{"podcast":{"title":"New England Legends Podcast","slug":"new-england-legends-podcast-726559","podcast_index_feed_id":726559,"rss_url":"https://newenglandlegends.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://ournewenglandlegends.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/6/4/9/f/649f6506b2bf394a/1000_100118.jpg","author":"Jeff Belanger","episode_count":160,"summary":"Twice each week, legend hunter, author, and historian Jeff Belanger and radio host Ray Auger explore the ghosts, monsters, aliens, folklore, history, roadside oddities, true crime, and legends of New England in this award-winning podcast. If you give us about twenty minutes, we'll give you something strange to talk about today. The bizarre is closer than you think!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T04:19:28.613746+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-england-legends-podcast-726559"},"episode":{"title":"FtV - The Battle of the Frogs","slug":"ftv-the-battle-of-the-frogs","published_at":"2026-06-15T14:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-england-legends-podcast-726559/ftv-the-battle-of-the-frogs","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-england-legends-podcast-726559","url":"https://newenglandlegends.libsyn.com/ftv-the-battle-of-the-frogs-0","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/newenglandlegends/FTV-173-BattleFrogs.mp3?dest-id=1244321","summary":"Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 173 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger stroll downtown Willimantic, and nearby Windham, Connecticut, is search of a French and Indian War battle site that left thousands dead in July of 1758. The region has never forgotten, nor will it ever forgive those responsible for the slaughter. There are monuments to the battle, an opera written about it, and since September of 2000, a Willimantic bridge even tips its hat to those responsible lest we ever forget. This episode first aired August 29, 2019 Listen ad-free plus get early access and bonus episodes at: https://www.patreon.com/NewEnglandLegends Buy Jeff Belanger's new book Wicked Strange New England on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4lMkM3G Check out Jeff's new underground publication Shadow Zine! https://shadowzine.com/ Listen to Ray's Local Raydio! https://localraydio.com/","meta_description":"Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 173 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger stroll downtown Willimantic, and nearby Windham, Connecticut…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1217,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-england-legends-podcast-726559/episodes/ftv-the-battle-of-the-frogs/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-england-legends-podcast-726559/ftv-the-battle-of-the-frogs.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}