History Channel heads to Bridgewater Triangle to investigate 'Native American curse'

Amelia Stern, The Enterprise
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The History Channel will head to the Brockton area’s own backyard to investigate an ancient "Native American curse" in a one-hour episode, “Bridgewater Triangle,” airing on Tuesday, July 18.

The episode will air as part of the first season of “Beyond Skinwalker Ranch,” a spinoff of the History Channel’s multi-season realty show, “The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch.”

“Since 2020, Dr. Travis Taylor along with Erik Bard and their investigative team have been working around the clock to collect, analyze and decode as much data as possible associated with the phenomenon occurring at [Skinwalker Ranch],” The History Chanel said.

“Their experiments have yielded amazing results, but not enough to fully unlock the secret of the ranch,” they continued.

The Hockomock Swamp is considered a “hot spot” in the Bridgewater Triangle
The Hockomock Swamp is considered a “hot spot” in the Bridgewater Triangle

What is 'Beyond Skinwalker Ranch'?

This seven-episode season will feature former CIA Intelligence Officer Andy Bustamante and actor, writer and producer Paul Beban as they investigate paranormal hotspots across the U.S — from Arizona to Nevada and Colorado and all the way to The Bridgewater Triangle, a 200-square-mile area within Southeastern Massachusetts that is a hotspot for reports of paranormal activity.

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What is the Bridgewater Triangle episode about?

According to IMDb’s description of the episode, Bustamante and Beban "are in Massachusetts to investigate one of America's oldest sites of High Strangeness and discover that an ancient Native American curse could still be active."

Why a 'Native American curse'?

Author and paranormal investigator Jeff Belanger told our sister paper the Taunton Daily Gazette in 2020 he believes the phenomena associated with the Bridgewater Triangle have their origins in the King Philip's War — a war between the English settlers and the Native Americans in the mid 1670s. The bloodiest war per capita in U.S. history, it took place largely in the Bridgewater Triangle region and ended with the Wampanoag chief Metacom, also known as King Philip, being hung, beheaded, drawn and quartered and his head displayed on a pike for 200 years at Plymouth Colony.

"You've probably heard the trope of the 'unfinished business.' The unfinished business really has nothing to do with the dead. It has everything to do with the living," Belanger said. "We don't like people getting away with murder, even if it happened a long time ago. So there's this nagging feeling that happened in this area."

This multiple exposure photograph of former Enterprise reporter Susannah Sudborough, who was a reporter for our sister paper the Taunton Daily Gazette at the time, was taken inside King Philip's Cave in Norton, said to be a Bridgewater Triangle hot spot, on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020.
This multiple exposure photograph of former Enterprise reporter Susannah Sudborough, who was a reporter for our sister paper the Taunton Daily Gazette at the time, was taken inside King Philip's Cave in Norton, said to be a Bridgewater Triangle hot spot, on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020.

But many other Triangle investigators believe King Philip's War is merely a symptom of the negative energy there, and that its mysteriousness is much older, having something to do with the land and possibly even being conscious.

"There are these areas all over the globe that are nicknamed 'window areas,'" Andrew Lake of Greenville Paranormal research told the Taunton Daily Gazette in 2020. "There are these locations that seem to be like a tear in the veil to other realities."

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How did the Bridgewater Triangle get its name?

The modern cultural origin of the Bridgewater Triangle legend is widely thought to lie within cryptozoologist Loren Coleman's 1983 book "Mysterious America." In it, he coined the term "Bridgewater Triangle," inspired of course by the Bermuda Triangle, established its rough boundaries and identified some of the Triangle's most notable places and legends, calling it a "window area of unexplained occurrences."

Coleman establishes Rehoboth in the southwest, Abington in the north and Freetown in the southeast as the three points of the Triangle — meaning hundreds of thousands of people in Taunton, Brockton, Raynham, Berkley, Dighton, Easton, Norton, Mansfield and the Bridgewaters live inside it.

The Bridgewater Triangle is one of the areas where Paranormal Researcher Chris Pittman, seen here in 2011, has investigated.
The Bridgewater Triangle is one of the areas where Paranormal Researcher Chris Pittman, seen here in 2011, has investigated.

The History Channel did not immediately return requests for comment or more information about where they filmed locally for the episode.

How can I watch the Bridgewater Triangle episode of 'Beyond Skinwalker Ranch'?

The “Bridgewater Triangle” episode of "Beyond Skinwalker Ranch" will air on The History Channel on Tuesday, July 18 at 10 p.m. It will be available to stream the day after it airs, on Wednesday, July 19, on History.com and will be available for purchase on Amazon Prime Video.

Where can I learn more about the Bridgewater Triangle?

Want to get up to speed on the Bridgewater Triangle? You can binge read the Taunton Daily Gazette's 2020 series by reporter Susannah Sudborough on the Triangle here:

What is the Bridgewater Triangle anyway? A look at the dark and paranormal tales of this 'window area of unexplained occurrences'

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Exploring the Bridgewater Triangle Our reporter heads out when the lights go down and the legends come out

Susannah Sudborough contributed to this report.

This article originally appeared on The Enterprise: Bridgwater Triangle featured in episode of 'Beyond Skinwalker Ranch'

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