The Damned Story: Growing up in Milford, one of the local stories we all heard about was about a group of giant-headed mutants who lived on the outskirts of town, a band of inbred freaks who were ready to prey Deliverance-style on whoever was careless or unfortunate enough to wander into their midst . . . .
Of course, I’m talking about: THE MELON HEADS!
Apparently, this legend isn’t limited to Milford — recently, I was telling a work friend about them, and she didn’t believe me, so she Googled it and discovered (through the glory of Wikipedia) that in addition to being legends in other states (Ohio and Michigan), the Melonheads were also indigenious to Monroe, Seymour, Weston, Oxford, Southbury, Trumbull and my current hometown of Shelton! I also saw that like Milford, many of these towns had “Melon Head Roads” — in Milford (back when I was growing up), it was Zion Hill Road; in Trumbull, it’s Velvet Street (aka “Dracula Drive” — another legend for another day); and in Shelton, it’s Saw Mill City Road.
Now, in Connecticut, the Melon Heads are allegedly everything from a group of escaped mental patients to a lost colony of inbred mountain folk dating back to Colonial times. However, I read an article a few years back (I think in the Fortean Times) talking about a group of isolated Appalachain mountain people in the Southeastern U.S. (Tennessee, Kentucky, eastern Virginia) called the Melungeon. In short, it’s believed the Melungeon are mixed-race descendants of European outcasts, freed slaves and Native Americans — the damned of early American society, in a way — who decided to stay to themselves, and in general, away from the mainstream.
In the article, it also mentioned that the term “Melungeon” was sometimes bastardized into “Melon Head.” So, it’s possible — although I have no evidence to prove this, and I’m no anthropologist — that at one point, there was a group of people living quietly and independently in the backwoods of Connecticut who had characteristics similar to the Melungeon, and somehow got branded as such. Then, over time, that got changed to Melon Head, and since people tend to fear what they don’t know about or understand, the stories of boogie-man horror were attributed to them.
That ignorance was passed down through the years, and the rest, as they say, is legendary.
Our Damned Experience: Well, when I saw how close it was to our place of employment, I immediately dragged my non-believing friend (with some resistance) and another co-worker out on our lunch hour to take a ride down ol’ Melon Head Road. Being the middle of the day it was hardly a spooky ride, but as we drove along Saw Mill City Road, I could see why people might want to believe this could be Melon Head stomping grounds — it’s a narrow, twisting road past the Means Brook Reservoir and through isolated woods with lots of “No Trespassing” signs along the way. The roadway even becomes dirt for a short portion — while driving, I surreptitiously slipped my car into neutral, revved the gas hard and said, “Oh no, the chain fell off! We’re screwed!” which brought one of the best momentary expressions of abject horror I’ve ever had the pleasure of creating on another person’s face (my wife and kids included).
Needless to say, it was a pretty — and uneventful — drive. No banjo-playin’ mutants, no being bent over logs, no squealing like pigs, no Melon Heads. Then again, it was daytime, so who knows what happens after dark?
Update: On a spooky and misty day in December 2008, we returned to Saw Mill City Road and also paid a visit to Velvet Street, cameras in hand. We took a bunch of photos and although we were hoping to see a mailbox with a telling name on it like “M. Ellen Head,” we didn’t encounter any mutants (unless you count the lone postman sitting alone in his truck sleeping or texting someone — we couldn’t tell, and to be honest, we hope that’s all he was doing).
If You Go: As mentioned, the three “Melon Head Roads” that we know of are Zion Hill Rd. in Milford, Velvet Street in Trumbull and Saw Mill City Rd. in Shelton. All three are public thoroughfares, although through private neighborhoods. If you do drive along any of them after dark, we do recommend exercising caution as the ones we’ve been along are dark and curvy. In the event that you are abducted by Melon Heads, please try to take pictures — we’ll be happy to post them here!
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Hi Ray – I have recently started the Connecticut chapter of Drinking Skeptically and I’m wondering what your background is. You might want to join us or come and speak to us about a specific topic. We meet in Fairfield near the train station on the third Thursday of each month. Most interesting to me is that I also grew up in Milford and vividly remember the melon head stories!
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Some friends and I drove down Velvet Street or “Dracula Drive” tonight actually. No lie, we found a severed deer leg. It would not be surprising for a car to accidentally hit a deer on that dark, windy road but given the story of the “Melon Heads” that we had all heard growing up in Trumbull, it freaked us out quite a bit.
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Noooooo! That’s freaky. I probably would have cried.
I remember hearing about these stories during the 20 years we lived in Milford and found your background research very interesting. While a lot of people talked about them, I don’t ever remember anyone who actually claimed to have seen them.
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well ray you should have asked. the melonheads house is about a mile down on the right side of velvet road coming from the tashua side of trumbull. the property had an abandoned paddleball court and an abandoned outdoor pool. (apparently the melonheads had some money) they were very well alive and fruitful(pardon the pun) around 1980, and growing up in trumbull, my friends and i would frequent “dracula drive” often for keg parties at the reservoir. no one was ever hurt, but many were scared for real! oh those were the days…
Hi Mike! I’m a graduate
Hi Mike! I’m a graduate student trying to do some research about the Milford Melon Heads. Would you be willing to chat about what you’ve heard?
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I’ve heard this story and its always the same.. I’ve been told that along time ago in trumbull/monroe that down velvet road aka tashua there use to be an asylum but it got burnt down. Later police and official found out that some of the patients where missing.. Known as the infamous melon heads. I’ve been down velvet so many times…night and day…never have I seen anyone while I was there
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i think all these people are crazy and all need to get lifes no joke grow up…..who cares if there real give up go be a dumbass stand in the middle of the woods at one of these locations and yell out here i am you ugly mothers and see if they coem out!!! wow and this girl stephanie yo mah give me a call ill holla!!! big kissses baby!!!!
My family and i went to Dracula Drive and we were looking for melon heads but we saw a racoon after that my sister and my dad were looking out the window and they saw something run so fast and they thought it was a melon head and i was so scared that night.My aunt lives on that street so when i was little we walked on Dracula Drive and i did not know about this when i was little.Today my dad told me that he worked at the hospitol that the melon heads exscaped from but he did not work there he just fixed the alarms.THE END
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I’m from Northford, part of North Branford in the southern part of the state, and we have the precise same legend in our town about a road that leads up one of the mountains. Strange how things crop up in different places.
Colleen,
Are you talking about mongoloid road?
What a terrific night I had with my son, after a day at wolf park for the end of school year fun, the teacher as well as some students decided for some odd reason to bring up melon heads, well my son at night time would not go to bed, he wouldn’t even go to the bathoom by himself, after an hour of explaining about how it was just a tale that someone made up, he still won’t GO TO SLEEP ! For the record I grew up in stevenson, monroe and this is the first I’m hearing about it. Lets face it folks if they were real and still around and canabals as I was told, I think people would have reported people missing and it would be all over the news. Thank You to my sons teacher for sharing. Bet she had a great nights sleep!
