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Strange New England - Upton Chamber Mystery

Over 10 years ago, when we had just begun to delve into the stranger side of New England , a unique site that was top on our list was called the Chamber-Upton-4Upton Chamber. We stumbled across it in a book I had purchased from a used book store in Providence, R.I..

Upton chamber is one of the largest underground stone chambers in New England . A six foot high fourteen foot long tunnel leads into the mammoth chamber. The chamber is twelve feet in diameter and twelve feet high and beehive in shape, like a large stone igloo. Upton chamber is an amazing work of dry masonry with a cap stone weighing several tons. Archeologists believe it is just a colonial root cellar built in the 1700’s but there are those that recognized it similarity to early Irish and Iberic stone chambers and believe it was constructed over a thousand years earlier. Most archeologists feel this is fanciful thinking since there has been no evidence of Pre-colonial foreign visitors other than the Norse at Newfoundland in 1000 AD.

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