Stories of voices, spirits even unexplained door slams have people very curious to see what the ghost hunters found.
"I have found things here at the monastery; rocks on the seat of my car after my car was locked and I've walked," said Marylou Boyer.
And the ghostly stories continue.
Library director, Celeste Dyer said, "One of our staff members said she heard someone calling her name. Whoever was calling her name was using her full name which is unusual cause none of us ever call her by her full name."
Dyer won't tell us everything the ghost hunters investigated, but says they did record vibrations.
Throughout the Cumberland library remains parts of the monastery built in 1900. A fire in 1950 destroyed one of the main buildings.
Among the spooky places… the infirmary, a stair case with flaking plaster walls, and an outdoor grave.
About a ten–mile hike from the library brings you to Nine Men's Misery, considered one of the most haunted areas.
"The ghostly rumor is that if you come up here at night, sometimes you will hear moaning," Said Dyer.
But very few believe in ghosts.
Batty Hamilton said, "I don't really think I do. I've yet to see one."
Marylou Boyer claims it's haunted. She said, "Once I thought something was touching me and I turned quick and I thought I saw a shadow."
Story:ABC6
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Located in Cumberland, RI on the grounds of an old monastery is a site many Rhode Islanders don't even know about, never mind visitors to our miniature state. The site's stone and mortar monument marks the area where the luck of nine militiamen evading a bloody tidal wave of Native American anger ran out. The men were found flailed (skinned alive) and hung to slowly die as their tormentors looked on. Upon death, they were beheaded and their heads placed on poles with sticks placed in their mouths to make them smile, mockingly recreating the lying white men's smiles that they had tolerated for too long. The site can be seen as it appears today in the picture on the left just as it was erected in or around 1670.The men's agonized cries and moans have not died over the years and more than one visitor daring enough to put their ear to the stones have heard the cries of the men. Police have been called more than once to investigate reports of screams coming from the woods in the vicinity of the monument. These woods have been the scene of many other gruesome deaths over the centuries as well. Instrument readings go off the scale or are abnormally high in the immediate area of the tomb and many groups have succeeded in recording chilling EVP there. If you decide to see the monument for yourself, you just might see the ghost of a little girl running through the wooded swamp...perhaps another victim of the Natives' bloody revenge for the Great Swamp slaughter of their own children. Stop in at the town library while you're there, it is haunted as well. You just might be the next person to meet the ghost of a monk that sees to it that the library stays neat and clean!
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