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"Also, they have closed off the area to hikers this year (I hear), so you may have a tough time getting access."

yeah they did..argh. its funny because last summer i took the kids for a ride with me out there, looking for where it was. i couldn't find any information on it online, and only vague information in my books.

this time, i found info but there are 'no trespassing' signs all over the place.

i guess some fools ruined it for everyone. but its not over till the fat lady sings (as they say).

so will see what happens :)

Here's a very informative website Website from Rev. Gary P. Dudley.

I been looking all over the net for information on Dudley Town and finally found some really intresting links. One of them I came across was your page. I was wondering how to get to Dudley Town? What exactly is the DEF association and gave them the right to control the land? Shouldn't the land be owned by the state government of Ct if all the originating town members left, died, or abandoned the place? and why do they limit at what time you can go there?

I work with The Atlantic Paranormal Society. We are looking into Dudleyville for a special that will be shown on Nippon Television in Tokyo..I am going to be around on sunday and monday and I was wondering if you knew how to get there from Rhode Island...I know I take 95 south but that is it.any help would be apreciated..

youre website is cool i love it.i live in CT(conneticuit). just a couple questions do you know anything about dudley town?.have you ever heard of the Warrens?and lastly there is a legend of a group known as the "lemonheads" or" pumpkinheads" the story goes as they are a supposed family of hideously disfigured people and they live in the woods and supposedly eat animals and kill people.i was very curious about this and i was just wondering if you have ever heard of these things

I was curious about what was going on about Dudleytown and came across your websight. I have a story about Dudleytown that I thought you would like to hear, something that is real and actually happenend. It was the summer of 1992, I think it was June or July cause it was warm, I was living in a apartment with my two brothers their girl friends and my girl friend and my cousin and two my friends, I Live In the city of Torrington with my wife and 3 year old son, and back then I also lived in Torrington in the same place I live now.

Well getting back to the story, One Friday night me and my family and friends had got together for a little party, Thats all we did cause we were teenagers, (Laughing) Anyway we were at our apartment and talking about all the really stupid things we did and all the times we did ouija boards and try to contact spirits. One of my friends then told us about a town that was near by that he heard his parents talking about with their friends that was haunted and he knew where it was. So of course us being young and bold and fearless we wanted to go. So the 7 of us got in our cars and went of to seek Dudleytown.

It was about 11:30 at night and we reached this road and followed all the way up this mountain Until we came to this chain across the road that had I sign Dark Forest Association, We knew we were in the right spot but didn't know excatly where we were. When we saw the chain and sign we all got out of the car and headed down the path. About 20 ft into the woods we heard scrapping noises and things moving in the dark forest around us. My friend R who was a Big guy and the one who heard the most about Dudleytown stopped us all and said " If we go in here try not to fight against each other, cause my mom told me that when people came up here they fought with each other for no reason" So we all agreed and proceeded down the road or path. We kept walking until we came to a spot that was like a fork and it went left or right. Well we all stood there talking about what way we should go and all of a sudden everyone started fighting, yelling at each other and pushing one another around we couldn't agree on anything. We argued for about 30 mins when finally I Yelled and said "hey don't you all remember what R told us and that we are fighting for no reason over somethin stupid" and then we all looked at each other and shook each others hands and hug and said sorry. Then we decided to go to the right of the path. We stayed at the middle for a little bit while we smoked cigs and drank and talked about what was going on and listening to weird sounds around us. I told them to wait here cause I wanted to go up the left path a little ways just to take a look. So they said ok and I started walking down the path and my friend mike and my cousin
J and my sister inlaw shawn followed me and we walked together. After walking I would guess 100 feet we decided to turn back we didn't hear anything or see anything. We got back to the center of the path were everyone was and things were weird.

