Submitted by Stamfordsterling t3_10fki1j in Connecticut
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DungareeManSkedaddle t1_j4xhfsa wrote
Milford!
Language-Aromatic t1_j4xjsxs wrote
Taxes will be lowered. I still get chills.
OkQuestion80 t1_j4xkw0o wrote
Trumbull!
Advanced-Sun-2200 t1_j4xqtau wrote
Maudes grave on Hell Hollow Road
CTRealtorCarl t1_j4xtdqi wrote
2 for Bethany...one is complete legend "The Downs Road Monster" having to do with a creepy abandoned road that would have connected Bethany to Hamden.
Another is "Murder by a madman" which is written on a gravestone in Sperry Cemetary... this one is less legend and based on truth but worthy of legend if you look it up!
blizzacane85 t1_j4xwp8y wrote
Pygmy Village in New Britain
TCPottery t1_j4y00aq wrote
Oh, Carl! You let us buy in this spooky town? I think I have to ground you!!
CTRealtorCarl t1_j4y2o7y wrote
Instead of spooky think historic. 😬
TriStateGirl t1_j4y4uol wrote
My old hometown of Trumbull. There's actually various versions of this story throughout the country.
TCPottery t1_j4y7zvk wrote
If Historic = Murder House
leonardleonardson t1_j4ycmg0 wrote
Vampire apparently
InvisibleTeeth t1_j4yen3s wrote
Black dog
Turd__Fergusson t1_j4ygu0w wrote
Thought trumbull had drac drive?
PoorInCT t1_j4yipsl wrote
Some guy supposedly put a post on r/Connecticut suggesting that taxes could go down if the state cuts spending and people think they/them/him/her live in my town.
Stamfordsterling OP t1_j4yl1ul wrote
What is the story
Stamfordsterling OP t1_j4yl4f1 wrote
The only place ive ever been to in Trumbull is the mall
Proud-Breakfast-8429 t1_j4yo8ii wrote
Grandpa: we once had affordable electric bills
doughbacca t1_j4zpiw3 wrote
Dracula Drive is Velvet Street and is where the Melon Head tale takes place.
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https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/connecticut/velvet-street-ct/
DungareeManSkedaddle t1_j5001ls wrote
https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-melon-heads-of-connecticut/
> The melon heads live on the outskirts of town on heavily wooded country roads, known as melon head roads. Zion Hill Road, for example, is Milford’s melon head road. Saw Mill City Road is Shelton’s. The melon heads also supposedly live on the outskirts of Monroe, Stratford, Seymour, Weston, Easton, Oxford, Southbury, Fairfield, New Haven and Trumbull.
stacefacex0 t1_j50o7wd wrote
Dracula Drive!
stacefacex0 t1_j50ofli wrote
Possible urban legend possible truth, but Stephen King lived in Stratford for a few years as a child and it was rumored this is where he got inspiration for Stand By Me and he saw someone get hit on the train tracks
STODracula t1_j50qaky wrote
Tell me you're from Meriden wo telling me, lol.
STODracula t1_j50r2rz wrote
Still waiting for Easton, Cornwall, Moodus, and Hamden people as I see none below and know they all have one. Heck, saw the Warrens picture from Easton once in Storrs. My town's boring, except it has the Haunting in CT house.
solomons-marbles t1_j512eev wrote
Things that go bump in the night. A PBS special that aired this fall, several pieces are CT lore.
InvisibleTeeth t1_j513vfr wrote
im actually from Wallingford...but i now live in Meriden lol
Vermigs t1_j51iei1 wrote
Downs Road in Hamden (goes all the way to Bethany) is supposedly haunted by ghosts and things similar to melon heads.
B_njam t1_j51rtuu wrote
Shoebox Lane, in Wallingford. It was a scary story my grandparents used to tell, and I looked it up one day as an adult only to find out it was true- dismembered body found stuffed in a shoebox, they never solved who/why.
TrashPandaShire t1_j521d8k wrote
The cemetery
Joggingmusic t1_j52vci6 wrote
I love that anyone from the hanging hills neighborhoods knows this story!
TrashPandaShire t1_j53ksm8 wrote
The house In Southington
QuestorPS7 t1_j56pec3 wrote
Stephen King for sure lived in Stratford for a while as a child and talks about it in his book On Writing. He doesn’t mention the train incident, but he does talk about how a trashed, vacant lot near his family’s apartment in Stratford has appeared in many of his books, including It.
CT_Cryptids t1_j56qjdc wrote
The Downs Road Monster and the Charles Sanford murders are somewhat related because the murders happened near the southern end of Downs Road. There’s not a direct line, but Sanford may be how stories of the Downs Road Monster began.
The whole thing is a bizarre tale. Sanford definitely had a mental illness but he likely snapped because his uncle — no joke — was murdered by a cult in New Haven.
http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2013/03/murdered-by-maniac-guest-post-by-james.html?m=1
CT_Cryptids t1_j56qo1m wrote
There’s always the Moodus Noises, which have lots of great stories associated with them.
CT_Cryptids t1_j56ra0u wrote
The “creature in the dairy barn” in Ellington is a particularly fun one.
http://newenglandfolklore.blogspot.com/2010/08/monster-in-barn.html?m=1
Ditto the Mystic Pigman
https://www.damnedct.com/damned-interview-courtney-mcinvale/
Few-Information7570 t1_j588gea wrote
The legend of the cougar. Neglected by her hedge fund husband she was driven to stalk the country roads late at night.
Lazy-Drink-277 t1_j59qci5 wrote
Jewett City Vampires
zebrakate t1_j4xgplh wrote
Melon Heads