Saturday, October 4, 2014

The Haunting of Hellgate Manor

Synopsis: Set in the late-'60s, early-'70s. A paranormal investigator and his team spend a night of terror in England's most haunted and accursed mansion. 

Maze back story: Highgate Hall was built in the 16th century by Lord Ambrose Highgate for his bride Lucretia. They lived happily together, until Lucretia fell gravely ill. Lord Highgate tried in vain to cure his wife, hiring every physician that money can buy, but at no avail. Eventually Lucretia died. The devastated Lord Highgate was desperate to bring his beloved back from the grave, so he dabbled in dark spells and arcane rituals that would promised to bring Lucretia back life in exchange for a living soul. The attempt was successful, but something was wrong with her, she was not the same woman that he new but something hallow. This became the first series of tragedies, murders, suicides, and other unspeakable acts of evil. Catherine gave birth to a deformed child during the pelage of 1609. In 1796, Elizabeth was murdered on the eve of her wedding by her lover for her money. The biggest death occurred in 1910, when the Highgates were hosting a dinner party with friends and associates. Vincent became possessed and murdered his family, party guests and the servants. Devastated of the atrocities he had committed, Vincent committed suicide. Since then, tortured souls of the Highgates and their victims haunt the ground of the halls for all eternity. The locals now called this cursed place Hellgate Manor. OMay 11th 1969, Professor Victor Graves and his team of psychics and paranormal investigators explore the accursed grounds of Highgate Manor. By the 13th, they were never seen again.


Facade: A gothic victorian manor house

 Living Room/Foyer (Transitional)
The appearance of the mansion's foyer is condemned and abandoned, there's dust gathering on the furniture, the portraits are faded because of age, and the room smells like rotted wood.

Grand Staircase
On the staircase, the ghost of young woman can be seen gliding up and down the stairs or standing midway. Without warning, another ghostly enity pops out of nowhere. 

 Seance
Graves and group of clairvoyants are gathered around a table performing a seance. The room is set up with a variety of Graves' ghost hunting equipment (recorders, cameras, and an EMF reader). The head medium is apparently under a trance where her eyes are revealed to be pale and white and lashes out on the guests. Whenever the reader rapidly beeps, the camera flashes in like a strobe light and the ghost of Lord Highgate emerges from hidden door, frightening the guests.

Library/Private Study
The guest enter the library, now Professor Graves' private study and find him in a state of panic, Graves begs you to run away. All his equipment and machinery are going haywire the lights of the room start to flicker, as paper and books are flying on the ceiling. The ghost of Elizabeth emerges from a trapdoor tries to attack the quest with a cleaver.

Portrait Hallway
The guest have to pass through a hallway with the portraits of the Highgate family ancestors. Some of them will change right before guests eyes. At the end of the hallway stands the ghost of Lord Highgate, once agian. He vanishes, but reapers right in front of the guests. 

Nursery
The bedroom/playroom is adorned with porcelain dolls and old fashion wind-up toys. Child like giggles can be heard within the room. Her rose-pink canopy bed appears to be empty, but when wind-up toys move by themselves and a music box plays "O Willow Waly," the ghost of Catherine cradles her deformed baby in a rocking chair as ghostly children pop out in darken corners. 

 Dressing room
In a woman's bedroom, a group of ghost women try to seduce the guest, obviously succubi-like ghosts. As you enter the room, you see a the still-twitching corpse of their last victim hanging by the neck of a noose. 

 Conservatory
A possessed clairvoyant (similar to Eleanor's character in The Haunting) is in a state of trance and is dancing aimlessly in the conservatory. However, real scare comes when an angelic statue in the conservatory comes to life and attacks the guests. 

Celler
A fairly typical looking basment with a variety of crates and furniture draped in linen sheets. Strangely enough there are also mannequins in the room that are also covered in sheets. A couple of scareactors are hidden among the mannequins wearing sheets so they could blend in with the mannequins, as to scare the guest as they pass by. Another scareactor will pop up from behind one of the crates or underneath the stairs. 



 Hidden passage/Catacombs
The guest enter a hidden doorway and into
 a narrow hallway lined the with skulls and carcasses.. Some of will attack the guests behind boo-holes.


 Dungeon or Torture Chamber
The hidden passage leads to torture chamber where Lord Ambrose Hellgate reappears sporting an executioner's hood, torturing another investigator on a rack.



Hellgate Cemetery
Snow is falling on the tombs, ghouls and zombies pop out of random places in the cemetery (via tombs, crypts, etc.). The ghost of Lady Hellgate wanders the cemetery crying tears of blood. 


The Crypt
. After the cemetery, guests will enter a crypt where we see Elizabeth's body being laid to rest.  As you pass by, two other Angels of Death attack from an adjacent crypt.

Characters:
Ghosts - Deathly pale specters with hollow eyes and Victorian era clothing.
Lord Vincent Highgate - A physically imposing figure dressed in British aristocratic clothing, so think of Barnabus Colins from Dark Shadows.
Lady Elizabeth Highgate - A Ghostly woman, in an 18th century wedding gown but with an emaciated appearence. 
Lord Ambrose Highgate- A ghastly man in cloaked shroud. 

The Possessed - Human victims with dead-white eyes.
Professor Victor Graves - A professor with a conservative 1960s' style attire. Tattered and in a state of delirium due to the hauntings.
Investigation Team - The human Victims of Hellgate Manor. 
Angels of Death- Angelic statues depicting as weeping, therefore the cover the face. When they show their face, it's revealed to be monsterously demonic. Based on the ones from Doctor Who

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