Serendipity | Colby Brock

4|Part 2

Chapter 4
Part two

"Yeah didn't you say something about serial killers coming here?" Colby turned to me, he had a black and white striped shirt one, which was slightly unbuttoned.

"Yeah um there was a few, Anthony Santo was one, he was born in 1894 in Italy, and when he was only 14, he confessed to the murders of both his 2 cousins and another girl in a span of three months. He said that he lured his cousins into the woods and killed them both with large rocks and a knife. He also killed the girl with a stone too. Her name was Louise Staula, and she was only 6." I saw the boys faces drop, just as mine did when I read it.

"He stated that he went into "mad-spells" where he couldn't control his actions or anger. He was diagnosed with hallucinations and was eventually sent to Taunton, where he supposedly spent the rest of his life."

"So he really was a bad person." Corey was grabbed a bottle of water from his backpack. "Yeah he was, some people have reported hearing stones clap together above them. Apparently he is a very talkative spirit." Sam and Colby shared a look.

"Do you think he'll talk to us?" Sam asked me. "It's possible." We exited the room, and continued to walk down the hallway. The rooms were all identical.

There was exactly 33 on each side of both hallways, together making it 66 rooms on each side.

"Jane Toppan was another serial killer. She was born with the name Honora Kelley in 1854. Only a few years after her mother's death, her father took her and her sister Delia to the Boston Female Asylum, never to see them again. Honora was eventually placed as an indentured servant in the home of Mrs. Ann C. Toppan, and Honora later took her last name.

"In 1885, Toppan began to train as a nurse at Cambridge, where she truly started to show psychopathic tendencies. She took a liking to very elderly and frail patients, using them as guinea pigs in sick experiments with morphine and atropine, altering their prescriptions to see what it would do to their nervous systems. She spent a lot of alone time with these patients, making fake charts and medicating them to drift in and out of consciousness, even getting into bed with them." I cleared my throat uncomfortably.

"She stated she liked to see the inner workings of their souls and derived sexual thrill from her patients being so close to death. After Toppan began her career as a private nurse, her poisoning spree started. She killed her landlord, foster sister, and four elderly members of the Davis family, who she nursed for. When Minnie Davis was found dead, a toxicology report was ordered, and Toppan was eventually arrested for murder. After her trial, she confessed to her lawyer that she had killed about 31 people and wanted the jury to find her sane so she could have a chance at being released. Eventually, she was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was committed for life in one of Massachusetts haunted hospitals, Taunton State."

Jake and Corey shared a look that essentially said "what the actual fuck"

"To really focus on her sickness, she was quoted saying her ambitions were "to have killed more people- helpless people- than any other man or woman who has ever lived." Her alcoholic and abusive father, was rumored to have sewn his own eyelids shut in a bout of supposed insanity. It's honestly no surprise that Jane, or Honora, ended up following the path she did"

"Damn, you really know a lot about this place don't you?" Colby laughed nervously. "Yeah I guess. It's honestly really disgusting, the kinds of things they did here." I got chills just thinking about it.

"Now, into your area of expertise, Rumors have spread stating that while the original hospital was in operation, a notorious Satanic cult in the area operated inside it. Its said that they would take patients into the basement to perform dark rituals and even human sacrifices." I looked at Sam who was already looking at me with wide eyes.

"Even today, there are still strange and unexplained markings on the walls of the basements, and while the hospital was still open, staff would attempt to go downstairs into the basement area only to be stopped by a force once their foot reached the bottom step."

"I guess that means we're going in the basement brothers!" Sam and Colby said at the same time with a sense of nervous enthusiasm.

Oh god