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Simsbury, Connecticut
Built in 1780 by Jonathan Pettibone Jr. as a stop on the Boston-to-Albany turnpike, this tavern hosted travelers including George…
New Haven, Connecticut
McAuliffe Hall - Is indeed haunted by a small boy and woman in green is possibly true but she is believed to haunt the front staircase, and…
Meriden, Connecticut
The legend has an unusually clear origin for a piece of regional folklore: in the winter of 1898, The Connecticut Quarterly published a…
Norfolk, Connecticut
Built in 1763 as the Moseley House-Farm, this colonial mansion was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. A network of…
Stratford, Connecticut
Brothers David Beach Boothe and Stephen Nichols Boothe spent decades building an eccentric 34-acre homestead on land their family had…
Putnam, Connecticut
The Bradley Playhouse is a community theater in downtown Putnam. Actors describe a woman in the balcony, the Lady in Blue, and reflections…
Branford, Connecticut
Branford Supply Pond Park covers 350 wooded acres around a former water-supply reservoir. Visitors on its trails have long reported what…
Voluntown, Connecticut
Voluntown takes its name from land granted in 1700 to veterans of the Narragansett War, fought against the Narragansett, Mohegan, and other…
Morris, Connecticut
From 1903 to 1989, this 600-acre site was Columbia University's rural summer campus, where engineering and surveying students got hands-on…
Preston, Connecticut
Captain William Grant built this house in Poquetanuck Village in 1754 for his wife Mercy and their children; Grant was later lost at sea,…
Seymour, Connecticut
William Henry Harrison Wooster — founder of the Seymour Manufacturing Company, the Seymour Trust, and the Seymour Water Company — built…
Bristol, Connecticut
Built in 1884 as a schoolhouse in Bristol's North Chippens Hill district, the building became a Sunday school under the Sessions family and…
Woodbury, Connecticut
Built in 1754, this is often cited as Connecticut's oldest operating inn. Guests and staff report the presence of a spirit locally called…
Newtown, Connecticut
Newtown's public library opened in 1932, a posthumous gift from Mary Elizabeth Hawley, who named it for her grandfather, a Newtown…
Tolland, Connecticut
Built in 1720 by Daniel Benton, this house belonged to one of Tolland's wealthiest and most influential families. His grandson Elisha…
East Haddam, Connecticut
This 1,000-acre state park along the Eightmile River takes its name from a colonial hop farm once worked nearby, but it's known today for…
New London, Connecticut
Nobel laureate playwright Eugene O'Neill based his autobiographical masterpiece "Long Day's Journey Into Night" on this childhood home and…
Newtown, Connecticut
Fairfield Hills State Hospital was dedicated in 1931, took its first patients in 1933 and closed in 1995, housing thousands of patients at…
Fairfield, Connecticut
Dolan Hall was formerly a convent before its conversion to a Fairfield University residence hall. A widely told story about a nun who was…
New Haven, Connecticut
Local ghost tellings describe glowing green orbs inside the gated bunkers at Fort Nathan Hale and figures of soldiers along the beach and…
Waterford, Connecticut
Local legend holds that witches were burned along this road in the Quaker Hill section of Waterford, but there's no historical record of…
New London, Connecticut
The Garde Theatre opened in 1926 as a vaudeville and movie house and is now a performing arts center. Staff tell of a lighting engineer who…
Salem, Connecticut
Anglers and campers on Gardner Lake have long reported faint piano music rising from the water, heard from every direction, said to be the…
Hebron, Connecticut
Gay City was a mill village founded in 1796 by a Methodist community from Hartford, named for John Gay, with lumber, textile and rag-paper…