Tucked away in the woods of Middlebury, there’s a collection of tiny houses known as the “Little People’s Village.” Next to the tiny, decaying houses, there’s an old stone house. The whole scene is pretty creepy. Local legend tells a bizarre story about the origins of the tiny village.

The legend tells that a man and his wife, who may have been a witch, lived in the stone house in the Middlebury woods.
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She started noticing small fairy folk in the woods around their home. To accommodate them, her husband built a tiny village.
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Years passed, and the village grew. As it grew, the fairy folk descended into madness, dragging the couple down with them. The abandoned village of tiny houses is all that remains.
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Another legend tells of a man who lived by himself in the stone house. The little people commanded him to build the village. Eventually, he was driven insane.
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Many visitors claim they feel a dark energy around the place. They claim that if you linger long enough, the ghostly voices of the little people will drive you mad. They forget one thing: the village is located near Quassy Amusement Park.
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The legends surrounding the "Little People Village" actually have no basis in reality. The village was once part of an elaborate trolley line from the amusement park. When the trolleys stopped running, the village fell into disrepair.

The legends surrounding the “Little People Village” show that sometimes, myths have no basis in reality.

While there are plenty of allegedly haunted places in Connecticut, this isn’t one of them. If you’re looking for places in Connecticut that really might be haunted, check out this list.

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