Ray Bendici

Don’t know if this is “weird” as much as it’s just plain dumb. You just can’t make it up! [March 24, 2010] Fairfield police easily arrested two would-be criminals who phoned ahead …

Probably not a birthday party. [March 29, 2012] East Hartford police discovered a slaughtered sheep surrounded by a ring of candles on a river bank not far from town hall … Source: …

Maybe he was making a cannonball run? [February 2, 2013] A pedestrian discovered a cannonball in the yard of an Enfield home, and then brought it home to his own house … …

Even more impressive is that he did it in all this rain. [May 21, 2011] Ed Jarrett of Canton broke his own world record, building the tallest sand castle at Winding Trails …

A few of our readers pointed us in the direction of Willimantic’s Capitol Theater, which is now home to a regional arts magnet school and possibly a few spirits of actors past.

Captain Grant’s Inn is a stately bed-and-breakfast that for over two centuries has succeeded both as a temporary refuge for travelers and a permanent home … to ghosts!

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 …

That’s gonna leave a mark. [November 6, 2013] Elliot the cat of Norwich is recovering after he was discovered having been shot with an arrow, which somehow missed all vital organs and …

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 …

Sounds like a purr-fect solution. [November 22, 2011] A Middletown man was prohibited from coming into contact with his wife’s cats via a protective order issued by the court … Source: Middletown …

It’s NOT the end of the world. Again. [March 26, 2010] CCSU astronomy professor Kristine Larsen debunks the baseless notion that 2012 marks doomsday according to the Mayan’s long calendar … Source: …