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HALLOWEEN 2004

THE STORY OF THE PENNYWISE CURSE

This year we invite our guests to journey through the former home of Samuel Pennywise.

Years ago, Samuel Pennywise was a well respected member of local society. He was an experienced world traveler who hunted unusual objects to sell to the many traveling circuses at the time. During his travels he became fascinated with the various black rituals that he encountered around the world. Pennywise brought this fascination home with him and began to perform the rituals himself. He quickly let his soul sink into darkness and evil.

Over the next few years many people began to disappear in the area. Many of the town’s folk believed that Pennywise was behind the disappearances, but could never find any evidence to prove so. Then one dark Halloween night, loud screams echoed forth from the Pennywise house. When the police arrived they found the house was a maze of passageways and hidden doors. Strewn about were the oddities Pennywise had collected in his travels and the remains of the victims that suffered from his bizarre rituals.

In the darkest hallway, the police found Pennywise torturing a victim. They shot Pennywise and in his last dying breath, cursed the house and all those who dare to enter.

For years the old abandoned Pennywise house has been waiting. Now it has opened its doors to welcome the brave few who will dare to enter and face their darkest fears.

Come venture through a maze of ghastly horrors and try to escape the Pennywise Curse that has haunted this house for decades.*

HALLOWEEN 2005

THE CURSE CONTINUES…

Legend has it that Samuel Pennywise at one time was married to a woman named Amanda LaLaurie Killian. She is said to be the grand niece of the infamous Madame LaLaurie who tortured and killed dozens of victims in New Orleans in the mid 1800’s. The legend also says that she was even more ruthless and vile than her murderous aunt.

Pennywise is said to have met Amanda on a ship crossing the Atlantic on one of his many expeditions to Africa. Both were intrigued with one another and soon their mutual fascination with black magic and the dark arts led them into a union of evil. She helped Pennywise in his reign of terror, but while he was away searching for new oddities for his collection, she practiced her own vile rituals in the dark depths of their home.

Their union lasted for a number of years until one day when Pennywise returned from his Antarctic expedition weeks early. He found his wife carrying on her own rituals under his roof. Pennywise exploded into a fit of uncontrollable rage and dragged his once beloved wife into a room containing a crate that he brought home with him from his Antarctic expedition. She begged for his mercy, but he laughed as he unlocked the create. He started ringing the feeding bell, unleashing his newest pet, Fluffy. It is said that the screams from that room echoed throughout the dark passageways of the house for days.

As the years went by, Pennywise slipped deeper and deeper into his madness. The ghost of his once beloved wife, Amanda was said to have haunted him endlessly, driving him into further madness. The night that Pennywise was killed, the survivor kept mentioning a ghostly woman who tried to show her the way out of the house, but she was caught by Pennywise.

After Pennywise was killed, the house was locked up for good, until Halloween 2004, when the house was reopened for people to explore. After the many victims of last year, the house was supposed to be locked up for good, but someone found the key.

Now new passageways have been discovered and new horrors unleashed to terrorize those brave enough to enter. The ghost of Samuel Pennywise and his beloved Amanda LaLaurie Killan are no longer resting and are haunting the dark corridors of their home, waiting to act out their revenge on anyone who dares to trespass into their domain.

Worst of all Pennywise’s favorite pet FLUFFY has been let out of his crate and is very hungry!**

HALLOWEEN 2006

JOURNEY TO THE UNDERWORLD

Earlier this year the last living person to have every known Samuel Pennywise, Gregory Hess, passed away at the age of 105. On his death bed he revealed a long hidden secret about the Pennywise house that he was supposed to take with him to the grave. According to Hess, in the years following Pennywise’s beloved wife’s death, Pennywise brought back a young child with him from one of his last expeditions into the mountains of Rumania named Elizabeth. He claimed to have adopted her as his daughter, but how he acquired the child was never certain. As his madness deepened over the death of his wife, he attempted to console himself by spending endless hours teaching his daughter the ways of darkness and terror.

As Elizabeth grew older, he began to allow her to participate in his rituals by allowing her to help home capture and torture victims. Her cruelty grew and grew until it was rivaled only by that of her fathers. Then on her 16^th birthday he finally allowed her to take her own victims to do with as she pleased. As she began to venture on her own she developed a habit of taking couples from their parked cars late at night on the local lover’s lanes. For a trophy she always kept one of the vehicles license plates that she would hang on the walls of her room. This practice would continue until she reached the age of 18. it was then that Pennywise discovered that his little girl’s rage and cruelty had surpassed that of his own and according to Hess, he actually began to fear her himself.

