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Dudleytown, a settlement in Connecticut, was most likely doomed from its very inception. The rocky soil is no good for growing any kind of crops for any length of time, and it's location between three hills makes it continually gloomy. And then there is the constant hooting of the owls, so much that one of the names originally considered for the town was Owlsbury. Over the town's entire history, there are several instances of bizarre deaths, insanity, and strange beasts that would pursue the unlucky denizens through the heavily grown woods. No one seemed to make it out unscathed. Here are some links, tell me what you think.
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Is this the conneticut in america? Like close to new york? Sounds like a place for me to check out this summer.
| QUOTE (spyro_86 @ Sep 11 2003, 11:41 PM) |
| Is this the conneticut in america? Like close to new york? Sounds like a place for me to check out this summer. |
Dudleytown isnt too far from where i live.....
Wow this is pretty cool
I have family friends in Bethel, Conneticut and they have had some strange experiences!
They used to live in one of those really cute wooden houses with a balcony running all around three sides and a chunk of land at the back. After they had been there for a few months they were woken in the night by the sound of chanting coming from the woods at the back of the property. Small flickering lights were seen bobbing around. The mother, a very brave lady, got out of bed and wandered towards the sounds. Suddenly the sounds stopped abruptly, as if the source knew she was approaching. Puzzled she went back to the house.........
The next morning she took their dog out into the woods but found nothing there....no footprints, no nothing.
This happen several times, and when it was mentioned to a neighbour they were told that is was 'old spirits' and to leave well alone. They moved soon afterwards
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Hammy x x x
They used to live in one of those really cute wooden houses with a balcony running all around three sides and a chunk of land at the back. After they had been there for a few months they were woken in the night by the sound of chanting coming from the woods at the back of the property. Small flickering lights were seen bobbing around. The mother, a very brave lady, got out of bed and wandered towards the sounds. Suddenly the sounds stopped abruptly, as if the source knew she was approaching. Puzzled she went back to the house.........
The next morning she took their dog out into the woods but found nothing there....no footprints, no nothing.
This happen several times, and when it was mentioned to a neighbour they were told that is was 'old spirits' and to leave well alone. They moved soon afterwards
!Hammy x x x
I have a book called The Most Haunted Places in America. I'm not sure where it is because it freaked me out last time I read it which was about 4 years ago. I'll try to find it later, but i'm pretty sure the most haunted place was this place where people used to keep slaves but one night, a fire started and everyone died.
http://www.prairieghosts.com/dudleytown.html
In the far reaches of northwestern Connecticut, in the shadows of the mountains, and lost in the pages of time, rests the remains of a small village called Dudleytown. The homes and shops of this once thriving community are long gone, but the land where the town once stood is far from empty. Amidst the forest and rocks are tales of ghosts, demons, unexplained mysteries, curses and a rich history that dates back the very beginnings of America.
Today, only the cellar holes and a few stone foundations remain. The roads that once traversed to this place are now little more than narrow trails where only a few adventurous hikers, and the occasional ghost hunter, dare to wander. Although it is forbidden, the most hardened curiosity-seekers still dare to venture down Dark Entry Road and into these shadowy woods at night.
Only dark paths through the forest lead back to the place that was once a small village called Dudleytown... a place of madness, death and insanity. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Belanger)
Dudleytown was founded by a man named Thomas Griffis, who was the first to settle in the area. A few years later, it would be for the three Dudley brothers for whom the town would be named. These same men were also the ones who allegedly brought a curse to the small town.... a curse that has plagued the region ever since.
The curse had its beginnings in England in 1510. At that time, Edmund Dudley was beheaded for being involved in a plot to overthrow King Henry VIII. Supposedly a curse was placed on the family at this time, which stated that all of the Dudley descendants would be surrounded by horror and death. Regardless, the Dudley family did begin to experience a rather disquieting run of bad luck.
Edmund’s son, John Dudley, also attempted to control the British throne by arranging for his son, Guilford, to marry Lady Jane Grey, next in line for the crown. After Edward VI died, Lady Jane became the queen for a short time before the plan failed, ending with the execution of Lady Jane and the two Dudley’s.
To make matters worse, Guilford’s brother returned from France, and being a military officer, brought home a plague that he spread to his officers and troops. The sickness wiped out massive number of British soldiers and eventually spread throughout the country, killing thousands.
