Bara-Hack Settlement is located in Pomfret, Connecticut.
This eerie settlement was home to Obadiah Higginbotham and Johnathan Randall. Around 1790 these two familes reloacted to Pomfret, Connecticut and named the settlent Bara-Hack, Welsh for breaking of bread.
It was abandoned by the year 1890 because of the economic problems and the original founders already died. People then started to leave until it was completely lifeless. Locals refer to the ghost town of Bara-Hack village as “The Village Of Voices” because apparently, many who have visited the area have heard things that sound like the former settlers remain to live in the area and as if they never left. Accordingly, the daily lives of the people who once lived there could be heard in the area.
Some claim that they heard children laughing and playing, dogs barking, cows mooing, and the sound of wagon wheels being pushed around.
The strange things that happen at the Bara-Hack village reportedly started even when Randall and his companions settled in the village. Randall’s slaves reportedly started seeing ghostly appearances like that of a ghost of a baby and the former residents in the area who recently died. The slaves claimed that they saw these ghosts near the cemetery. Speaking of the cemetery, other visitors said that they saw the ghost of a bearded man and a small child near the elm tree at the cemetery.
One professor from Harvard and Radcliffe College wrote about Bara-Hack village saying, “Although there is no human habitation for a long distance round about and no one goes there except the very few who go to listen, yet there is always a hum and stir of human life. It is as though sounds were able in this place to get round that incomprehensible corner, to pierce that mysterious soundproof wall that we call Time.”
A paranormal investigator named Paul Eno went to the village and he was with a group of students. The students reportedly saw ghosts like a bearded face floating in the air and a baby near the elm tree. The students confirmed that people visiting Bara-Hack could really hear the sound of the town when it was still busy and functioning.
Another member of the group claimed that he was restrained by unseen forces while he was operating the cameras. The same person added that he could not move any other way except towards the cemetery.
Bara-Hack was eventually closed to the public due to an increasing influx of paranormal enthusiasts. Today, it sits on private property, surrounded by “No Trespassing” signs. Prearranged visits are occasionally allowed on the property, but trespassers sneak into Bara-Hack at their own peril.
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