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Dudleytown, the cursed hollow

Documented folklore from the Club 49 map, told straight and sourced.

The story

A failed hill settlement above Cornwall, Connecticut, abandoned by the late 1800s as its families were said to meet madness, lightning and ruin. The cellar holes still sit in the dark hemlock woods on Dark Entry Road. The truth is plainer, thin soil and better land out west emptied it, but the stories made it a magnet, and the private landowners now prosecute trespassers hard. Read it from the road; do not go in.

The ground it haunts

Dark Entry Forest, Cornwall (Litchfield County, CT). Source: A real abandoned settlement wrapped in curse folklore; trespassing is prosecuted. The Club 49 map pins this legend at its documented country, beside the real mines, active claims, land status and modeled honey holes of the same ground. Open the free map and go stand in the story.

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