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Haunted History Trail in Connecticut

October 8, 2026 /

Connecticut Haunted History Trail Now Open

Haunted History Trail at CTvisit.com

Hello DreamWatch® visitors, I’m excited to introduce the Connecticut Haunted History Trail where you’ll find details about different trails, events and inspiration. The following box quotes contain content from the Haunted pages at CTvisit.com.

Haunted History

Connecticut has no shortage of lingering stories, enduring legends, mysterious encounters.

Some are preserved in court records and cemetery stones. Others survive only in whispers.

They’re all waiting for you on the Connecticut Haunted History Trail.

Enter a state of restless sea captains, watchful innkeepers, and former residents who remain very attached to their homes.

Here, spirits gather in historic taverns, women in white wander country roads, lighthouse keepers work well past retirement, and hotel guests have been known to stay indefinitely.

These are some of the haunted history trails you can explore, and they begin at CTvisit:

  • Ghosts & Paranormal Tours
  • Haunted Cemeteries
  • Haunted Hiking Trails
  • Haunted Homes, Museums & Theaters
  • Haunted Restaurants
  • Haunted Hotels
  • … and more

You’ll find a Haunted History Trail Map for “a spirited guide” and see the list of Events you won’t want to miss.

Connecticut Witch Trial History

Before Salem, there was Connecticut.

Decades before the infamous trials in Salem, Connecticut was accusing and executing people for witchcraft. Discover the real individuals behind this disturbing chapter of colonial history, the fears and power structures that fueled the accusations, and the devastating consequences for families and communities.

Connecticut sites commemorate the real history, which is more disturbing than any ghost story.

(You’ll find a list of Witch Trial History sites on the CTvisit Haunted History. web page.)

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Here at DreamWatch you’ll find reports of present-day true paranormal experiences: ghosts, haunted places, premonitions and more.

DreamWatch® posts true paranormal experiences of everyday people like you and me—in our own words. You’ll find a wealth of actual accounts ghost sightings, pet ghosts, haunted places, as well as psychic dreams and visions, premonitions, and more.

An uninvited dinner guest in haunted Charleston.

Check out this haunted restaurant true story by my friend, mystery author Penny Goetjen—it’s not fiction, it happened in the real world. For Penny and her husband, it was to be an enjoyable dinner out with another couple at one of historic, haunted Charleston, South Carolina’s fabulous restaurants. But an uninvited “someone” wanted to make their presence known. Click this DreamWatch direct link to Penny’s story Table for Five in Haunted Charleston.

Have you had a paranormal experience? A ghost encounter or premonition? We’d love to read about it. A paragraph or two will do. Tell us in your own words on our Submit Story contact form. We believe. Thanks for visiting.

PLEASE NOTE: Though we share similar interests, DreamWatch® has no affiliation with CTvisit or the Haunted History Trail. 

Fireball premonition.

June 12, 2026 /

A fireball premonition. Was it? Maybe.

Here’s what happened.

Every night before I close the blinds, I look to the northeast sky, to the stars and the planets.

On a Thursday or Friday in late May 2026, I looked to the sky and a thought came to me, loud and clear that I might see a fireball streak across my sky.

I saw one once, a northbound fireball over the mountaintop to my east. One night after dark, I was washing dishes at the kitchen sink, and glanced out the window at the exact moment that a fireball whizzed past, a spectacular sight I’d love to see again.

It didn’t happen that night in May. I didn’t follow that thread or meditate on it. I forgot about it.

Two days later, on Saturday May 30th, I was standing at the kitchen sink and heard a loud BOOM or two. It sounded like fireworks, a cherry bomb perhaps, but it was 2:06 in the afternoon, an odd time for fireworks. Major highway construction is underway less than a mile away, so maybe they were blasting. I didn’t give the loud boom another thought, until I saw the evening news.

I didn’t see the meteor soar by, but I heard it. A sonic boom. Most of New England heard it.

The five-foot-wide space rock traveled at more than 40,000 mph before entering the atmosphere, about 30 or 40 miles over Massachusetts where it broke into pieces and fell into Cape Cod bay, roughly 150 miles away as-the-meteor-flies.

We’re not in fireballs’ line of fire on a regular basis, my previous sighting happened more than 10 years ago, maybe 20. I’m confident that the thought of one, out of the blue, days in advance was a fireball premonition.

