bio

Ray Bendici is a guy who writes and edits stuff, both for fun and for a living.

He is the author of multiple books, including Speaking Ill of the Dead: Connecticut Jerks, Connecticut Curiosities: 3rd Edition, and Stones and Bones of New England: A Guide to Unusual, Historic, and Otherwise Notable Cemeteries. Satan and the Adventure of the Blue-Eyed Freak is his debut novel.

He has been an editor at multiple print and digital publications, including Tech & Learning, District Administration, and Connecticut Magazine, where his work earned multiple awards from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists.

With a few friends, he founded Damned Connecticut, a website dedicated to everything unusual, weird and extraordinary here, from supposedly haunted places and UFO sightings to quirky characters and mysterious legends. Maybe it started when his parents used to drag him to old graveyards during family vacations, or the first time he heard about the Loch Ness Monster, but since then, he’s loved everything bizarre or unexplained—that which is called Fortean phenomena.

Ray Bendici also enjoys talking about himself in the third person, not unlike a professional wrestler.