Lets not forget that they also live on Edmunds Rd. in Oxford and also on Jeremy Swamp Rd. in Southbury. I think these are the cousins to the ones in Monroe……
I’m a teen living in Milford now and the story still goes on. I literally have driven down Zion hill looking for them before late at night. lol. I’ve heard people have seen them but i personally havent
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From what I’ve heard the Melon Head folk tale is widespread. There’s melon head families all over the US.
grew up in naugatuck and all the melon head stories I heard as a kid had them in oxford. I have spent many dark nights driving around edmunds rd (melon head rd) with my friends smoking and drinking(stupid teenagers) looking for the melons.
How long ago was this and did
How long ago was this and did u see anything?
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I also grew up in Milford in the 1970s (went to Jonathan Law HS) and remember the stories.
I always thought that ‘melon head’ probably referred to hydroencephaly (water on the brain).
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im a melon head
my uncle used to scare us to death telling us about the melon heads when we were little & we believed him even though he made us believe they lived in devils hopyard right down the road from where we lived.
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I grew up close to Velvet St. in Monroe in the 70’s. Close enough that I would ride my bike there. One kid in school in the 70’s told a story of fighting off Mellon heads on Velvet St. back then. I’m sure he was full of BS, but it was fun to hear.
I have ridden my bike down that road and also drove to work going out of my way using Velvet St. many times. Never got the feeling there was anything strange there. Nice place to see wild life.
I also remember my cousins talking about Mellon Heads in Stratford back around 1970. Seems this story is all over Connecticut. Kind of neat to have our own legend so close to home.
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Good story of it here:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5516146/the_melonheads_of_trumbull_connecticut.html?cat=16
The only compressible experience I have had was when I drank an immense amount of absinthe. I ran around my University’s campus with some friends in search of the green fairy. Unfortunately the hallucinogen was extracted (Oh US law)…and people merely thought by my actions I was tripping. But alas…I was not.
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I dont know what to think about the Melon Head Kids, this is the first time I heard of it and from looking up info all the stories in someways are not the same but all had some of the same info, either way scary and makes ya wonder?? I know I would not ever try to see for myself!
I remember driving up zion hill road back in the day with a car full of friends we did see melon heads.Hate to ADMIT IT WAS 25+ YEARS AGO…Scared the shit out of us. still tell stories to my kids and nieces and nephews to this day.Remember ladies they kill the guys and keep the girls for themselves!!!
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I took a drive down Velvet St. this summer. Because I never went there, I was a bit apprehensive. It was during the day. All I can feel was that the road being narrow and very long felt quite disturbing. I don’t like the feeling of not knowing what is ahead. It’s kind of like leading a hike to nowhere. I got halfway and decided to turn around. I know that if the road is traveled all the way it will lead to Monroe. As a child I heard so many stories about the Melonheads. In the past we used to try to search for them. Mostly under the influence of beer or other substances; It became more of a novelty then an all out serious search, we never really went about it in a constructive manner. Today I’ve been doing research on these elusive creatures finding the story very interesting but not totally convincing. Although my curiosity brings me back and it’s an interesting story, I have to say that I have not yet come in contact with these melonheads but I won’t give up trying.
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Zion hill! many a night my friends and I cruised Zion hill looking for melonheads.. all we ever saw were their beady little eyes……
My Friend told me that her and her friends steaked out Zion Hill Rd in milford and they saw a melon head get out of the car and open the trunk and take a large cooler out covered in blood and carry it in the house and the the melon head got back in the car a reved his engine and drove at the stopping 2 feet from hitting them She also to me that the witches of milford lived in those woods and hung people from the trees and the nooses are still there hanging in the trees…….WoW scary
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My friends and i went to go look for melon heads last night on Velvet road, and we didnt really find anything. My friend “claimed” he saw something run across the street like a hundred yards behind us but for real theres animals in the woods. I think its all in your head and you freak yourself out. We got out of the car and walked up and down the street and a little in the woods and we didnt find anything except some large footprints which is probably from someone doing the samething we were. Yes i admit some really weird things were happening but honestly, i think it was in there heads. Another one of my friends “claimed” they saw something crouch down while we were driving and lagit started balling in tears. It’s all in the head. You see what you wanna see.
Hosely Rd, in Branford, is one of those roads, too. We used to drive down it to scare ourselves in highschool.
oh and I used to always hear stories about Marginal Rd. in New Haven, which runs from the parking lot for the Yale Field to some neighborhood behind the field, but cars can’t drive down it. People used to tell us kids about it after Ravens games and how they would never go down that road at night.
Me and some of my friends went to Zion Hill Road over the summer a few times, there’s a residential road and the creepy one. The creepy one has a few house and we stopped in front of one beeped numerous amount of times and a whole family came out with bats and chased us even though we were in cars down the street… probably normal people that hate how many people come to find melon heads
Sawmill Rd. in the Sixties! Many a days spent weekends partying up there and making up stories about the melon heads!Ha!It must have been the Moonlit nights!Those where the Days!Totts
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Rolling over cars with people inside are some other stories I’ve heard about Meloneads. Their strengh in relation to their size is not proprtional with that of a normal Human homosapiens. Thus doing some real intense research; I believe these people to be real in existance. The problem is that people only want to believe what they see, not what they hear through the process of translation. Stories can get distorted. One can only know by seeing and not hearing. They shop at odd hours of the day when no normal working class individual can spot them. Along with the frog people of Danbury; they are illusive and know that people would stare at them going about their business. That said; we need to respect these people as they respect us. They don’t want to be bothered nor made fun of. So if you go out and about to search for an answer, be discrete with your search.
Tom the stories about the melonheads on Sawmill in Shelton are all made up during drinking parties in the 60’s! They aren’t true! We made them up! Just like the White Lady at Indian Wells State Park! My Brother put a sheet over his head with a flashlight,and ran down the banks along the railroad tracks! And yes we made fun of them! That’s all they are! Fun and Urban Legend! Not Reallity!
I had an eleven-year relationship with a melon head. His name was Harley King. Supposedly, he relocated to Phoenix (where I met him) from Trumbull, CT. He said he was born on Velvet Street. We moved around alot…usually when someone turned up “missing” in the small towns we lived in throughout the years. He reverted to his mutant ways when we lived in Ruth, Nevada. I escaped one night when he forgot to chain me to the bed. I now live in California. Several people from the Town of Ruth have turned up missing, and it is suspected “Melon Head” King (as he is commonly referred to as) is behind the disappearances. Once, they found the arm of an unidentified person, in the hills behind the house we lived in. The flesh had been eaten to the bone! I have changed my name to protect me from the reporters who have hounded me for many years. So…If you are on Velvet Street after dark…beware! The melon heads do exist! And whatever you do, don’t marry one!
Haha, well done Gilda.
Haha, well done Gilda. Trolling at its finest
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Gilda sounds like You’ve been smoking some crazy stuff! Or have been abducted by some Alliens! Bye the way? What planet are You from?
