It was a bright summer day in 1906 and Dr William C Clark and his wife Harriet were driving slowly through a beautiful part of Northwestern Connecticut called Lichfield County Lichfield is a rural very hilly area with lots of winding Country Roads and the Clarks were there to try to scout out an area to build their second home the couple lived full-time in New York City where Dr Clark was an oncologist which is a cancer doctor and he was also a professor at the Columbia College of Physicians and surgeons and while the Clark’s lives were very exciting and fulfilling in the city they were also very hectic and chaotic and so the reason they had settled on Lichfield as the place to look for a location for their second home is because it was the total opposite of the city, it was quiet, it was peaceful, it was perfect.

And so as this couple from New York City drove along these winding back roads they eventually reached this beautiful covered wooden bridge and after they drove across it they got this view up onto this mountain side off to their right and high up on this mountain was this huge shaded beautiful forest and they saw there was a road that appeared to kind of spider off and go into these woods now the couple had no idea what was up there but it was just so beautiful and they were immediately so drawn to it that they decided they would go check it out and see if maybe there was a spot for their second home in these woods and so Dr Clark took the car and he went up this access road and very quickly as they began climbing up this Hillside the road became very bumpy and overgrown it was pretty obvious that not many cars were driving into these woods and so before they even reached the tree line Dr Clark had to pull the car over and park it on the side of the road and then he and Harriet got out and then on foot they continued up towards the forest and once the couple actually entered the forest immediately the sunlight faded because the canopy over their heads was so thick and the air became cool and refreshing and after walking for only a couple of minutes the forest which at first seemed very still and quiet suddenly became alive they could hear birds chirping and animals running around and insects buzzing and then up ahead they saw there was this field off to the side of the road that was full of all these wild apple trees growing in all different directions and as they got closer they saw there was just a deer right in the middle of the apple trees eating apples directly off the branches and then just past all these apple trees the couple began passing these huge beautiful patches of roses and lilacs and bright yellow bitter tany flowers that lined the road and then before long the couple was stepping over these babbling Brooks and off in the distance they could hear the sound of running water like fresh spring water coming down off the mountain and then as the sun did began to poke through the canopy above them it almost looked like the forest was sparkling literally this forest was sitting on a hillside and the hillside which was made up of rock had Micah inside of it ( ‘Micah’ is a kind of mineral that when sunlight hits it, it almost looks like it’s shimmering ) and of course there were the owls.

 As Dr Clark and his wife walked farther and farther… into this beautiful Forest they heard more and more owls hooting off in the distance and to the Clarks this made the forest feel Enchanted. It was like the owls were personally greeting them. By the time the couple had turned around and begun heading back to their car they had already made up their mind that they were going to build their second home in that forest and so after returning to their home in New York they promptly put in the paperwork to purchase 1,000 Acres inside of that Connecticut forest and that Forest had a name it was called Dark entry and it was named that because it looked like from the outside the forest was basically dark all the time. There was shade cast on it from mountains nearby and then also the canopy inside of dark entry is exceptionally thick. At one time there actually had been a town inside of dark entry Forest however all the people who had lived in that town were now all gone. The only remnants of this town were a couple of crumbling stone walls and a couple of Home foundations that were scattered about the dark entry forest floor.

The Clarks had seen some of these ruins as they walked along this overgrown path through the forest but they weren’t concerned instead they felt like these ruins actually added some charm to the forest after the land purchase was finalized Dr Clark began looking for local builders in Connecticut who could help him build this second home inside of dark entry Forest but no matter how much money he offered these local Connecticut Builders, they all said no. Now… none of them gave a straight answer to Dr. Clark about why they were turning him down so Dr Clark just kind of assumed that you know hey this project is not huge it’s just one house and the forest is pretty isolated and hard to get to and so he thought you know probably these Builders think it’s not worth the effort but Dr Clark was not discouraged he decided he would just build the house himself after all he was a very handy, competent guy who had grown up on a farm in New Jersey and so he knew how to build things and so for the next several months Dr Clark would travel from New York City to dark entry Forest every weekend and he would build this home. First he cut down this massive swath of hemlock trees on this one flat patch of his land and then with all this Slumber he had cut down he built his rustic two-story cabin on this flat part of his land and then nearby on this Hilltop there was a freshwater spring at the top and so he laid piping from the spring into his cabin so they could have fresh water and then at the bottom of this nearby Hill was this brook and Dr. Clark loved just standing and watching this brook because inside of it were all these trout that would Dart all around and so Dr Clark built a swimming pool with beautiful Mossy embankments right up against this Brook so he could sit there and watch the fish. 

