Folklore · 2009-01-12
Damned Connecticut — Midnight Mary
Article and photos linkedRay Bendici’s account transcribes the monument and discusses the premature-burial, vanishing-ghost and midnight-curse traditions. Steve Frank’s photographs document a snowy cemetery visit. The article and reader comments show modern storytelling, not eyewitness evidence from 1872.
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Source / creator: Ray Bendici; photographs Steve Frank / Damned Connecticut
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Silent Grounds Collective, Mary “Midnight Mary” Hart collection, MH-025, “Damned Connecticut — Midnight Mary,” research edition September 8, 2026. Source: Ray Bendici; photographs Steve Frank / Damned Connecticut; https://www.damnedct.com/midnight-mary-new-haven/ (accessed September 8, 2026).