John Dudley’s third son, Robert, Earl of Leicester, a favorite of Elizabeth I, wisely decided to leave England and travel to the New World. It would be his somewhat luckier descendant, William, who would settle in Guilford, Connecticut. Three of William’s descendants, Abiel, Brazillai and Gideon, would later buy a plot of land in Cornwall township. They were later joined by Abigah Dudley and settled on what was then Mohawk Indian hunting ground.
In 1745, the mentioned Thomas Griffis bought a parcel of land that would later be considered the first lot in Dudleytown. The land today looks much as it did when Griffis first came here. It is covered in thick forest and the ground is strewn with rocks. The nearby mountains also heavily shadow the area, so it receives little sunlight. The woods were dubbed with the rather ominous name of "Dark Entry Forest".
In 1748, Gideon Dudley bought some land from Griffis to start a small farm. By 1753, Gideon's two brothers, Barzillai and Abiel Dudley, from Guilford, Connecticut, also purchased land nearby. A few years later, a Martin Dudley from Massachusetts also joined the clan.
The Cornwall township was never a good area for farming, as is apparent by the rocks that were used to build the foundations and stone walls that still stand today. In spite of this though, settlers began to trickle into the area. The Tanner family, the Jones’, the Patterson’s, the Dibble’s and the Porter’s all took up residence here. The community grew even larger after iron ore was discovered nearby and farming became a secondary concern.
Despite the outward prosperity though, there were strange deaths and bizarre occurrences at Dudleytown from the start. After a series of reverses, Abiel Dudley lost his entire fortune... and his mind. He died an insane pauper. His good friend and neighbor, Gershon Hollister was killed while building a new barn at the home of William Tanner, Abiel’s next door neighbor. Tanner was also said to have gone insane, although probably from old age and senility rather than from supernatural influences.
The Nathaniel Carter family moved to Dudleytown in 1759 and lived in a house once owned by Abiel Dudley. A mysterious sickness took the lives of the Adoniram Carter family, relatives of Nathaniel, and saddened by the loss, they moved to Binghampton, New York a few years after arriving. It is said, however, that the "taint" of Dudleytown followed them. In their new home, Indians slaughtered Nathaniel, his wife and an infant child. The Carter’s other three children were taken to Canada, where two daughters were ransomed. The son, David Carter, remained with his captors, married an Indian girl and later returned to the United States for his education. He somehow escaped the curse that claimed his family and eventually became a Supreme Court Judge.
Another bizarre tragedy affected one of the most famous residents of the community, General Herman Swift, who had served in the Revolutionary War under George Washington. In 1804, his wife, Sarah Faye, was struck by lightning while standing on the front porch of their home in Dudleytown. She was killed instantly. Shortly after this, the General also went insane.
Another famous personage connected to Dudleytown (and the resident curse) was Horace Greeley, the editor and founder of the New York Tribune. Greeley married a young woman named Mary Cheney, who was born in Dudleytown. She hanged herself in the small community just one week after her husband’s failed bid for the presidency in 1872.
The tales of madness and death continued and slowly spread. Were they merely coincidence, normal deaths to occur in a rural community? Or were they something worse? Could the tales merely have been embellished and connected in such a manner as to make it seem the area was cursed?
The demise of the town itself is hardly surprising, cursed or not. Its geographical location was foolhardy at best. Surrounded by hills and at elevations of more than 1500 feet, there was little chance that a good crop would ever grow and sustain life in the village. The winters were harsh here and even the hardy apple trees were stunted from months of cold. As mentioned already, the soil was rocky and the area was plagued by almost too much water It pooled into tepid swamps and seeped into the earth, creating a damp morass.
But even if you overlook the idea of an actual "curse" and admit that the location of the town must have had a hand in its undoing, the sheer number of unusual deaths and mental conditions in such an isolated area more than suggests that something out of the ordinary was occurring in the little town.
The next mysterious event occurred near the end of the 1800’s, at a time when the population of Dudleytown had dwindled almost to nothing. One of the last residents of the town was a man named John Patrick Brophy. Tragedy visited him in two swift blows. First, his wife died of consumption and shortly after, his two children vanished in the nearby woods. They were never found. In a rage, Brophy is said to have burned his home to the ground and then vanished himself. He walked away from Dudleytown and was never seen again.
By 1899, Dudleytown was completely deserted. The remaining homes began to fall into disrepair and ruin, and soon, the forest began to reclaim the village that had been carved out of it.
But that was not the last that folks had seen of the Dudleytown curse....
