All entries by Ray

A Missing Planet?

By Ray Bendici  | Category: The Damned Blog

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


Man Arrested for Licking Girl’s Face

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Weird News

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


Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery, Burlington

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Hauntings

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.


Woman Advertises Self on Billboard

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Weird News

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


Bat Bites Boy 15 Times

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Weird News

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


Growing Pot . . . and Babies

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Weird News

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


Seaside Sanatorium, Waterford

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Abandoned, Hauntings

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 Damned Events

By Ray Bendici  | Category: The Damned Blog

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


Cross Walking

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Weird News

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


Scorpions and Snakes “Rescued” from Home

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Weird News

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