Dudleytown

By Crusader1307

 One might have a hard time ''finding'' Dudleytown in America. It is claimed to exist in The State of Connecticut (near Cornwall), It is rumored to have been a small but prosperous 1740s Farming Community. It is also odd that by 1800, the entirety of Dudleytown just ''packed up and left'', leaving possessions and land behind. In time, nature claimed The Town. Nature in this case was in the form of a dark and foreboding forest, so dark and deep one cannot easily find any remains of Dudleytown. But rumors of ''The Curse'' still prevail after well over 200 years.

The Curse starts in 16th Century England with Edmund Dudley. Convicted and beheaded for Treason against King Henry VIII, his Family thought it prudent to escape England for The ''New World''. They settled in Connecticut and founded their own community, naming it ''Dudleytown''. A prosperous little pre-Colonial American Farming community, it was said ''good land'' led to ''good crops''. The town began to slowly grow, that is until 1800. Many cite that The King placed a curse on the name of ''Dudley''. Stories of local origin cite the surrounding land going fallow and producing bad crops. To add more bad luck, children born in Town were said to be ''mentally infirmed'' or ''grossly misshapen''. Mysteriously, all Settlers of Dudleytown simply left (leaving behind land and property). Very quickly, ''Nature'' reclaimed The Town, when a ''dark forest'' engulfed any and all remains. VERY little of it remains.

While Historians hotly debate ANY of these ''facts'', strange ''lights'' are often seen by those who are brave enough to venture into the former confines of Dudleytown. It is also said thise foolish enough to venture into it's forests will become ''lost'' and quite ''insane''. The forests of Dudleytown were even said to have helped ''inspire'' the ''haunted forest'' portrayed in the 1999 hit Horror film ''The Blair Witch Project''.