Dudleytown???

[Chin Diesel]

A buddy of mine who knows I grew up in CT asked me what I knew about Dudleytown.

Told him I had never heard of it. He gave me a brief description.

So, it's a haunted area inside the woods on some private property??

 

[CCSUblue]

A buddy of mine who knows I grew up in CT asked me what I knew about Dudleytown.

Told him I had never heard of it. He gave me a brief description.

So, it's a haunted area inside the woods on some private property??

In Cornwall. Maintained by a private land trust.

 

[Hoophound]

A buddy of mine who knows I grew up in CT asked me what I knew about Dudleytown.

Told him I had never heard of it. He gave me a brief description.

So, it's a haunted area inside the woods on some private property??

Yeah. You can find info online about it. It was a small village and at some point everyone in the village died from a virus or something. It is interesting and creepy. I’ve read several stories about it over the years.

 

[fatlucy]

Dudleytown, Connecticut Is The Creepiest Abandoned Town

Dudley Town, Connecticut is the creepiest abandoned town in the state. Read on and see why... if you dare. Is it cursed? Maybe.

www.onlyinyourstate.com

 

[Chin Diesel]

In Cornwall. Maintained by a private land trust.

Yeah. You can find info online about it. It was a small village and at some point everyone in the village died from a virus or something. It is interesting and creepy. I’ve read several stories about it over the years.

Seems like this would have been something teens and young adults would have tried to visit or screw around by visiting.

I'm just surprised I had never heard of it.

Anyone ever try to go there or know stories of those who tried?

 

[huskypantz]

Seems like this would have been something teens and young adults would have tried to visit or screw around by visiting.

I'm just surprised I had never heard of it.

Anyone ever try to go there or know stories of those who tried?

Yes, I grew up in northwest CT and everyone knew Dudleytown. Went there a couple of times in high school. It was either that or doing loops on main street and hanging out at McDonalds.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Yes, I grew up in northwest CT and everyone knew Dudleytown. Went there a couple of times in high school. It was either that or doing loops on main street and hanging out at McDonalds.

So, is it haunted?

 

[superjohn]

We used to go up there when we were young teens at night to scare ourselves and I remember staying over one night. We went back up there at night after watching The Blair Witch Project and it seemed like half the young people in CT. were there. It turned into a pretty strange night, that movie made the state crack down on letting people in.

 

[upstater]

Connecticut seems to have a lot of these places. I knew about Johnsonville in East Haddam--pretty weird place. This link doesn't even list Pleasure Beach or Dudleytown: 5 Ghost Towns in Connecticut

 

[TRest]

It’s no Green Lady cemetery.

 

[CL82]

Better article

 

[HuskyHawk]

So, is it haunted?

I can only say Chris McKinnell told me not to go there. So I never did.

The Curse Of Dudleytown | Light Force Network

Derivative ImagesFor many years, ghost hunters have been fascinated by tales of the lost village of Dudleytown --- a vanished Connecticut village that was apparently plagued by ghosts, demons and residents who vanished without a trace. These grave events were said to be caused by a curse...

www.lightforcenetwork.com

 

[RichZ]

We had the melonheads when I was a kid. The lived in the woods in Huntington, Monroe and Easton. Which in the 50s, were 90% wooded -- or at least seemed that way. No one would admit to believing in them, but if you drove down the old sawmill road at night, you locked the doors and sped like crazy, anyway.

The Melon Heads of Connecticut - New England Historical Society

If you grew up in southwestern Connecticut, you probably heard of the melon heads: small humanoids with giant heads, and they lurk on very specific roads.

www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com

 

[husky99]

It’s no Green Lady cemetery.

That is an odd place

 

[8893]

We had the melonheads when I was a kid. The lived in the woods in Huntington, Monroe and Easton. Which in the 50s, were 90% wooded -- or at least seemed that way. No one would admit to believing in them, but if you drove down the old sawmill road at night, you locked the doors and sped like crazy, anyway.

The Melon Heads of Connecticut - New England Historical Society

If you grew up in southwestern Connecticut, you probably heard of the melon heads: small humanoids with giant heads, and they lurk on very specific roads.

www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com

Yep. The melonheads. Used scare the bejeezus outta me.

 

[husky99]

It’s no Green Lady cemetery.

 

[Hoophound]

That dude needs to tell the story and move on. He hits the pipe every 4 words. Was making me crazy.

 

[Waquoit]

I always though Dudleytown was near Caprilands.

