Haunted Molesbury

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Pages: 17

Author(s): Brian Hensley

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Setting: Modern

Appears in: Halloween Horror 2.

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Summary

RAF Molesbury is but a shell of its former glory. Originally a fighter base during WWII, it was given over to the American Air Force during the Cold War to station long-range photo reconnaissance aircraft. As the Soviet Union fell, the necessity of the base diminished and cut-backs have closed the aircraft wings at the base.

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Synopsis

Molesbury is a modern day US Airforce base not far from the village of Little Kingston. One particular piece of American culture that has been preserved in the midst of this sleepy British locale is Halloween -- the base has a long history of running a "haunted house" in celebration of the occasion. This involves them dressing up a building on-base with all manner of scary props and then using this as the centrepiece of their halloween night party. Airmen volunteer to operate the haunted house or to dress up in scary costumes to populate it.

For the past 12 years the Molesbury Haunted House was set up in an old hangar. That building has recently been declared condemned, forcing the organizers to move the haunting to a new location: an old dormitory building. In moving scary props from the hangar to the dormitory, personnel also inadvertently picked up and relocated some very dusty boxes that had lain forgotten in a back store room. A couple of the items hidden away in these boxes have some kind of weird power -- they could be from a UFO wreckage, or maybe recovered equipment from Nazi experiments. Whatever the origin, these strange devices have now become part of the newly set up Haunted House. Their emanations have a strange effect on the House itself -- making its imaginary horrors much more real. They also affect the volunteers running the House -- instead of merely pushing and prodding visitors in order to scare, they begin to take much more malevolent activities. The longer the exposure to these odd Mythos energies, the more these terrible changes manifest. Until on the night of Halloween itself things begin to go seriously awry.

References

Player Handouts: Nightmare #1 and #2, History of RAF Molesbury, Flower Lady Newspaper Obituary, Website article: Ghostly Sightings at Molesbury, Website article: New Base Haunted House

Locations: Molesbury is in England.

Creatures: Animated props

Tomes and Artifacts: Floating Brass Lantern, Jacob's Ladder.

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