Tales To Tell In The Dark

Mordecai

Now, surely you've heard of the term 'take a chill pill,' right? It was originally based on a drug whose major sideeffect is death. This was used as an insult or to tell someone to go kill themselves. This was a popular
hallucinogen in the 1600s. It is a slang term for the Bvbpasta drug HK-447. There weren't many drugs easily
available back then so this was the best choice. This drug is notoriously known for its side effects, some of the
biggest being death and very strange hallucinations, some of which have been described as horrifying; some haveeven dared to call them evil. There have been some recorded cases of suicide after taking the drug and other caseshave been sent to a mental hospital for physiological trauma. Another side effect is a very serious addiction. This means after even a couple hits your body could become dependent on the drug.

The hallucinations start out fun and crazy. There were also no rehab centers in the 1600s, which is why it hadsuch an appeal and a high rate of addiction, but the more this drug is used, the more dark and twisted it becomes.

The horrific hallucinations combined with the addiction can cause very severe physiological trauma and sufferinguntil you eventually die. With no rehab centers back then, there were many suicides as a result of never being able to escape the drug.

One of the victims was my lost uncle Mordecai. The reason I called him my uncle Mordecai is because he is actually one of my lost relatives. Thanks to the internet, I was able to trace my heritage back to the 1600s where I found the caption 'Mordecai the murderer.' It sent me to a blank page with a download link. Above the download link there were a few sentences written in bold and all caps: 'Please leave now. Erase all data from this site. There is no way to delete this. Don't make my mistake. He will stop anyone who knows his plan at all costs. Please believe me, some things are better kept a secret.' I just assumed this was trying to scare me as a stupid joke or maybe to set the mood for the story. To this day, I still regret clicking that download button. Maybe, just maybe, I could've saved my life and the lives of my friends and family.

I opened the file and it showed some disturbing pictures, several news clippings, and some stories. I found out Mordecai was heavily addicted to the HK-447 and was a victim of the hallucinations. Before he died, some of his friends had said that the hallucinations-or as he called them, "visions"-spoke to him and told him secrets and how they would save him. No one knows what the secrets are or what he was supposed to be saved from.

After two months of heavily taking HK-447, he started to kidnap children whose ages ranged from newborns to 11.

Witnesses said they saw him whispering in the children's ears before he took them but could never hear clearly what he was saying. As these incidents went on, the word spread to protect your child and to lock your doors and windows in the local area. This is when he started to get more violent. Anyone who tried to protect their child was brutally killed with what appeared to be a large kitchen knife. Some victims were stabbed in the chest and ripped open exposing their organs. Others he would beat senseless until they were dead or knocked out, causing severe head and brain injuries. He would break through windows and sometimes he would hide in their house and watch them for days at a time before he took the children. He also developed a severe hatred for his friends and family.

He even killed his mother and father and took the life of his own brother. After further investigation I found out he quit using HK-447 a year or so after the incidents started.

This went on for many years until his death. He had been found in a small forest with words carved into his chest: 'This isn't the end.' They also found a little girl crying next to him. She said he kept telling her, 'Don't worry, young one. I have been told the secrets. Secrets you'll never understand. But I do. I know what they mean and they'll save me. And I can save you, too.' After they searched his house, they found writings all over the walls, furniture, floors, and much more, presumably written in blood. They all said, 'The secrets. They'll save me. I can save them, too.' They also found writing on a piece of paper 'I've seen them. I've seen the secrets. No one else will understand them. They're too young to understand why. Their minds are so young. Not yet corrupted by the horrifying reality of life and the pain that comes with it. I've been saved and I can save them too. And I won't let anything stand in my way!'