Case file · Haunting
Dudleytown, the 'cursed' village
Dudleytown, an abandoned 18th-century settlement in the Dark Entry Forest of northwestern Connecticut, is said to be cursed; its land has been a private trust since the mid-1920s.
1924 CE · 41.82, -73.37 · status: legend
The account
Legend blames madness and ruin on a curse carried by the Dudley family from England. Ghost-hunting trespassers and vandals became such a problem that the owners closed the site to the public.
The sceptical view
Historians explain the abandonment by poor, rocky farmland and the pull of better land in the west, as with many hill towns.