In September 2019, various independent paranormal investigators felt compelled to contact each other following a series of nightmares they shared in common. In these nightmares, the investigators all reported having heard each other’s names whispered, hideous creatures running amok through the hallways of a hospital, and a concrete sign bearing the name THE BRACKEN-HART INSTITUTE FOR THE CRIMINALLY INSANE being consumed in flames. When they awoke, drenched in sweat, the investigators shared the phrase “They call us Legion… for we are many…” falling from their lips.
Within days, The BRACKEN-HART INSTITUTE PARANORMAL SOCIETY, (B.H.I.P.S. for short), was established. Investigations revealed that following the end of World War II, the U.S. military didn’t want the Fuhrer’s powerful brain trust to be a wasted resource. As such, many prominent scientists were pardoned for the crimes they had committed under the Nazi regime and were brought to the U.S. to assist in various projects.
Two such scientists, Doctors Hans Rudi Bracken, a brilliant psychologist, and Lena Hart, a talented and ruthless biologist, were tasked with creating super soldiers to fight in the coming Cold War.
Using their respective talents to both encourage and harness the potentiality present in psychotic super strong animals and humans, the two doctors needed a facility where they could continue their research without the hindrance of ethical oversight. As such, The Bracken-Hart Institute for the Criminally Insane was established in the often-overlooked Portland neighborhood of Louisville, KY.
The Institute staff scoured the streets around the grounds for mentally handicapped vagrants to use as “host bodies” for Dr. Hart’s creations that she called “Fleshlumpkins”. Dr. Bracken would then utilize various means, up to and including torture, in an attempt to control the test subjects. Resultant of all this freely available “raw material”, the two doctor’s work progressed with great speed and varying levels of success. Consequently, distracted by their hubris and the all-consuming nature of the work itself, the two doctors failed to notice the increasing amount of “patients” that were slipping out of the facility.
One escapee was taken into local police custody, muttering to herself about horrendous experiments and bodies being burned in the furnaces in the basement of the hospital. Dismissed as another crazy person, only one officer chose to scope out Bracken-Hart. The next morning, his body was found hung, drawn, quartered, and on display as a warning at the gates to the Hospital complex.
This raised the ire of several law enforcement agencies and, thus, they gathered to investigate. However, upon their arrival at the hospital grounds, they were greeted with a burned-out husk of a building. Dr. Bracken and Dr. Hart were conspicuously missing, along with all the hospital’s patients and staff.
All evidence of these events had been buried, tapes erased, and the Bracken-Hart Institute Paranormal Society had great difficulty finding anything concrete. However, what little documentation they could find of the law enforcement investigations revealed that several officers on the scene reported hearing disembodied whispers and screams. One police officer had to be removed in an ambulance when, without warning, he fell to the ground and began stuffing his mouth full of ashes. As his fellow officers rushed to his aid, he was heard saying the word “Legion” repeatedly as the charred carbon climbed the cracks between his teeth. Still… questions remain…
What could be causing the sensations the law enforcement officers reported? What became of the staff and patients that seemingly vanished out of existence? Just how far did Doctors Bracken and Hart go in their horrific pursuits, and where are they now? What awful force pulled the strings to set all of these atrocities in motion?
The Bracken-Hart Institute Paranormal Society invites you to investigate the grounds as they try to answer these questions. Will you find out why FEAR IS ONLY THE BEGINNING?
