Outside of Tallapoosa, Georgia, there was a town called Budapest, Georgia. It was founded in 1882 after a real estate developer invited Hungarian immigrants to develop this area into wine country. The area flourished until prohibition was passed in 1907. Remnants of this area still exist today (a cemetery being one of those). Key’s Castle, named this because a descendant of Francis Scott Key purchased it, started as the Catholic Rectory. The home has been purchased in recent years, and it is under a restoration process.
I met the new owner back around 2016 and toured the house. It was completely gutted and the owner was actively working on it and told me it should be finished in a year or two at most. Well that’s been almost a decade ago now and far as I can tell without returning to my hometown and driving over there it looks completely abandoned now… Again…
Perhaps that curse is more than just a tale.