Bridgewater Triangle

One of the projects I am working on here at my internship has to do with something called psychic archeology, which is exactly what it sounds like. Basically, psychics will travel to different archeological sights around the country to help archeologists out with things that they could not possibly know on their own from concrete materials or evidence. The psychic archeologists will give their insights and intuitions and the regular archeologists will use those clues to help them find new discoveries. This is how it is supposed to work. However, I am pretty sure the psychics either just tell the archeologists things that are already common knowledge or they are just plain wrong. Either way, I was able to go on a pretty interesting outing yesterday to a place called the Bridgewater Triangle.
The Bridgewater Triangle is an area in Massachusetts where countless reports of paranormal sightings have occurred. I am not sure what the paranormal has to do with psychics but I was happy to go along for the rise. Basically, my three colleagues and I went to the area to find out if any of the myths about the place were true. If they seemed to have any real weight to them, then we could potentially try to fit the Triangle into an episode with the psychic archeologists. We first went to the Hockamock swamp, a large swamp within the triangle which means, “place where the spirit dwells.” I have to admit that the swamp was very creepy. It was a very damp, rainy day which added to the gloomy atmosphere, but even without the weather the Hockamock swamp is one of the most popular Halloween destinations for teenagers. We didn’t actually see paranormal activity of course, but we decided to shoot some b-roll since the locations had a lot of character and would be interesting to look at on screen.
Throughout the day we met with a few townspeople and asked them about the local legends- all of them knew all the details about the myths. There are “ghost lights”, animal mutations, “black helicopters” (a term I still don’t really understand), and even murders. I would have to say talking to people n the town was the most interesting part of the day. It was great to see the kind of enthusiasm people had about their town and its history. We’re not sure what to take out of yesterday but at the very least we shot some good footage and met with a few characters who could be interesting interviewees in the future.