Derby Library to host author of book about Bridgeport haunted house

DERBY - The Derby Public Library welcomes author William J. Hall to the Library at 6:30 

p.m. March 23 to discuss his book, The World's Most Haunted House: The True Story of the Bridgeport Poltergeist on Lindley Street.

A Bridgeport native, Hall watched the 1974 news coverage of the Lindley Street haunting on television when he was 10 years old.

A crowd of more than 2,000 onlookers had gathered. 

The media reported jumping furniture, floating refrigerators, talking animals, and attacking entities.

Now 40 years later, Hall examines the events and reveals 

interviews with police officers, firefighters, and others, telling the story of what really happened.

Once a skeptic, Hall now believes this is one of the most witnessed hauntings in history.

Readers of his book believe this is the haunting that should have brought the paranormal into mainstream science.  
Registration is requested.  

For more information, stop by the Library at 313 Elizabeth St., call 203-736-1482 or visit

www.derbypubliclibrary.org.      


This is a press release from Cathy Williams, Director, Derby Public Library.

Ansonia Nature Center to hold maple fest

ANSONIA - The Ansonia Nature and Recreation Center will host its annual Maple Festival March 7.

Start the day with a delicious pancake breakfast with real maple syrup, sausages, juice, coffee, and tea from 8-10 a.m.

Festival programs run from 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. There will be a maple bake sale, crafts, live animals, tree-tapping demonstrations, exhibitors, and much more.

All proceeds benefit animal care programs.

The nature center is at 10 Deerfield Road. For more information call 203-736-1053.

This information is taken from the nature center's online calendar.

Update: Forecast cancels dinner in Ansonia

In an e-mail this morning Master's Table Community Meals President James Fedak, Jr. said: "Please be advised that due to the weather we will be canceling our February Dinner and it will not be rescheduled. Our next dinner is on March 22, 2015."