Museum 2013
Year 17 2013 The Dead Ones and Boogeyman –
In The Dead Ones, The Inquisitor, a servant of the NETHERWORLD rises from YS to judge mankind. He finds that we have abandoned the old ways and summons the DEAD ONES – Skeletal life draining horrors to punish us.
In Boogeyman, six innocent people are trapped in comas, their minds imprisoned by a legendary creature that takes the form of your greatest fears.
THE DEAD ONES
When the Dead Ones come on lonely October nights, a whisper on the winds and a coldness where no cold belongs may be your only warning! To hear them brings madness, to see them brings pain and to touch them means death! No one can escape these Twisted Skeletal aberrations they glide through the darkened streets destroying everything in their path. The Dead Ones come when we ignore our traditions and superstitions and they cannot be denied!
In the untold eons of man’s existence, we have always acknowledged the ancient powers that dwell in the eternal darkness between worlds. For when we no longer sacrifice as they demand and forget the rituals and customs that appease these forces there is a price.
They release the Dead Ones.
When the Dead Ones come there are no drums of war, no bugles that call legions to battle. A whisper on the winds, perhaps a coldness where no cold belongs, and a howling of animals are the only calling cards that history records.
In the dark of the moon when the Dead Ones come old people die, the weak grow sick and gray streaks stain the hair of children. To hear them brings madness, to see them brings pain and to touch them means a quick and agonizing death. Stone cracks, iron rusts and crops wither when they roam the lands, and where once laughter and life ruled only bones and dust remain.
The Dead Ones come when we ignore our superstition, when we laugh into the Abyss, when we think that we are the rulers of creation. The Abyss does not like to be denied.
Twice they have come that history records.
First they came to a race of giants – a golden age of industry and philosophy sent crashing into ruin. Only the most powerful Primordial Titan survived whimpering in horror, to spend eternity in the darkness guarding the skulls of his dead race.
Second they appeared to a race of men, one of the first to emerge into the light of reason. But the Dead Ones came and all but obliterated them from memory. A small group survived and having learned their lesson embraced the darkness and began a century of evil and ritual to appease the dwellers in the void. They founded a foul and depraved city, YS and summoned many noxious things into our world.
But all was not lost…
A sect of warriors and scientists, The Illuminati found a way to hold the Dead Ones at bay. They discovered the Herald of the Dead Ones, the Inquisitor and destroyed him. They took his accursed mask, his connection to the void, and bound in iron it was left in YS as the city was sunk beneath the waves by science and sorcery. Freed from the fear of the void man could now live in peace and our mighty civilizations grew and flourished.
The Dead Ones faded from memory, but the rituals and superstitions performed to appease them were still practiced, primarily in the fall of the year during the harvest season. Some believed these rituals kept them away but others knew the truth…without their Herald, the Inquisitor and his mask, The Dead Ones could not rise to heed the voids call. They slept dead but undying in their hidden temple guarded by an ancient serpent. But over the long years of peace the rituals were forgotten and man turned his back on superstition and fear – the legend of the Dead Ones and their terrible vengeance had all but faded from memory.
The Blood Night
During the horrors of the Blood Night when the beasts of the NETHERWORLD were released on the earth the Illuminati battled to turn back the darkness. At last they were victorious and the sun returned but the price was a vast depletion of their powers. The noxious city of YS long held below the waves rose once again freeing Banshees and other twisted nightmares to hunt once more.
But worst of all, the mask of the Inquisitor, the Herald of the Dead Ones, was lost. Now some say a new Herald has risen and soars the night with flocks of Banshees watching the cities of men. If the Herald has returned, then he will report to the ancient powers that dwell in the eternal darkness between worlds. He will tell them that the rituals have been forgotten and a time of reckoning must come.
And they will release the Dead Ones…
There have been reports of a whisper on the winds, perhaps a coldness where no cold belongs, and a strange howling of animals….
A weird temple has been found in an ancient burial ground where no temple was before… and there is dust that covers everything near it…
Go now into the Temple my children and if your hair should turn gray….
The Dead Ones have returned!
BOOGEYMAN
Six innocent people are trapped in comas unable to escape a nightmare world of their deepest darkest fears. Is it an unusual medical condition or the work of a legendary creature from childhood story tales… The Boogeyman? Now you must physically enter into their dreams to uncover the shocking truth!
