The Most Haunted Town in America (the world?)

[Denaes]

Brief Synopsys: This is a town so haunted by demons, ghosts and missing residents that everyone died (went missing) or fled. Cause would be a curse placed on the Dudley family prior to coming to American

I saw reference to this town towards the end of Season 2 of Supernatural. Watching the commentary I found that the town they used for the episode was based on Dudleytown.

Personally I know there is debunkery, this may or may not be real or it may be real now, but the origins are debunked and who knows why it's the way it is. Personally the idea of a town so haunted that it was abandoned sounds awesome.

Adventure Notes:

• Local towns full of inhabitants that exploit and/or hate ghost tourists
• Something based on the history causes the paranormal to kick it up a notch
  
  • Legit tour groups go missing or encounter dangerous conditions.
  • Local authorities go on lock down, not only enforcing trespass laws like they were donuts, but interfering with other legit business like tours and sales
• Something new has been attracted to the energy... maybe demon, maybe insane (or possessed) murderers.
• Might allow players to alleviate the situation... maybe contain, but not just solve.

I might run something like this for my game... not sure if I would want to fly the players from LA to CT or just invent a more local version of this town and add some SoCal flavour.

The Legend of Dudleytown
Dudleytown a New England Ghost Town includes notes about fines for tresspassing
A site devoted to Dudleytown seems to be the official site for a book and mentions tours
Dudleytown/Cornwall in Wikipedia
A creepy image of Dudleytown
Map of Dudleytown

[mrloucifer]

Cali if I recall has a lot of ghost towns (mining and agricultural communities. etc) so it shouldnt be to relocate.

keep us in the know on what you decide on and come up with, I'd be interested in hearing more.

[gaby]

ther could have a rift close by.

[vika]

Local flavour.

I like the disappearing cultures, too. Reminds me when I visited St Louis one from the places we went to was the Cahokia Mounds (once it was larger than London) and they have the boring reasons why it became empty (such as no more resources). Maybe. Maybe not.

[Lord Z]

The Cahokia Mounds is a neat place. It doesn't look by much to just drive past or even to walk over. It's just a bunch of hills. The thing is that they are huge artificial hills, probably created as temples. Had they built pyramids out of stone or clay, Cahokia would be as famous as any Mayan ruins today. It was a thriving city around 1000 A.D. One of the cool things is that the residents buried their dead upright, in a standing position. There is no clear answer about why it was abandoned since the residents left behind no records. A GM can insert any reason she likes.

About the ghost town, this Dudley Town place could serve as an interesting starting point. A lot of our BtS games (and other games) could use a good, fleshed out ghost town. I recently made a tiny town called Silver Hill for Boxed Nightmares 2. I used Google Sketch, and it was easy. It took me three or four hours, but I was learning the software as I went along. We could create a 3D map and backstory for a general-purpose ghost town as a community project.

[vika]

Yep. Good account.

There is the "woodhenge" there, too.

I think the museum inside the visitor center is First Class.

And I recalled hanging coffins when you told about standing up burials.