops were investigating a murder in the '70s they found all these tunnels with occult trinkets and a decomposing cow carcass that showed signs of ritual sacrifice. Dude.
[Jul 29,2009 12:53pm - arilliusbm ""]
I've heard about those "cults" too. Someone tried telling me they saw white-robed people in the middle of the woods butchering something, but I didn't believe her.
I must say however, I was in Taunton at an abandoned mental asylum, and on the ground there was a pentagram made in fresh blood. Pretty sweet album cover if you ask me.
[Jul 29,2009 12:54pm - MikeOv ""]
Can't wait to go down there this weekend.
[Jul 29,2009 12:56pm - MikeOv ""]
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They'll be accompanying me.
[Jul 29,2009 12:58pm - Czarnobóg ""]
I don't know how true any of the Bridgewater Triangle-related stories are, but that whole area does have a real eerie feeling to it.
[Jul 29,2009 1:01pm - SkinSandwich ""]
Sounds interesting, but for a bunch of people who don't believe in god such as I, you seem to believe this hocus pocus crap. I would still go out there on a bunch of opiates though and make up my own spooky shit in my head.
[Jul 29,2009 1:04pm - Whoremastery ""]
the other way in is off a dead end road...you turn right before the mobil before the over pass...and of 138 you can walk in by the high tention lines..and another way in is by my old high school on foundry st..and by the nip off 104..im there all the time
[Jul 29,2009 1:07pm - arilliusbm ""]
I'm a UFO dude, that's my main reason.
[Jul 29,2009 2:27pm - arilliusbm ""]
Gotta think of stuff to bring:
Compass
Flashlight
Bug Spray
Beer
Spy Ear (As Seen on TV)
Knife
Rope?
What else?
[Jul 29,2009 2:30pm - MikeOv ""]
Gun
Granola (hey, might get hungry)
Lighter
[Jul 29,2009 3:16pm - BobNOMAAMROoney ""]
My newphews were crazy about checking this place out last winter. So we packed some backpacks, headed out and didn't see shit.
It was more of a "paranormal experience" doing donuts and ghost riding the whip on ice in an office park after the hike.
[Jul 29,2009 3:20pm - arilliusbm ""]
The "real" part of the swamp is inaccessible by foot. You really need one of those swampboat things.
The paths generally don't go that far into the place.
[Jul 29,2009 3:28pm - MikeOv ""]
add inflatable raft to the list of requirements
[Jul 29,2009 3:29pm - arilliusbm ""]
need one with a giant fan on the back. when you're in Miami, pick one up (along with some nice broads, too)
[Jul 29,2009 3:30pm - MikeOv ""]
The latter, check. The former, no.
[Jul 29,2009 3:30pm - MikeOv ""]
oh and I lied, I'm really just going to Disney World, tee hee
[Jul 29,2009 3:33pm - goatcatalyst ""]
I will take a hovercraft full of haunchy Latinas and beer right into that faggot swamp
[Jul 29,2009 3:34pm - arilliusbm ""]
Make sure you go to Epcot, then make sure to go on the Norway ride. The trolls'll get you every time.
[Jul 29,2009 3:47pm - MikeOv ""]
haha I did go on the maelstrom ride when i was a kid. but no, im not hitting up parks, just cubanville and hopefully the everglades
[Jul 29,2009 3:49pm - pam ""]
I'd be into this, but the gators would detect my ability to menstruate and kill us all.
There's gators right?
[Jul 29,2009 3:50pm - MikeOv ""]
by the barrel full
[Jul 29,2009 3:50pm - arilliusbm ""]
Enjoy the everglades. It's a shame how we've abuse the shit out of that ecosystem.
[Jul 29,2009 3:51pm - xmikex ""]
I've heard of some of these stories. No huge surprise that there's a mental hospital for the criminally insane in that area too.
[Jul 29,2009 3:51pm - MikeOv ""]
i know, it's diminishing i heard
[Jul 29,2009 6:02pm - Dr. Sphincto ""]
Last summer a few buddies of mine went down to the Hockomock area. Dighton Triangle and one of em got stuck in waist deep mud. Unfortunately they found nothing unusual
Are any of you guys into Dudley Road in Billerica? I went there last summer at dusk and one of my buds told me to not say anything that would sound evil or negative cuz he feared bad juju
So I kept saying Kali Ma, Kali ma to piss him off
[Jul 29,2009 6:49pm - SkinSandwich ""]
arilliusbm said:Enjoy the everglades. It's a shame how we've abuse the shit out of that ecosystem.
