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Greetings Friends, Happy Spring! We just kicked off walking tour season last Friday night. What a great night it was for a sold out tour of downtown Portsmouth! This is a wonderful time of year to book a tour with us. Long-awaited summertime classes are on the schedule, if you are looking for some informative and…

Tales of Madness & Mayhem Saturday, March 19th at the Players Ring

The doors of the historic building that houses the Players Ring theater are open, do you dare step inside? Join author and storyteller Roxie Zwicker for a fun evening of curious tales that shows New England has always had an undercurrent of madness dating back to Colonial Days. During this theater experience Roxie will offer…

Join Us For A Pirate’s Night For Me!

  Ahoy Mates! Set sail for a maritime adventure, satisfy your inner pirate and join us for a swashbuckling evening. Come and conspire with the pirates in the beautiful and historic Port City as we swing through New England maritime mystery and lore in this immersive theater experience. Thursday, November 11th and Thursday, November 18th…

Besom and Bone Witches Halloween Night Market – Portsmouth, NH

New England Curiosities is proud to present the Besom and Bone Witches Night Market. Come where the mystical and magickal emerge from out of the shadows. The Player’s Ring Theater at the end of the Portsmouth Halloween Parade is where we are found! With purse in hand, come to our door, there is no…

Cemetery Symbolism Series is Back!

You asked for a repeat of session 1, so here it is if you missed it! This is not a replay, but live Zoom workshop… Cemetery Symbolism – Session One. Monday, May 10th at 7:00 pm. Every gravestone tells a story; from the stones themselves to the intricate details of the carvings. In this workshop…

Pop Up Ghost Stories With New England Curiosities on Facebook Live – Edgar Allan Poe

Pop Up Ghost Story Night on Facebook Live! Join Maine’s Mystery Maven, Roxie from New England Curiosities for an hour of creepy ghost stories and history.   Friday Night, January 29th at 7:00 pm. In this month’s edition of Pop Up Ghost Stories Roxie will be taking guests on a journey through the dusty pages…

Haunted Lighthouses of New England Virtual Tour 1/25/2021

Haunted Lighthouses of New England Virtual Tour on Monday, January 25th at 7:00 pm on Zoom – Explore the mystery, lore and hauntings of some of New England’s most historic lighthouses on this virtual tour/webinar, which offers a combination of historic images, video and still photos along with first hand experiences and stories you may…

Haunted New Hampshire – Virtual Tour on Zoom

Join us this Friday, January 8th, 2021 at 7:00 pm on Zoom for our Virtual Tour of Haunted New Hampshire. Join Roxie for a search of the legends and ghosts of New Hampshire. Follow the peaceful dirt roads to long forgotten ghost stories, you’ll hear superstitions from some of the quaint, small towns and learn…

Seasons Greetings To You!

    Hello! We hope this Blog Post finds you and yours doing well. It has been an unusual year for everyone and we miss seeing all of your faces, whether at a workshop, on a tour or in a reading.  The plan was to adjust and stay connected online and we have had some…

Wicked Virtual Film Festival 2020

  With Halloween creeping around the corner, two of New England’s ghoulish ghost writers are assembling a motley crew of spooktacular documentaries and films for a 13-hour WICKED VIRTUAL FILM FEST 2020. Sam Baltrusis from “Paranormal Rewind” and Roxie Zwicker from New England Curiosities will unleash this online Halloween experience 7 p.m. Friday, October 30th…

Join us for virtual fun, education and ghost stories!

We are so excited to bring you to the next level of New England Curiosities!  Our classes and workshops have gone virtual through Zoom.  Over the years guests and students have been asking about attending our sessions from wherever they are.  Let’s interact and learn together!  We will email your worksheets and additional session notes…

The Secret is Out – Roxie is Publishing an Oracle Card Deck through Kickstarter

  I’ve been secretly working on this project for several years, and 2020 is the year to move forward with it.  From my personal photo collection that covers New England’s most historic and hallowed graveyards, I present the Memento Mori Oracle.  A 58 card oracle deck created from high quality materials, and printed in Maine….