For well over a century, a remote five-mile wooded area near Leominster, Massachusetts has been the source of persistent paranormal tales, earning it the ominous nickname “Monsterland.” Reports continue to surface from locals claiming strange sightings and experiences in the woods, keeping the legends of this spooky New England locale alive.
The stories first began swirling back in the 1800s as settlers reported seeing a large, hairy, ape-like creature roaming the forests. But the lore took off in the 1950s when a shaken man burst into a Leominster bar, claiming he’d spotted a monster deep in the woods off Old Mill Road. He headed back to track it down, but vanished, never to return.
Since then, accounts of Bigfoot-type beasts, glowing orbs, and UFOs have become commonplace. “I’ve seen the orbs overhead at least nine times myself,” says lifelong Leominster resident and Monsterland investigator Ronny Le Blanc. “They’re silent, basketball-sized balls of light plasma. Then they just blink out.”
Le Blanc has been documenting the strangeness since his first supernatural encounter at age 11. “People have seen Bigfoot holding these orbs,” he reports. “When you dig deeper, these stories connect to UFO cases where ships seem to appear and make things disappear.”
Other locals also have unsettling stories, like a couple finding huge, human-like footprints in 2010. “The place just had an eerie silence and stillness,” the wife recalled. “We felt an urge to get out fast.”
Le Blanc believes the blurred line between science fiction and truth is about to sharpen. “If just one report here is legit, it changes everything we know,” he says. For now Monsterland remains a freaky legend, waiting to prove itself real.