Doomsday Island in the Connecticut River

New England Legends Podcast

Jeff Belanger

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 437, Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore Kings Island in Suffield, Connecticut. The island was once home to DeWitt Terry, A Seventh Day Adventist elder who believed the second coming of Christ, and thus the end of times was going to occur November 5, 1873 (spoilers: he was wrong). Over 100 people once gathered on this island to await the end.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Jeff Spring is right around the corner.
0:06.2	Finally feels like maybe this winter is breaking up a bit.
0:09.5	Not a bad day to be standing by the Connecticut River here in Suffield.
0:13.0	Not a bad day at all.
0:14.4	Snow's melting away, and I wasn't sure we'd survive that brutal winter.
0:18.8	I was looking bleak there for a while.
0:20.7	Very bleak. Very was looking bleak there for a while. Very bleak.
0:22.3	Very, very bleak.
0:25.5	Yeah, I don't like the way you just said very bleak.
0:28.8	Kind of ominous.
0:30.1	I can't help it, Ray.
0:31.7	Sometimes it feels like we're near the end.
0:33.3	And I get that.
0:34.2	The winter weather, the state of the world, it can get you down.
0:39.9	All right. Well, now I'm depressed.
0:45.8	Me too. But the good news is we've come to the right place for that. Oh, I'll sell.
0:51.1	You see that large island in the middle of the river right in front of us? I do. It's called King's Island.
0:54.7	But it used to be known as Terry Island, but that's not the point. We've come to Suffield, Connecticut, because it was on this island in front of us
0:58.3	that a large group of people once gathered to await the end of the world.
1:09.0	Hello, I'm Jeff Belanger.
1:10.3	And I'm Ray Osier. Welcome to episode 437 of the New England
1:14.2	Legends podcast. Thanks for joining us on our mission or chronicle every strange legend in New
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