In 1920, Dr. William Clark, a leading cancer specialist from New York, came to Cornwall and fell in love with the forest and the quiet of country life. He purchased 1000 acres of land, which included Dudleytown, and built a summer home here. In 1924, he and several friends formed the "Dark Entry Forest Association". It was designed to act as forest preserve so that the land would remain "forever wild".
He maintained an idyllic second life near Dudleytown until the middle 1920’s. One summer day, Dr. Clark was called away to New York for an emergency. His wife stayed behind and when he returned less than 36 hours later, he discovered that she had gone insane.... just like previous residents of the village. The stories say that she claimed that strange creatures came out of the forest and attacked her. Truth or not, she lived out the rest of her days in a mental asylum.
Today, Dudleytown is mostly deserted, except for the curiosity-seekers and tourists, who come looking for thrills. The Dark Forest Entry Association still owns most of the land the village once stood on. There are a group of homes on Bald Mountain Road that are very secluded from the main roads, although residents here maintain that nothing supernatural takes place in the region. Some people would say that these residents have a vested interest in saying this... and these same people insist that strange things still occur in the darkened woods around Dudleytown.
As far as we know, the ghostly tales began to surface in the 1940’s. It was at this time that visitors to the ruins of the village began to speak of strange incidents and wispy apparitions in the woods. Even today, those who have visited the place boast of paranormal photographs, overwhelming feelings of terror, mysterious lights, sights and sounds and even of being touched, pushed and scratched by unseen hands. Some researchers refer to the area as a "negative power spot", or a place where entities enter this world from the other side. They say this may explain the strange events in Dudleytown’s history, like the eerie reports, the strange creatures and perhaps even the outbreaks of insanity and madness. The place is often thought of as "tainted" in some way, as if the ground has somehow spoiled here, or perhaps was sour all along!
Some of those who do journey to Dudleytown today sometimes bring back more than just uncomfortable feelings and strange experiences too. Many believe that the odd atmosphere here can have an effect on cameras, film and recordings. Carrie Reiss first visited Dudleytown in 1994 and she took a number of photos here, some of which would fall into the category of "inexplicable".
After she returned from her outing, she went and had her film developed and she realized that most of the photos had turned out what she describes as "muddy". She became curious as to what had happened to the film and why the camera had apparently malfunctioned. She still had a partially used roll of film from Dudleytown in her camera and wondered if these photographs would turn out the same way.
"I took it to a camera shop, where I have a friend," Carrie explained to me, "and it still had film in it with the 6 shots remaining. He took it in the dark room, and tried to extract the film, but it was all ripped from the sprockets. He came out and told me he could not explain it. It looked like the film was trying to be ripped out from the inside, it was ruined and he could not save it, but showed me because he thought it was very strange. He had no explanation as to why this would have happened. The camera works fine now, and I saved the film, and it does kind of look like it was being pulled off the sprockets, the holes are ripped and stretched."
Her friend was unable to explain how something like this could have occurred.
Carrie also noted, as did researcher Helen Sievers, that Dudleytown seems to bring out the worst in people. It’s as though the area feeds off the personalities of those who come to the place and amplifies their emotions in a negative way. Psychic Bonnie Nadeau told author Arthur Myers a number of years ago that she once went to Dudleytown with a group of other teenagers when she was in high school. "We didn’t see anything, but personalities changed. Someone who was happy-go-lucky all of a sudden was very morose. It was dark and oppressive there, although it was sunny day."
Skeptics would explain reports like these as merely an attack of nerves, or a seeming change in personality brought on by the gloomy woods and the shadows of the overhanging mountains. It was just this sort of atmosphere, they say, that brought about the collapse of the village in the first place. Of course, such accounts are only meaningful to the person who experienced them, but what about the incidents that occur to entire groups? And those that affect more than just the moods of the visitors present?
Entire groups of people have reported seeing strange lights hovering in the woods. In other cases, cameras and television equipment have been documented to stop working in various parts of the village. In the late 1980’s, a Connecticut television station planned to air a Halloween show from the ruins of Dudleytown. Although warned not to go there at night, they proceeded with their plans and ended up with an evening filled with mishaps. The news crew’s generators and cameras malfunctioned and the reporter who was scheduled to announce the show became violently ill.
Another television crew also had strange results at the village. A crew from a documentary series went there on a scouting trip and took nearly a dozen rolls of photographs for future reference. However, not one of the rolls of film turned out. Every single one of them was cloudy and it was impossible to tell what the photos were of!
It has also been widely stated that a trip to Dudleytown can be hazardous to your health. The strange legends and stories of haunts have allegedly drawn Satanists and workers of the black arts to Dudleytown for dark rituals. These are not the sort of people that you want to run into while wandering through the woods alone at night.
