Odysseus in Mass E161

In 1832 a stolen map was found in a Paris junk shop. The map had been missing for over 300 years and showed a previously known level of detail of the continents on the other side of the world including the outline of New England that the mapmaker had never seen himself...Photos and contact: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/⁠Get a Postcard from a Lost Place: ⁠⁠https://lostmassachusetts.com/get-or-send-a-postcard⁠Want a Lost Mass Wooden Nickel? https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/wooden-nickels-e73About Mechanic Street: https://lostmassachusetts.com/mechanic-streetSources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Did two Venetian brothers and a Scandinavian prince stumble on Massachusetts and get turned away? Photos and contact: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/⁠Get a Postcard from a Lost Place: ⁠⁠https://lostmassachusetts.com/get-or-send-a-postcard⁠Want a Lost Mass Wooden Nickel? https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/wooden-nickels-e73About Mechanic Street: https://lostmassachusetts.com/mechanic-streetSources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Is it coincidence the Portuguese discovered a place they called The Land of Cod (Bacalao) across the Atlantic? Photos and contact: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/⁠Get a Postcard from a Lost Place: ⁠⁠https://lostmassachusetts.com/get-or-send-a-postcard⁠Want a Lost Mass Wooden Nickel? https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/wooden-nickels-e73About Mechanic Street: https://lostmassachusetts.com/mechanic-streetSources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Pondering over a lost book, Inventio Fortunata, by a forgotten monk that contains descriptions and maps of voyages to strange places, possibly containing an outline of Massachusetts that was copied into other maps for centuries... Photos and contact: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/⁠Get a Postcard from a Lost Place: ⁠⁠https://lostmassachusetts.com/get-or-send-a-postcard⁠Want a Lost Mass Wooden Nickel? https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place/f/wooden-nickels-e73About Mechanic Street: https://lostmassachusetts.com/mechanic-streetSources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

People were stumbling upon an unidentified landmass in the Atlantic for centuries before it vaporized completely. Is there another way across ocean we have forgotten?Photos and contact: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/⁠About Mechanic Street: https://lostmassachusetts.com/mechanic-streetSources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

We ponder over theories that the Homer's Odyssey takes our adventurer far beyond the Mediterranean and to Massachusetts...Photos and contact: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/⁠About Mechanic Street: https://lostmassachusetts.com/mechanic-streetSources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

On this All Saints Day, Lost Massachusetts invites you to a reflection garden that can be seen from space... Photos and contact: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/⁠About Mechanic Street: https://lostmassachusetts.com/mechanic-streetSources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

This is the 100 year anivarsary of H.P. Lovecraft's Pickman's Model. In the first part we brief the story and then read it in its entirety. The entire scary story takes place on the streets of Boston. in Part 2 I join a Lovecraft aficionado for a tour of the locations discussed in the tale...Photos and contact: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/⁠About Mechanic Street: https://lostmassachusetts.com/mechanic-streetSources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Frogs, fish, squid, unidentifiable blobs of gelatinous goo falling from the skies over Massachusetts! Photos and contact: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/⁠About Mechanic Street: https://lostmassachusetts.com/mechanic-streetSources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place

Did a storm in 1717 carry a whaling boat over Cape Cod into the Atlantic Ocean? According to S.E. Schlosser in Spooky New England it did...Photos and contact: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/lostmassachusetts/⁠About Mechanic Street: https://lostmassachusetts.com/mechanic-streetSources, links, blog, etc.: https://lostmassachusetts.com/a-lost-place