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zebrakate t1_j4xgplh wrote

Melon Heads

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TriStateGirl t1_j4y4uol wrote

My old hometown of Trumbull. There's actually various versions of this story throughout the country.

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Stamfordsterling OP t1_j4yl1ul wrote

What is the story

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DungareeManSkedaddle t1_j5001ls wrote

https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-melon-heads-of-connecticut/

> The melon heads live on the outskirts of town on heavily wooded country roads, known as melon head roads. Zion Hill Road, for example, is Milford’s melon head road. Saw Mill City Road is Shelton’s. The melon heads also supposedly live on the outskirts of Monroe, Stratford, Seymour, Weston, Easton, Oxford, Southbury, Fairfield, New Haven and Trumbull.

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InvisibleTeeth t1_j4yen3s wrote

Black dog

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STODracula t1_j50qaky wrote

Tell me you're from Meriden wo telling me, lol.

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Joggingmusic t1_j52vci6 wrote

I love that anyone from the hanging hills neighborhoods knows this story!

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stacefacex0 t1_j50ofli wrote

Possible urban legend possible truth, but Stephen King lived in Stratford for a few years as a child and it was rumored this is where he got inspiration for Stand By Me and he saw someone get hit on the train tracks

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QuestorPS7 t1_j56pec3 wrote

Stephen King for sure lived in Stratford for a while as a child and talks about it in his book On Writing. He doesn’t mention the train incident, but he does talk about how a trashed, vacant lot near his family’s apartment in Stratford has appeared in many of his books, including It.

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STODracula t1_j50r2rz wrote

Still waiting for Easton, Cornwall, Moodus, and Hamden people as I see none below and know they all have one. Heck, saw the Warrens picture from Easton once in Storrs. My town's boring, except it has the Haunting in CT house.

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Vermigs t1_j51iei1 wrote

Downs Road in Hamden (goes all the way to Bethany) is supposedly haunted by ghosts and things similar to melon heads.

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CT_Cryptids t1_j56qo1m wrote

There’s always the Moodus Noises, which have lots of great stories associated with them.

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CTRealtorCarl t1_j4xtdqi wrote

2 for Bethany...one is complete legend "The Downs Road Monster" having to do with a creepy abandoned road that would have connected Bethany to Hamden.

Another is "Murder by a madman" which is written on a gravestone in Sperry Cemetary... this one is less legend and based on truth but worthy of legend if you look it up!

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CT_Cryptids t1_j56qjdc wrote

The Downs Road Monster and the Charles Sanford murders are somewhat related because the murders happened near the southern end of Downs Road. There’s not a direct line, but Sanford may be how stories of the Downs Road Monster began.

The whole thing is a bizarre tale. Sanford definitely had a mental illness but he likely snapped because his uncle — no joke — was murdered by a cult in New Haven.

http://www.murderbygaslight.com/2013/03/murdered-by-maniac-guest-post-by-james.html?m=1

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Few-Information7570 t1_j588gea wrote

The legend of the cougar. Neglected by her hedge fund husband she was driven to stalk the country roads late at night.

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PoorInCT t1_j4yipsl wrote

Some guy supposedly put a post on r/Connecticut suggesting that taxes could go down if the state cuts spending and people think they/them/him/her live in my town.

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