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"Forgotten Tales of Rhode Island" by Jim Ignasher explores little known stories about the Ocean State. Take a deep dive into the state's history and folklore with these anecdotal stories.
"Forgotten Tales of Rhode Island" by Jim Ignasher explores little known stories about the Ocean State. Take a deep dive into the state's history and folklore with these anecdotal stories.
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"Forgotten Tales of Rhode Island" by Jim Ignasher explores little known stories about the Ocean State. Take a deep dive into the state's history and folklore with these anecdotal stories.

 

Few Rhode Islanders remember the day a German submarine suddenly surfaced in Newport Harbor, or the escape of a bear, tiger, and panther from a circus train on the Stonington Railroad. Still fewer may have heard about the World War II fighter plane that crash-landed in the middle of a secret listening post for intercepting enemy radio signals, tucked away on a farm in Scituate. Forgotten Tales digs deep into Rhode Island's history and unearths little-known stories and folklore that span three centuries. Read about the undertaker who dug his own grave, midnight gold diggers using magical diagrams, Smithfield's "suicide bridge" and a pet elephant with a unique Achilles heel. Jim Ignasher delivers a strong dose of local color in this fascinating anecdotal history of the ocean state.