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We come to the end of another NFL regular season with, hopefully, plenty of football life beyond it for the Buffalo Bills. I love this team, these coaches, this front office, and these owners.

Things look bright for any team that has that quarterback! They always seem to have to battle the odds. Maybe the refs disfavor Rust Belt teams, as if they need any more adversity. The idea comes to more than one of us that the Bills could be suffering from a collective hex.

To me the question is like many in American politics. If a lot of people think a certain way, their belief becomes a force that has to be addressed. On that basis, there is a body of logic to curses. Both man-made sites and natural places can be cursed and target those who may do no more than simply pass through.

Curses can be launched by the force of the living or the outrage of the dead. Curses can affect nations, organizations, families, and individuals. Curses can be concentrated in single, small objects that affect all who spend time close to them. These two AFL triumphs were never acknowledged as world championships, since the bigger NFL was considered the badder. This was before the Bills made their move to the town of Orchard Park.

In that process we may have a clue. In work started on the then-named Rich Stadium. Soon the neighborhoods fringing the construction site thought more than the landscaping had changed.

A number of families on the edge of the country tract got the sense that their homes had turned haunted. They experienced troubling dreams, emotional disturbances, strange physical phenomena, and creepy apparitions — ghosts.

Word got out that the construction had disturbed burials. That part of the story is true. In the process of clearing the former farmland, a tiny graveyard had been found, that of the Joseph Sheldon family, second owners of the property.

Dating from , it was abandoned by and not rediscovered till the early going with the stadium. My late friend Orchard Park historian John Printy oversaw its loving restoration. Other graves may have been disturbed. Named for the settler-era Seneca chief Old Smoke, Smokes Creek curls through the town of Orchard Park and sends tendrils through the area of the stadium. Along it for centuries had been settlements, possibly those of the Eries or the Wenro, Iroquoian-speaking groups later absorbed by the Iroquois Confederacy.

According to Arthur Parker in a bulletin of the New York State Museum, a Wenro burial ground had been somewhere on the tract used by the stadium. Earlier settlers had treated its bones and grave-goods like landfill. The 20th-century construction was just scratching a scab. Word got out that this was the root of the negative effects. Some of the time, of course, at least in folklore, the back-story is at least close to true.

The situation made sense to the Seneca I interviewed in Animals getting spooked. Cats running away, dogs shying away from certain spots in the house and yard. People getting creeped out, turning to drugs and stuff. Even families breaking up. Sometimes they have causes. One woman who approached me after attending one of my talks reported that her stadium-side house was so active in the day that she called in a priest, who, a minute into his visit, sensed the psychic temperature and just looked at her.

Author, researcher, Haunted History Ghost Walks tour guide, and my good friend Rob Lockhart spent some of his childhood years in a house in the area and remembers a rumor-cycle among the neighbors. It was something people learned to live with. In one, the elders of the nearest reservation, the Cattaraugus, approached the Bills as a civic service and offered to ease the spirits of the dead.

In another, the psychic trouble was so dramatic that the Bills organization made the outreach. There is decent parking, you can find your way around the mall without a gps and there is a variety of quality stores to…. From Business: Dollar General is proud to be America's neighborhood general store.

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