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!
Just don’t land in Dudleytown!
[March 29, 2011] A rare golden eagle was released at Mohawk State Forest after it was rehabbed from injuries …
Source: Waterbury Republican-American
The legendary Moodus Noises return!
[March 24, 2011] An earthquake only measuring 1.3 on the Richter scale rocked the Moodus area, setting off the Moodus Noises …
Source: Hartford Courant
One man’s “creepy and weird” puppets are another man’s “rare art.”
[March 24, 2011] Rare puppets, valued at over $10,000, were stolen from a New Britain shed …
Source: NBC 30
Mystic pizza, topped with brrraaaiiinnnnsss …
[March 23, 2011] A Rocky Hill production company will be filming Remains, a zombie horror film, later this summer in Mystic …
Source: The Day of New London
One too many green beers?
[March 17, 2011] An unidentified man was rescued after becoming entangled in the power lines over the Metro-North tracks in West Haven …
Source: WTNH 8
This woman sounds like a real joker.
[March 16, 2011] A Stratford woman was arrested for choking her friend at a party after an argument broke out about actor Heath Ledger’s death …
Source: Connecticut Post
Seems like something out of an ‘Ernest’ movie … “Hey Vern, woulda take a look at that cute little kitt–aaaaahhhh!!!!”
[March 15, 2011] An animal that a child mistook for a ‘cute little cat’ actually turned out to be a rabid fox, which attacked shortly thereafter …
Source: The Day of New London
Never mind that the body on the shroud is over 6 feet tall while the average Middle Eastern man of the time was only a little over 5 feet tall–it’s “the only relic of Jesus we have.”
[March 14, 2011] A replica of the Shroud of Turin, believed by some to be the burial cloth of Jesus, will be on display during lent at St. Mary’s Church in Bridgeport …
Source: Connecticut Post
An early attempt to win a Darwin Award.
[March 10, 2011] A Waterford man who took his motorcycle out for an early spring joyride on Rogers Lake fell through the ice, requiring emergency response teams for his rescue …
Source: The Day of New London
Wearing white accessories before Memorial Day? How gauche!
[March 10, 2011] A man wearing a woman’s floppy white sun hat, a camouflage dress and white gloves robbed a bank in Waterbury …
Source: Waterbury Republican-American
