Legendary Connecticut

All legends are excerpted from Legendary Connecticut: Traditional Tales of the Nutmeg State by David E. Philips Fairfield County Legends Perry Boney / Sherman, et al. George Washington's Horse / Bridgeport The Dark Day / Stamford, et al. Laddin's Leap / Greenwich Yankee Doodle Dandies / Norwalk Hannah Cranna, The Wicked Witch of Monroe / Monroe Legend of Samp Mortar Rock / Fairfield Hartford County Legends "First Lady of Connecticut" / Wethersfield Lake Compounce (and Pant-Horn) / Southington Silver Lane / East Hartford The Charter Oak / Hartford The Hessian Husband Kidnappings / Simsbury, et al. Escape from New-Gate Prison / East Granby Legends of Mt. Riga / Salisbury Two Tales of the Insurance City / Hartford The Green Lady of Burlington / Burlington Debby Griffen / Simsbury Litchfield County Legends "The Old Leatherman" / Harwinton, et al. Silver Hill / Roxbury Dudleytown, Cursed Village / Cornwall The Church Stove War / Litchfield The Winsted Wild Man / Winchester Barkhamsted Lighthouse / Barkhamsted The Headless Horseman of Canton / Canton Lillinonah's Leap / New Milford Middlesex County Legend Abel Buell / Killingworth, et al. Devil's Hopyard (and other Diabolical Places) / East Haddam, et al. XYZ / Deep River The Moodus Noises / East Haddam The Black Fox of Salmon River / East Haddam, et al. The Vanishing Hitchhiker / Chester Legend of Lake Pocotopaug / East Hampton New Haven County Legends Chauncey Judd / Middlebury Gurdon Saltonstall / Branford Noah Webster's Reply / New Haven Sachem's Head / Guilford Legends of Pirate Gold / Milford, et al. The Phantom Ship of New Haven / New Haven Midnight Mary / New Haven The Black Dog of West Peak / Meriden, et al. New London County Legends "Mother" Bailey / Groton Elmer Bitgood / Voluntown, et al. Capt. S. L. Gray / Lebanon Jemima Wilkinson / Ledyard, et al. "The Old Darn Man" / New London, et al. Uncas / Norwich The Rev. Bulkley's Advice / Colchester Rhodes' Folly / Stonington Bride's Brook / East Lyme Lantern Hill / North Stonington Town of Bozrah/Bozrah The Irving-Johnson Murder / Bozrah The Atlantic's Bell / New London The Sunken House of Gardner Lake / Salem Norwich's Barrel Burning / Norwich The Tell-Tale Apples / Franklin The Jewett City Vampires / Griswold Tolland County Legends Lorenzo Dow / Coventry, et al. The Lonely Death of Capt. Smith / Andover Haunted Gay City / Hebron Ghost of The Benton Homestead / Tolland Windham County Legends Israel Putnam / Pomfret, et al. "Old Gard" Wright / Putnam Rufus Malbone / Putnam Devil's Den / Sterling "Swamp Yankee" / Thompson The Windham Frog Fight / Windham The Church of Bacchus / Eastford The Nipmuck Fishing Fires / Thompson Legends of Lake Alexander / Killingly

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