Weird News

Maybe he was just trying to help fertilize it? [June 29, 2009] A Bridgeport homeowner was hit by a thrown milk crate when he objected to a man defecating on his lawn …

He probably shouldn’t have eaten all that porridge. [November 20, 2012] A Trumbull couple awoke to find a stranger sleeping in their guest room bed, a drunk man who had crashed his …

Gee, can you imagine that … some idiots showing up to see this house. Who would do that? (Albeit very respectfully from a moving car.) [March 23, 2009] The new horror film …

Well, well, well … talk about unbridled excitement. [January 30, 2010] A young horse was rescued after falling into an old well on the property of a Litchfield riding stable … Source: …

Horse hair toupees? [July 17, 2011] Police are investigating a case involving a New Hartford horse that mysteriously had a chunk of its mane cut off … Source: Waterbury Republican-American

Spontaneous human combustion? Probably not. [December 5, 2009] North Stonington police were called to what they thought was a brush fire only to find a human body ablaze … Source: New London …

On Halloween, no less! [October 31, 2014] Stamford police are investigating two human skulls that were found alongside books about witchcraft and Satanism in the Stamford dump … Source: Connecticut Post

Thar’ she blows! [August 31, 2015] What appears to be a humpback whale was recorded on video off the coast of Milford in Long Island Sound … Source: WFSB

Too bad—beautiful creatures. [July 24, 2012] The carcass of a 20-foot female humpback whale washed ashore at the Lords Point beach in Stonington … Source: New London Day

Saving for a rainy day? [April 28, 2013] Police discovered between 200 and 300 one-gallon jugs filled with urine at an abandoned house in Newtown … Source: Newtown Bee

Well, they’re not mountain lions. [March 25, 2014] The state environmental conservation police have been alerted to the possible presence of wild hybrid wolf-dogs roaming North Stonington and Ledyard … Source: The …

That wasn’t very nICE. [March 15, 2014] A large sheet of ice sliding off the roof of a Winsted apartment crushed a car, completely destroying the vehicle’s roof … Source: NBC 30