My 2 friends R and C were Seating on the ground Indian style facing each other and my brother M was down the path to the right but we could see him. Me and my friend M walked up to my frends sitting on the ground and asked them what the h*** they were doing. When we talked to them they said nothing and just kept staring at each other. I looked at both there faces and there eyes. When I looked at both their eyes there were all white no pupil, Like there eyes were rolled back in there heads. I jumped back and said what the **** is going on, they then started talking to each other in a language that was beyond my knowledge, it sorta sounded like Latin I wasn't sure but I know both of them don't know nothing but english and totally understood each other. I then screamed at my brother M who was down the path to come on cause we were getting the **** out of here. He yelled back that he wanted to stay and started walking down the path by himself, I then turned to my friend M and said lets go I don't like this at all and I wanted to get the girls out of there and he agreed. I was worried about my brother but They had a car and I wasn't sticking around to see anymore **** cause I was scared out of my mind. We turned around and started walking and only saw my sister in-law S standing there waiting for us, I asked her where my cousin J was and she said she already started back to the cars without us. We started walking back to the cars and about five minutes of walking we heard someone running towards us yelling and screaming, it was my cousin she was running toward us and freaking out. She got about within I say 20yards from us and I saw this white glow in the form of a body chasing her, I then started runnning toward her. When we got to each other the glow was gone and she dropped to the ground hugged my legs and crying uncontrolable. I pick her up in my arms and started running toward the cars and my friend M and sister inlaw followed. we got to the car and i put my cousin in the car and jumped in . I looked at my friend M and said did you see that , what the **** was that, And he said I don't know but I saw it too, and my sister inlaw confermed she saw it also, and we took off back home. On the way home there is these feilds on both sides of the road and in the middle of the feild there was this black cloud of mist Just floating in a big mass. We told each other we saw it and continued home.

When we got home and got out of our cars, My father and uncle started walking up the driveway and my father asked what the h*** is going on, I said what do you mean, He asked where my brother was and I told him a place called dudleytown. He told me that the state police called and said my brother was at someones house scared out of his mind and won't talk.So me my friend M and my uncle and father went back up there. We didn't know where the house was so we went to where we parked the cars and upon arriving there was three state cop cars there . We got out of the car and there was noone around. The police officers had gone in the woods. My uncle is a very religous man and he said I have a bad feeling about this place , ( ITS EVIL) He suggested we go find the police and I said noway and so did my friend, I wasn't about to go back in there. My uncle went along to find them and my dad stayed with us. About 10 mins later I saw my uncle coming towards us along with Four state police men and two search dogs. The police were in there looking for us. Apperently my two friends R and C came to and found themselves at the car andrelized we were nowhere to be found they called out for us and when they coldn't find us they took my brothers car and went to a nearby house and called the police. They then went home when the police arrived with my brothers car. The police came out of the woods and said for us to stay here and they and my father were gonna go get my brother. One of the police officers and his dog stayed with me and my friend and
uncle. We were there for about 40 mins and while we were waiting the police dog was going wild and barking and whining the cop then let the dog out of the car and the dog started to whine and tried to climb under the car and the polcie officer was freaked out and said "the sooner we get out of here the better, my dog never acts like this" just as he said that all the lights we had went out, we then all got into the police car and locked the doors and he called the other police officers on the radio and said to hurry up, they were on their way. Like I said 40 mins later they showed up and we all came back to my house including the police. We got home and they took our statements. They told us to never go there again and it was a bad place and other things have happenend there. I asked them how my brother was cause he was down my parents and they told me he had cuts and bruises on hes arms and face. They left and noone slept more then an hour that night. The next day we went to my parents to see my brother and talked to him to see what happened. He told us that when we left he kept walking down the path. he stopped after walking for 10 mins and finally relized he was by himself so he called out for me not knowing we actually left. When he called out for me I answered and said come this way so he followed my voice( I was on my way back home pRably there already) He said it was me and there was no mistake about it. He said when he started following my voice that was calling for him trees and branches started falling in front of him and he kept going over them or around at one point he couldn't go around them cause he said on both sides there was nothing but ledges so he had to climb over them and finally he reached this persons back yard. the man came out. M told him what happened he then called the police and they called my dad. For about three weeks after that we all couldn't sleep or talk about it. My friends and I and my family went to a nearby place called the lords shrine. we went there and prayed and lit prayer candles for the nightmares and the bad to go away. Eventually it did but to this day we can talk about it but will NEVER go back there. That place is evil and everthing I told you is true everyone will tell you it is, even the police officers. No matter what people say we were there and saw the impossible and its real. I will never forget it and will never understand it. I hope people will relize that that place has a spiritual force beyond our comprehension. It is evil and a truely dark place. I hope you were intrigued by my story and I ashore you it is totally true.

I'am a very intrigued by the unusual tales I hear about Dudleyville, CT. Although I've never seen a ghost or anything along the line of a haunt. Is there any way that you can tell me how to get a hold of the Dark Entry Forest Association that owns the town.