I beat the living shit out of the ecosystem everyday!
[Jul 29,2009 8:15pm - arilliusbm ""]
haha.
i'll bring my video camera just in case if I encounter anything strange
[Jul 30,2009 8:08am - Yeti ""]
Dr.%20Sphincto said:Are any of you guys into Dudley Road in Billerica? I went there last summer at dusk and one of my buds told me to not say anything that would sound evil or negative cuz he feared bad juju
So I kept saying Kali Ma, Kali ma to piss him off
i've never been, but i knew a few guys who used to regularly go there and they said it was just a really creepy stretch of road. the stories about the escaped inmates murdering nuns is bullshit, but the road is very strange. i definitely want to go there.
Jim, when are you going to the swamp? it might be tough for me to get down there, but let me know when you are going and i'll gladly join you. stories are just stories, i want to see it face to face. if i get slaughtered by Native American ghosts, well so be it.
[Jul 30,2009 9:24am - arilliusbm ""]
This weekend
[Jul 30,2009 10:34am - Yeti ""]
ah fuck, too soon. i was hoping to make a trip in September sometime, i'll see what i can work out and keep you informed. i want to go with people who are serious, and aren't afraid to confront anything.
[Jul 30,2009 10:36am - arilliusbm ""]
Still not 100% if it's going to be this weekend. But it's going to be more than once hopefully. It's time we put these "rumors" to rest.
[Jul 30,2009 10:37am - Yeti ""]
that's exactly what i'm interested in too. if they aren't rumors, i want firsthand proof. i don't care about proving it to the world, i don't even care about catching it on film or anything, i just want to see it and know it.
[Jul 30,2009 10:39am - arilliusbm ""]
honestly though, like I said. you'd need actualy equipment to thoroughly search a swamp. And who the fuck wants to walk through a swamp at 3am?
Leeches, quicksand, mud, bugs, etc. Gotta be prepared
[Jul 30,2009 10:45am - Yeti ""]
flame spurts, lightning sand, R.O.U.S.'s...
[Jul 30,2009 10:50am - goatcatalyst ""]
If you wanna do this again in a few weeks, I'd be down with enslaving some natives and making them guide us ala Cannibal Holocaust.
[Jul 30,2009 11:06am - MikeOv ""]
I'm going to bring a dead animal with me to bury in one of the numerous indian burial grounds.
[Jul 30,2009 11:08am - arilliusbm ""]
why are there always rumors of "curses" at indian burial grounds? never understood that.
almost the same kind of feeling towards egyptian tombs.
[Jul 30,2009 11:10am - MikeOv ""]
Because the Indians worshipped grotesque, laughing gods. Not benevolent, light-bearing deities.
[Jul 30,2009 11:16am - arilliusbm ""]
I suppose people on this board hate the natives?
I've always grown to respect them (NOT the current ones that drink and gamble) due to the fact that they lived off the land, were relatively peaceful and we're, in my eyes, "pagan" as opposed to westerners that came over.
[Jul 30,2009 11:20am - MikeOv ""]
Natives > Western expansionism
[Jul 30,2009 11:22am - arilliusbm ""]
trail of tears = LOL?
[Jul 30,2009 11:25am - MikeOv ""]
never underestimate the public's willingness to blame the red man for anything.
[Jul 30,2009 11:27am - MikeOv ""]
manifest destiny = lol?
[Jul 30,2009 11:29am - arilliusbm ""]
I must say though, that because I live in middleboro (proposed area for the casino) the Wampanoags that I've seen are CAPE VERDIAN.
[Jul 30,2009 11:33am - MikeOv ""]
so they're not even indigenous to this land?
[Jul 30,2009 11:34am - goatcatalyst ""]
I wish I had an Indian burial ground to bury my ferrets in :(
And for the record - I'm only hostile towards Native Americans when I leave the casino down $100+ and I don't feel I was comped enough drinks. Otherwise, I celebrate their proud culture.
[Jul 30,2009 11:35am - pam ""]
arilliusbm said:I must say though, that because I live in middleboro (proposed area for the casino) the Wampanoags that I've seen are CAPE VERDIAN.
Not all. My husband and son are wamp.
[Jul 30,2009 11:35am - arilliusbm ""]
It's because somewhere down the line, their Cape Verdean relatives bred with the Wampanoags of Mashpee. The result? Not much different looking than your avereage Cape Verdean.
