Damned Investigations

If we’ve investigated a location, then you’ll find it here with photos and commentary. We have plenty of day trips and excursions planned for the future, so check back often.

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Sleeping Giant, Hamden

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Damned Investigations, Legends

One of the most popular hiking destinations in Connecticut, the story of Sleeping Giant State Park in Hamden includes Native American legends, dead bodies and, in our case, a sea of poison ivy!


Center Church, New Haven

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Damned Investigations, Weird Places

Center Church in New Haven is a little different from your normal centuries-old place of worship as it was built over a cemetery — not on, but over, as the original tombstones and graves sit as they have for 300 years in a crypt beneath the raised-up building.


Little People’s Village, Middlebury

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Damned Investigations, Weird Places

Little People’s Village in Middlebury is a complex of crumbling doll-sized houses that’s rumored to be the legacy of a crazy woman who thought she was “Queen of the Little People.” As with any good legend, “the story” and “the truth” are two quite different things.


Little Genesee Settlement, Guilford

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Abandoned, Damned Investigations

One of the lesser-known sites in Connecticut is the Little Genesee Settlement. Genesee is a dual curiosity — an abandoned Colonial-era settlement and potentially an astronomical calendar or spiritual complex of sorts.


Stepney Cemetery, Monroe

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Damned Investigations, Hauntings

The Stepney Cemetery dates back to the 1700s and is allegedly home to various spirit incarnations and ectoplasmic blobs. In addition, it allegedly serves as a “second home” of sorts for the White Lady of Union Cemetery.


The White Squirrels of Shelton

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Cryptozoology, Damned Investigations

The Damned Story: Often heard at my home in Shelton from first-time visitors: “Oooh look! A white squirrel right in your backyard!”
My response: “Yay. They’re still rats.”
Okay, I should be more excited to have something that’s considered somewhat unusual living a few feet from my house — when I first moved to Shelton, I remember …


Connecticut State Hospital

By Kate Frank  | Category: Abandoned, Damned Investigations

Getting inside the abandoned sections of this mental hospital is said to be pretty difficult (though I’m pretty sure I could get myself admitted without too much trouble!). Lucky for me, I ran into a bored and amicable State Trooper who let me inside.


Cemetery at the Connecticut Asylum for the Insane

By Kate Frank  | Category: Damned Investigations, Hauntings

The headstones in this cemetery have no names–only numbers.


Carousel Gardens, Seymour

By Kate Frank  | Category: Damned Investigations, Hauntings

How about a poltergeist with your chicken parmigiana? Didn’t think so.


Union Cemetery, Easton

By Ray Bendici  | Category: Damned Investigations, Hauntings

At the junction of routes 59 and 136 in Easton, next to Easton Baptist Church, the nearly 400-year-old Union Cemetery is allegedly one of the most haunted spots in Connecticut.


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