A trip here might be hazardous to your legal well being also. It should be noted that the planners for the Dark Forest Entry Association have forbidden trespassing on their property. In 1999, they announced that they would no longer allow hikers on the land. In spite of this, many still go.... now daring not only the spirits, but the authorities as well. Unfortunately, the ruins of Dudleytown have been vandalized in recent years and the constant streams of trespassers have had a negative effect on the ecology of the area. The author advises readers to refrain from visiting this area until methods can be devised to better preserve it.
Unfortunately, the forbidden quality of Dudleytown is what brings so many curiosity-seekers to the vicinity. It also leaves many bizarre and unanswered questions lingering in the minds of paranormal enthusiasts and historians alike. What events brought an end to the town? Was it merely nature itself, battling against the corruption brought by man, or something darker? The answers to such questions remain unknown and leave us to ponder the fate of both Dudleytown’s former residents and this unsettled corner of New England.
In the far reaches of northwestern Connecticut, in the shadows of the mountains, and lost in the pages of time, rests the remains of a small village called Dudleytown. The homes and shops of this once thriving community are long gone, but the land where the town once stood is far from empty. Amidst the forest and rocks are tales of ghosts, demons, unexplained mysteries, curses and a rich history that dates back the very beginnings of America.
Today, only the cellar holes and a few stone foundations remain. The roads that once traversed to this place are now little more than narrow trails where only a few adventurous hikers, and the occasional ghost hunter, dare to wander. Although it is forbidden, the most hardened curiosity-seekers still dare to venture down Dark Entry Road and into these shadowy woods at night.
Only dark paths through the forest lead back to the place that was once a small village called Dudleytown... a place of madness, death and insanity. (Photo courtesy of Jeff Belanger)
Dudleytown was founded by a man named Thomas Griffis, who was the first to settle in the area. A few years later, it would be for the three Dudley brothers for whom the town would be named. These same men were also the ones who allegedly brought a curse to the small town.... a curse that has plagued the region ever since.
The curse had its beginnings in England in 1510. At that time, Edmund Dudley was beheaded for being involved in a plot to overthrow King Henry VIII. Supposedly a curse was placed on the family at this time, which stated that all of the Dudley descendants would be surrounded by horror and death. Regardless, the Dudley family did begin to experience a rather disquieting run of bad luck.
Edmund’s son, John Dudley, also attempted to control the British throne by arranging for his son, Guilford, to marry Lady Jane Grey, next in line for the crown. After Edward VI died, Lady Jane became the queen for a short time before the plan failed, ending with the execution of Lady Jane and the two Dudley’s.
To make matters worse, Guilford’s brother returned from France, and being a military officer, brought home a plague that he spread to his officers and troops. The sickness wiped out massive number of British soldiers and eventually spread throughout the country, killing thousands.
John Dudley’s third son, Robert, Earl of Leicester, a favorite of Elizabeth I, wisely decided to leave England and travel to the New World. It would be his somewhat luckier descendant, William, who would settle in Guilford, Connecticut. Three of William’s descendants, Abiel, Brazillai and Gideon, would later buy a plot of land in Cornwall township. They were later joined by Abigah Dudley and settled on what was then Mohawk Indian hunting ground.
In 1745, the mentioned Thomas Griffis bought a parcel of land that would later be considered the first lot in Dudleytown. The land today looks much as it did when Griffis first came here. It is covered in thick forest and the ground is strewn with rocks. The nearby mountains also heavily shadow the area, so it receives little sunlight. The woods were dubbed with the rather ominous name of "Dark Entry Forest".
In 1748, Gideon Dudley bought some land from Griffis to start a small farm. By 1753, Gideon's two brothers, Barzillai and Abiel Dudley, from Guilford, Connecticut, also purchased land nearby. A few years later, a Martin Dudley from Massachusetts also joined the clan.
The Cornwall township was never a good area for farming, as is apparent by the rocks that were used to build the foundations and stone walls that still stand today. In spite of this though, settlers began to trickle into the area. The Tanner family, the Jones’, the Patterson’s, the Dibble’s and the Porter’s all took up residence here. The community grew even larger after iron ore was discovered nearby and farming became a secondary concern.
Despite the outward prosperity though, there were strange deaths and bizarre occurrences at Dudleytown from the start. After a series of reverses, Abiel Dudley lost his entire fortune... and his mind. He died an insane pauper. His good friend and neighbor, Gershon Hollister was killed while building a new barn at the home of William Tanner, Abiel’s next door neighbor. Tanner was also said to have gone insane, although probably from old age and senility rather than from supernatural influences.