 

[Bongo Fury]

So, is it haunted?

Wife and her friend camped near there on the AT and were terrified to leave their tent. Said they saw orbs of light? This is when I first heard of it.

 

[RichZ]

We had the melonheads when I was a kid. The lived in the woods in Huntington, Monroe and Easton. Which in the 50s, were 90% wooded -- or at least seemed that way. No one would admit to believing in them, but if you drove down the old sawmill road at night, you locked the doors and sped like crazy, anyway.

The Melon Heads of Connecticut - New England Historical Society

If you grew up in southwestern Connecticut, you probably heard of the melon heads: small humanoids with giant heads, and they lurk on very specific roads.

www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com

 

[Minicoop69]

Gunntown cemetery in Naugatuck is supposedly haunted too. Really old headstones

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

We used to go up there when we were young teens at night to scare ourselves and I remember staying over one night. We went back up there at night after watching The Blair Witch Project and it seemed like half the young people in CT. were there. It turned into a pretty strange night, that movie made the state crack down on letting people in.

For some reason I thought you were like 80

 

[ClifSpliffy]

Yep. The melonheads. Used scare the bejeezus outta me.

ok, now u've actually demonstrated some Bridgeport/Lupe's street cred with that 'melonheads' reference.
when it first came to me in grammar school, and i asked the elder yankees in my family aboot that, they were all like 'of course, the melonheads are there. u gotta watch out for them.' and since they had hooks into renting horses and stuff there since the Civil War, i believed them.
im still not sure aboot all of that. i think that they lied to me cuz i later learned that The President did not, in fact, pass a special law declaring that children in Bridgeport must go to school or lose all dinner privileges.
too risky to argue that one. i do like to eat.
of course, like folks in Columbus' times, we believed that the Merritt Parkway defined the edge of the known world, and if u biked past that, a melonhead might just eat you.
the only dudley we knew was that canuck riding a horse, always unwrapping ladies tied to a train track by some bad guy who looked suspiciously like our principal.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

early grammar school, our 'street' gang gets the word. 'mr rodrigues sez ask your folks if you can go on a camping trip to Kettletown Park.'
'hey pops! mr rodrigues wants to know if i can go.....'
'sure, have a good time. are you leaving now?'
aboot a week later, so our special group is filled with camping chat as we pass the time in the penitentiary, and everyone is asking me questions cuz i was a day camp attendee, and they all thought i was daniel boone.
'where is Kettles Town?'
'canada. its got bears, wolves, an everything. bring a machete and a shotgun. could get sketchy.'
'what's the melonhead 411 there?'
'bad. i think a whole van of kids got eaten there recently, and we got to watch out for that guy with the hook hand they always tell me aboot at camp itchy.'
we decided to visit keith's gramma, en masse, and put the arm on her cuz she was all churchy, and it took an act of congress to get that kid free on a sunday morning. 'but we'll learn stuff!' 'he needs to learn manners, not marshmellows...' his pops puts his foot down 'he's going, anywhere far from here!' sounded like my dad. i think they had a union.
we get there, 'are we in jellystone? where are the bathrooms? im not going near that thing, it smells really, really bad... where do i plug in my....'
a fine time was had by all, except, i think, by mr rodriguez. last we heard, they sent him to Gaylord, or one of those rehab places, after that. nice man, knew a lot of cool stuff like skinning bears and catching fish with his teeth, or so it seemed.
come to think of it, i had a lot of conversations with the rents that went like this,
'can i go....'
'do i have to do anything, like drive, or.... no? have a nice time, don't hurry back.'
subtle as a brick to the noggin, those two.

 

[Mister P]

ok, now u've actually demonstrated some Bridgeport/Lupe's street cred with that 'melonheads' reference.
when it first came to me in grammar school, and i asked the elder yankees in my family aboot that, they were all like 'of course, the melonheads are there. u gotta watch out for them.' and since they had hooks into renting horses and stuff there since the Civil War, i believed them.
im still not sure aboot all of that. i think that they lied to me cuz i later learned that The President did not, in fact, pass a special law declaring that children in Bridgeport must go to school or lose all dinner privileges.
too risky to argue that one. i do like to eat.
of course, like folks in Columbus' times, we believed that the Merritt Parkway defined the edge of the known world, and if u biked past that, a melonhead might just eat you.
the only dudley we knew was that canuck riding a horse, always unwrapping ladies tied to a train track by some bad guy who looked suspiciously like our principal.

I laughed at your Dudley do right reference.