There was this one dude on the train wearing a Wampanoag Nation shirt last week and he was black with a fro. lol
[Jul 30,2009 11:36am - arilliusbm ""]
pam said:
arilliusbm said:I must say though, that because I live in middleboro (proposed area for the casino) the Wampanoags that I've seen are CAPE VERDIAN.
Not all. My husband and son are wamp.
Yea, not all. But a large amount of them are.
[Jul 30,2009 11:40am - pam ""]
arilliusbm said:It's because somewhere down the line, their Cape Verdean relatives bred with the Wampanoags of Mashpee. The result? Not much different looking than your avereage Cape Verdean.
There was this one dude on the train wearing a Wampanoag Nation shirt last week and he was black with a fro. lol
I can show you pics from their socials and pow-wow, they go from blonde/white to blackest black. There are also wamps that are half wamp, half Bermudan (is that a word?):
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That's one, they call em "Goombas" when they're dancing.
All my cousins are blends of Wamp and Portuguese. They look pretty injun:
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[Jul 30,2009 11:41am - pam ""]
Click the fail pictures, too lazy to fix.
[Jul 30,2009 11:43am - pam ""]
MikeOv said:so they're not even indigenous to this land?
Yes they are.
[Jul 30,2009 11:44am - arilliusbm ""]
Are there any pure bred wamps left?
The only time I really felt that the natives were still true to their roots, was when I was in Arizona in a Navajo Reservation. Most of them are extremely racist towards the "white man," but they still have their own identity. Not mocking the Wamps, not too familiar with how they run their stuff. But down in the southwest, the reservations are HUGE - bigger than Massachusetts and most of NE.
Up in North Dakota, if you're white and walking near the reservations up there, you better be prepared for a beatdown.
[Jul 30,2009 11:50am - MikeOv ""]
pam said:
MikeOv said:so they're not even indigenous to this land?
Yes they are.
I know Wampanoags are, I had just needed clarification because I thought he was saying straight up Cape Verdeans were trying to pass themselves off as such.
[Jul 30,2009 11:53am - pam ""]
arilliusbm said:Are there any pure bred wamps left?
The only time I really felt that the natives were still true to their roots, was when I was in Arizona in a Navajo Reservation. Most of them are extremely racist towards the "white man," but they still have their own identity. Not mocking the Wamps, not too familiar with how they run their stuff. But down in the southwest, the reservations are HUGE - bigger than Massachusetts and most of NE.
Up in North Dakota, if you're white and walking near the reservations up there, you better be prepared for a beatdown.
Not that I know of. You have to factor in that the Wamps were the first tribe to experience the white invasion so they had a jump-start on mixing blood. They were also the first to really try the whole integration bullshit when colonists were putting them in Euro clothes and teaching them English. The tribes out West not so much.
The Wamps were also a mostly "peaceful" tribe whereas the Western tribes were pretty fucking insane. I imagine they held the shit out of their ground.
Some of the Wamps are stupid racist like that, but the majority I've met are very cool. A friend that grew up in Mashpee said she used to get rocks chucked at her by the wamp teenagers for going to the local pond so there's pricks in the bunch no doubt.
My family especially are really involved and shit. I've got one cousin that can slay a deer, tan it's hide, make sinew string and bead you a chest piece with it. She's awesome, she works are Plymoth Plantation with the above pictured dudes.
[Jul 30,2009 11:55am - pam ""]
MikeOv said:
pam said:
MikeOv said:so they're not even indigenous to this land?
Yes they are.
I know Wampanoags are, I had just needed clarification because I thought he was saying straight up Cape Verdeans were trying to pass themselves off as such.
I thought you meant mixed Cape Verds/Wamps.
They probably got away with that shit before, but since the Wamps FINALLY got federally recognized they've clamped down on the tribal roll requirements. It's REALLY difficult to prove your heritage because natives weren't people and have little paper trail in that respect so it'd be pretty difficult to be a tribe member if you aren't or just had one distant relative fuck one.
[Jul 30,2009 11:57am - arilliusbm ""]
I've got a little Micmac in me - one of my French Canadian fur-trapping relatives screwed one I guess. awesome
[Jul 30,2009 11:59am - MikeOv ""]
According to Stephen King, Micmac indian burial grounds are no joke.
[Jul 30,2009 11:59am - pam ""]
arilliusbm said:I've got a little Micmac in me - one of my French Canadian fur-trapping relatives screwed one I guess. awesome
Me too! 5 generations back from family word of mouth...I'm trying to track it down.
[Jul 30,2009 12:00pm - pam ""]
Micmacs were pretty crazy from what I've read. My daughter has Narragansett...who were also murderous crazy people I believe.
