Ghosts and Legends with Jeff Belanger at the Derby Public Library
Back with new stories for 2025! This ghostly multi-media program will take you on a journey through the haunts in your backyard, and around the world. Pulling from Jeff’s 25 years […]
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Ghosts and Legends with Jeff Belanger at the Seymour Public Library
Back with new stories for 2025! This ghostly multi-media program will take you on a journey through the haunts in your backyard, and around the world. Pulling from Jeff’s 25 years
Cemetery Safari with Jeff Belanger at the Seymour Public Library
This program is a MUST SEE for anyone who ever plans to die! In a Cemetery Safari, Jeff Belanger takes you on a journey from the oldest burial rituals up
New England Legends Season 2 Episode 2: New England’s First Christmas Tree
Did Battle of Bennington P.O.W. Hendrick Roddemore put up the first decorated Christmas tree in New England in a tiny shack in Windsor Locks, Connecticut in 1777? Jeff Belanger finds
Old Leatherman at the Derby Public Library
Last night I gave a program at the Derby Public Library in Connecticut. Before we got started, the director, Scott, showed me around the 120-year-old building. When he brought me
Jeff Belanger to Appear on The Devil Made Me Do It on Discovery+
Jeff Belanger will again appear on the Discovery networks new series: Shock Docs. If you’ve seen the Conjuring 3 movie, this is the real story behind that case. Jeff grew
Belanger’s Latest Release Takes Readers To The Peak Of Africa’s Highest Mountain
From The Newtown Bee in Newtown, Connecticut. Jeff Belanger’s latest book, The Call of Kilimanjaro: Finding Hope Above the Clouds, was published March 9 by Imagine, a division of Charlesbridge
Christmas Can Be Merry And Bright… And Creepy
It is absolutely fine — completely understandable, in fact — if someone does not feel all bright and bubbly just because it is the holiday season, says Jeff Belanger. Belanger,
Der Belsnickel
The Belsnickel is an old world Christmastime legend, but unlike Santa, in addition to rewarding the good children, he punishes the bad ones. Once relegated to history, the Belsnickel is
2013: A Look Ahead for Newtown and for Us
“I grew up in an old New England town…” You know how many lectures I have begun with those exact words? Each time some radio talk show host asks me