The Most Haunted Places in Connecticut

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   1. New London Ledge Lighthouse New London · Museum / Historical Site · Family Comfort: Moderate

   HauntBound identified four distinct published accounts at this museum site, across three kinds of published source. Seven later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include electrical anomalies and objects moving.

   4 original accounts · documented across 6 decades, 1920-2015 · retold in 7 later publications

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   2. Daniel Benton Homestead Tolland · Haunted House / Historic Home · Family Comfort: High

   Built in 1720, the Daniel Benton Homestead held one family for six generations and twenty Hessian prisoners in the Revolution, their carved rafters surviving in the cellar. In 1777 Elisha Benton came home with smallpox and died soon after; Jemima Barrows, who nursed him against both families' wishes, caught it and died months later, and both were buried on opposite sides of the path. A bridal figure said to be Jemima appears at the windows.

   3 original accounts · documented across 5 decades, 1934-2022 · retold in 5 later publications

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   3. Union Cemetery Easton · Cemetery / Burial Ground · Family Comfort: High

   Union Cemetery in Easton has recorded burials since 1761 and was formally organized in 1902. Ed and Lorraine Warren named it among the most haunted graveyards in the country and devoted a 1992 book to its lore. Its best-known figure is the White Lady, a woman in a white gown reported walking Sport Hill Road at night; several drivers describe striking her with their car and finding no body or damage afterward.

   3 original accounts · documented across 5 decades, 1940-2021 · retold in 8 later publications

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   4. Gunntown Cemetery Naugatuck · Cemetery / Burial Ground · Family Comfort: High

   Gunntown Cemetery has been used since 1790 on a hill above the Naugatuck River, named for the Gunn family, and holds veterans of the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, and the Civil War. Investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren declared it haunted. Visitors report children's laughter from the field beyond the back wall, ragtime music from the woods, and a man leading a horse by lantern light, along with a boy who vanishes when approached.

   4 original accounts · documented across 3 decades, 2004-2026 · retold in 6 later publications

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   5. Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery Burlington · Cemetery / Burial Ground · Family Comfort: Moderate Private, not open to visitors

   HauntBound identified two distinct published accounts at this burial ground, across six kinds of published source. Two later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and disembodied voices.

   2 original accounts · documented across 3 decades, 1960-2013 · retold in 2 later publications

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   6. Lighthouse Inn (Meadow Court) New London · Haunted Hotel / Inn · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified two distinct published accounts at this working hotel, across four kinds of published source. Four later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and objects moving.

   2 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1930-2011 · retold in 4 later publications

7. 7. Snedeker House Southington · Haunted House / Historic Home · Family Comfort: Moderate Private, not open to visitors

   HauntBound identified three distinct published accounts at this historic home, across seven kinds of published source. Six later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and phantom smells.

   3 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 1986-1992 · retold in 6 later publications

   Disputed by its originator The ghostwriter hired to write the book behind the family's haunting claims has said in interviews that he 'used what I could, made up the rest, and tried to make it as scary as I could.'

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   8. The Bradley Playhouse Putnam · Theater / Performance Venue · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified two distinct published accounts at this working theater, across four kinds of published source. Three later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and cold spots.

   2 original accounts · documented across 2 decades, 2005-2019 · retold in 3 later publications

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   9. Lake Compounce Amusement Park Bristol · Other Dark Tourism Site · Family Comfort: High

   HauntBound identified two distinct published accounts at this documented site. Two later publications retell those accounts. Reported phenomena include apparitions and electrical anomalies.

   2 original accounts · documented across 5 decades, 1981-2025 · retold in 2 later publications

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    10. The Mark Twain House & Museum Hartford · Museum / Historical Site · Family Comfort: High

    Samuel Clemens, known as Mark Twain, lived with his family in this 25-room Hartford mansion from 1874 to 1891, writing Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in its third-floor billiard room. Daughter Susy died in the house of meningitis in 1896 while the family was abroad, and they never returned; the home reopened as a museum in 1974. Staff report cigar smoke in the billiard room, a woman in white identified as Susy, and childlike laughter.

    1 original account · documented in 2014 · retold in 4 later publications

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