The Curse That Erased the Hayden Family: The Hayden House (Vermont)

Haunted American History by Christopher Feinstein

Sep 9, 202600:19:46Society & Culture

In 1823, Mercie Dale lay dying in a Vermont farmhouse convinced that her son-in-law had been poisoning her. Before she died, she supposedly left the Hayden family with a curse: their name would end within three generatio...

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