Pennywise knew that he could not kill Elizabeth the way he had his wife, so he decided to imprison her. Deep below his mansion he had secretly been constructing a new labyrinth of tunnels and caves which had only one way in and out. He knew that if he could trap Elizabeth in there he could seal the entrance and he would be rid of her for good.

Pennywise lured her into his trap by releasing one of her young victims and instructing her to take the elevator into the caves because it was the only way out. As the young victim made her escape, Elizabeth burst into the room and in a blind blood rage chased after her escaping prey. When the sounds of the young victim’s screams began to echo out of the tunnel shaft, Pennywise knew Elizabeth had caught up to her prey and immediately raised the elevator and sealed the entrance, forever enclosing Elizabeth in the caves below the manor.

Hess said he never believed that Elizabeth was completely locked up because people kept going missing late at night from their cars near the manor. Each car would have the license plate removed just as Elizabeth used to do many years ago. He always figured that she had found a way out of the caves and would venture out at night to continue her murderous hobby, all the while staying clear of her father. Hess did say that he knew many occasions when Samuel would release his prized pet Fluffy into the tunnels in an attempt to eliminate the one person he feared.

Now it is time to venture downward into the dark underworld of Samuel Pennywise to see if there is any truth behind this new part of the legend. ***

HALLOWEEN 2007

PENNYWISE’S MOTHER

Following the passing of Gregory Hess last year, an unusual discovery was made amongst his few meager possessions. It was a journal with bindings and pages made from the skin of an animal (or human) and inked in what appeared to be blood. This gruesome work turned out to be the personal journal of Samuel Pennywise himself. Within its pages all the stories and legends about the Pennywise curse were confirmed in grisly details, but unlike most tales of horror this one had no ending. It was apparently taken by Hess unbeknownst to its author and long forgotten over the years.

The text explored the early years of Pennywise’s youth. It was in these pages that the root of all the evil was finally revealed, his mother. Samuel began life as an ordinary child. But by the age of 10 he was being taught the ways of darkness and evil. His mother, Deloris Pennywise, was a respected member of local society, but had been widowed upon her only son’s birth. While she kept the outward appearance of grace and elegance, once she was within the walls of her family home, she would fall into fits of insanity. In her downward spiral, she secretly began to dabble in the black arts and voodoo taking her son with her. Samuel learned all that his mother could teach him. By the age of 15, Pennywise realized that his mother’s growing insanity could no longer be kept a secret and out of the community’s watchful eye. In order for him to continue his vile practices unbeknownst to those around him he had to find a way to get his mother out of the picture.

Samuel knew that he could not kill her, as he would anyone else that got in his way, because she was his beloved mother. So he decided to have her committed to a state asylum. He arranged for his mother to be picked up on Halloween night, but she did not go quietly. After an hour long struggle, the officials from the asylum finally shackled a distraught Deloris down and threw her in the cart to be taken to the hospital. She could not believe that her only son would betray her by doing this. However, in the Pennywise family there is no time for despair, only revenge. As her despair turned to anger, the wind began to howl around the caged cart silenced only to be replaced by chants from a forgotten dark language. As the chanting stopped she stared at her son through the bars of the cage and vowed that she would have her revenge against Samuel and all who get in her way. Deloris was then carted off never to be seen again. This year she comes home…****

HALLOWEEN 2008

THE END OF THE CURSE?

The Haunted Tomb fell silent…the evil sprits and Fluffy was fulfilled and no one would have to worry again! Or will they?*****

HALLOWEEN 2009

A NEW BEGINNING…FLUFFY RETURNS!

In 2008 the Pennywise House was unusually quiet at Halloween; actually it was as though it was not there at all. Many people believed that in 2007 the evil sprit of Samuel Pennywise and the other inhabitants of the house finally were laid to rest. However, strange sightings around the property late at night may be a sign that something is once again happening at the Pennywise estate. Many people have reported seeing a white and black furry (some say Fluffy) creature in Borden Park late at night trying to find its way back into the old run down home.

Has Pennywise and Fluffy come home? Or more importantly, did they ever leave? No one really knows for sure. The legends that surround the home claim that there are dozens of unexplored hidden chambers and miles of secret tunnels under the house that still contain many oddities and creatures Samuel collected during his travels. So come and join us once again as we open the doors of the Pennywise house for those brave enough to explore its many passageways. You never know what may find you…I mean what you may find. Just remember, when the bell rings…IT’S FEEDING TIME!!! ******

Pennywise feeding his favorite pet Fluffy!

(Pennywise has decided that he did not want a picture of Fluffy on the internet)