If you want to learn more about fireballs, visit the American Meteor Society website.

— Kat in Connecticut

For similar premonition stories, see our Premonitions & Dreams category of Natural Disaster. Check out our other categories in the sidebars and at the bottom of every page.

Premonition of Fire on Thanksgiving Day

May 27, 2026 /

Premonition of Fire

A couple of days before Thanksgiving 2025, I awoke with a foreboding premonition of fire. I dismissed it as a forgotten dream, but it wouldn’t let me go. Thoughts of fire repeated all day from several sources: a news story, a movie plot, and from nowhere at all. I call this a sledgehammer warning, it demands attention. I checked my house, sniffing around and all seemed good.

If the warning wasn’t for me, then who?

The most likely subject was my grandson, a firefighter bound to be called to a fire over the holiday weekend. As Thanksgiving neared, risks of deep-frying turkeys came to mind. Whether intuition or reasoning planted that specific turkey culprit didn’t matter.

I feared that warning him might cause a dangerous hesitation. Better for him to act on training and instinct. I called his mom. She could approach the subject with discretion.

My warning to her was precise. Over the holiday, if she smelled something unusual, don’t dismiss it as the fireplace or barbecue. I told her it would not smell like burning wood. I warned, “Search for the cause. Don’t stop until you find the source.”

Thanksgiving comes and she visits family for a feast of deep-fried turkey. At some point after dinner, she smelled something odd that wasn’t food, fireplace or barbecue. She immediately recalled my warning, “Don’t dismiss it. Search for the source.”

smoldering wet-vacShe found it.

Boiling oil had apparently splashed out of the deep-fryer firing greasy embers onto the deck. The guys figured they’d vacuum the embers with a wet-vac—and inside and unseen the embers smoldered until they spewed smoke—ultimately burning and melting the appliance.

Fortunately, they extinguished the fire before flames erupted and spread to the deck or through the house.

Warning others about a premonition or acting on one can be a tricky decision. Things change and you don’t want to make things worse. In this case, I’m glad I acted on my premonition of fire.

— Kat in Connecticut

For similar stories that foretell the future, check out our Premonitions category right here at DreamWatch.

Premonitions, ghost stories, and more at DreamWatch True Paranormal Blog. Your stories in your words. Find topics of interest by using the sidebar’s Select Category menu or use the Search text field at the bottom of every page.

Tell us your story. 

When something strange and inexplicable like this happens to you, please share your story because it can help others know they are not alone. Share your true paranormal experience. Submit Your Story here.

Intuition or premonition of a death?

September 20, 2021 /

Intuition or premonition of a death?

An intuition or a premonition? I’ve always had an intuition about things. A few years ago, I had a dream about my cousin. In my dream she passed away and I saw her funeral. I told her about the dream. She looked at me, but she wasn’t surprised.

About a month later, we were arranging her daughter’s surprise baby shower. I talked to her on the phone on my way home from work. A half hour later she was dead from a massive heart attack. I felt so guilty because I told her to go to the doctor and she didn’t go.

I had a similar dream about my grandmother, but I kept that dream to myself. I had so many dreams that have come true, it’s scary.

— Chiitra in New York

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Intuition or premonition?

Premonition = Future Event. Clairvoyance. In my opinion, this story tells of a premonition of a future event. A cousin’s death and funeral were seen in a dream, and the story’s author writes of a similar dream involving her grandmother. Premonitions — visions of a future event — often come in dreams when our busy minds have gone still and are most receptive.

Intuition = Immediate Insight. Instinctive. By definition, intuition refers to an immediate insight without using conscious reasoning. Is it possible the author knew of risky lifestyle behaviors, did she subconsciously sense subtle physical signs of an impending heart attack that then formed a dream story of her cousin’s death? Possible, I guess.

NOTE:  My thesaurus mixes intuition, instinct, clairvoyance, sixth sense so I guess the lines are a bit interpretive. That said, I’ll go with Future v. Immediate.

— Kat

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Premonitions, ghost stories, and more at DreamWatch True Paranormal Blog. Your stories in your words. Find topics of interest by using the sidebar’s Select Category menu or use the Search text field at the bottom of every page.

Tell us your story.

When something strange and inexplicable like this happens to you, please share your story because it can help others know they are not alone. Share your true paranormal experience. Submit Your Story here.

