The South Canaan Maniac
New England Legends Podcast
Jeff Belanger
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 415 Jeff Belanger and Ray Auger explore Sand Hill Cemetery in South Canaan, Connecticut, searching for the grave of Miles Blodgett. His grave was ground zero for a horrific event that took place in 1878 when the man later dubbed the South Canaan Maniac approached the grave with a shovel and the intent of resurrecting the dead boy below.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Autumn is officially here. |
| 0:06.4 | Guess that makes this the perfect time to stroll through a cemetery. |
| 0:10.0 | I think any time of year is a good time for us to walk through a cemetery, right? |
| 0:14.2 | That's true. |
| 0:15.0 | But what brings us to this particular bone yard in South Canaan, Connecticut? |
| 0:19.2 | Because Sand Hill Cemetery is ground zero for this week's story. |
| 0:23.2 | It's both strange and troubling. |
| 0:25.5 | Well, you had me. It's strange and troubling. |
| 0:28.2 | So we've come to the Litchfield Hills of Connecticut to search for the South Canaan Maniac. |
| 0:36.8 | Hey, I'm Jeff Belanger. |
| 0:38.2 | And I'm Ray Osher. |
| 0:39.3 | Welcome, legendarians. |
| 0:40.6 | Thank you for joining us on our mission to chronicle all the wicked strangeness that is New England one story at a time. |
| 0:46.1 | Whether ghosts, monsters, UFOs, roadside oddities, eccentrics, or the just plain weird, our community is on it. |
| 0:52.3 | Most of our story leads come from you like this one. Thanks |
| 0:55.4 | to our buddy Frank Grace for sending it in. If you got something strange you think we should check |
| 0:59.2 | out, please write to us anytime through our website with your ideas. We love hearing from you. Our |
| 1:04.2 | website is also the place to see dates for my story tour. I have dozens of shows in the Northeast |
| 1:08.7 | coming up and you can see Dates to see Ray's Band the Pub Kings. We'll go searching for the South Canaan Maniac right after a word from our |
| 1:15.4 | sponsor. |
| 1:21.8 | We are walking through the Sand Hill Cemetery in South Canaan. We are. |
| 1:26.4 | The cemetery is pretty well hidden by a stone wall and a line of trees right next to Route 63. |
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