Connecticut’s Cremation Hill

New England Legends Podcast

Jeff Belanger

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 284 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger head to Haddam, Connecticut, to a location officially known as Cremation Hill -- a place where they say a farmer used to hire farmhands for the season, and then murder them and burn the bodies instead of paying them. There’s some truth to the legend… this is the story and trial of Emil Schutte who was sentenced to hang on October 22, 1922, for the murder.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, so we'll make a right here onto Plains Road.
0:09.7	All right, got it.
0:11.5	And that hill up on our left is our destination.
0:14.8	It mostly looks like woods around here.
0:16.7	Not really much of a hill here in Haddam, Connecticut.
0:19.7	No, no, there isn't much to it.
0:21.6	It's mainly forest, a bunch of trails going through there,
0:24.2	and I guess we could pull over, like, right here.
0:36.2	All right, so what's the deal with this hill and had him?
0:38.8	Ray, this hill is officially known as cremation hill, because they say a farmer who used to own this land long ago used to murder farm hands up here and then burn the bodies to cover the crime.
0:54.3	Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger.
0:55.7	And I'm Ray Oshar.
0:56.6	Welcome to episode 284 of the New England Legends podcast.
1:00.4	We're so glad you're with us on our mission to chronicle every legend in New England
1:04.5	one story at a time.
1:05.9	Did you know that most of our story leads come from you?
1:08.4	This one did.
1:09.2	Thanks to Leah Tomozuski for the lead. Be sure to like
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1:16.7	anytime through our website with your own tales of local strangeness. We're always on the hunt for
1:21.2	haunts, monsters, odd history, true crime, roadside oddities, and anything else that's
1:26.3	truly weird in our region.
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