The Boogeyman Nursery Rhyme
Better not step upon a crack, Boogeyman put you in his sack!
Break a mirror or spill some salt, Boogeyman says it all your fault!
Walk under a ladder or see a Black cat, Boogeyman says you’re tasty and fat!
If I should die before I wake, Boogeyman gets my soul to take!
Run as far and fast as you can, there is no escaping the Boogeyman!
Hospital logs relating to the case:
Log Entry 72:
Never before had we seen anything like it. Six people with no connection whatsoever admitted with horrible nightmares. Then despite the best medical science had to offer they all slip into comas. Seemingly locked into horrific dreams.
Log Entry 84:
The patients continue to suffer terribly. Despite flooding their systems with sedatives the adrenaline pumping through them non stop is slowly destroying both the heart and the circulatory systems. There is no physical reason for the comas. All tests are negative.
Log Entry 92:
Turns out there is a connection after all. It seems all of them as children attended at least one semester of elementary school at Wormwood Academy near the old Bostwick Meat Processing Plant. Nothing at all remarkable about that, except the area was famous as the site of the so called “Mangler” murders all those years ago.
Log Entry 107:
The families of the patients have let us search their computers and personal papers for anything that can help us solve the mystery. I hope we can find something soon, they don’t have much time.
Log Entry 111:
More coincidences – I have found in all of their paperwork bits and pieces of an old nursery rhyme about the “Boogeyman.” This makes no sense. There is no record of them having contact in the last 10-15 years!
Log Entry 117:
They have agreed to my request. I will use the Neural Macro Phase Decoder to “see” what they are seeing in the dream state. Hopefully I will be able to learn from their subconscious the source of nightmares, and with that knowledge find a cure. I know it’s new technology but in almost every other clinical trial we have had overwhelmingly positive results. We might as well try… without some progress we will probably lose the first one within the week…
Log Entry 118 : Final Entry
Ugh… Not in good shape this morning. Crazy dreams about a shadowy figure trying to put a large bag over my head… I woke up gasping for air! Not good to go into a sleep experiment without a good nights rest. Must have been that creepy poem we found in the notes..?
OK going to work… Wish me luck!
Reviews from 2013
The most influential haunted house in the history of haunted houses….the best actors in the business for 2013.
– Hauntworld Magazine
consistently ranked among the busiest—and best—haunted houses in the country…
– 90.1 WABE
One of Atlanta’s favorite Halloween traditions, the high-tech haunts at Netherworld get bigger and bolder every year.
– AJC
This walk through haunted house attraction has been profiled by Fangoria as one of the scariest haunts across the United States. It has also gained notoriety from the likes of CNN, Hauntworld Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal.
– LIVEEON.MYAPTPORTAL.COM
With more than 250 special effects and animatronic creatures, Netherworld is not only our favorite haunted hot spot, but it’s also one of the top haunted houses in the world! With a 40 foot spinning tunnel, more than a dozen giant monsters, a 20 foot rocking room and more than two dozen ghostly projections, Netherworld is like no other haunt you’ve ever visited!
The monsters that roam around the parking lot, aiming to make you laugh and give you a good scare are truly amazing…
– Emma Loggins: FANBOLT.COM
Netherworld is bring back old-school animatronics, thrilling special effects and Atlanta’s most treasured monsters…Come see what all the talk (err-screams) are about…if you dare.
– NORTHEASTCOBB.PATCH.COM
That was terrifying!
– Actress JENNIFER LAWRENCE
….If you think the boogeyman under your bed is scary, you may never recover after the basement-lurking Boogeyman at the Netherworld gets a hold of you. If this isn’t enough to make your heart stop, an encounter with the Dead Ones certainly will.
– EON AT LINDBERGH
OK, this one is NOT in Greenville, SC..but it is the only true MEGA haunt near us. Netherworld Haunted House is located in Atlanta and is one of the top scare factories in the whole USA. They have just recently been featured by FANGORIA magazine…THE source for all things creepy.
– JASON PROFIT: GREENVILLE GHOST TOUR
See a giant saw blade cut an actor in half then shoot out into the path and make its way toward the crowd.
– PRNewswire.com
Walk inside Netherworld, if you dare
– WSB-TV2