A couple of decades ago a small village in Upstate New York had experienced a series of deaths from car accidents to suicide, and several murders. I lived in the town for a year while I attended the local community college, though that was quite a while before the curse deaths started. As far as I know things have settled down for the most part, but those few years still keep some folks uneasy.
Here's an article from the Washington Post about that time:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...-3b22ef3a5ae0/