The Lost Village "Bara-Hack"
Bara-Hack the so called Haunted Village of Lost Voices is located in Historic Pomfret, CT, above: Nightingale Brook.  This isolated colony was abandoned after the Civil War and since then has been the site of many a ghost story.  It is said that the sounds of the former inhabitants remain: childrens laughter, singing, mothers calling, dogs barking, cows lowing, and wagon wheels rumbling.  Apparitions have also been encountered: a bearded man at the family cemetery's west wall, and the wraith of a small child in an old elm tree near the cemetery.  Some say the area is a "thin" place, that the sounds and visions of 18th and 19th century New England village life seem to emerge from a portal in time and float over the brook, the old ruins, and the family graveyard.   The site is located in typical thick, dark, second growth New England forest...

"Here had been their houses, represented today by a few gaping cellar holes out of which tall trees were growing; but here is the Village of Voices.  For the place is peopled still...  Although there is no human habitation for a long distance round about and no one goes there except the few who go to listen, yet there is always a hum and stir of human life...  They hear the laughter of children at play... the voices of mothers who have long been dust calling their children into homes that are now mere holes in the earth.  They hear vague snatches of song... and rumble of the heavy wagons along an obliterated road.  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", The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, Odell Shepard, 1927.