Here's exactly where History Channel filmed 'Bridgewater Triangle' and more answers
BROCKTON — Last month, the History Channel aired a one-hour episode on the Bridgewater Triangle, a 200-square-mile area within Southeastern Massachusetts that is a hotspot for reports of paranormal activity.
Here's where they filmed, what you missed and how you can still catch that episode.
The episode aired as part of the first season of “Beyond Skinwalker Ranch,” a spinoff of the History Channel’s multi-season realty show, “The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.”
The seven-episode season will feature former CIA Intelligence Officer Andy Bustamante and journalist Paul Beban as they investigate paranormal hotspots across the U.S — from Arizona to Nevada and Colorado, all the way to Brockton’s own backyard.
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Which cities and towns are included in the Bridgewater Triangle?
The boundaries of the Bridgewater Triangle are marked by the towns of Abington, Rehoboth, and Freetown, encompassing Brockton, Whitman, Easton, West Bridgewater, East Bridgewater, Norton, Taunton, Raynham, Bridgewater, Middleboro, Attleboro, Dighton, Berkley, Lakeville, Swansea, Somerset, and Fall River.
“What’s fascinating is you see that we’re not in the middle of nowhere. We’re in the middle of suburban neighborhoods where people live year-round. It’s happening just in their backyard,” Beban says.
Here’s what you missed on season one, episode six of “Beyond Skinwalker Ranch: The Bridgewater Triangle.”
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Skim Milk Bridge
Beban and Bustamante meet up with Matty Blake, a local resident and host of the History Channel’s “The Curse of Oak Island: Drilling Down” and “Beyond Oak Island,” —to check out a notorious paranormal hotspot in West Bridgewater.
Skim Milk Bridge lies a quarter mile down a trail off Scotland Street that runs by the Town River. The bridge’s origin is a mystery — no one knows who built it, when it was built, or where the 4,000 pounds of stacked rocks that make up the bridge came from.
“This is like the heartbeat of the Bridgewater Triangle,” Blake says. “This is where all the action is. It’s where all the creepy things happen.”
According to Blake, people have reported seeing colonial-era people walking across the bridge and three orbs were spotted in the area in the 90s. But the most notable tale, he says, is the story of a 20th century woman who disappeared while canoeing down the river.
“They found her canoe in perfect condition. Everything inside it was dry, but she was gone,” Blake says.
Her body was later found under the bridge.
While filming at the bridge at night, Bustamante measures electromagnetic activity 10 to 15 times higher than normal, a possible explanation for the paranormal phenomena, he says.
“This could be attracting all sorts of strangeness all around the area,” Bustamante says.
Anawan Rock
Beban and Bustamante travel around 30 minutes southwest to meet up with researcher Andrew Lake at Anawan Rock in Rehoboth. According to Lake, the rock is haunted by the Wampanoags who made it their last stand during King Phillip’s war — a war between the English settlers and the Wampanoags in the mid 1670s.
The bloodiest war per capita in U.S. history, it took place largely in the Bridgewater Triangle region and ended at Anawan Rock when Wampanoag Chief Metacom, also known as King Philip, and his head captain and chief counselor General Annawan, surrendered to the English at the sight of the rock. The natives were subsequently hung, beheaded, drawn and quartered, and their heads were displayed on pikes.
Beban wonders aloud, “Did it leave some kind of mark on the landscape?”
According to Lake, the answer is yes. In 2008, two days after the anniversary of the surrender, Lake reports that he was standing on Anawan Rock when he saw what he calls “phantom fires” — fires that don’t burn, don’t make a sound, and don’t give off any smoke or heat. Lake also told Beban and Bustamante that he felt an unexplained intense cold sensation pass behind him, despite it being a warm summer day.
While filming in the area, Beban, Bustamante and Lake see what they say they believe to be a UFO that passes quickly overhead.
The Town of Raynham and the 'high tees'
Former Raynham resident Bill Russo recounts an experience he had with a shapeshifting creature from Wampanoag mythology known as a "pukwudgie" when he was walking his dog near the wooded area behind his house known as the "high tees."
"The high tees refer to the large swath of land that hosts the high-tension wires running from Boston to Providence," Russo told The Enterprise. "Back 30 years ago, the electric company did not trim as aggressively as is done today, so the high tees were very overgrown, and were a safe conduit for animals (and perhaps paranormal creatures)."
"I've never been in a paranormal group, and I don't look for those things. I don't do any of that stuff. I was a regular guy who worked a midnight shift and had to walk his dog every night," Russo explained.
On the show, Russo describes seeing a 3-foot-tall creature that walked on two legs and had a pot belly.
“It looked like some sort of hairy thing. It had hands and relatively big eyes,” he says.
Not included in the History Channel's episode, Russo told The Enterprise that he heard the creature repeatedly beckon to him, saying, "We want you."
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Hockomock Swamp
The Hockomock Swamp is an almost 17,000-acre wetland encompassing parts of Bridgewater, Easton, Norton, Raynham, Taunton and West Bridgewater. Named after the Algonquin term meaning “place where spirits dwell,” the swamp has been a paranormal hotspot for hundreds of years.
Beban and Bustamante meet scientist Matt Moniz in the area.
“The indigenous tribes would not venture too far into the swamp unless they had to,” says Moniz. “Pukwudgies have been seen in this area for hundreds of years."
"They’re a type of soul stealer.”
While the trio don’t find any pukwudgies, they do see another fast-flying entity in the night sky.
Where can I watch 'Bridgewater Triangle?'
The episode is available to stream on The History Channel and Amazon Prime video.
This article originally appeared on The Enterprise: Bridgewater Triangle on History Channel filmed in Rehoboth, Raynham
