People on Reddit Are Sharing the Creepiest Places in Connecticut

I love Halloween, scary stories but my real jam is creepy places. That's why when I was scrolling through Reddit, this particular post caught my attention. A user that goes by AcademicSavings634, posted: Creepiest most eerie parts of Connecticut? It’s the Mass/Union border for me. Something feels so weird and liminal about it. Then the responses started flooding in. These were some of my favorite submissions:

SuckingOnChileanDogs: It's been knocked down, but for the longest time the Norwich State Hospital was the ghost ghoul and goblin headquarters of the world.

JCtheMemer: The greater Norwich area is all strange. I couldn’t tell if it was rich or poor, there was no one around, I was in random farmland, and suddenly, the massive monolith that is Foxwoods appeared over the horizon. It all just felt wrong.

SuckingOnChileanDogs: Ledyard a few towns over has more cemeteries per capita than any town in America!

twizzler_guzzler: Ahhh yes, I moved to CT as an adult and have always called CT the “cemetery state” because that’s one of the first things I noticed when I lived here….all the cemeteries!

g23nov: The place in Campus Depot at UConn is a good contender!

G3Saint: Meriden Mall

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vacalicious: Yeah, I was there last year and it felt like the setting of a zombie movie. So empty and eerie.

tauntonlake: NW CT as you get to MA is gothic spooky. So dark. We went for a hike on the Mt. Washington State Forest in MA, and that place is hella spooky.

Infinite-Ad-791: I agree with this. Lived in a secluded old farmhouse by myself in Litchfield County for about 5 years. Only after moving away did, I realize there is something off about the entire region. It’s like a heavy pressure and energy that weighs on you. I really try and find every reason not to go back into the area.

SnocTheHog: Salisbury, Cornwall and Sharon come to mind. 7 past Kent is a gorgeous drive…but after dark there’s definitely something spooky about it. Was once on a drive alone one night up 7. Made a wrong turn in Sharon and noticed the trees got thicker, the road got narrower and I had lost cell service. Looked at the signs and realized I was on part of the Appalachian trail. Nothing inherently scary…but that night definitely left an impression.

averagejoe860: Don’t forget about Dudleyville in Cornwall. Super creepy.

sachertortereform: So weird up in the woods around Warren through West Cornwall. That abandoned gas station on 128 wigs me out.

JacktheJacker92: And Rob Zombie lives there, so you never know what witches and goblins he's running around with.

mark99229: Hiking the Appalachian Trail in Salisbury at night was the most disturbing experience for me.

Ok-Task6954: Green Lady Cemetery

Holdurground86: I had an insane experience there�� weird whistles, annd it was 10+ colder in the cemetery! Then I know something followed me home. The next morning something in my room moved I ignored it … that night something in my room shook and my husband looked at me and said, “what did you do?” I hadn’t even described the ghost hunt to him.

jules13131382: The motels on the Berlin Turnpike…..:mysterious things happen there.

HealthyDirection659: Downtown Danielson on a Sunday afternoon. Everything is closed.

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speakerjones1976: East Haddam - Johnsonville (now occupied by a cult), Machimoodus (the Moodus noises), Devil’s Hopyard and Gillette’s Castle, all within a few square miles.

speakerjones1976: Iglesia ni Cristo. Theres a subreddit about them here and some info on r/cults as well, I think. They fixed up the chapel it looks like and one of the houses and the grounds are well kept now. Still creepy.

BaconCheeseBeer: Seaside Sanatorium deserves a mention. Such a shame the state it is in.

MrsDrjekyllandHyde: Old new gate prison. Check out the pit.

Slowstorm43: To the OP's point, I have family in Ashford, and it's pretty empty during the day, but until I'm ther,e I forget how freaking dark it is at night. Just no ambient light at all. Dark and wooded. That corridor of 84 feels pretty desolate until you get down to Vernon. Also, many of those small towns on the RI border (north of the Stoningtons) have a similar vibe. Like, Voluntown and Jewett City at night are just empty and eerie. Around the turn of the century, a friend and I were driving through the area to see some friends in RI, and we somehow got turned around in Jewett City and almost drove right into the Quinnebaug River. There were no signs, no warnings, just the road going almost right up to the water's edge. No one would have noticed if we went in.

The moral of the story is this: Connecticut is terrifying from top to bottom.

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