Cornwall
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Search complete. 31 mentions across 10 episodes found for "Cornwall".
Oct 6, 2026
Elizabeth GarnseyHOST
Mark Bazutti-Jones will be with us.
Elizabeth GarnseyHOST
He is a p- an Episcopal priest who leads the Trinity Conference Center in Cornwall, Connecticut, with his wife, Kathy Bazutti, uh, Bazutti-Jones, and, um, he's quite a voice, quite a preacher, so I hope all of you will join us either online or in person and hear how he untangles this, this big one.
Elizabeth GarnseyHOST
So-
Peter WalshHOST
Yeah, don't miss this one
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
First up, Dudleytown, the cursed village.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
The quiet town of Cornwall
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
was settled in the mid-18th century, much like many other areas of Connecticut.
Steve StocktonNARRATOR
The first Dudleys from England, via Guilford, arrived in the Litchfield Hills in 1747.
EdHOST
Three of William's descendants...
EdHOST
Abel, Barzali, and Gideon would later buy a plot of land in Cornwall Township.
EdHOST
While there are undoubtedly some grim events that surrounded the Dudley family in England and France, questions have been raised as whether or not any curse really followed them to America.
EdHOST
The question has been raised because in order for the curse to have been passed along to account for the haunting of Dudleytown, then William Dudley would have had to have been the son of Robert Earl of Leicester.
EdHOST
He later married Gideon's daughter.
EdHOST
One thing that should be mentioned was that Dudleytown was never an actual town.
EdHOST
It was a more isolated part of Cornwall.
EdHOST
The village rested in the middle of three large hills, which accounts for the recollections of it being nearly dark at noontime.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
Um, so I was actually born up in New Brunswick, Canada.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
Um, my folks had moved up there to start farming, and then when I was four, we moved back down to a very small town in northwest Connecticut called Cornwall, where they continued farming.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
And my grandparents had a dairy.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
My folks had-- They ended up getting into llamas, which is, um, quite a, quite a shift from, from milk cows.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
But, um, but it was wonderful in that my folks were, um, working and living at home, and my sister and I got to run free and, um, grow up, you know, learning all about livestock and farm chores and just having woods and pastures to play in all the time, so.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
And it was a very small village, um, about 1,200 people in the whole town of Cornwall.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
So, um, a lot of outdoor time and animal time and close friends and neighbors.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
Yeah.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
My folks had moved up there to start farming.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
And then when I was four, we moved back down to a very small town in northwest Connecticut called Cornwall, where they continued farming.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
And my grandparents had a dairy.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
My folks said they ended up getting into llamas, which is... quite a shift from milk cows, but it was wonderful in that my folks were working and living at home and my sister and I got to run free and grow up, you know, learning all about livestock and farm chores and just having woods and pastures to play in all the time.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
So, and it was a very small village, about 1200 people in the whole town of Cornwall.
Sarah CalhounGUEST
So a lot of outdoor time and animal time and Close friends and neighbors.
Steve SegerHOST
What is it like having llamas around? Is there anything unique about them that no other animals
Steve SegerHOST
I just get to learn really unique stuff like that.
Steve StocktonHOST
First up, Dudleytown, the cursed village.
Steve StocktonHOST
The quiet town of Cornwall was settled in the mid-18th century, much like many other areas of Connecticut.
Steve StocktonHOST
The first Dudleys from England, via Guilford, arrived in the Litchfield Hills in 1747.
Steve StocktonHOST
They played a pivotal role in forming a prosperous community, then known as Owlsberry, primarily driven by the burgeoning iron industry in the region.
JonathanHOST
Dudleytown was never an actual town.
JonathanHOST
Um, the name was given at an unknown date to a portion of Cornwall that included several members of the Dudley family.
JonathanHOST
The area that became known as Dudleytown was settled in the early 19- or 1740s by Thomas Griffis followed by Gideon Dudley and by 1753 Barzilliai Dudley and Abel, Abiel Dudley.
JonathanHOST
Um-
JonathanHOST
Martin Dudley joined them a few years later.
JonathanHOST
Other families also settled there.
JonathanHOST
As with every part of Cornwall, Connecticut, Dudleytown was converted from forest to farmland.
JonathanHOST
Families tilled the land for generations.
Brandon MorganHOST
Except the first creepy thing about Dudleytown is that there was never actually a town called Dudleytown.
Brandon MorganHOST
It was a small settlement within Cornwall, Connecticut, established in the 18th century and named informally for several members of the Dudley family who lived there.
Brandon MorganHOST
Today, almost nothing remains beyond cellar holes and stone walls disappearing beneath the forest, but according to legend, the Dudleys brought something else with them: a curse.
Brandon MorganHOST
The story eventually connected the Connecticut family to Edmund Dudley, an English statesman who was executed in 1510, supposedly placing a curse upon his own descendants.
Steve StocktonHOST
First up, Dudleytown, the cursed village.
Steve StocktonHOST
The quiet town of Cornwall was settled in the mid-18th century, much like many other areas of Connecticut.
Steve StocktonHOST
The first Dudleys from England via Guilford arrived in the Litchfield Hills in 1747.
Steve StocktonHOST
They played a pivotal role in forming a prosperous community, then known as Alsbury, primarily driven by the burgeoning iron industry in the region.
Lynn SmythHOST
This report describes a frightening series of events experienced by two hunters while traveling along a remote section of the Appalachian Trail during the fall of 2016.
Lynn SmythHOST
The witness explained that he and a friend entered the Appalachian Trail from the Kent-Cornwall area of Connecticut while planning to hunt deer along sections of the trail that crossed into both Connecticut and New York, since they had hunting tags for both states.
Lynn SmythHOST
After hiking for roughly 30 to 40 minutes, they encountered a group of volunteer workers in their mid-50s who were responsible for maintaining that section of the trail.
Lynn SmythHOST
The workers told them that during the previous few days, they had experienced some strange activity, including hearing voices in the distance that sounded like people talking, even though they could not understand any of the words.