The search is on for the remnants of a planet that may have existed in our solar system over 4.5 billion years ago.

Okay, that’s just nasty.
After she hit him with a ball, a Naugatuck man chased down a 12-year-old girl and allegedly licked her face …
Source: Hartford Courant

One of the best-known apparitions in the state, The Green Lady of Burlington, is said to haunt the grounds of this centuries-old burying ground.

Obviously, not to be confused with those VIP store billboards (I think).
[April 11, 2009] An East Hampton woman is trying to land a job by advertising herself on a billboard on I-95 in Bridgeport…
Source: NBC 30 & AP

I think this is how the infamous Bat Boy of the Weekly World News got started.
[April 11, 2009] A bat bit a 10-year old Middletown boy 15 times and the boy is now waiting to find out if the animal was rabid…
Source: NBC 30

I bet that’s one mellow kid.
[April 9, 2009] Connecticut state police have seized a large quantity of drugs at a home in Putnam, including marijuana plants growing in a baby’s bedroom…
Source: New London Day

Once a children’s hospital, and later a facility for the mentally challenged, Seaside Sanatorium in Waterford has been abandoned for over a decade, despite its architectural pedigree and prime location.

April is a damned busy month, with four different events that seem as though they might be worth checking out.

I’m guessing they’re not going to be crucified at the end of their trek, but hey, you never know.
[April 8, 2009] Two Sacred Heart students in Fairfield carried eight-foot crosses on a two-day, 24-mile jaunt from Orange to Fairfield to re-create the path Jesus took to his crucifixion…
Source: NBC 30

All I can picture is that scene from Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure when Pee-Wee is screaming while rescuing the snakes from the burning pet shop.
[April 7, 2009] Milford’s animal contol officer had to remove a few exotic “pets” from a local home . . .
Source: Connecticut Post