[Jul 31,2009 8:58am - MikeOv ""]
Bump for ritual sacrifice to the old gods.
[Jul 18,2010 10:15pm - arilliusbm ""]
MikeOv said:Bump for ritual sacrifice to the old gods.
This proposal still stands. I've been hiking a lot this summer; I'm looking to venture in here again because of the atmosphere. Not during the day though.
Let's go people, 3 threads of talking and no one going! :point:
[Jul 18,2010 10:31pm - arilliusbm ""]
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[Jul 19,2010 5:21am - goatcatalyst ""]
There is no such thing as the Bridgewater Triangle.
[Jul 19,2010 7:36am - arilliusbm ""]
find out for yourself or you're a pussy
[Mar 18,2011 12:24pm - arilliusbm ""]
Bump. Spring is nearing and it's the perfect to time to check it out
[Mar 18,2011 12:31pm - FuckIsMySignature ""]
i wanna go!
[Mar 18,2011 1:20pm - Randy Marsh nli ""]
I need to go here again soon and venture deeper.
[Mar 18,2011 1:21pm - Yeti ""]
only King Philip is real.
[Mar 18,2011 1:28pm - dreadkill ""]
pam said:
arilliusbm said:I've got a little Micmac in me - one of my French Canadian fur-trapping relatives screwed one I guess. awesome
Me too! 5 generations back from family word of mouth...I'm trying to track it down. i gots a little abenaki
[Mar 18,2011 2:13pm - arilliusbm ""]
god dammit, I'm starting a Hockomock/Bridgewater Triangle themed black metal band. It's about time.
[Mar 18,2011 2:46pm - randy marsh nli ""]
arilliusbm said:god dammit, I'm starting a Hockomock/Bridgewater Triangle themed black metal band. It's about time.
i will do this.
[Mar 18,2011 2:51pm - arilliusbm ""]
Also, DIGHTON ROCK lies within the triangle. Last summer I went there and it was nice and peaceful.
Mysterious markings on a very old rock? You better believe it.
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[Mar 18,2011 2:53pm - randy marsh nli ""]
aril, i told you about when i went there right?
didn't venture too far in...heard "sheething" sounds coming from inside the swamp along with very strange noises...i wanted to go further in but my friend who was driving was being a bitch and wanted to go home cause he didnt want to get his shoes went or something gay like that.
[Mar 18,2011 2:58pm - arilliusbm ""]
randy%20marsh%20nli said:aril, i told you about when i went there right?
didn't venture too far in...heard "sheething" sounds coming from inside the swamp along with very strange noises...i wanted to go further in but my friend who was driving was being a bitch and wanted to go home cause he didnt want to get his shoes went or something gay like that.
was it burnsy? hahaha, I kheed I kheed.
what is a sheething sound?
[Mar 18,2011 2:59pm - randy marsh nli ""]
no it wasnt burnsy but i remember telling him about this and trying to convince him to go.
like sheathing of a blade.
[Mar 18,2011 3:07pm - arilliusbm ""]
interesting.
i've seen "investigative" webpages talk about the hockomock. they usually go there during the day (most "paranormal" stuff occurs very late at night and very early in the morning) and brush it off as another swamp.
that it may be, but there is something different about this place. It's hard to explain, but I could feel something there. I can understand why the natives admired it like they did.
perhaps there is a nexus point somewhere in the swamp? maybe an undocumented ley line or some sort? regardless, there is energy there, both negative and positive. it'd be a great place to meditate and/or take hallucinogens.
[Mar 18,2011 3:08pm - randy marsh nli ""]
im trying to get Notshaver to go, we had talked about it in the past.
would like to try and get to the middle and bring some sort of videotaping device....
if i saw the ghost dog or the giant bird my life would be complete.
[Mar 18,2011 3:12pm - arilliusbm ""]
i must say though, not sure how it is during late winter/early spring.. but in the summer time there's quicksand everywhere. I had my whole leg get stuck in a puddle of quicksand or, rather quickmud. It was pretty fucked up and surprised the hell out of me when it happened.
[Mar 18,2011 3:13pm - burnsy ""]
arilliusbm said:was it burnsy? hahaha, I kheed I kheed.
lulz. It appears that my neighborhood lies within the vertex of the eponymous Bridgewater triangle.
[Mar 18,2011 3:14pm - Alx_Casket ""]
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[Mar 18,2011 3:15pm - randy marsh nli ""]
arilliusbm said:i must say though, not sure how it is during late winter/early spring.. but in the summer time there's quicksand everywhere. I had my whole leg get stuck in a puddle of quicksand or, rather quickmud. It was pretty fucked up and surprised the hell out of me when it happened.
yeah i went about this time last year...it was quite muddy.