By thanksgiving of that year, the cabin was done and so Dr Clark and his wife Harriet they stayed at the cabin to celebrate the holiday and as they were sitting in their swimming pool watching the trout and listening to the owls hoot off in the distance. They both agreed that this second home was like their little piece of heaven, so every summer from there on out and every major holiday that they could manage it the Clarks would travel to their home in dark entry forest and they would swim and hike and relax and they’d watch the leaves on the mountain side turn from green to Bright yellows and oranges and reds. It was perfect that is until 1918…. 

That summer, the couple was in their second home in the forest when Dr Clark was suddenly called back to New York to attend to a medical emergency. Harriet was very upset at the prospect of suddenly being left alone in this cabin in the middle of the forest by herself for who knows how many days and so when she dropped her husband off at the nearby train platform she made him promise that he would come back soon and he said he would and then Dr Clark got on the train, it took off and Harriet just stood there with her arms crossed watching it as it chugged along off into the distance from his comfortable seat on that train Dr Clark had no idea that his wife was about to endure a nightmare while he was gone. 

When the Clarks bought their 1,000 acres in the the dark entry Forest they did virtually no research on the forest or the surrounding area if they had they very likely would not have purchased that land you see the town that used to be inside of the dark entry Forest that was now just ruins…what the Clarks saw when they first walked around inside of the forest was abandoned for a very specific reason. It was cursed. At least that’s what the locals say and in fact that was the reason why no builders in the area were willing to go with Dr Clark into the forest to go build his house because they were too scared to go anywhere near the ruins of this cursed town. This town which was known as Dudley town was first settled sometime in the 1740s… at first it was just a couple of people and a couple of small structures but pretty quickly 30 families had moved in and it was a thriving little town but as the 1700s came to a close…terrible things began to happen to residents of this town. First there was the Carter family, they moved to Dudley town in 1759 and shortly after arriving there six members of their family all died suddenly from chera the remaining branch of the Carter family was so grief stricken from their losses that they left dudleytown and went to New York where they resettled but almost immediately after getting set up there… Native Americans raided their property and massacred them and the three people that survived this massacre were three of the kids and they were all kidnapped and taken away.

 In 1792, a Dudley resident named Hollister died suddenly, now we don’t know if he fell off a roof or if he was murdered no one really knows but what we can agree on is that his untimely death happened in the home of a man named Tanner and Tanner following Hollister’s death suddenly just began obsessively talking about these strange creatures he was seeing out in the woods at night kind of roaming around the dark entry forest and he talked about it all the time and nobody listened to him and eventually Tanner went insane and his daughter had to care for him for the rest of his life and while Tanner was slowly losing his mind his nextdoor neighbor named Abel also began reporting that he was seeing weird creatures roaming around the tree line all around the town and as Abel continued to report seeing

these strange creatures lurking in the shadows he too slowly went mad and had to be cared for until his death.

In the early 1800s a famous Revolutionary War hero General Herman Swift who lived in Dudley town lost his mind shortly after his wife was struck by lightning and then in 1813 an unknown epidemic rolled through Dudley toown and killed many many of its residents after that more and more residents of Dudley toown either died suddenly or died mysteriously and also more and more residents began coming forward with stories about having seen these strange shadowy creatures moving around the tree line at night.