It is the truth Dave. We had the big heads down south too. I’m from Arkensas and we got plenty of big heads there. They’re just like normal folk, just a tad slower to catch on to things, they walk with a shuffle, and they has the big heads. Their vision is pretty blurry too. I think when they attack folks, they’re just confused. I protected my big head til too many folks went missing. That’s when he chained me up. but I was lucky and excaped. Folks can’t help who they love. Even the big heads need love, Dave. I don’t do the outer space stuff. that’s for the city folks. I was borned in Arkensas, Dave.
Gilda I with you. There was a melon head that lived on my street. She was very young at the time and live in the area only a short time. A friend and I used to visit her. She wasn’t visited by many people. Her older brother was a normal person who looked after her in her every move. I guess you have to see to believe.
A comment was made in this blog about the Frog people before I mentioned anything. I read about them the local section at Borders in Fairfield over the summer. Apparently these people look alot like frogs. Big eyes and a warted complexion. The story is about one spotted in a grocery store late at night in Danbury. I thing the book is called Weird Connecticut. There are other books with the same name for New York as well as other New England States. They also talked about the faceless people of Monroe. A house in Monroe that is boarded up but candles are lit at night or it could be low lighting. Not confirmed.
The story is that these faceless people live there and have a full time caregiver known to chase people away that snoop around the yard. Did anyone else hear about this?
Well God Bless you Tom! I still pray for my melonhead because we can’t help who we love. He was just too much different from the normmals and couldnt be like em. I tried but he was jest like a wild aminal. Not many of the normals are kind to them. God Bless Ya!
Gilda the only melonheads i’ve seen are in my garden I carve little feces on my watermelon!
You poo on your food, Tom? That’s plum unsanytary and even the big heads knows better than that!
WoW !!!
My son just e-mailed your web site and boy the memories just started flowing out of my head.Specially Dracule Drive in trumbull,ct.That’s where i had my first accident in 1969 a week after i just got my drivers license.A few of my friends and my future first wife were chasing some car on that dirt road and slid right into a stone wall in front of some guys house.Needless to say it was my older brothers car 1960 Dodge Seneca so i caught a little beaten from him and the old man.The melon heads in our town in stratford were in Roosevelt forrest where we would start having a few beers and start hunting for them.Never found any but had a good time looking.
Ted..My big head still lives in ruth, nevada. It’s aginst the law to hunt them. and you shore cant shoot em. Law No! The big heads like beer themselves! God Bless ya Ted!
I love your article! Can’t wait to read your book.
I grew up in Shelton and the legend of the Mellon Heads was big in the late 70’s when we used to “party” on Saw Mill City Road. I think it was mostly the older kids trying to scare us to stay away from their party palce in the woods.
Later my husband & I bought a house near there and used to take walks with the dogs on that road. We moved to another area of town & I hadn’t thought about them in a long time until my 11 year old nephew asked about them at a family dinner. He was camping with the Boy Scouts on Webb Mountain and heard the legend and looked to us “old” people for the facts. We had a good laugh.
Thanks for your contribution to keeping history (wether real or imagined) alive in CT.
My cousin Norbert called me last week. They seen the big heads on Drakula Drive …A whole bunch of them wanderin the street like a pack of wolfs. Peoples used to leave baskets of food for them, but now they mostly raids the grabage cans.
Growin up near Sawmill Rd. (never called Sawmill City Rd. back then) in the 70’s I spent a lot of my free time huntin, fishin, & partyin (pretty much in that order) down the Sawmill rd. There was an old two track road just past the bridge called Perramaine rd. I was huntin the area and came across a small opening in the side of a ledge big enough to crawl in. Outside of the hole was an old army tarp over a fire pit. Lookin around I found many animal bones. Now I dont know about Melon Heads and all, but there was definately people livin off the land there. As for that “cave”, never did get the nerve to crawl inside.
During the 80’s and in High
During the 80’s and in High School, Saw Mill was the place to hang out at night on the weekends. One night, there was a small group (about 8) of us talking, laughing, playing music. Out of the blue, some random guy comes up to us and asks if any of us had a lighter. One friend lit the guys cigarette and he walked away alone into the dark woods. We were pretty freaked out but he was a normal guy with a hoodie but too dark to see his face. He was older, not a high schooler and I remember his raggy clothes. Perhaps people do live in the woods there…back then at least.
Fairfield also has a Melonhead legend. It is said they live in the woods surrounding Lake Mohegan.
It was the bigheads DJ. Don’t know of no bigheads in Fairfield Mike. But i imagines they need a change of scenary and moves around alot.
the “frog” people of bethel ct are real, their last name is veech.
You won’t see the melonheads in the wild. They’ve all moved to the State General Assembly building.
They ccould nary do a worser job than that Obammy charcter, David.
Your right there Gilda, that Obammy critter aint worth spit ! Here we go ! Another thread turnig into a political arguement. I dont care if your discussin girlscout cookies, somehow it would turn into a political arguement. Lets go all you liberal Obama lovers, lets here it .
As for the frog people of Bethel I know that was true. back in the late 80’s I had a tag sale with a friend of mine who live near Maple St in Bethel. I had never heard of the frog people in my life. Well at that point I was like 13 or 14..lol. But a family showed up at our tag sale. I remember seeing webbed toes and hands. why she wore open feet shoes and didnt try to hide that was beyond me. Her eyes looked like a frogs. I didnt want to touch the money she handed me for childrens clothes she bought. Her hands were webbed and had something that looked like warts on them. Very repulsive but as soon as she left everyone started talking about them..” The frog People”. Supposedly they have the last name “Veech” and they are very real. A product of inbreeding and not so great genes to begin with.
Now Ann… I has heared of folk with the webbed toes. I knows a lady who has them and so does some of her kin. Don’t think none of them has webbed fingers or pop eyes or warts. They ain’t no inbreeds, but the webbed toes things jest runs in their family and has for generasions.
its crazy, and hard to believe, but my husband, swear to me that back in 1985, him from bpt, went from Bridgeport, driving with some friends, thru Park ave, with heads straight to Trumbull, he saw 3 guys running to the woods, with big size lemon heads, i know hes not making it up, but is soo hard to believe.
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Hi Madeline, I’m a graduate student trying to do some research about the Milford Melon Heads. Would you or your husband be willing to chat about what you’ve heard?
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Julia
They be real as all of ussens, Madelyn.
If my husband could had swear to me that he did seen them in Trumbull, i would not had believed it, but how come they had hide so well from the outside population?
Most of the normals is crewl to them so they is quiet shy. They mostly comes out at night, cuz the yowens tosses rocks at them I once heerd bout some adilts who tried to burn the shack down and they was all in it with yowens. Some Folks used to leave baskets of food for them, but the nice folks moved away i gess. So they hunt mosly. One store used ter stay open late after hours once a month so thems could do thems shrping.
if is so well knowed, and ppl had seen them, how come people had not tried to contact them, i guess to do a documentary about them, since most ppl believe is a myth., they had been cases of ppl traveling far away countries, looking for evidence, and doing documentary, had ppl tried it before?
