Widows' Hill

Widows' Hill is a fictional geographical location featured in the 1966-1971 daytime soap opera Dark Shadows. It first appeared in the second episode of the series and has made a few scant appearances throughout the remainder of the program. Widows' Hill is a seaside cliff on the back of the Collinwood estate. It earned its name from a legend about three widows who committed suicide when their husbands failed to return from sea. In 1796, Josette Collins threw herself from the cliff while trying to evade the advances of the vampire Barnabas Collins. In the modern era, a Frankenstein-inspired creature known as Adam sought a similar demise, but miraculously survived the fall onto the rocks below.