Ray, do you remember the story when you were a kid about Jack and the beanstalk?

Of course. He trades a cow for a few beans, the goose that lays the golden eggs, fee five foe.

Right, that's the one. So, spoilers. At the end, Jack Bess the Giant, chops down the beanstalk, and the giant falls to the ground dead.

Right, right, right. That'd be somehow my mom told it better than that when I was a kid. That's fair. I mean, we did that story. No justice here today in Hamden, Connecticut. All right, other than to trash a class of children's story, why did we come to this forest in Hampton, Jeff? So we've come to Hamden looking for a real giant, Ray. You'd think a giant would be kind of hard to miss.

Okay, so this giant is so big that we're too close to see it.

We're in Hamden, Connecticut, searching for the sleeping giant Hobamock.

Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger.

And I'm Ray Oger.

Welcome to episode 258 of the New England Legends podcast.

Thanks for joining us on our mission to chronicle every legend in New England, one story at a time.

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