Ray Bendici

With its long and rich maritime heritage, Connecticut has witnessed more than a fair share of sea monsters and serpents in the waters off its coast.

Guess they were done MONKEYING around! Get it?! Monkeying! (We’ll be here all week … remember to tip your waitress.) [May 20, 2010] The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection has called off …

Ethel Mae Potter, we never forgot her … [September 5, 2011] The Norwalk Paranormal Research Group recently investigated the former Stamford home of “I Love Lucy” star Vivian Vance … Source: Connecticut …

We love Seaside, but we’ll believe it when we see it. [October 1, 2014] Gov. Dannel Malloy announced that the state of Connecticut is going to turn the former Seaside Sanatorium into …

Connecticut is the world’s leading manufacturer of witch hazel — not the misunderstood Wiccan, but the plant from which hundreds of medicinal products are made.

He’s pointing from beyond the grave (like Nelson from “The Simpsons”), laughing “Ha-Ha!” [August 15, 2011] A second investigation searching a grave in Ossining, N.Y., for the remains of the Old Leather …

Seaside Sanatorium, a once-picturesque health facility on the Sound in Waterford that is now abandoned and thought to possibly be haunted, was in the news last week as Gov. Rell looks to …

Related to the school incidents last week? [March 17, 2012] Authorities are reporting that St. Thomas Seminary in Bloomfield received a package that contained mysterious white powder … Source: Hartford Courant

One of the best-known apparitions in the state, The Green Lady of Burlington, is said to haunt the grounds of this centuries-old burying ground.

You’d think it’d be a severed ox’s head in Oxford. [July 9, 2012] The severed head of a cat was discovered on Rolling Hills Road in Oxford, the second such incident in …

Oh dear. [January 25, 2015] Officials at Wesleyan University report that a severed deer head was discovered in a crosswalk on campus near the Exley Science Center … Source: NBC 30