The Nathaniel Carter family moved to Dudleytown in 1759 and lived in a house once owned by Abiel Dudley. A mysterious sickness took the lives of the Adoniram Carter family, relatives of Nathaniel, and saddened by the loss, they moved to Binghampton, New York a few years after arriving. It is said, however, that the "taint" of Dudleytown followed them. In their new home, Indians slaughtered Nathaniel, his wife and an infant child. The Carter’s other three children were taken to Canada, where two daughters were ransomed. The son, David Carter, remained with his captors, married an Indian girl and later returned to the United States for his education. He somehow escaped the curse that claimed his family and eventually became a Supreme Court Judge.
Another bizarre tragedy affected one of the most famous residents of the community, General Herman Swift, who had served in the Revolutionary War under George Washington. In 1804, his wife, Sarah Faye, was struck by lightning while standing on the front porch of their home in Dudleytown. She was killed instantly. Shortly after this, the General also went insane.
Another famous personage connected to Dudleytown (and the resident curse) was Horace Greeley, the editor and founder of the New York Tribune. Greeley married a young woman named Mary Cheney, who was born in Dudleytown. She hanged herself in the small community just one week after her husband’s failed bid for the presidency in 1872.
The tales of madness and death continued and slowly spread. Were they merely coincidence, normal deaths to occur in a rural community? Or were they something worse? Could the tales merely have been embellished and connected in such a manner as to make it seem the area was cursed?
The demise of the town itself is hardly surprising, cursed or not. Its geographical location was foolhardy at best. Surrounded by hills and at elevations of more than 1500 feet, there was little chance that a good crop would ever grow and sustain life in the village. The winters were harsh here and even the hardy apple trees were stunted from months of cold. As mentioned already, the soil was rocky and the area was plagued by almost too much water It pooled into tepid swamps and seeped into the earth, creating a damp morass.
But even if you overlook the idea of an actual "curse" and admit that the location of the town must have had a hand in its undoing, the sheer number of unusual deaths and mental conditions in such an isolated area more than suggests that something out of the ordinary was occurring in the little town.
The next mysterious event occurred near the end of the 1800’s, at a time when the population of Dudleytown had dwindled almost to nothing. One of the last residents of the town was a man named John Patrick Brophy. Tragedy visited him in two swift blows. First, his wife died of consumption and shortly after, his two children vanished in the nearby woods. They were never found. In a rage, Brophy is said to have burned his home to the ground and then vanished himself. He walked away from Dudleytown and was never seen again.
By 1899, Dudleytown was completely deserted. The remaining homes began to fall into disrepair and ruin, and soon, the forest began to reclaim the village that had been carved out of it.
But that was not the last that folks had seen of the Dudleytown curse....
In 1920, Dr. William Clark, a leading cancer specialist from New York, came to Cornwall and fell in love with the forest and the quiet of country life. He purchased 1000 acres of land, which included Dudleytown, and built a summer home here. In 1924, he and several friends formed the "Dark Entry Forest Association". It was designed to act as forest preserve so that the land would remain "forever wild".
He maintained an idyllic second life near Dudleytown until the middle 1920’s. One summer day, Dr. Clark was called away to New York for an emergency. His wife stayed behind and when he returned less than 36 hours later, he discovered that she had gone insane.... just like previous residents of the village. The stories say that she claimed that strange creatures came out of the forest and attacked her. Truth or not, she lived out the rest of her days in a mental asylum.
Today, Dudleytown is mostly deserted, except for the curiosity-seekers and tourists, who come looking for thrills. The Dark Forest Entry Association still owns most of the land the village once stood on. There are a group of homes on Bald Mountain Road that are very secluded from the main roads, although residents here maintain that nothing supernatural takes place in the region. Some people would say that these residents have a vested interest in saying this... and these same people insist that strange things still occur in the darkened woods around Dudleytown.
As far as we know, the ghostly tales began to surface in the 1940’s. It was at this time that visitors to the ruins of the village began to speak of strange incidents and wispy apparitions in the woods. Even today, those who have visited the place boast of paranormal photographs, overwhelming feelings of terror, mysterious lights, sights and sounds and even of being touched, pushed and scratched by unseen hands. Some researchers refer to the area as a "negative power spot", or a place where entities enter this world from the other side. They say this may explain the strange events in Dudleytown’s history, like the eerie reports, the strange creatures and perhaps even the outbreaks of insanity and madness. The place is often thought of as "tainted" in some way, as if the ground has somehow spoiled here, or perhaps was sour all along!
