Ask anyone who grew up in this part of Rhode Island about this road after dark, and watch their face change. A slight pause.
A glance toward the ground. The road runs past one of the oldest properties in New England, a house built in the sixteen hundreds on land that the founder of the colony once used as a trading post. Forty men who passed in a brutal colonial war are buried in a mass grave on those grounds. Just down the road sits an inn investigated by a famous ghost hunting show, with reports of a crying boy, a little girl with burn scars, and objects moving on their own.
The house is beautiful during the day. But after ten at night, locals take a different route.
The History That Makes Smith’s Castle So Unsettling After Dark
Few places in New England carry as much layered, complicated history as Smith’s Castle. Built in 1678, the house sits on land that was once a trading post established by Roger Williams himself, the founder of Rhode Island…