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Located in the woods of CT is the remains of a village formally known as "Bara-Hack".
Bara-Hack has very little history to be found. What little information I could find was vague and based mostly on speculation.
The facts are that there was a village there and had been formed as a separate township due to local politics. The townspeople
abandoned the town sometime before the Civil War because of typhoid or smallpox.
What remains today are the foundations of houses, stone walls and a cemetary.
The one very odd thing about the cemetary we noticed were the ages of the people buried there. For a town abandoned due
to disease, the remaining seemed to live, with very few exceptions, to extremely old age. The founder's wife has a stone right
in the middle of the cemetary. She lived to be 100 years old. Remarkable considering the average life span at the time was
around 68. Others buried there lived to be 80+. An unheard of amount of people living to a ripe old age given the time period.
That area is being prepped for development. They were removing trees during the day of our visit. Very unfortunate to lose
this piece of history and what I’m sure would be an interesting place to explore further.
Accounts given by other investigators we've come across
during our research have pointed this to be a "thin spot" in time. A sort of time warp or a thin wall between dimensions.
There are accounts of hearing children laughing ,sounds of farm animals and seeing children playing in trees dated back
to the 1950's.
Walking through the woods by the remains of what one knows
to be a former town its easy to picture it back when it was a functioning village. The echos of memories if not of the spirit
world.
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