Old State House

Built in 1796 as Connecticut's State Capitol, the Old State House stands on the site where Alse Young was hanged in 1647 — the first person executed for witchcraft in the American colonies, decades before Salem. In the late 1970s, Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated reports that the ghost of Joseph Steward, a local painter who ran a museum here in the early 1800s, still roamed the second floor. Visitors and staff continue to report unexplained footsteps and the murmur of what sounds like a ghostly assembly still in session.