Long Hill Burial Ground
Long Hill Burial Ground is a cemetery in Shelton, Connecticut. Cemetery research record. Historian Kevin Daly identifies this as the burial place of Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey, her husband and five children. Local lore holds that Historical society identifies Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey with the later Hannah Cranna folklore, while separating her documented life from witch stories.
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Is Long Hill Burial Ground haunted?
The record holds 1 claim, 1 legend, 1 named entity — filed as reported, not verified. The heaviest filing is classed documented legend. The archive documents the claim; it takes no position on the ghost.
The record — long form
Long Hill is the oldest — the '1720' that's the first stone, the 'Isaac Bennett' that's the founder buried. The 'shipwreck' is the origin — the 'Daniel Shelton' that's the swam ashore '85, the 'town named' that's the his descendants honored. The 'smallpox' is the '77 — the 'Josiah' that's the March death, the 'Danbury' that's the month before troops.
The 'Loyalist' is the refused — the 'Ripton Sheltons' that's the took no side, the 'obelisk '77' that's the great-great-grandson raised. The '113 stones' is the counted — the 'DAR '21' that's the photographed all, the 'broken and grassed' that's the found beneath. Long Hill is the commenced — the 'first death' that's the started the ground, the 'family monument' that's the 1877 added.
The file keeps Long Hill: the shipwrecked founder, the 1720 first stone, the smallpox puzzle, and the DAR census.
Long Hill Burial Ground is the archive's Connecticut file — the town's first grave.
Why this file matters
Long Hill Burial Ground is the archive's Connecticut file — Shelton's starting point.
A burying ground keeps its founder — the file's suggestion being that Long Hill's hold is the primordial: the 'swam ashore' that's the began the family, the '1720' that's the oldest in town, and the 'Loyalist' that's the refused the war yet buried its fever.
The record of claims
Historical society identifies Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey with the later Hannah Cranna folklore, while separating her documented life from witch stories. Long Hill Burial Ground's dead are the site's permanent residents; the reports are how the living say they keep noticing. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. Sources including 'Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey (1763–1831)' keep the claim in circulation. Cryptid or not, the report made the map — which is its own kind of existence.
Conflicting place/identity attribution in https://ctvisit.com/articles/haunted-cemeteries. Review tombstone records before publishing a canonical Hannah Cranna gravesite.
Historical society identifies Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey with the later Hannah Cranna folklore, while separating her documented life from witch stories. Long Hill Burial Ground's dead are the site's permanent residents; the reports are how the living say they keep noticing. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. Sources including 'Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey (1763–1831)' keep the claim in circulation. The story outranks the documentation, which is how you know it's folklore.
Alleged entities
Historical society identifies Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey with the later Hannah Cranna folklore, while separating her documented life from witch stories. Cemeteries keep their stories in the stones; Long Hill Burial Ground in Shelton, Connecticut has its version filed among them. Named presences persist where anonymous reports fade — the file's name here is Hannah Cranna.
Documented history
Historian Kevin Daly identifies this as the burial place of Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey, her husband and five children. The burial ground's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The record appears in 'Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey (1763–1831)'. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.
Verified historyMonroe Historical Society
Sources on file
- 01Haunted CemeteriesConnecticut Office of Tourism · tourism · A3
- 02Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey (1763–1831)Monroe Historical Society · historical society · A2
Field notes & open questions
Tourism points to Gregory’s Four Corners in Trumbull as Hannah Cranna’s grave; historical society instead identifies Long Hill in Shelton for Hannah Tomlinson-Hovey. Identity/grave discrepancy remains flagged, not silently merged.