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Vandals Cut 2,000 Fiber Optic Cables in Connecticut, Knocking 16,000 Offline
Norwalk police said they arrested Asheville, North Carolina, residents Jillian Persons and Austin Geddings on Saturday during a surveillance operation. Both were charged with larceny and criminal mischief crimes, as well as interfering with police. Persons also was accused of giving a false statement to police. Both were detained on $200,000 bail….The outages caused by the cable cutting have since been restored, according to Optimum’s website.
The Stamford Advocate investigated how many people were affected:
Norwalk Deputy Police Chief Terry Blake said Sunday more than 40,000 customers in the area were left without internet service as a result of the vandalism. However, an Optimum spokesperson claimed at the time the outages only affected roughly 16,000 customers and the inflated numbers were inaccurate because of an issue with the company’s online outage map.
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4-Foot-Tall ‘RUNNING TREE’ With HUMAN LEGS in Oxford, Connecticut
An Oxford, Connecticut resident observes a 4-foot-tall ‘running tree with human legs’ cross his driveway in front of him. He had no idea what it was, but he heard screams emanating from the woods.
I recently received the following account:
“On 8/3/2022, at about 10:45 PM I witnessed a bizarre creature run across my driveway. I own 14 acres of woodland and I am also surrounded by forest just outside of Oxford, Connecticut.
I was driving down my driveway when a bipedal creature about 4 feet tall and about as wide as my thigh ran out of the woods to my left, across my driveway, and into the woods and yard of the property on the right. It was about 10 yards away from me, so I got a good look at it. It looked like a tree on legs with small arms. No visible curves, hips, or shoulders. Just straight. It was brown, skinny, with no fur or hair, lightning-fast, and light as a feather. Almost looked like it wasn’t even touching the ground. I didn’t hear a sound from it running and all the birds and other animals were dead silent. When it ran it didn’t prance like most animals or run like a human. Its legs were moving as if you were pedaling a bicycle. I saw the back and a bit of the right side of it. I didn’t see the front or a face. I didn’t see a tail, ears, or any other body parts a normal animal or human would have.
About 2 months ago I was outside around 10 PM and there were 2 owls hooting back and forth. Then I heard this God-awful screeching sound (wasn’t a Fisher Cat or Screech Owl). I have no idea if that was related or not. I don’t do drugs and I was not drinking. I am not on any medication or anything like that. I don’t know if it was for sure an alien but I don’t know what else it could be. I did not see any craft or anything although I wasn’t going to walk through the woods to look either.” MH
NOTE: The witness states that he submitted a report with a UFO reporting site, not sure if it was MUFON or NUFORC. No one ever contacted him, so he emailed me. The witness insists that the being looked more like a walking tree than a humanoid, though it did have a head. He was unable to see facial features. He also stated that it seems to glide over the driveway surface and yard, even though it had moving legs. Lon
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Daylight Sasquatch Encounter at Halls Pond, Connecticut
A young man and his uncle are fishing on a boat on Halls Pond, Connecticut during the day. After hearing noises, they both clearly observe a Sasquatch running along the shore in front of them.
The following account was posted on the ‘Bigfoot Canada’ Facebook page:
“My name is Nate and I had an encounter with Sasquatch that I would like to share with you. It’s very short and sweet but nevertheless, it’s my encounter. So I’ll begin with the year.
It was 2012 and the month was early August. I was 17 years old at the time. Two years leading up to this I would take a trip from Pennsylvania to Connecticut to visit my aunt and uncle for a week. Every time I’d visit my uncle and I would pick a day to go fishing at a nearby lake called Halls Pond (in Natchaug State Forest). We always had awesome luck fishing catching all sorts of largemouth bass and pickerels. Nothing out of the usual ever happened though.
Well, the time I visited in 2012 something strange did happen. We were fishing for my uncle’s boat all day at Halls Pond like we do every year. Towards the end of the day around 7 pm, we were fishing one of the last shorelines before we called it quits. The entire length of the shoreline that we fished we kept hearing something in the woods walking parallel to us. It was out of sight we just assumed it was a squirrel or a bird making noise in the leaves.
We kept fishing and eventually came to a small cove-like area on the land and continued hearing it. I looked up and behind a tree in front of our boat was something dark black but I couldn’t quite make out exactly what it was. I yelled to my uncle, ‘Hey look that’s what’s making the noise,” and pointed towards it. The second I pointed the black figure ran from behind the trees on two legs right along the shoreline in plain sight. It was running on two legs with black hair roughly four inches long. I never got a good look at his face, but its arms and shoulders really stood out to me. It had long arms that reached below its knees and massive shoulder muscles almost as round as basketballs. It ran so smoothly it almost looked like it was floating through the air. No head bobbing at all when it ran. It ran right in front of us for about five solid seconds until it disappeared into the deeper forest.