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Danger Dressed in Black

February 18, 2021 /

Danger Dressed in Black

I dreamed the night, or the night before, (of) the daughter of a man I know. We (the daughter? and he) was going to the same school before many many years. I had many many years to talk with her. Her father last time I see him was before some months in a coffee shop during the COVID measures. The woman (the daughter?) was wearing black clothes and black high boots. She was in front of me. I talk to her and she didn’t reply.

That day at work I (was) informed about a deadly accident and (I) go with my colleague from the department (where) I work to investigate. He (a co-worker) fell while work(ing) from a big height and break his head. Blood everywhere around his head. He was her father.

Another premonition of danger

I had another experience at the middle of 2017. I see two faces, one had his face paint white and other was blond. Staring at me. Especially the white one. That week my dad get sick and died.

I just wanted to write somewhere about that.

— Hunter in Europe

I find the black and white imagery interesting — the woman dressed in black and white painted face both warning of danger and death. Hmmm …

I wonder if the dream was showing a future time when the daughter was dressed in black for her father’s funeral.

— Kat

Read more premonitions, ghost stories, and more at DreamWatch True Paranormal Blog. Find topics of interest by using the sidebar’s Select Category menu or use the Search text field at the bottom of every page.

Tell us your story.

When something strange and inexplicable like this happens to you, your story can help others know they are not alone. Please share your true paranormal experience. Submit Your Story here.

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Premonition Dream about Birth and Death

February 6, 2021 /

Premonition Dream about Birth and Death

On 2/6/20, I had this very vivid premonition dream about birth and death …

I woke alone up in my bed. It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining and the birds were singing. I reached down and touched my belly. I was pregnant and immediately knew it was my sister’s baby. I started to have cramps and recognized I was already ready to push (it would have been my 4th child). I called for my husband but no one was home.

“I delivered the baby.”

I remember feeling a deep sense of calm and peace. I delivered the baby. It was a beautiful baby girl, she came out smiling. In my dream, I looked at the clock because I knew my sister would want to know the time of birth it was 10:37am. I got out of bed to collect a towel and scissors to cut the cord.

“An overwhelming sense that someone died…”

This is where I got curious about where my family was … I looked out my daughter’s bedroom window which faces the front of the street. I saw my entire family walking into my driveway heading into the backyard. There was a priest there. I had an overwhelming sense that someone died. I raced to my bedroom window which faces the backyard and looked out. It was a funeral service in my backyard. I knew it was an immediate family member. Then I woke up and immediately called my sister to tell her.

On 2/28/20, my father passed away unexpectedly.

My sister found out she was pregnant in June with a due date of 2/21/21.

— Liz F. in Massachusetts

At DreamWatch.com we categorize premonitions about family, friends, loved ones or someone you know in our Personal Premonition Archives.

Read more premonitions, ghost stories, and more at DreamWatch True Paranormal Blog. Narrow your search for topics of interest by using the sidebar’s Select Category menu or use the Search text field at the bottom of every page.

Tell us your story.

When something strange and inexplicable like this happens to you, your story can help others know they are not alone. Please share your true paranormal experience. Submit Your Story here.

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Dream Predicts Sister’s Death and More

August 18, 2020 /

Dream Predicts Sister’s Death

I had a crazy weird dream, but what I remember most was a little Chihuahua type dog, but not a Chihuahua, circling around a water type grave refusing to come to me when I called.

I woke up totally distraught, crying very hard. That had never happened to me before. I went to my sister’s and told her and also told my niece. The very next morning I received a call telling me my sister (MY VERY DEAR SISTER), who I told about the dream had passed away. Her dog is a Chihuahua mix. I can’t tell you how horrible it feels.

Last week I had a dream where I was with my son’s girlfriend and an Asian lady says, “Oh, the baby will look like you and her.” Meaning Her and I.

Tonight I found out I’m going to be a grandma for the first time. But what troubles me is a dream I had around the same time. I can’t shake it. It’s about my son, and it’s not a good one. The same foreboding feeling! What do I do?

— Amy in USA

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In my opinion, whether you tell someone about a premonition or not has no affect on the outcome. You can simply warn them to be careful, but what will be, will be. I believe premonitions are meant to prepare us for what is to come so we won’t be blindsided when it happens.

— Kat

Read more premonitions, ghost stories, and more at DreamWatch True Paranormal Blog. Narrow your search for topics of interest by using the sidebar’s Select Category menu or use the Search text field at the bottom of every page.

