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East Haddam, Connecticut
Visitors and staff report seeing William Gillette himself, smoking his signature pipe, wandering the halls he built, along with the spirit…
Woodbury, Connecticut
The Glebe House museum describes its 275-year-old house as having a history of hauntings, and investigators who visited reported spirits…
Burlington, Connecticut
This cemetery on Upson Road dates to the late 18th century, when it served the local Seventh Day Baptist congregation. Local legend…
Naugatuck, Connecticut
Established in 1790 and named for early settler Jasper Gunn, who helped found Milford before his descendants settled this area, Gunntown…
Coventry, Connecticut
This Coventry farmhouse was the boyhood home of Nathan Hale, the Revolutionary War spy executed by the British in 1776. Attorney Dudley…
Hartford, Connecticut
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center preserves the Hartford home of the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe attended séances and put a ghost…
East Hartford, Connecticut
Built in 1761 by Edmund Bemont and later owned by his son Makens, a saddler, this is one of East Hartford's few surviving 18th-century…
East Windsor, Connecticut
Built in 1784 as the home of Captain Jonathan Pasco, a Revolutionary War officer, this South Main Street house later became a restaurant…
Suffield, Connecticut
Built in 1872 on South Main Street for Henry Phelps Kent, a tobacco merchant who was among the first to sell cigars in packaged boxes, this…
Bristol, Connecticut
The oldest continuously operating amusement park in the country, Lake Compounce has seen real tragedy over its long history. In 1999,…
Berlin, Connecticut
This traprock ridge, with cliffs over 200 feet high overlooking Meriden, gets its brooding name from a 1636 incident: a member of the…
Watertown, Connecticut
This talus cave — a shelter formed in the gaps between fallen boulders rather than carved by water — sits along the Mattatuck Trail and is…
New London, Connecticut
Built in 1902 as "Meadow Court," a private summer estate for steel magnate Charles S. Guthrie, the Mission-style mansion was converted into…
New Haven, Connecticut
The carousel at Lighthouse Point Park was carved around 1905 by Charles Looff and Charles Carmel and housed in a Renaissance Revival…
Norwalk, Connecticut
Built between 1864 and 1868 for Civil War-era financier LeGrand Lockwood, this 44,000-square-foot Second Empire mansion was one of the…
Mansfield, Connecticut
Operating from 1860 until its 1993 closure, Mansfield Training School and Hospital housed and treated people with intellectual…
Hartford, Connecticut
Samuel Clemens — Mark Twain — built this 25-room High Victorian Gothic mansion in 1874 and lived there with his family for 17 years,…
New Haven, Connecticut
Mary E. Hart, a seamstress from the Winthrop Street neighborhood, collapsed suddenly at age 47 on October 15, 1872, and remained…
Groton, Connecticut
Story has it, that John "Ernie" Randolph and his wife lived at the LedgeLight, which sits out in the middle of the Ocean, just at the…
East Granby, Connecticut
Old Newgate Prison is best known for its mine tunnels, where visitors report disembodied voices echoing in the dark, unexplained cold…
Hartford, Connecticut
Built in 1796 as Connecticut's State Capitol, the Old State House stands on the site where Alse Young was hanged in 1647 — the first person…
New Haven, Connecticut
Built in 1927–28 on the northeast corner of the New Haven Green, this was the city's tallest building when it opened, designed to echo the…
Stratford, Connecticut
In March 1850, Congregational minister Rev. Eliakim Phelps and his family returned home from Sunday service on Elm Street to find the house…
Ansonia, Connecticut
Founded in 1858 by showman P.T. Barnum, who is himself buried here, Pine Grove Cemetery is one of Ansonia's oldest burial grounds. Visitors…