The Dog

One Strange Thing: Paranormal & True-Weird Mysteries

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True Crime, History

4.4 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

The Black Dog of Hanging Hills is a spectral beast with a fascinating backstory that makes us question the line between fact and and fiction—and sightings of it seem to go back more than a century in Connecticut, making it one of the more fascinating paranormal creatures of the Northeast.

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0:00.0	I'm Lauren Orton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's
0:10.1	news archives for stories that can't quite be explained. There is an area in South Central Connecticut called The Hanging Hills.
0:30.8	As names go, hills is a bit of an understatement.
0:35.3	We're talking mountainous ridges formed of volcanic rock that hardened
0:40.8	layer by layer into trap. At an elevation of about 1,000 feet over the town of Meriden,
0:48.3	Connecticut, the hanging hills form picturesque and extremely atmospheric vistas and ledges, pretty much guaranteeing the perfect
0:57.8	setting for any teen paranormal movie you'd ever want to film should you be looking for such a place.
1:05.5	On the eastern peak of the hanging hills sits an odd site, an actual tower, something you'd imagine when someone
1:13.9	said medieval. We're talking a properly ancient-looking building, aka not something you'd expect to
1:21.7	see hanging around on a cliff in the northeastern United States, where the closest thing to a castle serves oddly small
1:29.3	hamburg. This tower, called the castle Craig, is built of the same rock as the hills that
1:35.9	support it. Per Meriden's official website, the tower was constructed by a wealthy businessman,
1:42.3	Walter Hubbard, the park that surrounds it also bears his name,
1:46.1	in 1900. Pared with the hanging hills, the tower creates quite a striking visual. It conjures
1:54.3	the sense of a long-abandoned ancient fortress of crumbling rock, jutting up out of a forest
2:00.5	that is lush in the summer,
2:02.5	skeletal in the winter. It's the perfect setting for a ghost story, maybe a murdered lord
2:09.0	or a betrayed maiden. Or neither. Actually, we're here to talk about dogs, or a kind of dog, a dog motif, and strangers,
2:23.5	a dog that predates even the atmospheric tower.
2:27.8	How's that for an early twist?
2:30.9	Now, don't get ahead of yourselves with your imaginations, although we do love a good strong
2:36.7	mental image and start picturing chihuahuas or golden doodles or a pug who befriends ducklings
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