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Looking for 7 Creepy Tales of Candlewood Lake as featured on Ethan & Lou?
Posted by kristipetersenschoonover
Did you hear about the tales of Candlewood Lake on I-95’s Ethan & Lou Show today (Halloween?) Here’s where you can go read them all: http://nehw.blogspot.com/2016/08/legends-of-candlewood-lake-guest-blog.html
If you grew up on or near the lake, do you remember any of these? I asked a few people when I was working on this and found out that yes, many do (everyone, especially, seems to recall the one about “The Kids in the Pipe” up at Lynn Deming)…and almost no one didn’t know Chicken Rock!
Anyway, enjoy! If you remember any of this, feel free to share in the comments below.

My sister prepares to jump off a concrete wall into (very shallow) water at the CTTA Beach in New Milford, CT, in the summer of 1982. Ah, unsupervised children. It was a thing.
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Tags: Chicken Rock accidents, Down the Hatch Brookfield, drowning deaths milfoil, Kristi Petersen Schoonover, lake monsters of the United States, legends of Candlewood Lake CT, Lynn Deming, New England Horror Writers, scary stories about lakes, the story of the Witch’s Circle, town of Jerusalem CT, towns buried under Candlewood Lake, urban legends
Just in time for summer: dive into THE DEEP HOUSE
Posted by kristipetersenschoonover
I grew up on a lake that was created by flooding abandoned towns, and so we had our share of urban legends about the lake and what lie beneath. When someone on Insta posted about the 2021 movie The Deep House (2021, 1 hour/25mins), I couldn’t resist.
This movie is French-made, but is in English, so no, you won’t be reading subtitles unless you have the CC on.
*MOSTLY SPOILER-FREE – ONLY REFERENCES ARE TO THINGS THAT CAN BE SEEN IN THE TRAILER*
This movie is definitely in my wheelhouse and has echoes of my short story, “Rightfully Mine,” which I wrote back in 2016 and was published in Sanitarium #49 here, in the same year (and although I promise a spoiler-free review, one of the spectral beings totally looks like the woman in my story, at least she does the way I pictured her in my head). I can’t recommend this enough—The Deep House gets high marks for Read the rest of this entry →
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Tags: found footage movies, ghost stories by Kristi Petersen Schoonover, good found footage movies, legends of Candlewood Lake CT, movies set in abandoned places, movies with scuba divers, new horror movies for summer 2022, Sanitarium Magazine, scary stories about lakes, The Deep House movie reviews, towns buried under Candlewood Lake, urban legends
Who remembers Chicken Rock? 7 Creepy Tales of Candlewood Lake…
Posted by kristipetersenschoonover
Many writers pull their inspiration from childhood; fortunately, I had plenty of urban legends in mine–many surrounding Candlewood Lake.
New England Horror Writers recently posted a collection of these tales I put together: “Seven Creepy Tales of Candlewood Lake.” You can read them here: http://nehw.blogspot.com/2016/08/legends-of-candlewood-lake-guest-blog.html
If you grew up on or near the lake, do you remember any of these? I asked a few people when I was working on this and found out that yes, many do (everyone, especially, seems to recall the one about “The Kids in the Pipe” up at Lynn Deming)…and almost no one didn’t know Chicken Rock!
Anyway, enjoy! If you remember any of this, feel free to share in the comments below.

My sister prepares to jump off a concrete wall into (very shallow) water at the CTTA Beach in New Milford, CT, in the summer of 1982. Ah, unsupervised children. It was a thing.
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Posted in Deep Thoughts & Fun Stuff, News
Tags: Chicken Rock accidents, Down the Hatch Brookfield, drowning deaths milfoil, Kristi Petersen Schoonover, lake monsters of the United States, legends of Candlewood Lake CT, Lynn Deming, New England Horror Writers, scary stories about lakes, the story of the Witch’s Circle, town of Jerusalem CT, towns buried under Candlewood Lake, urban legends