WHO and WHAT HAPPENED AT THE HyStErIuM Asylum?

Asylum Superintendent Dr. Frederic Heigels, a philosophical disciple of Nietzche’s superman, believed that the convention of morality was an obstacle to freedom, that a mind was not truly whole until freed from the illusion of Right and Wrong.  His ‘therapies’ were tortures designed to destroy the conscience and blur the lines of good and evil.  Story is that a cult is born, inmates become brainwashed disciples of Dr. Heigels, culminating on their ‘release’ where a three day rampage took its toll on the city.  Heigels and some trusted, like minded inmates kidnapped the mayor’s family and brought them back to Greythorne Asylum, now known as Hysterium. 

A two day standoff ended when the police finally broke in to find a grisly scene: the mayor’s children were eaten in a Eucharist ceremony, and most (but not all) engaged in a Jim Jones like mass suicide.  The mayor’s wife was alive, but insane, having been forced to join in the ‘Eucharist’.   The asylum closed in the 1950’s when the whole building was overtaken by the fatal Hysterium fungus, hence the name was born forever to be known as Hysterium Haunted Asylum.

Other Characters:     

Dr. John Pelgemese believed that the body should be improved as well as the mind, and performed many surgeries to help ‘evolve’ his patients. 

Nurse Holloway, like her sister, Ratched of the cuckoo movie fame, runs the psychiatric ward with an iron fist, keeping her patients cowed through abuse, medication and sessions of electroconvulsive therapy.

Janitor Dale Grafters cleaned up the mess of surgeries, keeping some parts for his own projects he conducted in the basement.  Human Centipede type stuff. 

Notable Inmates 

1. Serial killer Clovis Glick canned his victims in jars, often with pesto or rosemary.    
2. Serial killer  Earl Samson aka the Bee Keeper implanted the bodies of his victims with beehives.  He would sell the honey in local markets.   
3. Serial killer  Maizey Bath, called the Rocklyn Witch, kidnapped and murdered babies, rendered their fat into an ointment which she spread over her body.  She often drank their blood or bathed in it.    
4. Serial killer   Hyrum Gieskie killed more than 30 people he believed to be sinners, using biblical methods.  He would kidnap them, try to convert them and if they refused, he executed judgment, either burning them or stoning them, burying the bodies under tons of rock.  He did not participate in Hegels’ activities. 
5. Serial killer Oscar Szevetnik brutally murdered people, pets and livestock with a maul.  He claimed self defense in each and every case.