It’s been 40 years since Apollo 11’s historic voyage to the moon, and about 40 days since we last talked about some of the cool things — and alleged conspiracies — going …
Ray Bendici
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Only problem with this story — what song was she singing to garner that response?! [September 25, 2009] A Stamford woman was attacked and beaten by six women while singing karaoke in …
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Maybe it was another guy’s name? [October 14, 2011] A New Haven tattoo artist was stabbed repeatedly after a man disapproved of a tattoo that the artist had done on his girlfriend …
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Connecticut CuriositiesInvestigationsWeird Places
Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry, Storrs
by Ray Bendiciby Ray BendiciThe Ballard Institute & Museum of Puppetry is a unique place, home to one of the leading puppetry schools in the world as well as dozens of antique puppets and marionettes, making …
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Talk about multitasking! [April 7, 2009] A man robbed a Wethersfield bank, not bothering to even get off his cell phone while doing so… Source: Hartford Courant
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The sparsely populated Northeastern region of Connecticut has long been called the Quiet Corner. But whoever named it may not have ever been to the abandoned settlement of Bara-Hack, which may be …
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Proving you can’t keep a great showman down — even if he’s been dead for over a century — Bethel’s (and Bridgeport’s) P.T. Barnum has recently been back in the limelight.
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Home to such curiosities as the Feejee mermaid and the 4,000-year-old mummy Pa-Ib, the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport is dedicated to the colorful history of the King of the Humbugs.
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I think this is how the infamous Bat Boy of the Weekly World News got started. [April 11, 2009] A bat bit a 10-year old Middletown boy 15 times and the boy …
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Holy bat break! [January 6, 2014] Classes at Tolland High School were locked down for 20 minutes when a bat unexpectedly got into the school … Source: Hartford Courant
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Tub-henge? [July 13, 2010] Eight claw-foot bathtubs, each standing on its end atop a pedestal (almost like Easter Island statues), have appeared on a homeowner’s property in Middlebury … Source: Waterbury Republican-American
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Sounds like there was bear-ly anything left. [May 24, 2018] A bear got inside of and trashed a car in Canton, completely totaling the vehicle … Source: WFSB
