New Bedford's Dipper Cafe Launches Spooky Southcoast Bar Pizza

They say you know you’ve made it when you get a menu item named after you at one of your favorite eateries. Well, either you’ve made it, or you’re just there a whole heck of a lot.

Either way, I’m pretty excited that, after nearly 20 years of Spooky Southcoast being a thing, The Dipper Cafe in New Bedford has created a pizza named after our paranormal show.

Way back in January of 2006, when we first launched the radio show/podcast that would end up turning me into a “ghost guy” (for better or worse) for the rest of my professional career, I was just a dude in my mid-20s who enjoyed researching the paranormal and eating my favorite South Shore Bar Pizza from Lynwood Cafe in Randolph.

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Never did I think that someday, there would be a bar pizza that was just as good, in a bar co-owned by another guy that also does a podcast that talks about the paranormal, and that he would create a pizza that brings it all full 10-inch circle.

Josh Gagne – or “Big Truth,” as he’s known in the podcast world – invited me to come give another paranormal-themed presentation at The Dipper. It’s the second in our “Pizza and the Paranormal” series, after we packed the place in July 2024. This time, though, he made my dream come true when he suggested we create a Spooky Southcoast Pizza just for the occasion.

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For the past couple of weeks, The Dipper has been offering it on the menu. It’s a garlic (to keep the vampires away) pizza with a ghost pepper-ranch aioli drizzle. The drizzle is extra-awesome because it also turns the pizza a nice Halloween orange.

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I know what you’re thinking: ghost pepper is too much heat to handle. I thought the same at first, too. However, I recently tried the Spooky Southcoast Pizza for the first time and the aioli was actually rather mild. The Dipper will provide you with some uncut ghost pepper sauce if you want to add more kick, which I probably will do tonight when I return for “Pizza and the Paranormal.”

Pizza & the Paranormal Event Details

The event is slated for 7 p.m., and I’ll be presenting my popular “Ghosts of the Bridgewater Triangle” presentation. It gives some background on the paranormal vortex known as the Bridgewater Triangle, and also has photos, videos and audio clips of some of the experiences I’ve had conducting paranormal investigations throughout the Triangle.

All Aboard the South Shore Bar Pizza Train

One of the benefits of the new South Coast Rail commuter train connection New Bedford to Boston is that there are 11 good South Shore Bar Pizza stops en route.

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The Best of South Shore Bar Pizza

There's pizza, and then there's South Shore Bar Pizza. Birthed in Brockton (and to this writer, perfected in Randolph – Lynwood Café is the true G.O.A.T.), it must meet certain qualifications to be considered "SSBP," which include: it's a 10-inch pie; it has a thin, cracker-like crust with minimal "flop;" the cheese is a blend that features more cheddar than mozzarella; and bonus points if you take it home between two carboard-type plates wrapped in flat brown paper bag. They also usually come with "laced" or "burnt" edges (terminology depends on where you are ordering), which is when the sauce and cheese are extended all the way to the edge of the pan, creating a crispy, flavorful coating to the crust. We reached out to the hugely popular South Shore Bar Pizza Social Club Facebook group to ask the experts to share the best of the best (in no particular order).

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Paranormal Activity Reported in Massachusetts' Bridgewater Triangle

In his 1983 book Mysterious America, cryptozoologist Loren Coleman introduced a term he originally coined in the late 1970s – the Bridgewater Triangle – to describe an area with an abnormal level of paranormal activity and high strangeness in Southeastern Massachusetts. Over the years, the concept of the Triangle has expanded to include ghostly reports, UFO sightings, cryptid encounters, alien abductions and more across a wider swath of Southern New England.

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