There’s no better place to find strange news stories than the Weird CT News feed. We scour the local media every day to bring you the latest unusual happenings in the state!
Who survives a 200-foot fall off a mountain?
[February 6, 2012] Emergency responders rescued an 18-year-old hiker who had fallen 200 feet off of “the chin” of Sleeping Giant and survived …
Source: Hartford Courant
Seems to be more a fight about money than religion, as usual.
[February 5, 2012] The Catholic diocese of Norwich is claiming that an Ashland “monastery” and the “nuns” who live there are nothing of the sort …
Source: Hartford Courant
People suck.
[February 4, 2012] A large stone containing a fossilized dinosaur footprint was stolen from a Portland quarry in July, and is still missing …
Source: Hartford Courant
Cleanliness is next to crimeliness.
[February 3, 2012] A man who had been recently incarcerated was arrested after he broke into an apartment, took a shower and left behind his prison clothes …
Source: Connecticut Post
Probably didn’t even have a chance to hit the snooze button.
[January 31, 2012] A New Haven man who had been asleep in his bed was injured after being pinned under a car that had come crashing through the wall of his house during a police chase …
Source: Hartford Courant
The real curiosity here: What 4-year-old packs their own snack?
[January 26, 2012] Police were called to a Meriden school after a 4-year-old pulled out nine individually wrapped bags of marijuana during snack time …
Source: Connecticut Post
This is hard to swallow.
[January 25, 2012] A Bridgeport man has been arrested for allegedly murdering another man with an axe and then eating his victim’s eyeball and brains …
Source: Hartford Courant
Wonder how many strokes she was giving?
[January 23, 2012] A Hartford woman wielding a golf club came to the rescue of a young man being assaulted by three teens …
Source: Hartford Courant
Better safe than sorry, right?
[January 20, 2012] A Connecticut man is running a website to warn state residents about the possibilities of mountain lions in the region …
Source: NBC 30
Sounds like a future episode of “Up All Night.”
[January 13, 2012] A two-year-old New Haven boy had to be rescued by firefighters after he fell eight feet into a hot air duct and became trapped …
Source: Hartford Courant
