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The Dudleytown Curse brought misfortune, madness and death to people who lived in Dudleytown — the Village of the Damned. English noblemen beheaded for treason started the curse in the 16th century. Their descendants then brought it to the hamlet in Cornwall, Conn., before the American Revolution.
A small village in Connecticut settled in sightless haste between rolling hills and an aphotic forest, berated these questions upon those that chose to call it home. Dudleytown, a small part of the Cornwall township, has experienced an unfathomable amount of bad luck since its inception in 1747.
15 de nov. de 2016 · Have you heard there is an independent movie being made about Dudleytown? They are now in post-production after a disasterous film shoot – including the arrest of eight cast and crew. You can check it out and stay up to date on the Dudleytown Curse Facebook group:
From that moment on, the Dudley family was placed under a curse which followed them across the Atlantic to America. This curse is blamed for instances of crop failures and mental illness, as well as several purported violent deaths in the village.
27 de may. de 2020 · Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Legend tells a centuries-old curse was placed upon Dudleytown in Connecticut. The town turned into a horrible place where people committed suicide or went insane. By the 1800s, Dudleytown was abandoned, becoming famous as America's Village of the Damned.
The "Curse" Begins The supposed "curse of Dudleytown" appears to have begun with the 1926 publication of Edward C. Starr's History of Cornwall . For reasons that have yet to be explained, Starr wove together a fanciful and inaccurate two-page account of Dudleytown residents over the centuries.
22 de nov. de 2023 · Edmund Duddley was arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London charged with treason accused of conspiring against the future king. According to legend, before facing his imminent fate, Dudley placed a curse on all his family, stating that they would be forever haunted by misfortune.
