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In yesterday’s Hollow Hill article (about haunted Haverhill), I mentioned the Westford Knight.
I’m not sure that Westford (Massachusetts) site is actually paranormal, though it might be worth checking out. That’s especially true if you love weird history, Knights Templar legends, and off-the-beaten-path curiosities.
In my ley lines (for ghost hunting) research, I include this site because the story is so odd. And, it’s credible.
Of course, between age, vandalism, and decades of acid rain, the artwork on the knight’s grave marker is barely visible now. (30 years ago, it was still fairly impressive. Today, maybe not.)
The following references may explain why I’m intrigued when this grave shows up on a ley line.
First, here’s a link to a lengthy history supporting Westford Knight theories. (Illustrations aren’t so great.)
Then, browse this book, online or at a public library:
And here’s an article that shows a grave marker from a related era, in a similar style, with an equally fascinating history.
Whether or not you take the Westford Knight history seriously, it stands out as an anomaly. It’s something weird and incongruous in an otherwise typical, lovely New England town.
In the future, I’ll talk more about ley lines and how useful they are to ghost hunters. (Ley lines in Salem, MA are the tip of the iceberg.) But, for now, the Westford Knight is a great example of a not-necessarily-ghostly point that increases the potential of any ley line that crosses it.
That includes the haunted Haverhill ley line.
Could you extend the line south through Littleton?? Littleton was a praying village and the home of the Nashoba/Nipmuc Native Americans
Might want to check all the praying villages as the colonials expanded the natives consolidated in “special” areas
Wow, and thank you, Ross! I’d never heard about praying villages, which is kind of extraordinary (and a little embarrassing) in the context of my research.
The line could definitely be extended south. In fact, any ley line can be extended indefinitely, if it appears to connect more related sites… beyond random chance, that is.
I live in Littleton and I’m pretty close to the Westford side. I see all sorts of strange things, usually around the old Minute Man cemetery just by the common and the trail behind it. On part of that trail there is evidence there there was an old stagecoach road that the two brothers trail that was connected to the cemetery flat sloped hill and markings on the rocks from the metal rim of stagecoach carts). I have seen allot of orbs and shadow people back there.