Guilda, I think your redneckin it up a little too much. Tone it down a couple of notches with the them thars and sech. You would sound more believable.
They like bein left alone, madeline. DJ…how you premonce your name? I comes from Arkensaw and ain’t never had much ejemacating. I reckon you tosses them rocks at the big heads evry chnce ya gits, doncha? Even tthe not ejemacated knows better than to be rood. Even them big heads knows that.
But you are spelling the incorrect pronunciation correctly!
then i must be gettin ejemacted
I remember in high school actually seeing the “melonheads” and “the frog people” with friends. Yes they do really exist! The melonheads are very to themselves and shy from the public. The frog people have been seen publicly. I am shamed to say that we would honk our horns so they would come outside so we could get a look. If I could tell them I am sooooo very sorry today I would!!! It was wrong to not respect their need for privacy and respect their wishes for isolation from our prying eyes! We just found them so damn fascinating! And yes they do have big heads but more like the “coneheads” on Saturdaynite live show. The frogpeople were not as shy, and would yell at us to stop, I feel so bad now thinking about it. They would walk outside to yell for us to leave and we would. They had very buggy bulging eyes. In 2003 when I worked in the mall, one of them came in to the jewelers where I worked. She was very normal in every other way and wasnt as buggyeyed as much as the others I had seen, but she was one. My apologies to both. Everyone please let them live their life in peace with respect, and if you should see one please be kind and helpful.
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Actully gilda, keep it up. Your ammusing to read. My name is DJ. Guilda its slowly premounced Dee Jay. Ejemacated? Please.
Ha, I grew up in Trumbull and have been down Dracula Drive a number of timesas a teenager. Never saw a Melon Head but it sure was scary!
Ha, I grew up in Trumbull and have been down Dracula Drive a number of times as a teenager. Never saw a Melon Head but it sure was scary!
Msyhaps theyd jest eaten there diner.
As a newbie to CT, I find this site very interesting. I see roadtrips to a few of these sites in my future. And as for Gilda, I am from Arkansas, and your fake accent is ridiculous. You sound more like you’re from “Missour-ah.”
Thank you Mandi. You must be a “fine girl”. LOL!!!!
Jethro, AKA DJ. Sorry.
Mandi it must be wunnerful to know everything bout peeples from a innernet post. You must have the alein esp thing, er else you are from new yorke.
My older sister told me Melon Head stories when we were kids in Stratford in the early 1960s. And oddly, she just mentioned them the other day before I found this article which I just sent her the link to.
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Julia
I believe I encountered my first melon head a few months ago while on edmunds rd in oxford which turns into jeremy swamp rd in southbury on a stretch of rough terrain road in late afternoon. At the time my friend and eye described the person as a hobbit who never even acknowledged us driving buy at 5least mph. Pretty freaky!!
My cousin and I went to the haunted cemetary in Oxford one night… we heard the stories of the melon heads and i was mad freaked out… but we didnt see any, that place is so creepy though, flags and pinwheels blow without wind and if you take a picture u can see ghostly lights around.. (creepy)
I lived on Sawmill Rd (no one ever calls it Saw Mill City) for 17 years and I saw a lot of strange things, but no melonheads. It was a great story and I scared my younger sister and brother with it all the time, better be good or I’ll send the melonheads to get ya. I hope the legend lives on forever!
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Hi mike, I’m a graduate student trying to do some research about the Milford Melon Heads. Would you be willing to chat about the stories?
Cheers,
Julia
I grew up on Saw Mill Road and my Dad called me to tell me about this article….My childhood was filled with nightmares of the Melonheads. My dad and I were just laughing about how my older brother Mike would use the legend to scare me and our little brother..and then I saw the post by Mike M…..I knew right away it was my lovely brother! Yes you did scare me…and I still tell people all about the legend!!!! I remember all my friends would say “you live on the melonhead road?” when I would tell them where we live……CRAZY!!!! Mike…remember when we would drive down there at night and you would turn the car off and all the lights and pretend we stalled!!!!! Thanks!!! I still can’t go out in the dark alone…unless I have a gun!!!!
Milford Melon Heads
Hi Audra, I’m a graduate student trying to do some research about the Milford Melon Heads. Would you be willing to chat about the stories?
Cheers,
Julia
Glad to see some of my relatives have commented on this article. The last time I was at the Melonhead Sanctuary I enjoyed walking up Saw Mill Road at night with my melonhead cousins. Sure was fun playing badmitten with the melonheads and then rocking out to KISS in the basement while on roller skates. We were so cool!
Milford Melon Heads
Hi Florida! I’m a graduate student trying to do some research about the Milford Melon Heads. Would you be willing to chat about what you’ve heard?
Cheers,
Julia
We lived on Saw Mill Rd for 20 years and Halloween trick or treaters were sparse. We believe it was due partially to the “legend”. Our kids were reluctant to walk down the dark street back home. Still it was a terrific place to grow up.
Milford Melon Heads
hi! I’m a graduate student trying to do some research about the Milford Melon Heads. Would you be willing to chat about what you’ve heard?
Cheers,
Julia
I found both Saw Mill City and Velvet Street by accident!
I found Saw Mill City one night after a crappy date, when I got lost going to my friend’s house. Shit scared the hell out of me.
I found Velvet Street by accident when I got lost delivering Pizza for Dominick’s (an actually GOOD ripoff of Domino’s). That road was way scarier than Saw Mill City
But my friend showed me Birdseye Road just before Saw Mill City Road in shelton coming from rt. 110. By far the scariest road ive ever driven.
About 20 years ago, around Halloween-time, some friends/etc. and I drove down a dark, unpaved road in Shelton that, at one end of it, had something facing it which was referred to by the Shelton resident in the car as “the Satan House.” A red porch light was on at this older (19th century, at least) home; the claim was made that inverted crosses could be seen on either side of front door to the house. Whatever… All I know is that it sure was a spooky fun evening; never been back to where I was that night and I’d like to check it out sometime again. To any of the readers out there: Do you know the place that I’m babbling about/was I on Sawmill City Rd. that night?
LOL brings back memories as we did that very same drive….(would never walk it too scared LOL) Good old dracula drive. We thought they had some street cams on watching us ride down the road….a reason why they knew we were there and hid……LOL
This was a fun but scary street.
I also remember a road off rt150 in Wallingford that had a Melon head story, it is fenced off now but the road is still there. My father would take us for drives 40yrs ago and tell us stories of people sitting on their porches with rifles and large heads. Several old run down shanty like houses were down there. Spooooky!
Milford Melon Heads
hey Robink! I’m a graduate student trying to do some research about the Milford Melon Heads. Would you be willing to chat about what you’ve heard?
Cheers,
Julia
Having grown up in Southbury, us friends and other kids in high school would frequently go on melon head hunts while drunk or stoned at night. The story’s still alive. Never found anything, but walking around in the woods with baseball bats and coming across no trespassing signs and abandoned shacks really scares the shit out of you sober too.