Some of those who do journey to Dudleytown today sometimes bring back more than just uncomfortable feelings and strange experiences too. Many believe that the odd atmosphere here can have an effect on cameras, film and recordings. Carrie Reiss first visited Dudleytown in 1994 and she took a number of photos here, some of which would fall into the category of "inexplicable".
After she returned from her outing, she went and had her film developed and she realized that most of the photos had turned out what she describes as "muddy". She became curious as to what had happened to the film and why the camera had apparently malfunctioned. She still had a partially used roll of film from Dudleytown in her camera and wondered if these photographs would turn out the same way.
"I took it to a camera shop, where I have a friend," Carrie explained to me, "and it still had film in it with the 6 shots remaining. He took it in the dark room, and tried to extract the film, but it was all ripped from the sprockets. He came out and told me he could not explain it. It looked like the film was trying to be ripped out from the inside, it was ruined and he could not save it, but showed me because he thought it was very strange. He had no explanation as to why this would have happened. The camera works fine now, and I saved the film, and it does kind of look like it was being pulled off the sprockets, the holes are ripped and stretched."
Her friend was unable to explain how something like this could have occurred.
Carrie also noted, as did researcher Helen Sievers, that Dudleytown seems to bring out the worst in people. It’s as though the area feeds off the personalities of those who come to the place and amplifies their emotions in a negative way. Psychic Bonnie Nadeau told author Arthur Myers a number of years ago that she once went to Dudleytown with a group of other teenagers when she was in high school. "We didn’t see anything, but personalities changed. Someone who was happy-go-lucky all of a sudden was very morose. It was dark and oppressive there, although it was sunny day."
Skeptics would explain reports like these as merely an attack of nerves, or a seeming change in personality brought on by the gloomy woods and the shadows of the overhanging mountains. It was just this sort of atmosphere, they say, that brought about the collapse of the village in the first place. Of course, such accounts are only meaningful to the person who experienced them, but what about the incidents that occur to entire groups? And those that affect more than just the moods of the visitors present?
Entire groups of people have reported seeing strange lights hovering in the woods. In other cases, cameras and television equipment have been documented to stop working in various parts of the village. In the late 1980’s, a Connecticut television station planned to air a Halloween show from the ruins of Dudleytown. Although warned not to go there at night, they proceeded with their plans and ended up with an evening filled with mishaps. The news crew’s generators and cameras malfunctioned and the reporter who was scheduled to announce the show became violently ill.
Another television crew also had strange results at the village. A crew from a documentary series went there on a scouting trip and took nearly a dozen rolls of photographs for future reference. However, not one of the rolls of film turned out. Every single one of them was cloudy and it was impossible to tell what the photos were of!
It has also been widely stated that a trip to Dudleytown can be hazardous to your health. The strange legends and stories of haunts have allegedly drawn Satanists and workers of the black arts to Dudleytown for dark rituals. These are not the sort of people that you want to run into while wandering through the woods alone at night.
A trip here might be hazardous to your legal well being also. It should be noted that the planners for the Dark Forest Entry Association have forbidden trespassing on their property. In 1999, they announced that they would no longer allow hikers on the land. In spite of this, many still go.... now daring not only the spirits, but the authorities as well. Unfortunately, the ruins of Dudleytown have been vandalized in recent years and the constant streams of trespassers have had a negative effect on the ecology of the area. The author advises readers to refrain from visiting this area until methods can be devised to better preserve it.
Unfortunately, the forbidden quality of Dudleytown is what brings so many curiosity-seekers to the vicinity. It also leaves many bizarre and unanswered questions lingering in the minds of paranormal enthusiasts and historians alike. What events brought an end to the town? Was it merely nature itself, battling against the corruption brought by man, or something darker? The answers to such questions remain unknown and leave us to ponder the fate of both Dudleytown’s former residents and this unsettled corner of New England.
Dudleytown Sounds like a place where The Dudley Boyz will be from in the WWE but there from New York
Holy crap that was alot of reading! Anyway I must say sounds creept although I never heard of this place.
Never been there myself nor can you legally go there. Reverend Dudley(the current owner) has kept it closed to investigators for years. Two good freinds of mine have been there when it was still accessable both experienced investigators. From what they've said its the most active out door haunted location in the US maybe the world.
