Is Milemarker Jack a toll-collecting ghost?
A warning spirit?
Or Connecticut’s most successful British import since sarcasm?
This entry dives into the legend haunting the roadside near the Lost Fox Inn — a lantern-bearing figure with colonial roots, European parallels, and just enough modern weirdness to keep things interesting.
It includes historical context, folklore overlap with England’s “Lantern Men,” and a personal field note from a dinner that came with unexpected company.
Ghost? Brain glitch? 18th-century Slimer?
You decide.