Milford Melon Heads
hey jay! I’m a graduate student trying to do some research about the Milford Melon Heads. Would you be willing to chat about what you’ve heard?
Cheers,
Julia
The melon head population in Monroe was/is concentrated in the swampy areas around Garter Road. That’s between Newtown and Monroe.
Confirmed. The area past Chalk Hill towards Newtown is crawling with melon heads.
hi well i live right next to saw mill city and my friend katerina lives on it i literally just heard the story but ive seen one before on a night walk with my friend we walked slowley away and ran before they could see us it was really scary
I was a huge fan of the Melon Head myth most of my life. I was a true believer when I was younger, then I perpetuated the myth when I got older. It was always fun! I even included Melon Heads on my top 5 monsters list: http://kooztop5.blogspot.com/2012/01/top-5-fake-creatures-some-people-think.html
I sends Christmas cards to them ever year.
I used to live in Bethel (in the 80’s) near Nashville Rd, where I remember an odd looking family who lived in a run down house. They usually left the front door open in the summer. We called them “frog people” and they delivered newspapers for a living. Does anyone else remember this? I haven’t been there in quite a few years.
my teacher told e this story
I found this site doing a search for the frog people, I grew up in Brookfield and I have been trying to tell my wife this story for years, and was hoping someone might have finally gotten a picture up somewhere. I saw them twice, once getting gas at like 4 am, and another time at the old Caldor in Brookfield. They were real, they were some family that was inbred for years. It was always a badge of honor if you actually saw one.
I have seen one. It was at the Taco Bell on Main Street in Danbury. He was an extremely unfortunate looking man. I didn’t know exactly what his deal was, but then I was describing him to a friend of mine and she told me about the frog people. He had a misshapen head, pointed at the top. He was bald on top, but had long hair in the back, further accentuating his coneheadedness, and he had bulging eyes. Unfortunately, I didn’t know to check out his hands.
Scientifically, The medical name for a melonhead, Hydrocephalus, occurs due to inbreeding. Inbreeding, being highly frowned upon, makes these people hide out due to shame from pretty much everyones thoughts on inbreeding. Its gotta suck to be a melonhead. If you run into one, be nice to him or her, they were born into being one, didnt have a choice. Dont forget, Karma can suck.
I lived a mile away from Velvet St. in Trumbull from ’72 -’82 and I have seen them.
They are their and they are real. I don’t advise anyone going down after dark!!!
are everyone’s head like this that live here
You know, grew up in shelton in the 70s through 80s, there was an escaped fugitive (yes really) the feds found him living in a shack and killing deer and ducks, etc. to live in the woods down there up towards the houses along the adjacent road! Also, there used to be a ranger of sorts hired by the UI power company who owns all that land. Atleast they used to. I’m surprised no one noticed the smoke coming up from the escapee’s campfire! Talk about melon Head stories coming to life! We used to walk down Saw mill Road. Unfortunately, a kid was found in the 70s wrapped in a rug bound by chains ( this is very real) under the ice on the little river that used to have a bridge over it. Shelton is a creepy town, I dont care what the houses cost and its the Huntington section where Saw Mill Rd. is and there used to be a little bridge that connected the road – irts gone now for many reasons. I had a friend who lived two streets away at night she was watching Tv and the sliding glass doors to her deck were open while she fell asleep-but she didnt do it, she called the police next day (she doesn’t smoke) there were cigarette butts all around her deck! I really think Huntington has some seriously deranged people there! Did they ever find out who killed that kid on Saw Mill Rd? His name was Timmy roach I think. If I remember correctly. Someone I went ot high school with Epstein was his last name raped and stabbed some girl 17 times. That town, as I recall, huntington, was not what it seemed! Lot’s of messed up families behind pretty closed doors!
Back in the late sixties l lived is Stratford.l was a member of Boy Scout Troop 154 out of StonyBrook Elementary School. Our troop would at times go to Roosevelt Forrest and camp out overnight in the lean too’s and tents.l will never forget one night l woke up and heard this shuffling sound around the back of the tent,l sat up turned the flashlight on and one of the boys in our troop was sitting up with his arms wrapped around his knees looking white as a ghost.l looked out side and the fire was low and billowing smoke like someone poured water on it but it had a nasty stench,there were two fires l look around at the other and shined the light and in the corner of the lean-too l saw or l thought l saw a figure that had on old stinking clothes and he or it was pissing on the lean-too and it smelled like the stench comming out of the fire near me . l called to wake up some of the guys and they would not wake up so l threw a rock at the figure.To my suprise this man/thing turned around and it’s forhead looked like a smaller version of the Elephant’s Mans head and he was pissing and walking towards our tent l threw another rock and the kid in our tent started to cry and wail this woke up everybody!! When this happened this man/thing stopped and turned around and ran into the night.This haunted me for a long damn time after that. This thing was very dirty,he smelled like and l can only describe it as hot piss but with an unknown stench that was horrific nobody saw this guy but me and the kid who was crying but they did smell the stench he left behind.Some years later the kid who was crying had a mental breakdown and was hospitalized and this day lives in assisted living.Me l live in Florida and when someone mentions Roosevelt Forrest the freekin hairs on my neck stand up.
growing up in Hamden, we didnt have any Melon heads but we did have the “MOGOLOIDS!!!” Mutants with super human strength who could rip the doors off your car, drag you out and rip you apart just for fun. well, we didnt actually have them in Hamden but close to the border of Hamden and Bethany… gaylord Mountian Road. There were also a few supposed Gravestones marked Born, 1999 Died – and this was back in the 80s!!! Yeah.. never look a Mongoloid in the eyes, it is said to drive them into such a rage, they will tear you apart!!
@ Cassie Gailtlin .. yeah, the town is too close to Bridgeport. The “Crazy” Factory of CT. I think PT Barnum put something in the water to turn folks into freaks for his side show, and its still messing them up today.
I wanna throw a brick at there heads and see if they pop
I never saw a Frog Person myself, but talking with a friend who used to be a Bethel police officer and he told me about them. I don’t remember the name that he used, but it could have been the one everyone else said here. In Stamford we had a family that probably had been inbred for fewer generations, but I remember meeting some of once as a teenager. I think their name was Murphy. All I know is they lived in one of the housing projects on the East Side. I met a couple that were said to be brother and sister, and at least one of them were said to be the product of incest also. The girl had a baby and the baby only had one finger on each hand and one toe on each foot. I was with people that knew them, including my brother, so was able to hang out a bit. They didn’t seem monstrous as much as sad. Oddly enough, meeting these folks happened before I heard of Frog People, but I guess that is what made them seem plausible years later.
I live in Danbury, and grew up in New Fairfield.
“Frog People” sightings were more prevalent in the 80’s. I haven’t seen one in some time, but had two different personal interactions with them.
1) Coming off exit 5 (I-84), going down the hill, I turned left. As I was passing Gulliver’s Liquors, two came out of the package store, obviously very drunk, and they crossed the road with no thought to traffic. One of them fell (passed out) in the middle of the road. I stopped, along with a couple of other motorists, and waited for the Police and ambulance to arrive to help them.
