Dudleetown is a small town, or rather even a settlement, in the American state of Connecticut, Cornwall County. This place has a long history of notoriety. The reason is a chain of endless unexplained fatal accidents. Finding no explanation for such sad events, people simply left this place about a hundred years ago.
The area is located in the foothills of Bald Mountain, Coltut Triplets and Woodbury Mountain. The sun's rays do not penetrate here, since here from all sides there are not only tall mountains, but also a dense dark forest. This ominous place is popularly called the dark forest.
Many tragic episodes fell to the lot of local residents. It started a long time ago. The first case was recorded in 1792, when a worker on the farm owned by William Tanner - Gersh Hollister - fell from the threshing floor and broke his neck. Many thought then that someone had pushed him. But who? The owner of the farm was suspected, but no evidence was found. Although, William himself constantly saw demons and demons swarming around, especially with the onset of night. He believed that it was from the forest that evil spirits came to the city, he even claimed that right in front of his eyes, an ugly monster tore a man to pieces.
The year 1804 is marked by the death of a certain Sarah Faye, the general's wife. A lightning strike struck her. Sarah's husband, Herman Swift, went mad after that.
The famous American journalist and publisher Horace Greeley lost the presidential election, after which his young wife Mary Chini hanged herself under mysterious circumstances.
Needless to say, this strange chain can go on and on. In Dudleytown, residents disappeared in whole families, where it is unknown. The end of the 19th century: the wife of a certain John Patrick Brophy died of tuberculosis, after which their two daughters disappeared into the woods, and the house burned down on one of the dark nights. The owner's body was not found, he was not seen alive either.
In 1899 not a single resident remained in Dudleetown. The old people died, the young people hurried to get away from here to hell, frightened by what was happening. The deserted city was gradually overgrown with forest.
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In 1920, a famous New York oncologist, Dr. William Clarke, settled near Dudleetown. Initially, he moved from New York to Cornwall, but, tired of hectic city life, he chose a place in the forest, built a country house and went there with his family for the summer. Once he had to go to New York for a few days on business. His wife, who remained in the forest house, has lost her mind during these days, the reasons are unknown. She spent the entire subsequent life in a psychiatric clinic.
Dudleetown's curse
Researchers suggest: perhaps the historical events of 1510 laid the foundation for this. This is the execution of Duke Edmund Dudley for attempting to overthrow King Henry VIII from the throne. Edmund was a member of the oldest Anglo-Saxon family. According to legend, King Henry could not forgive him for his act so much that the death of an enemy was not enough for him: having resorted to the rituals of black magic, he put a curse on the entire family of Duke Edmund Dudley.
Thus, the duke's family suffered constantly for unexplained reasons. The son - Duke John of Northumberland, did the same as his father - started a conspiracy against the king and died. Together with him, his eldest son Guildford paid with his head. The third son, Earl Robert Leicester, was also threatened with reprisals, but he managed to escape by sailing away on a ship. Joseph Dudley, who was born in the state of Conneticut in 1647, had 12 children. They became farmers, buying unpopulated land near their place of residence. They became the largest landowners in the area. Having uprooted the forest in the foothills, they founded the village of Dudleyville, which, as it grew over the years, turned into a small town of Dudleytown. According to historians, none of the many Dudley brothers managed to end their lives calmly and in their right mind. All of them were struck by a strange mental illness.
There is an interesting fact about the cemetery near Dudleytown, which is located in the forest. A television film crew that had been here once was just about to shoot the landscape, when suddenly a huge black shadow flashed in front of the lens. All people were suddenly seized with severe suffocation, and the equipment fell into disrepair.
In the summer of 1998, two girls Sarah and Jane went to see Dudleytown with friends. The reason for this excursion was the interest in the legend of the notorious curse of the city. After walking just a few steps, in the dead silence they heard a strange grinding, like glass on the asphalt. Looking around, Jane saw a fresh inscription on the ground: "Never Return … Satan."
One day, a Bostonian Robin Barron, keen on ghost hunting, found a bloody cow horn. He also found on the sides of the roads many fragments of stones with mysterious symbols scrawled on them. This could indicate some magical satanic rituals.
One of the eyewitnesses says: “Dudleytown is an eerie place. Twice I was there, the first time I came alone, the second time I took my friends with me. We wandered through the forest, filmed the surroundings. Soon they found inscriptions in Latin or some other language under their feet - no one could read them."
Ed Warren, a famous "ghost hunter" who is well versed in demonology, believes that the curse has nothing to do with Edmun Dudley himself, the ancestor of the cursed family. According to the expert, the Dudley brothers are to blame for this, who descended from an English judge who sentenced dozens of people to death for witchcraft. All the terrible consequences are precisely because of the curse imposed on the Englishman by one of his convicts.