Teens call 911 after getting lost near Dudleytown
Friday, July 20, 2001

By Gale Courey Toensing © 2001 Republican-American www.rep-am.com

CORNWALL - A group of teenagers, looking for supernatural beings in Dudleytown in the wee hours of Thursday morning, got lost in the woods and didn't have a ghost of a chance of finding their way out without help from the state police and emergency rescue volunteers.

Thursday's visitors got more than they bargained for, but it wasn't the paranormal experience they were expecting.

Eleven teenagers in two separate groups were ticketed for simple trespassing, including a 16-year-old who fell down in the rough, hilly terrain and hurt his head, police said. Simple, as opposed to criminal, trespassing carries a mandatory $77 fine instead of a court appearance.

Gary Vasas of Seymour was taken by Cornwall ambulance to Sharon Hospital where he was treated and later released, said Lt. Robert Tolomeo, the commanding officer of Troop B.

Vasas and his companions, Jeff Silberkleit, 18, of Oxford and Bryan Miller, 17, James Melko, 18, and Ken Wasko, 17, all of Seymour, were prowling around in the woods when the fall occurred, Tolomeo said.

Tolomeo was roused from sleep in his Fairfield home around 1:30 a.m. by a phone call about the missing youths, and rushed north to join his men in the rescue caper, he said.

"One of the kids had a cell phone and had called 911. They didn't know where they were in the woods ... and didn't know how to get out. It's swampy, it's rocky, it's hilly, and it's a mess. But we got them out, gave each a summons for trespassing, sent the hurt boy to the hospital with the fire department, and sent the rest of them on their way," Tolomeo said.

Several state troopers, including some on overtime, two search dogs, emergency rescue volunteers from the Cornwall and Goshen fire departments, and the Life Star helicopter were involved.

While troopers searched for the five missing youths, six other young people emerged from the woods, Tolomeo said.

They had nothing to do with the missing group, but were also ticketed, Tolomeo said.

The six, all from Ridgefield, were: David Grover, 19; James Ahern, 19; Andrew Pitre, 18; Katherine Geraci, 17; James O'Connor, 18; and Blake Hastings, 18.

"I have no idea what they were all looking for up there. It isn't even Halloween, for crying out loud! But I know what I'd like to do. I'd like to go after the parents and sue them for the money we spent looking for them," an exasperated Tolomeo said.

The 750-acre forest is owned by Dark Entry Inc., which comprises local residents who have owned and maintained the land as a nature preserve for more than 75 years.

Ever since the summer of 1999 when the low-budget movie "The Blair Witch Project" scared the devil out of millions of moviegoers, groups of young people in search of thrills and chills have come to Dudleytown looking for ghosts.

Although Dudleytown is a dark and gloomy place, nothing in its history substantiates the ghost rumors, the residents say.

About 15 to 20 farmhouses were built in the area beginning in the 18th century, according to a pamphlet recently written and published by Dark Entry members.

With the advent of the railroad, the iron era, and migration west, people left Dudleytown and, by 1900, it was completely abandoned. A legend grew around the tattered stone walls and overgrown cellar holes that Dudleytown was haunted.

But townspeople dismiss the ghost stories as rubbish.

"Of course there aren't ghosts and I would really wonder how many people go there one time, see what's there - or not there - and shrug and say, 'Gee, I guess that wasn't worth the trouble,'" said Dave Cadwell, a Cornwall volunteer who took part in the rescue.

Thursday's event was "the same old, same old. Just kids checking out Dudleytown and getting lost," Cadwell said.

But, unfortunately, one of the volunteer emergency workers hurt her leg and had to be carried out of the woods, Cadwell said.

"It wasn't a life threatening injury, but there's a lesson to be learned by all these kids - the things you do can hurt other people," Cadwell said.

i have a different theory for dudley i heard the only thing that they could grow in the rocky soil was rye, which can mold and be hallucinogenic and kill ... also you might want to add to your site that the whole bald mountain and dark entry road is off limits and we were ticketed for trespassing today

I have lived in Connecticut my whole life. I have been to Dudley, as have my friends, a few teachers and other people i've met. It has never been Dudley Village, at least not to locals. And there is no evil vortex. It is true, the hauntings, no birds or animals. Strange sounds loom day and night, and nothing electric works. Sometimes not even a liter. And yes the people were mad and killed eachother. But the one fact that I haven't seen any one mention is that it was all caused by mercury in the water. Hundreds of years ago Mercury ended up being a very destuctive force throughout CT. Thats why the Danbury foot ball team is called the Mad Hatters.Due to the mercury in the hat liners the hatters worked with.

I just wanted to point that out. Thank you.