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## Task
> Legend tells of an English family who moved to Conneticut in the 1700s only to be stricken with grief and ultimately death. A common place for ghost hunters and thrill seekers, this haunted location is one I have been to many times. Can you tell me what year the General’s wife was killed and how?
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> Submit the flag as flag{yearCauseofdeath}. Example: flag{2012bees}.
## Solution
This image is provided
![](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*MQF3bL3bjqhTHyX7kFCpQw.jpeg)
Lets try [reverse image searching ](https://images.google.com/)to see if we can find where this is.
![](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*J0nv8c0m-InCuYjlAJDbjQ.png)
A search of the whole image just returns random streets, so lets try consolidating to the street signs, as that is the most unique part of the image.
![](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*FsorSKUiEwkJ0W6UU7U2Gg.png)
By consolidating the search to only the street signs, we can find [a website](https://cornwallchronicle.org/a-numbers-game/) containing the same street sign.
By reading the article, we can find that this road is in Cornwall, Connecticut.
Let’s try searching for haunted places/stories in that area and see if we can find anything.
By searching for ‘Cornwall, Connecticut Haunted’ we can find many articles about the ‘Ghosts of Dudleytown, Cornwall CT’
![](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*2-njOldaBolQzYSjHEWQ1A.png)
In the [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudleytown,_Connecticut), we can find that Gideon Dudley was the first one to arrive to Dudleytown.
Let’s try and find further information about Gideon Dudley.
Searching ‘Gideon Dudley cornwall’ gets us some results
![](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*u9FrYGDC4k3zomRasxRerA.png)
We have already checked the Wikipedia article, so let’s try the next result
The [second result ](htt//www.americanhauntingsink.com/dudleytown)is another article.
Let’s try and find any info about a wife using the trusty CMD + F shortcut.
![](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:828/format:webp/1*y6Sj51Y8w2_twcsNTxiDQg.png)
We can find this paragraph about a General’s wife, which is exactly what we are looking for. It says that in **1804**, the General’s wife **Sarah Faye**, was struck by **lightning**.
Therefore, the flag is **`flag{1804lightning}`**