The second we couldn’t see it anymore we noticed that we couldn’t hear it making any more noises in the woods. No leaves or sticks breaking. My uncle and I both knew exactly what we saw. I asked my uncle to go to shore for me to investigate a little bit but my uncle was genuinely scared and refused. He insisted that we go back to the boat ramp and head home.
After we loaded the boat up and headed back to his place he said to me in the truck how he was so happy that I was there to witness that with him. He would go night fishing out there and he said he had rocks thrown at him while he was on the lake and he would hear weird vocalizations. He believes that there really was a Sasquatch out there and the sighting in broad daylight that we shared together just put the icing on the cake. We never saw anything else after that encounter but we will never forget that day!” AC
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The Real Haunted House in Connecticut
Ever watched The Haunting in Connecticut movie? Well, the real story of the haunted house turned out to be even more intimidating. Haunted houses always leave us wondering about what kind of invisible forces that could turn our lives upside down and for what reason are they doing that!
The Snedeker Family
In 1986, a family of seven; two parents (Allen and Carmen Snedeker), three sons, one daughter, and Carmen’s niece, rented an old house in Southington, Connecticut. The Snedekers were not aware of the mysterious history of the house, or at least that is what Carmen Snedeker said. Carmen Reed, also known as Carmen Snedeker, was born on September 5, 1955 in Biloxi, Mississipi, USA. The eldest son, Philip Snedeker was born on August 29, 1973 in Marietta, Georgia, USA. Philip suffered from a type of cancer that targets the immune system, called Hodgkin lymphoma. Because Philip was undergoing Cobalt treatments, the family had to move from Upstate New York to 208 Meriden Avenue in Southington, Connecticut on June 30, 1986, to be near UCONN hospital where he used to get his treatments.
Paranormal Activities
The Snedekers started to recognize some unusual occurrences that took place shortly after they moved into the house and soon that let them suspect that it might be one of the creepy haunted places in the area. These occurrences varied from normal to severe incidents affecting the family. Now let us go through some of these “paranormal activities”:
-Lights flicker without light bulbs.
-Dishes put themselves away.
-Mop water turns bloody red.
-Invisible force tried to suffocate Carmen with the bathroom curtain.
They also reported some sightings of unknown entities, such as a thin man with long black hair, pitch black eyes, and high cheekbones. They also saw a man with white hair, wearing a pinstripe tuxedo.“My son started seeing this young man with long black hair down all the way to his hips,” recalls Reid. “He would talk to my son every day. Sometimes he would threaten him, other times he would stand there and just say his name, which was enough to scare him.” Carmen Snedeker said.
The Dark History of the Haunted House
Later on, the Snedekers discovered that their house was a funeral home back in the days! but storing dead bodies in an old house isn’t actually the dark part of its history! It was said that the morticians who lived in the old funeral home used to practice necrophilia with the corpses they handled! Sickening, right! Well, the next part is even weirder! According to the Snedekers, both Allen and Carmen were raped and sodomized by demons! It was then the perfect timing for a professional interference. That is when the Snedekers sought the help of the famous demonologists, Ed and Lorraine Warren. The professional couple proclaimed the house to be filled with demons!
They also sought the help of John Zaffis, a researcher and expert in the paranormal, who described his experience in the house in these exact words: “Compared to that house, the other cases I had been involved with were like dealing with Casper the Friendly Ghost.” He also said that he is very sure of what he experienced in that house and that all the events were real and were really horrifying! “I was in the kitchen documenting, and there was a very foul smell, so I got up, looked at the top of the stairs and saw a transparent, murky color that sounded like a bunch of plastic bags. I later learned it was what we call the ‘fluttering of the wings,’ which is a lower level of demonic sounds.” He added.
Exorcism
Although the local Roman Catholic archdiocese denied any exorcism had been done to the house, the Snedekers claimed that they used the help of two priests to help them get rid of these demons, however, the two priests were terrified and left before the exorcism. After a three-hour exorcism session, the third priest succeeded in getting rid of the demons.
It is real, isn’t it?
Well, whether or not the whole story was real, is up to the reader to decide, and here’s why it is not an easy task! People who lived in the house before and after the Snedekers did not complain of any unusual occurrences. Moreover, the Snedekers stayed two years in the house (with all that was going on) until they finally decided to leave.
Between people telling us it was all for the cash and the sake of writing a horror book and then a movie, and others saying that it was all real and more intimidating than any movie could ever portray, we are left in between wondering, which side should we take.
After reading this, tell us whether or not you believe the Snedereks house was haunted, and more importantly, share with us if you ever got involved in a paranormal activity, trapped inside with a ghost or even heard a light sound of knocking on your door or walls.
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