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Off the Path

Josh Joseph
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WSHU

Off the Path

Follow reporter Davis Dunavin as he travels the road from New York to Boston, looking for unusual stories and fascinating histories.

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  • Storyteller Jonathan Kruk and his puppet accomplices recount the "legend of Sleepy Hollow" at Sunnyside, Washington Irving's historic Tarrytown house.
    Davis Dunavin
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    WSHU
    In 1820, Washington Irving wrote a short story steeped in the ghostly folklore of New York’s Hudson Valley. Its simple premise and terrifying climax has spooked and entertained people for two centuries. It was set in North Tarrytown, but Irving called it Sleepy Hollow.
  • Librarian Emeritus Bill Ross shows off images of aliens from Betty and Barney Hill's collection at the University of New Hampshire Library.
    Davis Dunavin
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    WSHU
    Barney and Betty Hill claimed they had an encounter with aliens more than 60 years ago. Their story became the launching point for alien abductions in popular culture. And it happened — supposedly — late one night on a lonely road in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.