Moodus is a village in the town of East Haddam, Connecticut, United States.

[2] Prior to its purchase by English settlers in 1662, the area around Moodus was inhabited by Native American Algonquians.

Loud rumblings, possibly the "Moodus Noises", could be heard for miles surrounding the epicenter of the quakes near Mt.

[6] During the nineteenth century, Moodus was advertised as the "Twine Capital of America", with twelve mills in operation.

Moodus was in an ideal location for textile production since it had access to ample water power and shipping (via the Connecticut River and the Connecticut Valley Railroad[7]), and it was close to an enormous trading center and market, New York City.

Nearby Bailey Beach on Bashan Lake was popular with local residents and vacationers alike.

The resorts, boarding houses and camps of Moodus attracted Christian and Jewish vacationers primarily from New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and other parts of Connecticut.

[11] One of the last resorts to remain in operation, Sunrise Resort, was purchased by the state of Connecticut in late 2008 to be incorporated into the adjacent Machimoodus State Park as a campground, and to protect "4,700 feet of additional frontage along the Salmon River".

East Haddam was one of the smallest towns in the United States to participate in the urban renewal program.

[13] Moodus is in eastern Middlesex County, in the northwest part of the town of East Haddam.

[25] In the book Legendary Connecticut, author David Philips asserts that the Moodus noises were the source of an indigenous religious cult important to local Native Americans.

Pequot, Mohegan and Narragansett tribes participated with this cult, and according to local Alison Guinness, the Wongums were involved as well.

However, to the native people he was more like a Zeus or a Hades, a god that can do good or bad, depending on what mood he was in.