[Jun 12,2011 8:02pm - arilliusbm ""]
lol, I just did a google image search for "hockmock swamp" and the dighton rock image links back to this thread. SKYNET...cool story bro
anyway, a hockmock adventure will happen real soon, for those who care.
[Apr 4,2012 1:41pm - Scully ""]
http://ufos.about.com/od/ufos2012mar/a/Man...Encounter-Ufos-In-Massachusetts.htm
[Apr 4,2012 1:45pm - arillius_the_white ""]
Thought I saw something a few weeks ago.
[Apr 4,2012 2:00pm - Alx_Casket ""]
sure it wasn't just some balrog?
[Aug 20,2012 10:45am - MikeOv ""]
This weekend.
Who's in?
[Aug 20,2012 10:53am - trioxin245 ""]
I'm down.
[Aug 20,2012 10:54am - arilliusbm ""]
This weekend = our show
[Aug 20,2012 10:55am - arilliusbm ""]
Also, I dunno where ya'll been at but some funky shit going down
[Aug 20,2012 10:57am - MikeOv ""]
Elaborate.
[Aug 20,2012 10:58am - MikeOv ""]
We need to hit up Freetown-Fall River State Forest as well. Maybe we'll stumble upon satanic cult activities.
[Aug 20,2012 11:01am - trioxin245 ""]
I hope we do, and I hope they kill us.
[Aug 20,2012 11:03am - CurlyRed ""]
spider gates is where the satanists hang out
[Aug 20,2012 11:04am - arilliusbm ""]
I've hiked Freetown probably 6 times this summer. It's a maze in there but nothing extraordinary.
There's been military helicopter sightings all over the area, including near my parents house at 2AM..shit was just hovering there for 10 minutes. I personally believe there is some sort of underground base near the hockomock. Sounds far-fetched but there's quite a lot of abandoned ones in MA.
[Aug 20,2012 11:06am - trioxin245 ""]
Make a mashed-potato replica of the area about it, faggot.
[Aug 20,2012 11:07am - arilliusbm ""]
wat
[Aug 20,2012 11:08am - trioxin245 ""]
shoes will get it.
[Aug 20,2012 11:10am - ark ""]
you sure it was military? isn't hanscom AFB out near there?
[Aug 20,2012 11:23am - arilliusbm ""]
Yes, black helicopter.. There's no reason for a civilian helicopter to be hovering in a residential neighborhood at that time, low enough to make the trees sway. No, Hanscom is a good 50 miles north of here.
There is Otis AFB on the Cape but that isn't used in full-service, as it's an Air National Guard base now.
The Hockomock is no joke, but like I said above, it'd impossoble to explore it without swamp vehicles. It is a dense jungle of swampland. Not the safest place to go. The trails don't penetrate the good parts.
[Aug 20,2012 11:27am - CurlyRed ""]
How deep are the swamps? Could an atv get through?
[Aug 20,2012 11:29am - arilliusbm ""]
On the trails, yea (youd probably get arrested). Swamps, no.
[Aug 20,2012 11:32am - CurlyRed ""]
Just curious, Atvs can get through a decent amount of mud but if it is deep swamp area forget it.
[Aug 20,2012 2:33pm - chernobyl ""]
MikeOv and I were talking about exploring in October/November because the ground should be frozen by then and won't have to deal with swamp.
I've been outside the perimeter and heard sheathing of a blade, it was weird...Can't wait to go back. Jim you should come with us.
[Aug 20,2012 2:52pm - AndrewBastard ""]
I'll go!
[Aug 20,2012 3:21pm - arilliusbm ""]
Heh. The Hockomock doesnt freeze. Good luck.
Quicksand gonna kill you.
[Aug 20,2012 3:22pm - CurlyRed ""]
You guys may like rutland state park. It has the remains of an old prison camp. Plus it really nice in there during the summer/fall. The only downfall is it has rather large snakes..lol This was taken a long time ago but you get the idea
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Just figured I would throw it out there, don't mean to take from the original topic.
[Aug 20,2012 3:25pm - arilliusbm ""]
Rutland State Park = Old News
[Aug 20,2012 3:28pm - CurlyRed ""]
ok ok..:P
[Aug 20,2012 3:31pm - arilliusbm ""]
Teehee
[Aug 20,2012 3:32pm - Burnsy ""]
arilliusbm said:Rutland State Park = Old News