I think that place is quit active from what I've researched. my friend that went there said its nothing like any other forest its unusually quite there. I've seen some great pics from there too, though theres a bit of Urban Legend to the story too,
heres a link
http://pages.cthome.net/seeker/dud.htm
heres a link
http://pages.cthome.net/seeker/dud.htm
If this has been done before, the mods can just merge it or delete it.
I checked out the search for it and all I got back were results of 'town' but I didn't see a Dudley Town. If there is one, please forgive me because I'm losing my mind.
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Check it out. It's an interesting read, to say the least. Tell me your opinions on it and the idea of carrying a curse over seas.
I checked out the search for it and all I got back were results of 'town' but I didn't see a Dudley Town. If there is one, please forgive me because I'm losing my mind.
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Check it out. It's an interesting read, to say the least. Tell me your opinions on it and the idea of carrying a curse over seas.
Here are some more experiences in Dudley Town.
i always thought that ghosts couldn't cross running water, or was that vampires? i can't remember....
i guess if you're cursed it would follow you anywhere like those ppl that were supposedly cursed for opening king tut's tomb. i'm not a big believer in curses myself, but dudleytown was a pretty good read.
i like the idea of all of them being a bit nuts from lead poisoning...
i guess if you're cursed it would follow you anywhere like those ppl that were supposedly cursed for opening king tut's tomb. i'm not a big believer in curses myself, but dudleytown was a pretty good read.
i like the idea of all of them being a bit nuts from lead poisoning...
I do believe that Dudleytown however there are many rumors to the area
heres a link
legendofdudleytown
heres a link
legendofdudleytown
that place sound scary! i would have too think long and hard before before i visited that place!
Very interesting read!
Never heard of Dudleytown, but the story gives me some research ideas.
Never heard of Dudleytown, but the story gives me some research ideas.
By the way, nice avatar Wooddevil.
I posted this about a week or so ago. 
I think it is the same article too.
Anyway, it does sound very creepy. I would love to go there...
I think it is the same article too. Anyway, it does sound very creepy. I would love to go there...
I've actually been in the Dudleytown woods! A couple friends and myself decided to hike in even though we knew it was trespassing.
It was a dissapointment I must say. Although it was a little quiet it wasn't much different from any other New England forest in July; which is when we went; if you need the obvious stated. Still...If you don't mind the possibility of arrest, go and look for yourself..
It was a dissapointment I must say. Although it was a little quiet it wasn't much different from any other New England forest in July; which is when we went; if you need the obvious stated. Still...If you don't mind the possibility of arrest, go and look for yourself..
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John Dudley’s third son, Robert, Earl of Leicester, a favorite of Elizabeth I, wisely decided to leave England and travel to the New World.
Actually, he didn't. Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, remained in Elizabeth's service for his entire life. He died near Oxford in 1588. He had a son, also named Robert Dudley (though he denied the boy's legitimacy, probably for political reasons) but that Robert Dudley didn't travel to the New World either, at least not for any length of time. (He did visit South America, but didn't settle there.) When he fell out of favor with the English court he went to Italy, where he spent the remainder of his life. This Robert Dudley, btw, holds the distinction of having written the first sea atlas to cover the whole world.
Local historians who have researched Dudleytown concur that there is no connection with the famous British Dudley family.
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I've actually been in the Dudleytown woods! A couple friends and myself decided to hike in even though we knew it was trespassing.
It was a dissapointment I must say. Although it was a little quiet it wasn't much different from any other New England forest in July; which is when we went; if you need the obvious stated. Still...If you don't mind the possibility of arrest, go and look for yourself..
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It was a dissapointment I must say. Although it was a little quiet it wasn't much different from any other New England forest in July; which is when we went; if you need the obvious stated. Still...If you don't mind the possibility of arrest, go and look for yourself..
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Mentioning the forest itself of being really quiet is one of the eerie traits of the forest. Because another guy who went hiking up there said it was dead quiet, meaning no birds chirping or any forest animals like you wnormally hear.
i have actually read about this place and have seen something on TV about it. It sounds fascinating and its too bad people cannot visit it. you would think...who does it hurt to go into abandoned woods????
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i have actually read about this place and have seen something on TV about it. It sounds fascinating and its too bad people cannot visit it. you would think...who does it hurt to go into abandoned woods????
