Providence Point Environmental Center

The Providence Point Environmental Center at 91 Point Place Road was built in the early 1940s by federal government officials - literally, the building was designed by biologists and built by US Army reservists. This, according to the few believers of the story, was the reason it was first constructed lacking proper ventilation. They say that two US Army biologists suffocated overnight on the first night the building was in official use, dead due to the plants' exchange of oxygen for carbon dioxide. (A story so ludicrous it is either patently false - but then how did the two men die? - or is due to the unusual nature of the plants, another hotly contested story.)



If the Center was indeed built for war research, a factory intended to churn out biological weapons, all of that was apparently quickly abandoned. The Center was sold to the city of Providence in 1942 and now serves as a tepid tourist attraction staffed by volunteers. The Center also grows daffodils to benefit cancer charity in the spring and poinsettias to benefit the local homeless around Christmastime.

No unexplained activity has been reported since ownership shifted to the city.

154 Waterman

The space has not rented since the incident.

Fishermen's Memorial Lighthouse

The "lighthouse" part of the Fishermen's Memorial is, of course, ceremonial, being located atop the First Church of Rhode Island quite a ways into the city of Providence proper and, most decidedly, landlocked. Instead, a real live burning fire, yes, even these days, is lit each evening in the tower to commemorate the deaths of the 246 fishermen, sailors, lobstermen, and other Providence men of the sea who have, since about 1750 when this sort of thing began to be counted, been lured into the icy waters of Narragansett Bay by the fabled New England sirens who are said to dwell there, and drowned.