Arriba!
[August 4, 2011] A mariachi band performing at a wedding reception at Mystic Aquarium serenaded a curious beluga whale, who seemed to dance with the music [video] …
Source: YouTube

Before it was known as a creepy abandoned mental hospital, Seaside Sanatorium was a place that employed unusual methods to cure sick kids.

But is it good eatin’?
[August 3, 2011] Two fishermen on Lake Winfield in Plymouth reeled in a pacu, a foot-long tropical fish with teeth related to a piranha and native to South America …
Source: Waterbury Republican-American

Apparently “ripe” doesn’t seem to cover the stench from this place. Ugh!
[July 30, 2011] The badly decomposed body of a Hartford woman was found on Friday, almost three months after neighbors had called police to check on the situation …
Source: Hartford Courant

Tinfoil hats, for real?
[July 30, 2011] An eccentric man and his daughter — who used to wear tin foil hats and ride bikes equipped with sirens — are dead after it appears the father killed his daughter, set fire to the home (which was already boarded up from the inside) and then killed himself …
Source: Meriden Record-Journal

Did they see a kid playing a banjo? (More about the Hog River here)
[July 30, 2011] Two artists from Middletown have been exploring Hartford’s underground river …
Source: Hartford Courant

Even though UFOs aren’t as popular as they were during the heyday of “The X-Files,” they are still being seen regularly in the skies over Connecticut.

Liked that it had a name: The St. Croix Mountain Lion.
[July 26, 2011] The DEP has reported that the results from the necropsy done on the mountain lion hit by a car in Milford show that the animal originated in South Dakota and migrated east …
Source: Middletown Press

Be on the lookout for large, gray suspects with huge ears and long noses.
[July 19, 2011] A bizarre theft occurred at Action Wildlife in Goshen when thieves took 400 bales of hay and two wagons …
Source: Waterbury Republican-American

Horse hair toupees?
[July 17, 2011] Police are investigating a case involving a New Hartford horse that mysteriously had a chunk of its mane cut off …
Source: Waterbury Republican-American