Thu, Oct 24
|East Weare Cemetery
Weare: Beyond Belief II
6:30 at the East Weare Cemetery (24 Buzzell Hill Rd): Hear tales of the paranormal from local storytellers. Can you separate fact from fiction? If it’s raining, we’ll gather at the library. Have an incredible story (true or false) that you’d like to share? Call Cryptid Clay at 603-529-2044.
Time & Location
Oct 24, 2024, 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
East Weare Cemetery, 24 Buzzell Hill Rd, Weare, NH 03281, USA
About the Event
Portal to the Beyond Scheduled to Open in Weare Cemetery
If you visit the East Weare Cemetery on Thursday, October 24, after the sun sets (at 6:30pm), you be transported to the realm of truth and deception. Local storytellers will gather and tell amazing stories of the supernatural. Your challenge is to uncover which of these tales are fact and which are fiction.
The event is inspired by the television anthology series, Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, which aired in the late-90s and was hosted by Jonathan Frakes (better known as Star Trek’s Will Riker). While speaking to a local historian, Weare Library Director Clay Kriese, got the idea for doing a Weare version.
“Last summer, Rudy Bourget was kind enough to give tours of the former East Weare Village to our patrons,” said Kriese. “As fascinating as the real history was, he did add a few spooky tidbits – strange things he personally experienced and, yet, could not explain.
“Later, we were chatting at the library, and he mentioned a few more tales that he had made up to scare boy scouts, and suddenly a vision of Jonathan Frakes popped into my head declaring, ‘Yes, it happened!’ and ‘No, our writers made this one up!’
“My wife and I loved watching reruns of Beyond Belief. It was kind of like the Twilight Zone, but cheesier and full of bad puns. I thought, maybe we could do something like that at the library, or, better yet, in a cemetery!”
For this live version of Beyond Belief, Kriese is enlisting the help of anyone of any age who has a story that he or she would like to tell. “I’m just looking for short and casual narrations – a variety of real and unreal – scary and silly.”
There are still openings. If you have a story to share, call him at the library 603-529-2044 or email wearepl@comcast.net.
And, for the 24th, humans of all ages (living and otherwise) are invited to the spooky and spirited evening at the East Weare Cemetery on 24 Buzzell Hill Road.
Beware! Such an outing may be a little damp, chilly, dark, and creepy. Dress accordingly, and consider bringing your own blankets, seating, and flashlight. If it’s raining, the gathering will take place at the library.
“I think we’ll have a good turnout,” Kriese said. “Afterall, it being in a graveyard, people will be dying to get in.”