#case files unearthed: the legendary truth

[sharkodude]

“A Dance with a Devil”

[psiknight49]

While looking up information for Case Files Unearthed on the HHN Wiki, I’ve found an Easter Egg. In one of Tim Foyle’s sticky note. It states that Rosie, the girl who got posses by the Morphan vessel. Was sent to an Orphanage up in the Midwest so no one suspect the crime.

Do you know what state is a part of the midwest? Ohio. Which means Rosie could have been sent to the Good Harvest Orphanage. Which is in Carey, Ohio. 

Pictures were from the HHN Wiki:

Case Files Unearthed: Legendary Truth

Orfanage: Ashes to Ashes

[bound-books-and-glowing-clouds]

So.. I realize something. I have a type for the stories I get interested in Because there are two fucking stories I've gotten into that can be described as "information seeker gets involved in supernatural means, partially through a ghost hunting group, uncovers corruption in the place that he works, realizes that the horrors have categories and he belongs to one, accidentally releases all the horrors, and documents the stories through recordings"

[graceandtheidiotsquad]

Just-Just a thought-

So I got back from HHN and-I FINALLY SAW BORIS SHUSTER’S OFFICE!!!/pos

But of course, I couldn’t see anything of my beloved detective without my brain going into creative overdrive so-so hear me out-

Reflections of Fear or just HHN18-the style of that year-But it’s centered around BORIS. 

Like-like-the themes of all the houses of that year being connected by one central story, but in a cinematic parallel it’s the OPPOSITE of Dr. Agana-Shuster is her nemesis, her Antithesis-similar in pursuit of knowledge and curiosity, but opposite and differing ideals. Perhaps it could expand on the stories we saw in case files-or even NEW stories the legendary truth have been involved in-we could FINALLY get answers as to why his name disappeared from the website, what HAPPENED to him-or perhaps a main house culminating in either his disappearance, or answers what exactly happened the night of his appointment at dr. Agana’s office-maybe even the direct aftermath of Tim Foil’s little experiment at the end of Casefiles if we’re lucky. All I know is that i am CRAVING a lore heavy year and I ADORE the legendary truth-I would participate in any game or arg they set up in a HEARTBEAT and I would LOVE to see a year where this part of the lore finally gets the spotlight-Hell we know Boris is technically CONSIDERED an Icon now-this has POTENTIAL!

[tailsrevane]

[theme park review] halloween horror nights 30 (2021)

this year’s halloween horror nights will be my third! it’s turned into a pretty awesome tradition for me and one of my partners. we went to halloween horror nights 29 in 2019 on our first date. 2020’s was, of course, canceled due to the early stages of the covid-19 pandemic when the powers that be were pretending to actually try to prevent its spread. but when halloween horror nights returned to universal the following year, so did we!

our second year we were joined by her husband and my fiancx. my fiancx wasn’t feeling up for many of the haunted houses, and is a bit of a rollercoaster fiend (whereas i’m a huge rollercoaster wuss), so ve rode hollywood rip ride rockit whilst we were having our spooky times. ve ended up joining us for one of the haunted houses later, and for our apparently obligatory non-horror nights activity that year, men in black: alien attack.

really the biggest thing alien attack is missing is a truly pandering gift shop? like, you do absolutely exit through the gift shop, don’t get me wrong. but i wasn’t the slightest bit tempted to buy anything on offer there, and theme park gift shops are definitely a weakness of mine.

i fucking love the queue. it’s probably my favorite part of the ride? you just walk through mib headquarters, and it fucking rules. the ride itself is based on the shooting gallery j faces in his extended job interview in the movie. this makes perfect sense because that’s probably the most theme parky thing in the movie other than the ltd post-little red button depending on what kind of ride they wanted to go for, and i love dark rides so i’m glad this is what they went with. plus the story of the ride is that you’re an mib trainee and i love dorky shit like that.

shortly after the beginning of the ride an alien prison ship crashes in new york! and you get sent immediately into battle with your weapons switched from training mode to full-power mode! the animatronics in this portion of the ride are just fantastic. i had a blast (pun fully intended, though i think i had the lowest score in our ride vehicle). anyway, moving on to our regularly-scheduled spookiness.

since halloween horror nights was celebrating the big 3-0, they largely used the scarezones to pay tribute to past years’ horror nights. i didn’t have context for any of these, obviously, but i thought the overall concept was pretty rad!

there were only two scarezones that i really spent any time in that year or that left a lasting impression. one was seek and destroy, which was located right outside of the tribute store and was this really cool dystopian robot alien invasion thing where there are just these robotic voices demanding that you submit and like yeah wow i wonder if i liked that or not. the other one i remember pretty clearly was gorewood forest, where tree people capture and sacrifice humans. the costumes and sets here were just totally lit, and the queen of the tree people was just super dommy so yeah obviously i was so totally into that?

