The Chicken Box

Massachusetts · United States · Haunted site

A former chicken coop, then a speakeasy, now a bar. One winter morning somebody watched a group in the car park dragging a case the size of a refrigerator.

The Chicken Box on Nantucket began as an actual chicken coop, served as a speakeasy through Prohibition, and is now one of the island's best known bars.

In the early hours of a winter morning, somebody reported a number of people in the car park dragging a case about the size of a refrigerator.

The police were called. What happened when their headlights came round is the account.

Nantucket in winter is a particular place. The summer population leaves, the ferries run less often, and a few thousand people are left on a sandbar thirty miles out in the Atlantic. Anything seen in a car park in January is seen by very few witnesses and cannot be checked against a crowd.

The island's earlier history is whaling, which sent men away for three and four years at a time and frequently did not send them back.

The bar is open and has live music.

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Where is The Chicken Box located?

The Chicken Box is in Massachusetts, United States.