{"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 Lordship Mermaid","slug":"ftv-the-lordship-mermaid","published_at":"2026-03-16T14:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-england-legends-podcast-726559/ftv-the-lordship-mermaid","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-england-legends-podcast-726559","url":"https://newenglandlegends.libsyn.com/ftv-the-lordship-mermaid","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/newenglandlegends/FTV-160-LordshipMermaid.mp3?dest-id=1244321","summary":"Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 160 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to the Stratford, Connecticut, coast by the Stratford Point Lighthouse in search of a mermaid sighting that was reported in great detail by lighthouse keeper Theodore Judson in July of 1915. Mermaid fever had gripped the region decades earlier thanks to another local Connecticut guy name P.T. Barnum who introduced the world to the Feejee Mermaid in the 1840s. This episode first aired June 4, 2020 Listen ad-free plus get early access and bonus episodes at: https://www.patreon.com/NewEnglandLegends","meta_description":"Welcome to New England Legends From the Vault – FtV Episode 160 – Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to the Stratford, Connecticut, coast by the Stratford P…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1155,"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-lordship-mermaid/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-lordship-mermaid.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}