I'm glad we still have our adventures.

Often we go to some remote place where you don't see anyone around for miles.

But then other times we end up in some modern subdivision neighborhood, like this one in the Hopeville section of Griswold, Connecticut.

But I don't think any of these homeowners are going to let us inside.

No, no, probably not.

And though this neighborhood isn't the most spooky setting we've ever visited,

it's what used to be here just 30 years ago, and that's the reason we're driving through today.

All right, what was here 30 years ago?

Before these houses, there was a hill here and a construction gravel pit.

And one day, in the late fall of 1990

two young kids were playing on the hill and without meaning to these boys unearthed a vampire

I'm Jeff Belanger and I'm Ray Osier welcome to episode 170 of the New England Legends podcast. If you give us about 10 minutes, we'll give you something strange to talk about today. Though today we may need more than 10 minutes, so please forgive us. But this story is good and needs a little extra space. We're on a mission to chronicle every legend in New England, one story at a time.

Jeff, Jeff, hold on. I am so excited today. Okay, I can tell. It's like this glow about you.

Well, I'm proud to announce our brand new partnership, products that I'm happy to be endorsing and

consuming here. All right, Jeff, so we're on the trail of another vampire in New England. That we are,

Ray. This will make number four for us and our first in Connecticut. Well, we learned from those

other three cases that those vampires were tied to a plague. Is that true in this case, too?

It is. Plagues have been through our country before. They make for dark times and sometimes

panic over monsters.

When we're too scared to believe our doctors and our ministers and our clergy, that's when

vampires are born. Now to set this up, we're going to head back to 1845.

It's 1845 here in eastern Connecticut along the Quinnabog River.

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