Connecticut – New England Legends

Podcast 424 – Thanksgiving Dessert: Hartford Election Cake

For our Thanksgiving special, we head to Hartford, Connecticut, to explore the legend of a unique and historic dessert called […]

A stretch of Main Street in Sterling, Connecticut, is home to gravity hill — land cursed by the ghost of

In 1878, the South Canaan Maniac approached the grave of Mile Blodgett with the intent of digging him up and

In 1927 a massive storm ravaged the region around Ricker Basin in Waterbury, Vermont, leaving behind a ghost town. In

In 1661, William Goffe and Edward Whalley were on the lam from King Charles in England. Then men hid out

In the 1660s, pirate Captain David Marteen sailed up the Connecticut River and may have hidden a massive fortune near

Little Maude Reynolds died in 1886 in Hell Hollow in Voluntown, Connecticut. Her story has haunted us ever since. In

In 1844, Dr. Horace Wells of Hartford, Connecticut, attended an exhibition of nitrous oxide. Wells became the father of laughing