Case file · High strangeness
The Moodus noises
Booming sounds under East Haddam, Connecticut, gave the area its Indigenous name, 'Machimoodus', the place of noises. On 16 May 1791 they came with the largest earthquake recorded in Connecticut.
1791 CE · 41.51, -72.45 · status: explained
The account
Indigenous people and later Puritan settlers interpreted the noises as the voice of a powerful spirit, and local legend added witches meeting in a cave. Records of quakes and noises run from the 1600s through the 1890s.