Machimoodus: "Place Of The Bad Noise"

Most people from town know that the name Moodus originated from the Indian word for the area, Machimoodus, because of the underground rumblings and earth tremors. It is also known that the local school's nickname the "Little Noises" is a translation of the same word. A lesser known fact, however, is that the local Indian tribes believed that these rumblings in the earth were the "voice" of the evil god Hobomoko, and the literal translation of machimoodus is "place of the bad noise". The Connecticut Indians depended on the local tribe to interpret the voices, and the local medicine-men would engage in pow-wows and calm the angry god with combinations of sacrifice and prayer.