In the photo from Dudleetown, white circular objects are common.
Dudleetown - a small abandoned town in Cornwall County (USA, Connecticut) - has long enjoyed a notoriety. The reason for this is the endless series of mysterious deaths, accidents and disappearances of its inhabitants. More than 100 years ago, people left this place. But today it still attracts the attention of researchers of anomalous phenomena and just the curious
The town is located at the foot of three mountains - Bald Mountain, Woodbury Mountain and Coltfoot Triplets - and is surrounded on all sides by dense forest, which has been given the ominous name of the Dark Forest - almost no sunlight penetrates into its thicket. Many tragic episodes are indeed connected with Dudleetown.
In 1792, a certain Gershom Hollister broke his neck when he fell from the threshing floor on the farm of William Tanner. They said that someone pushed him. The owner of the farm was suspected of the murder, but he was never charged. Meanwhile, Tanner was clearly not himself - demons and demons dreamed of him everywhere. He claimed that with the onset of darkness, evil spirits penetrate into the city from the forest and that one of the monsters tore a man to pieces right before his eyes.
In 1804, Sarah Faye, wife of General Hermann Swift, died in a thunderstorm from a lightning strike. Her husband went mad after Sarah's death.
Mary Chini, the young wife of prominent American journalist and publisher Horace Greeley, who was born and raised in Dudleytown, hanged herself a week before her husband was defeated in the presidential election. The cause of the suicide remained unknown.
From time to time, whole families disappeared without a trace in this city. At the end of the 19th century, the wife of John Patrick Brophy died of tuberculosis. Soon after, his two daughters disappeared in the woods, and Brophy's house burned down one night. John's body was not found at the site of the fire, and no one else saw him, either alive or dead.
By 1899, Dudleetown was completely deserted. Old people died, and those who were younger left here, frightened by rumors of a curse. The abandoned land was overgrown with forest.
In 1920, a renowned New York physician and cancer specialist, Dr. William Clarke, settled in Cornwall. He dreamed of living in a quiet and peaceful place, surrounded by nature. Clark built a summer home in the woods near Dudleetown and moved in with his wife. Once he had to go on business to New York for a while. His wife was left alone in the forest house. When the doctor returned a few days later, it turned out that the woman had gone mad. She ended her days in a mental institution.
The legend of the executed duke
Perhaps the history of the curse of Dud Lietown dates back to 1510, when Duke Edmund Dudley, a representative of an old Anglo-Saxon family, was executed for trying to overthrow King Henry VIII. The vengeful king was not satisfied with the death of the enemy alone - he resorted to the help of black magic, imposing a terrible curse on all descendants of this family. At least that is the legend.
Indeed, since then, the Dudley family has been constantly plagued by misfortune. Edmund's son John, Duke of Northumberland, followed in his father's footsteps and also conspired against the crown, for which, along with his eldest son Guildford, he paid with his head.
John Dudley's third son, Earl Robert Leicester, secretly left England with his family to avoid reprisals, and sailed to America by ship. His great-grandson Joseph was born in Saybrook, Connecticut in 1674. Joseph Dudley had 12 children. In 1748 one of them, Gideon, bought some land in Cornwall to build a farm. In 1753, Gideon's brothers - Barzillay and Abel - also acquired plots here. A few years later they were joined by a fourth brother, Martin from Massachusetts. Gradually they became the largest landowners in the area. On the site of the uprooted forest, a village has grown called Dudleyville. Over time, it turned into a town that, according to tradition, received the name Dudleytown. Rumor testifies that none of the Dudley brothers managed to calmly live to old age - all of them were struck by madness over the years.
Horror stories for tourists
Those who happened to visit Dudleetown dubbed it a "dead zone": there are few wild animals in the forest, you can't hear birds singing. The daredevils who took walks through the "enchanted" place told about some strange lights and sounds, while others supposedly met here ominous green monsters spreading flames around them.
Cemetery in the woods near Dudleetown
Once a television crew visited it. Only the journalists set out to shoot the landscape, when a huge black shadow suddenly flashed in front of the lens. Following this, people were suddenly seized with a feeling of severe suffocation. The equipment stopped working and the operators were forced to give up filming.
In July 1998, girls Sarah and Jane went on a tour of Dudlittown with two of their friends, attracted by the legend of the city's curse. As soon as the guys turned onto the road leading to Bald Mountain, all four of them had strange unpleasant sensations. Jane started having stomach cramps, Sarah's back became stiff, and the two guys, as they later admitted, experienced a feeling of gratuitous horror.
Nevertheless, the young people parked their car at the side of the road and, taking their flashlights and video cameras with them, began to go downhill. There was dead silence all around. The daredevils walked just a few steps when they heard the noise. The sounds were like the grinding of metal on asphalt. Jane looked around and noticed some signs painted on the ground. Sarah took a lantern and illuminated this place. There was an inscription: "Never come back … Satan." The letters looked very fresh, as if they had appeared just a minute or two ago.
Boston "ghost hunter" Robin Barron once found a bloody cow horn in a hole. In addition, Barron noticed that fragments of stones with incomprehensible symbols were scrawled on the sides of the nearby roads. All this could indicate that witchcraft or satanic rituals were performed in the vicinity of Dudleetown.
Another eyewitness reports: “I have been to Dudleetown twice - it’s an eerie place. The first time I got there alone, the second time I decided to take my friends with me. As soon as we entered the forest, everything around was quiet. Even the chirping of the cicadas was not audible, although it was mid-August. We wandered through the woods for a while, taking pictures. Suddenly, under our feet, we found an inscription carved on the ground in an incomprehensible language - perhaps in Latin. None of us could read it. After another 100 steps, all three of us, without saying a word, stopped. We, like the time I came here for the first time, were seized by an irresistible desire to immediately turn back. This feeling was so strong that we succumbed to it. When we returned back, the forest was filled with ordinary sounds …”.
What is the secret of the abandoned city?
Renowned demonologist and "ghost hunter" Ed Warren said the curse of Dudleytown had nothing to do with the aristocrat Edmund Dudley. The Dudley brothers, according to Warren, descended from a certain English judge, who at one time sentenced more than a dozen people to death for witchcraft. Some of the convicts cursed the name Dudley, hence the consequences. Warren also believes that no monsters supposedly living in the Dark Forest actually exist. It's just that the very atmosphere of these places drives people crazy, which makes them feel like ghosts. However, the photographs taken in Dudleetown show strange ghostly figures. Most likely, we are talking about a strong geopathogenic zone.
Margarita TRINITY
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