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On June 1, 1896, Howard Hobbs shot Fred Milliken and then died by suicide on Wood Island. Later accounts describe strange sounds inside the lighthouse keeper's quarters, a phantom dog and wispy figures near the shoreline. New England Legends examines the deaths and the subsequent reported haunting.
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New England Legends, episode 151
The Haunting of Wood Island examines the 1896 deaths and reported encounters.
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