{"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":"The Connecticut River Monster","slug":"the-connecticut-river-monster","published_at":"2026-04-16T14:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-england-legends-podcast-726559/the-connecticut-river-monster","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/new-england-legends-podcast-726559","url":"https://newenglandlegends.libsyn.com/the-connecticut-river-monster","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/newenglandlegends/NEL442_CTRiverMonster.mp3?dest-id=1244321","summary":"In Episode 442, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger investigate the Connecticut River in Westminster, Vermont, searching for a 100-foot-long monster serpent that's been witnessed along the river for centuries. One of the earliest sightings led to a religious conversion to a historical figure. Is the beast still out there? See more here: https://ournewenglandlegends.com/podcast-442-the-connecticut-river-monster/ 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":"In Episode 442, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger investigate the Connecticut River in Westminster, Vermont, searching for a 100-foot-long monster serpent that'…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1127,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/new-england-legends-podcast-726559/episodes/the-connecticut-river-monster/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/the-connecticut-river-monster.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}