Don’t believe the “Wright” hype — the evidence is that Bridgeport’s Gustave Whitehead was first to achieve motorized flight.
[August 14, 2010] A local high school teacher celebrated the 109th anniversary of Gustave Whitehead’s disputed first motorized flight with a flight of his own …
Source: Connecticut Post
Cocaine is a hell of a drug!
[August 14, 2010] A woman attempted to deposit a small bag of cocaine along with her checks at a Rockville Bank in South Windsor …
Source: NBC 30
As someone who has these pests in their very own backyard, Stratford has my condolences.
[August 13, 2010] Residents in Stratford have once again reported seeing white squirrels–a unique variation of the Eastern gray squirrel, that have also been spotted in Shelton and other towns …
Source: Connecticut Post
We’ve looked at the most popular haunted places in the state — now it’s time to take a look at some of the most unusual things Connecticut has to offer.
Given the Nazis “dislike” of things Hebrew, it’s kind of remarkable that they weren’t destroyed.
[August 12, 2010] Books that belonged to a Jewish family and had been seized by the Nazis in 1939 have now been returned to a Greenwich woman 71 years later …
Source: Connecticut Post
This one’s for the birds (and their lovers)!
[August 10, 2010] A white-tailed kite, a hawk-like raptor usually only found in the Southwestern U.S., has been seen in the Lordship section of Stratford, the first such documented sighting in state history …
Source: Connecticut Post
You would think that after two and a half centuries, ghosts would be ready to move onto other places, but that doesn’t seem to be the case with the John York House.
Sad that this poor woman died, but her own husband couldn’t find her in their bedroom? Really?
[August 4, 2010] A Stratford woman who was reported missing by her husband was eventually discovered in her own bedroom under a large pile of laundry, having apparently died of a heart attack …
Source: Connecticut Post
About 20 years ago, we caught one of these in the Sound off of Milford, which I guess was more unusual than we thought at the time.
[Aug. 2, 2010] A pair of Milford men caught a four-foot sand tiger shark while fishing in Long Island Sound …
Source: NBC 30
No chance alcohol was involved, right?
[Aug. 2, 2010] A Norwich man took a floor sweeper from a garage at Mohegan Sun Casino and went on a joyride, which ended in a collision with a pickup truck …
Source: The Day of New London