2) I worked for Bob Sharp Nissan, now Bruce Bennett Nissan, for many years back in the late 80’s, and 90’s. A family of them came into the showroom, and tried to purchase a car from one of my colleagues. They were in the showroom for some time, and went through the motions. We were not able to complete the transaction with them, and I never saw them again after that.
Here is what I know: They are the result of MANY years of inbreeding. Apparently, from what I have been told over the years, this is something this family does, over, and over. At least they did. I can’t say what they still do with/to each other.
I saw one up close. VERY close. He was passed out in front of me. His hands were deformed, although I can’t say if they were webbed. They may have been. He had enormously large eyes. He was not very clean, and suffered from poor hygiene. Actually, I would say that they did not practice hygiene at all. They were wearing very ratty, dirty clothes. They all looked similar, and while I have only seen them twice up close, the males were very difficult to differentiate from one another. I remember feeling very bad for one of the females who appeared to be almost a slave, and was treated so badly by two of the males she was in the showroom with that I approached them, along with three other colleagues, and warned them, very sternly, and very loudly, that we would not sit and watch them strike her again without taking action. They actually were afraid of us, and they even stayed and tried to complete the transaction for the car they wanted to purchase. While I cannot ethically state why we couldn’t complete the transaction, they put a fair amount of effort into it, and so we were exposed to them for the better part of an afternoon.
As for the one who passed out due to drunkenness near Gulliver’s Liquor’s near the North Street intersection, I can only state that he was taken via ambulance to the hospital. I have no idea what happened afterwards.
The “Frog People” are somewhat private, but they come out into the public just like anyone else does for a variety of reasons, but the “private” I am referring to is their home. They all seem to reside under one roof, and don’t like visitors. That they get many curious people lurking about to catch a glimpse or two would explain this.
Any local will tell you that they have been around for years.
Kyle
One night me and three friends went down an old dirt rd behind Southbury Training School which we call the satinist rd. Living in a small town there isn’t much to do so we went up there for fun, hoping for some action, but not expecting much. To make a long story short, we pulled the car over on the one way dirt rd which is in the middle of know where. We all got out and sat on the bed of the truck, hoping to see anything. All of a sudden a harmonized screaming started coming from everywhere, like the crickets on a late summers night. It was as if it was rehearsed, and sounded like a choir, yet it was still screaming. It sounded clear as day and there was no questioning if anyone else heard it. We all immediately froze and looked at echother, then ran and jumped back into the truck. I can’t put it into words how insane and overwhelming that night was. I’ve tried to tell many people this story before, but noone besides the three of us will ever understand the intensity of that night.
This happened four years ago and none of us have gone back since.
My mother has been telling me the stories of the infamous “Melon Heads” ever since I was younger. She said she has witnessed them near Southford Falls on the boarder of Oxford/Southbury. My grandmother even said she has wittnessed them… Out of all people I’d believe my grandmother the most. She said she was coming home very, very late from work (night shift) and had to pick someone up or something, and saw maybe 3 of them (I think she said that)walking down River Road just about to pass over the Silver Bridge in Newtown. (didn’t know they were that common around that area though) But I believe they’re out there without a doubt.
I had occasion to go to the Southbury Training School once, I didn’t know it’s history. The state was using it to give EMT tests and I took mine there. It just seemed like an old run down school. Now hearing that story and some others I realize I had the chance to be in a very strange location. Then again, I got to go through the tunnels of Fairfield Hills one day when I was about 11 or 12, later on when I watched Sleepers, I was able to say “Hey, that looks familiar”. They were far less creepy than the movie made them seem, but by then the hospital was closed and the prison had yet to open.
Ah I remember being told the Melon Head story at Camp Washington so long ago. A christian camp mind you it scared the crap out of me cause they told us they lived in the woods surrounding camp. If you’ve never been to Camp Washington(can’t remember where it was) it had a lot of abandoned houses etc deep in the woods. So yea I was so scared I didn’t go to sleep and i refused to get up to go to the bathroom ah good times
Yeah, North Haven had the Mongoloids and Mongoloid road, which is actually in Wallingford. – Its the Tyler mill or something like that.
Frog People are real, its not a myth. They are in Danbury, they are not a secret etc. But exactly how they got that way is. But one would guess genetic defect from interbreeding.
@ herman, I lived in wallingford and theres no Mealon heads up at tylers mill… nope, nothing but a bunch of Homos up there…lol seriously, its a big noon time stop for the gays to meet up for a quick BJ or worse.
I grew up in Stratford and can attest to Roosevelt Forest being the supposed “haunts” of melon heads. My friend John S lived in a house that nearly backed up to the forest and he talked about them as if they were real. The first time I heard about em I wax freaked.
I also worked in Bethel at CCC in the 80’s and I have personally seen one of the frog people. He was near Dr. mikes ice cream shop. My frien who lived in bethel told me they were inbred freaks and it makes sense. He was strange looking -kind of very like the people in the movie Wrong Turn. But this guy was small and could not have hurt anyone unless he used a gun etc. I feel sorry for these people because if you’re born as a result of inbreeding, it’s not your fault.
I saw Seymour mentioned in the article. Anyone know where in Seymour I can find some melonheads?
Hoyden’s Hill in Fairfield was loaded with them.
As l’ve read these stories l know some are made up and some are not,thats what story tellers do. l can assure you mine was not made up. l was in Conn a few weeks ago and believe me or not l ran into the guy who as a kid was the one who was in the tent l shared way back when we were in Boy Scout Troop 154 in the late 60’s.He looked old for his age but when he saw me his eyes lit up and he rushed up to me and the first thing he said was “Remember that time we were scouts and we saw that “Melon Head guy” l said yeah l remember…l asked how he was doing he tilted his head to the side and said sometimes ok sometimes not but l remember that “Melon Head” guy and he smelled real bad..do you remember that “Melon Head guy? l said yes again. Our conversation was brief l wished him well and went on my way.To this day l wonder if they still exist and has there been any real documentation on this matter .
Melungeons are mixed race people. My ancestors on my father’s side were from TN (later LA) and were Melungeons. I suppose that makes me a Melungeon, too. Though, I don’t outwardly appear to be anything other than very Caucasian. I can’t recall where, but I read somewhere that Melungeons have a knot on the back of their heads. I have it. My family isn’t inbred. Also, Elvis Presley and Abraham Lincoln were Melungeon.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/24/melungeon-dna-study-origin_n_1544489.html
is there any hunted houses basied on the melon heads
I’m eleven right now and yeah it’s freaking
But what’s more freaky is when I was 8 and my family and I went down THAT ROAD and we saw scratch marks on rocks and then when I was crying of fear and looking out the window I felt like I saw one behind A tree watching me
Now I live with that fear and I live with that fright I saw behind that tree
For all/any of you interested in the FROG PEOPLE of Bethel (mentioned above) you may have seen the recent headlines about a father/daughter pair arrested for producing a child. There’s lots more to the story. Google Father Daughter Incest Bethel, CT if you want to learn more.