By about 1900 all the Dudley Town residents had either died or simply just left abandoning their homes except for one family the Brophy but in quick succession the broy family’s sheep all died then the mother died of tuberculosis, then the two sons were accused of theft in a nearby town and then they just disappeared leaving one person John broy the father, but the broy family home burned to the ground and so John who was overcome with grief just wandered off into the forest and was never heard from again…at that point Dudley Town officially became a ghost town no one lived there and and it was at that point in 1906 when Dr Clark and Harriet had their beautiful Summer’s Day walk through the forest and discovered where they wanted to build their second home.

So fast forward back to 1918….. Dr Clark he’s on his medical emergency leave to New York it winds up being very quick he’s back on a train within 36 hours and he pulls into the station right near dark entry forest and he’s expecting to see Harriet waiting on the platform for him but when the train rolled into the station she wasn’t there. Now Dr Clark was not a superstitious person but for some reason when he didn’t see his wife there he just felt like something was off there’s no reason she wouldn’t have come out here to greet him I mean she was worried about being all alone in the cabin and she knew he was going to be arriving at that moment and so feeling a little bit panicked Dr Clark left the train station and on foot made his way over to the dark entry forest and when he got there and began walking on that overgrown road path that led to his house.

Immediately, as soon as he was within the shade of the trees he began hearing these owls hooting very loudly off in the distance.. oh ..oh… oh.. now normally the sound of these owls hooting made him feel welcome but this time he felt scared he felt like something was wrong up ahead and so he began jogging through the forest and it’s very dark and all he can hear is the sound of these owls and it’s getting louder and louder and louder and then finally he reaches the clearing where his property is and at this point it’s a cacophony of owls hooting practically right on top of him and he looks up towards his house up on this hill and he sees the front door is slightly open and so now with his heart racing wondering what’s going on with his wife Dr Clark runs up to his front porch he gets to the door and he flings it open the rest of the way and then right before he stepped into his house this sudden high-pitch noise began up on the second floor inside of his house and it was so startling to Dr Clark that he just froze where he was and so suddenly it’s so loud from the owls all around him and the woods behind him and whatever this noise is that he just stood there unsure what to do and so as he’s sitting there getting the courage up to go investigate his house he realizes what this high-pitched noise is it’s the sound of maniacal insane laughter coming from the second floor sensing his wife had to be in danger, the doctor charged up the nearby steps up to the second floor and he could tell this laughter this high-pitch laughter was coming from the master  bedroom and so he ran down the short hallway he got in front of the closed door that led into the master bedroom he slowly opened it up and there in the back corner of his room was his wife she was on the ground rolled up in a ball facing the door her hands were clenched in fists her eyes were open and unblinking and her mouth was open wider than was humanly possible and as he’s staring at his wife wondering what’s going on he realizes this insane high-pitched laughter is coming from his wife but it doesn’t even look like it’s coming out of her her chest is just heaving her mouth is staying open and the laughter is just coming out of her and so the doctor just stood there watching his wife who’s staring directly at his eyes and finally he just got so scared he turned and he ran.

During Dr Clark’s 36 hours he was away in New York something happened to his wife.. we don’t know what it was but it caused her to lose her mind…the only thing thing she would talk about was the strange creatures she saw out in the forest. By some accounts Harriet spent the rest of her life in a mental Asylum, by other accounts she went back with Dr Clark to New York where she took her life. Today Dudley town is not only still abandoned but it is also illegal to visit. However, people do still sneak into Dudley town and walk around the the ruins and many of them have reported feeling these pockets of cold air where there shouldn’t be cold air and also some others have said as they’ve been walking they’ felt Phantom hands slap them and push them some have said they’ve taken photographs inside of the dark entry Forest near Dudley town and they’ve captured strange shadowy figures that they couldn’t see with their naked eye.The famous paranormal couple Ed and Lauren Warren shot a special Series in the 1970s inside of the dark entry forest and they declare the area around Dudley town was demonically possessed.

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