The Beginning

Bridgewater, Massachusetts. To drive through this town and it's sister towns of East and West Bridgewater, you would never guess that beneath the surface of lies a dark secret. The beautiful rivers that meader through the towns and the waters of Lake Nippenickett in Bridgewater sparkle in the sunlight like any other New England river and pond, they give no hint of the victims that their waters of Bridgewater have inexplicably taken. The country roads seem like any other in the America. Except these roads have an extremely high rate of accidents, mostly unexplained. The smiles of the townspeople mask a horrible secret, that suicides and insanity rates in these towns are mysteriously and shockingly high.


And then there is the swamp. Hockomock Swamp. The Native Americans called it "The Place Where Spirtis Dwell." The colonists called it "Devil's Swamp." Inside this collasol swamp comes paranormal stories gallore. Thunderbirds, Amazon-sized black snakes, giant black dogs and panthers with glowing red eyes, ghosts, and perhaps the most infamous inhabitant of the haunted swamp: Bigfoot.


Many consider Hockomock Swamp to the be the heart of the Bridgewater Triangle that spans roughly 200-square miles, includes ________ towns. The Bridgewater Triangle, as the map is drawn, begins 20 miles south of Boston, in the small suburban town of Abington, Massachusetts. It's lines crosss the towns of (whatever the lines cross in the film) to Freetown (towns continued) to Rehoboth, these Massachusetts towns being right at the southern border of  Rhode Island.

The area is said to be cursed by the Wompanoags, the tribe of Native Americans that Massasoit led.

1661. Massasoit dies. The peaceful era Chief of the Wompanoags who‘s aid was instrumental in the pilgrims’ first winter of survival . After his brother Alexander is allegedly poisoned by General Josiah Winslow in 1662, it is now perfectly clear to Massasoit’s son Metacom (commonly known by his English name “Philip”) the intentions of the people who had arrived upon the shores of a land that had already been inhabited for 10,000 years: They wanted it all and did not play by any rules understood by the Wompanoags. The loss of innocence of the Wompanoags is best demonstrated in the land sale of Satucket, modern day Bridgewater.

CLIP OF BALZANOIn 1649 Massasoit unknowingly traded miles of fertile land enriched by the waters of The Matfield, Hockomock, and Town Rivers as well as West Meadow Brook for mere provisions for his tribe. Seven coats, nine hatchets, eight hoes, twenty knives, four moose skins and 10 yards of cotton is what the Wompanoags were paid for the territory of Bridgewater. The implications of a “land sale” was unfathomable to the Native American psyche at this time. The concept that land could be regarded as ‘ownable’ was unfamiliar one to the Wompanoags. It is no wonder that Sachem Rock, the very site of this monumental land sale has been witness to tragic events that date back to King Philip’s War in 1676. Today, a stone marks

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