And there is more: The father is related to the Veech family, aka, the frog people of Bethel. Check the Danbury News Times obits for George L. Sayers. George L is the father of the most recently notorious George Sayers, who is the one most recently arrested for fathering a child with his daughter. Even real frogs don’t do that, do they?
I moved to Bethel in 5th grade and went to school with a “Veech” although I could swear it her last name was spelled “Veach.” Not that it matters, but she was a quiet girl who got made fun of, dirty looking and just plain ugly (didn’t so much look like a frog, though, she actually had beady eyes; basically looked like your “average inbred” which is a term I find a bit ironic) but she never bothered anyone. I felt bad for her. After 5th grade, I never saw or heard of her again, but Lenny’s comment above is relevant, the Sayers’ are (obviously) a notorious inbred family in Bethel.
When I went to Stratford High (’78) it wad an accepted fact that a family of melon head farmers lived on Dracula Drive (Velvet Road) on the Stratford/Trumbull border. It was a twisty road and there was only one house on it. We would hit Dracula Drive only at night, while doing our Friday or Saturday night cruise. We never saw a melon head, but we were chased one time and it scared the bee-jesus out of us. Of course we still checked it out regularly, but I cannot substantiate a sighting.
OMG!!! IN FAIRHAVEN HEIGHTS WE HAD THE MONKEYMAN WHO LIVED IN AN OLD DECREPIT CIVIL AIR PATROL LOOKOUT BUILDING ON TOP OF FAIRMOUNT(HOLLYWOOD) PARK ON CLIFTON ST.
AND I ALSO HEARD OF THE MONGOLOIDS OF JOSEPH AVE. IN BRANFORD!!! I LOVE URBAN FOLKLORE
No offence, but some of you have bad grammar, and i’m in the eighth grade.
Says the one who spells
Says the one who spells offense with a c.
Im 25 and since I was a little girl I always heard the story of the melon heads. Me, my brothers and some friends would always take a ride and walk down dracula drive the scariest part to me was the church w the grave yard (very creepy). I went back in October 2003 dressed in black with 2 other friends walked in the woods but never seen anything. We went to the car and started driving when I seen something run across the road and into the woods. I never went back but am planning on going soon. As far as them being called Melon Heads and looking into the stories online when in reality they are born with Hydrocephalus (my daughter was born with the same thing and no incest wasn’t my problem doctors told me I must’ve been sick with the flu which wasn’t true at all). But shes 3 looks normal with a big head but nothing major she looks 4 instead very smart and bright. God bless y’all keep the legends going.
We had similar stories about “water heads” living in remote parts of the woods just outside of town. I grew up just south of Atlanta. Glad to hear these spooky stories are everywhere.
I grew up on Oronoque Road in Milford (Zion Hill is one of the roads off of Oronoque) to this day, I refuse to go down Zion Hill Road. It’s still a really scary road & you won’t find me there! My parents still live in the area…a few streets up from the original home. As kids only a few “brave souls” (after consuming alcohol) would go there. Not me. Never. Ever.
I grew up in Milford, a few streets away from Zion Hill Rd(Melon Head Rd as we called it). I walked that street many times, and we drove down it often. Never did I see any melonheads. I can even show you the house they supposedly lived in!! When I was in my 20’s(early 90’s) I had a good friend who lived on Velvet st in Trumbull(think it was on the border of Trumbull/Monroe) and I went to his house many times. Never saw any melon heads there either. Sorry, I am pretty sure there is no such thing as the melonheads!!
I had an experience just last night that makes me believe the legend. My friends and I wanted to steal a sign in an inconspicuous place. We decided that Stanley Road – a dirt road in monroe not even a mile from Velvet Street – would be a good place. It was 1 AM and 2 of my friends dropped me and my other friend off at a sign, and drove elsewhere so it wouldn’t seem sketchy (the road is only a bit wider than one lane, so they didn’t want to park there). Right after they drove off me and my friend realized we didn’t have the necessary materials to dismantle the sign. Then we started hearing freaky sounds. It was pitch black and we were basically in the woods, and we heard what I thought at first was laughing, almost like children. But it sounded evil too, and maybe mixed with a coyote howl or something. Whatever it was, there was maybe 5-10 of them. It sounded like they had just gotten ahold of prey or something and they were celebrating. Naturally, my friend and I had a panic attack in the minutes before our friend’s car returned, but we did make it out without anything truly happening. People are trying to tell me it was fisher cats, but I listened to fisher cat sounds on youtube and I can guarantee you that is not what I heard on Stanley Road…
What you heard were Racoons. They are like little devils when they eat.
Stratford also had a Mellonhead legend. The boy scouts used to camp out in Roosevelt Forest and at night, while sitting around the campfire, the legend of the Mellonheads terrorizing the woods was often told. Not to many boy scouts would sleep a wink after hearing those stories.
Somebody did a complete rendition of the Melonheads story.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTg0u2CUlNs
Zion hill rd in Milford is my family’s property rest assured we are not Mellon heads. I think this story started in the 60s. My aunt took care of autistic children & children with Downs syndrome my best guess is people saw these children playing on the property & the rest is Milford history.
Down here in Georgia, the legend continues. We too, believe that they (melon heads, we call them water heads) came from a mental institution. The legend said here though, is the Melon heads are insane, canibalisic creatures. They hate the light, because their eyes have adjusted to the night. The noise attracts them. They will kill anything to eat. It is said that the institution lets out the most wild ones. They breed, and the population grows. They don’t want anything to do with the society now. My story: We were snipe hunting. You know, a bag, and a light. Yo have people go and stomp around, scary the snipes into the bag. Well, that night, last night btw, My cousin and I ( The bag holders) Both heard a groan. It was coming not too far from us. Our parents tod us bout waterheads soon after we got back and unsuccefully had no snipes. My aunt told me she had spotted a waterhead once. It was really skinny, she said.
Growing up in Monroe, we would drive down the infamous road where the Melon Heads supposedly lived. I was very skeptical until one night four of us drove down the road & stopped in the road at the bottom of the long driveway that lead to the Melon Head house. We sat & watched because we could see lights on in the house. After several minutes of watching, we saw them! Their heads were HUGE! If we didn’t all see it I never would have believe it! Freaked out, we took off out of there!
I should mention that we were stoned. And although it’s worth mentioning & one might say we were hallucinating, I still find it odd that we all saw the same thing!
I grew up in Florissant, Missouri, and amazingly we had a very similar legend. There was a street nicknamed “bubblehead road”, and at the end of the street there was a house that the “bubbleheads” lived in. Same premise, people with hydrocephalus living in a home, product of incest. You were supposed to drive to the house, get out and touch the fence surrounding the house. I heard about people getting chased, disappearing, getting shot at, etc. so I found it amusing when I moved to Pearmain Road in Shelton a few years ago and heard the story of the melon heads living down the street from me (pearmain intersects with sawmill city). People do seem to think the dirt road part of Pearmain is some kind of city dump, maybe it’s their sacrifice to the melon heads? I heard it was quite a party place in the past.