Tell us your story. When something strange and inexplicable like this happens to you, your story can help others know they are not alone. Please share your true paranormal experience. Submit Your Story here.

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Dream of Universal Flood Not from Earth

August 6, 2020 /

Dream of universal flood

I just woke up from a dream that we were headed for a universal flood. 7/24/20. First I got a broad view from above, all the water on a coastal line receding. Then I jumped to a place where I saw a tank of water with mandarin oranges in it. The all capitalized letters in white appeared floating in the tank saying, “The Flood.”

Cities, landscapes and nature are not from Earth

These places I dream of every night are not from Earth—cities, landscapes, nature—they all are places I’ve never witnessed before personally or on TV. So we are getting into these pods that hold people and (the pods) last in the water for long periods of time. The mandarin oranges is what we had to eat. There were times when I was talking to women on a bus, arguing that we should go no matter the outcome of our fate in the pods.

I saw London halfway underwater too. I don’t know, but the way things are going in 2020, I thought, I’d share. I’ve had other premonitions before as well.

—Sarah in Indiana

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Sarah, thank you for sharing your dream about a universal flood. I look forward to reading more of your premonitions in the future.

— Kat

Read more Dreams & Premonitions in our Natural Disaster Category.

We’d love to read your True Paranormal Experience. Submit Your Story here.

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Odessa Premonition Misplaced

September 4, 2019 /

Odessa Premonition — Misinterpreted. Misplaced.

ODESSA burst into my conscious mind from out of the blue. It grabbed my attention so suddenly, I stopped what I was doing to ponder why. I recognized it as an Odessa premonition and immediately thought of Odessa, Ukraine, a lovely city on the Black Sea where I had visited years ago. I wondered if something was about to happen there?

Odessa premonition lingers.

Thoughts of Odessa persisted several times a day for two days though I couldn’t figure out why. I mentally revisited the sights I’d seen in Ukraine strolling along the Black Sea coastline, the souvenirs I bought, the show at the concert hall, the millions of jellyfish. A lovely visit but what of it?

Breaking News in the other Odessa.

I watched the news. Breaking News. Another mass shooting. Again in Texas — Odessa, Texas! I wonder if I had focused on the premonition if details would have become clear and accurate. My common fault. It tried to get my attention, but life got in the way.

My geography is often inaccurate when it comes to premonitions. It’s funny, because in real life, it’s pretty good.

— Kat in Connecticut

Read more Dreams & Premonitions in our Man-made Incidents Category.

We’d love to read your True Paranormal Experience. Submit Your Story here.

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Toe-walking deer dance premonition

June 4, 2019 /

Deer dance premonition dream

In my deer dance premonition dream I was with the head instructor of a wilderness school. I participated in their Basic Skills week, held in the deep forests of central Maine. In the dream we worked on a more difficult tracking exercise, at least for me.

As I looked into the forest clearing I saw deer that shifted into a group of people—several men and one woman—doing a specific toe-walk. They would put the ball of the foot down and then lift the heel quickly and gently from the ground. They were wearing moccasins. The woman wore black leotards and a black skirt like a dancer, with hair tied in a bun like a ballerina. Men surrounded her on three sides. They toe-walked in unison.

A message and a gift from the deer people

The deer people gave me a message and a gift. They were showing me a specific walk that would help to camouflage a group walking in the woods if everyone did this together.

When I awoke, I felt elated, light-hearted, and thought seeing deer shift into human form was pretty cool.

I did not know this form of walking in the woods, and when I went for walk, I did not experience any contact with deer.

I wrote to the wilderness school. They confirmed that yes, in fact, there is a deer walk used to stalk and track in the forest. The wilderness school encouraged me to practice the walk as given in the dream.

Deer dance dream proved true

Later on, in the fall of that year, I attended a workshop for dreamers given by a dream shaman. One of the participants was a member of an ensemble that performed a deer dance that dates back to the 1100s in Europe.

  • A group of men acting as the deer re-enact the deer dance.
  • They walk using the ball of the foot and gently lifting their heels.
  • There is only one woman involved.

—Judith, Connecticut

I love the detail and how it actually played out in real life.

Read more from Judith on my personal blog, Writings on the Wall, where she writes about Nature Teaches with surprising results. More about Judith Dreyer, author, speaker, teacher, on her website.

—Kat

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