![]() ![]() ![]() The land had since time unremembered been known for producing loud, rumbling or booming noises from the wilderness, sometimes also sounding like cracking, popping, or breaking rock, to the point that the very name of the place comes from the Algonquian name for the area Matchetmadosett or Matchitmoodus, literally meaning “the place of bad noises.” The Indians believed these weird sounds were coming from the god Hobomock, a great spirit who came in the form of a serpent and controlled darkness, disease, and bad weather, who dwelled within nearby Mt. ![]()
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