I will say I did see a Melon
I will say I did see a Melon Head over 20 years ago. I went back to the spot the day after I told of my experience on Destination America Monsters & Mysteries. it will be on again this Friday at 9pm.
There is only 1 spot on the rd they show up and it is very rare & is the same spot we found a deer leg in middle of the road on our way back up after we went to show my daughters were it was. But we went in the day is the strange thing was same spot. It’s not the whole rd. I have a video & photo to prove it was not there
Melon heads are real or not?
One day i was watching a tv show called monsters and mysteries in America and on that show they showed a story about these melon heads in Trumbell Connecticut. They said that it all started in the 1980’s era that a doctor was living in a mansion filled with orphanage children and teenagers as well. The doctor would put these orphanage kids in cages and inject them with a water soluble in there heads. That would make the kids and teenagers head get huge and have a lot of deformities. Then one day one of them escaped and opened up all the other cages and when they did they all turned on the doctor and killed him. Then they lit the mansion on fire and fled or ran in the woods escaping the burning mansion. Till this day they are still lurking in the woods of Trumbull Connecticut on Dracula drive aka Velvet Street.
Someone did a really good
Someone did a really good video on this a short ways back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTg0u2CUlNs
Run in with Melonheads
Back in high school (late 90’s) a friend & I stumbled upon a dirt road/driveway in Oxford near the Monroe line. As we walked up it, it became twisty & narrow. Eventually we saw old, Victorian looking houses that obviously hadn’t been lived in for years as they were run down & overgrown with trees. We also saw a few old cars like from the 50’s that were also surrounded by trees & weeds. Then we came upon a small garden with a goat tied up next to it. I remember my friend feeding the goat some long grass. As we went further, we heard strange voices. They were adult voices but in an unusually high pitch. We walked towards the voices & could see a clearing in the woods where a campfire was burning. We got kinda freaked out & left. The next day at school we told a few people what we saw. Well you know how high school is, soon the entire school was buzzing & our tale had grown pretty tall. We decided we would go again after school & anyone who wanted to accompany us should be in the side parking lot after school. Of course about half the school was waiting. I led a long line of cars packed with curious teens to the spot I had been the day before. We went up as one big group. We saw basically the same things as the day before, campfire, houses, cars, goats. But before we saw any humans (or Melonheads) some people got freaked out & left & a few started being really loud. The people (?) at the campfire started yelling, (again in the high pitched voices) and we ALL ran outta there. To this day I have no idea what all that was up there.
Melon heads on Drac Drive, Shelton, CT
Just to let everyone who reads this article know, Drac Dr., except if you follow Far Mill River down to the River Rd. is not as vast as if you go into Roosevelt Forest in Stratford at the end of Peter’s Lane, where Melon Heads are supposed to, & probably are residing from every story that I’ve heard from my friend’s friends who have reported seeing them in Roosevelt Forest but quickly took off, which is probably a better bet if you are really in search of a dangerous encounter with Melon Heads, beware.
Melon heads on Drac Drive, Shelton, CT
Just to let everyone who reads this article know, Drac Dr., except if you follow Far Mill River down to the River Rd. is not as vast as if you go into Roosevelt Forest in Stratford at the end of Peter’s Lane, where Melon Heads are supposed to, & probably are residing from every story that I’ve heard from my friend’s friends who have reported seeing them in Roosevelt Forest but quickly took off, which is probably a better bet if you are really in search of a dangerous encounter with Melon Heads, beware.
So last night about five of
So last night about five of my friends and I drove down velvet street. That road is PITCH BLACK at night. We looked behind us and couldn’t see ten feet even with the brake lights on. And it was all going fairly uneventfully until about three quarters of the way down when our car almost stalled and the headlights went out. Did I mention we were in a convertible? My friends and I started screaming because in horror movies that’s how you know someone’s about to die, but the driver got the lights turned back on and we sped out of there like crazy. Terrifying not gonna lie. Thank god the car didn’t actually stall.
I lived right down the road
I lived right down the road from sawmill. And to go up there at night is really freaky. Maybe the legand behind the melon heads. One time in a group of people we were walking and all of a sudden we heard some strange noises and leaves crushing like somebody was walking towards us. We all ran like it was the devil..Go up there at night and just sit..You will hear or get freaked out in some way..
melon heads
also lived in Roosevelt Forest in Stratford. There shack is still there….
I grew up in that
I grew up in that neighborhood ,,and one thing I can say about zion hill road it is a spooky road at night and a being a child at the time and knowing about them old stories would scare the hell out me, but then after playing in them woods all threw my childhood them old fears went away,,but there always something that would send chills up your spine while playin in them woods and on that street like there was something always watchin you,,,,your friend tony shepherd
I grew up in that
I grew up in that neighborhood ,,and one thing I can say about zion hill road it is a spooky road at night and a being a child at the time and knowing about them old stories would scare the hell out me, but then after playing in them woods all threw my childhood them old fears went away,,but there always something that would send chills up your spine while playin in them woods and on that street like there was something always watchin you,,,,your friend tony shepherd
melonheads
I grew up in Redding, Ct. My graduating class was ’88 and we had our own melonhead stories almost exactly matching yours. Inbreeds living in Bethel, Ct ( neighboring) town. I remember people swearing they saw them and I am sure I believed the stories. Hilarious
melonheads
I grew up in Redding, Ct. My graduating class was ’88 and we had our own melonhead stories almost exactly matching yours. Inbreeds living in Bethel, Ct ( neighboring) town. I remember people swearing they saw them and I am sure I believed the stories. Hilarious
As of 1/7/15 the man from
As of 1/7/15 the man from bethel from the frog people family is still together and raising a son with his daughter in the frog people house.
I really like your writing
I really like your writing the above, thank you for writing
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You’ve decided that your wood shop needs a Nguyen Minh Trinh band saw. Its use in resawing, scroll work and joinery are arguably unparalleled, so congratulations on your decision
My mom grew up down the
My mom grew up down the street from Velvet Street in Monroe. She was chased by homeless people in the woods but, told me they were melon heads. I wish someone would find them and prove they are there. The photo of Velvet Street mistakenly said Easton which its actually in Monroe and partially paved in Trumbull (the outskirts of both towns)
These people do exist though.
These people do exist though. I’ve heard of many encounters; once one of my friends actually went to with a melon head in Wolcott Elementary. They are normal people aside from their “bid heads.”
We seem to have a similar
We seem to have a similar name..could we be related? Are you talking about the Wolcott Elementary in West Hartford?
Melon Heads
We had a legend like this in West Hartford like this. Supposedly an inbred group of “roundheads” lived in a dilapitated old three story house near the end of some road. I also remember that they had a “caretaker” who was well over 7 feet tall and lived in a shed. Back in high school we would always dare each other to steal things from their yard but never worked up the courage to do it. At one point we were shot at from an upper window…pretty scary.
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