Mike Allen

You’ve undoubtedly heard about the benefits that accrue to a neighborhood when a highway goes through and an exit brings new potential business customers your way. Well, what happens when the exit goes away? There’s an example of this, right in our region, and it involves an exit that no longer exists – exit 12, in Newtown.

How would you like to have your own, secret entrance to Interstate-84 westbound, that only the locals in town knew about but outsiders generally did not?

What you might not know is that, along the way, there have been a few mystery entrance and exit reconfigurations that have often been lost to history.

Perhaps the best-known individual buried in Stepney Cemetery in Monroe, Connecticut, is one with whom you’re not very familiar – at least, not yet. But, I’ll tell you the story behind it.

As ghost stories go, few have the staying power of the Lady in White in Fairfield County, Connecticut.