The Story

Halloween 2004

The Story of The Pennywise Curse:

This year we invite our guest 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 of the time. During his travels he became fascinated with the various black magic rituals that he encountered around the world. Pennywise brought this fascination home with him and he began to perform the rituals himself, quickly allowing his soul to sink into evil and darkness.

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, Pennywise cursed the house and all those who dare to enter.

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

Come and 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 LaLaurie Killian 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 then 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, to find 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 expedition. She begged for his mercy, but Pennywise laughed and unlocked the crate, unleashing his newest pet, Fluffy. Pennywise cursed her for her actions and left her to her fate, locking her alone in the room with Fluffy. It is said that the screams from that room echoed through 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 LaLaurie Killian was said to have haunted him endlessly, driving him into further madness. The night that Pennywise was killed, the one survivor kept mentioning a ghostly woman who tried to show her a way out of the house, but Pennywise caught her as she tried to escape.

After Pennywise was killed, the house was locked up for good, that is until Halloween 2004, when the house was opened for people to explore. After last year, the Pennywise 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 Killian 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 its crate and is very hungry!!!**

Halloween 2006

Journey to the Underworld

Earlier this year the last living person to have ever 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 his grave. According to Hess, in the years following the death of his beloved wife Amanda LaLaurie Killian, 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 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 new child the ways of darkness and terror.

As the child grew older he began to allow her to participate in his rituals by allowing her to help him capture and torture victims. Her cruelty grew and grew until it was rivaled only by that of her fathers. Then on her sixteenth 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 local lovers 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 eighteen. It was then that Samuel 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 victims screams began to echo out of the tunnel shaft, Samuel knew Elizabeth has 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 form 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 of many occasions when Samuel would release his prized pet Fluffy into the tunnels in an attempt 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

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 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 ten 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 safely 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, but by the age of fifteen, 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 a 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 to her. 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 house. Her cries of resistance coming from the inside of 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...