"It sounds fascinating", sure its facinating, if you enjoy long hikes and nature. But if your looking for "ghosts" you'll be very dissapointed. My best friend and her family has a summer cabin there, and we have spent much time there since about age 8. The are also members of the dark entry association. We also spent alot of time in "dudleytown" playing house in the old foundations, and hiking in the general area. However, there are no ghosts. Perhaps you might think, well we didnt go at night right... well as a dare we made our friend go out to the town at night, guess what happened?! NOTHING!, pretty scary huh.lol.
Sadly enough, last time I went to visit and we went hiking in the "town" which really wasnt a town at all, only houses, we were welcome but the site of a lovely 666 spray painted on some rocks, and more paint on the trees, of anarchy symbols and pentagrams, as well as alot of liter. If your looking for a haunted place, sorry dudleytown isnt it. However there are alot of places in connecticut, which you may find something, who knows, but please, have respect for the residents, and dont tresspass in dudleytown. Also as for the legend of the "town", noone went missing or died due to a "curse" there. The reason this "town" is a ghost town, is because the land was not suitable for farming, so they packed up and left, thats all. Not very interesting. If fact as I said before, this really wasnt a "town" at all, just a few houses and a school house, however the school house was located at the very bottom of the road, not where the alleged"town" is, and my friends cabin is in fact built practically on top of it. we even have some slat we found in the ground and in rocks, that we played pictionary on from time to time. Kind of interesting, but I dont think its what you are looking for.
I have visited darkentry since I was 8, and me and my best friend, use to play house in the foundations, her family is part of the dark entry association, so we are allowed there, however, sorry no ghosts, not haunted, and every time I went into the woods I heard lots of birds and animals, so I find that myth very odd, maybe they should turn there hearing aids on?
No one can go into dudleytown any more unless you are a feind or family on darkentry association. The town went empty due to unsuitable farming conditions. Sorry its not haunted though. I have visited there many a summer, and as a young girl we use to play house in the old foundations, but no ghosts or weird stuff. And the woods were always noisy with the sounds of birds and wildlife, unlike what alot of people say. However, the reason for the no tresspassing is because so many people went looking for these "ghosts" and defaced the woods there that they couldnt let anyone they didnt know in anymore. sad it had to happen like that.
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As of your quote, "its too bad people cannot visit it. you would think...who does it hurt to go into abandoned woods????" Its hurts the enviroment and the way of life for the resident of Dark Entry. Its seems that most of the people who go looking for "ghosts" there, are followed by a trail of liter and/or spray paint. As for your other quote,
"It sounds fascinating", sure its facinating, if you enjoy long hikes and nature. But if your looking for "ghosts" you'll be very dissapointed. My best friend and her family has a summer cabin there, and we have spent much time there since about age 8. The are also members of the dark entry association. We also spent alot of time in "dudleytown" playing house in the old foundations, and hiking in the general area. However, there are no ghosts. Perhaps you might think, well we didnt go at night right... well as a dare we made our friend go out to the town at night, guess what happened?! NOTHING!, pretty scary huh.lol.
Sadly enough, last time I went to visit and we went hiking in the "town" which really wasnt a town at all, only houses, we were welcome but the site of a lovely 666 spray painted on some rocks, and more paint on the trees, of anarchy symbols and pentagrams, as well as alot of liter. If your looking for a haunted place, sorry dudleytown isnt it. However there are alot of places in connecticut, which you may find something, who knows, but please, have respect for the residents, and dont tresspass in dudleytown. Also as for the legend of the "town", noone went missing or died due to a "curse" there. The reason this "town" is a ghost town, is because the land was not suitable for farming, so they packed up and left, thats all. Not very interesting. If fact as I said before, this really wasnt a "town" at all, just a few houses and a school house, however the school house was located at the very bottom of the road, not where the alleged"town" is, and my friends cabin is in fact built practically on top of it. we even have some slat we found in the ground and in rocks, that we played pictionary on from time to time. Kind of interesting, but I dont think its what you are looking for.
I can now see why there is a No Tresspassing sign for it, senseless vandalism and thoughtless people. Too bad, sounds like the strange occurances are just a fabrication.
Why is there 3 different post on the same subject??? Anyone know?
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Why is there 3 different post on the same subject??? Anyone know?
I am sorry for posting 3 times, I just felt that people may not have been able to understand the issue with out explaining the expriences I had there, which I had not stated previously. Then again, I had left out more and posted a third time. Truely sorry for the number of posts.
Why is there 3 different post on the same subject??? Anyone know?
I am sorry for posting 3 times, I just felt that people may not have been able to understand the issue with out explaining the expriences I had there, which I had not stated previously. Then again, I had left out more and posted a third time. Truely sorry for the number of posts.
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