the haunting of hill house was a pretty easy skip because none of us have seen the netflix show it was based on and it was going to have long lines all night. also an easy skip was hhn icons: captured because it was based on the like literally 30 years worth of halloween horror night lore and again this was our second halloween horror nights so obviously i probably wasn’t gonna get much out of that. i think we also skipped revenge of the tooth fairy because it just didn’t sound that interesting to me. i think we also missed case files unearthed: legendary truth, which in retrospect i’m actually a bit sad about! but i’ve also gotten way more into detective/mystery type stuff in the year since, so it makes sense that i wasn’t nearly as interested in that one at the time.

puppet theatre: captive audience was one of the original concept haunted houses i was super looking forward to, but honestly it was kinda because i was expecting a whole lot more bondage imagery considering the title and the concept being people being turned into puppets? i mean, don’t get me wrong, it was still a pretty great haunted house–all the original concept ones usually are–i’m just whining.

we also checked out welcome to scarey: horror in the heartland, which felt kinda obligatory given that both me and my partner grew up in the midwest. in this one a small town in ohio is just absolutely overrun with all kinds of monsters. there’s a bunch of really cool settings like a house, a school, a local news station, and a butcher’s shop. they did a fantastic job of combining quaint small town settings with a bunch of different kinds of horror.

but pretty easily my favorite of the original concept haunted houses that second year was the wicked growth: realm of the pumpkin. i just really, really like pumpkins and i wish pumpkin monsters were more of a common thing around halloween because that would just kinda make sense right? and anyway as soon as i saw the entrance that was just fucking covered in pumpkins including like a literal arch of pumpkins, i knew i was probably gonna like this one. it did a really great job taking more traditionally “spooky” halloween imagery and making it genuinely scary. just fantastic stuff.

the licensed houses seriously kicked ass that year, though. i mean, okay, texas chain saw massacre is for sure not one of my favorite horror movies and i mostly did it because i was hoping there’d be a ton of bondage imagery since there is in the movies (look i have a bit of a one-track mind, i’m not sorry), but even though it didn’t really have any of that i could still at least appreciate what a good job they did recreating the creepy atmosphere of the movies even if it wasn’t super my cup of tea.

the other two, though… i wasn’t actually super excited for the beetlejuice house? like, i love the movie, it’s definitely one of my favorite tim burton movies, but i just didn’t know how well it would translate into a haunted house? but just… wow, guys, they knocked this one out of the park. like, i wouldn’t say it was scary, exactly, but i was just so damn impressed by how well they brought the movie to life that it kind of didn’t matter? it ended up leaving such an impression on me that i literally ended up suggesting we watch the movie when we got back in for the evening, and we ended up doing just that.

but by far my favorite haunted house from either of the two haunted horror nights i’ve been to so far was universal monsters: the bride of frankenstein lives. i liked it so much i bought a dorky souvenir t-shirt of it to show my loyalty. it was by far the least scary of any of the haunted houses we went to either year, but that just simply didn’t matter.

first of all, this haunted house was actually a direct sequel to the movie bride of frankenstein??? and just… i kind of super want someone to make that movie now???

the story is that after the destruction of the castle the anguished bride realized she actually loved frankenstein’s monster after all. i rather prefer my headcanon that she went off and found countess zaleska from dracula’s daughter and they lived gayly ever after, but in this version we see her recreating dr. frankenstein’s work while wearing his goggles and lab coat and uh yeah, that’ll also work! and she ends up having to capture the brides of dracula as part of her plan to save her monster, and it’s strongly implied that she’s giving them human victims so she can harvest their blood after they feed (at one point someone trapped inside a box yells for help), and just this is metal as fuck, y’all.

and it ends in triumph for the bride and her monster, as she dramatically throws the switch while fighting off dracula’s brides. and it’s just. so. fucking. good.

seriously, make this into a movie right now. and have it be exactly as throwback and amazing as this haunted house was. i was totally blown away. and yeah it was 0% scary, but it was still easily the best haunted house i’ve seen so far. i genuinely hope something tops it in the future, but right now it’s kind of hard to imagine!

[wizard101exe]

"I gotta hide the totems someplace no one will find them! I know just the place!"

[potsnpens]

"Boris Shuster, private detective.... is the author to these novels?"

Prints available at https://etsy.me/3FVYZC3

[glassvines]

Halloween Horror Nights 2021

[l8rhader]

START OF THE RUN

(You'll see this updated periodically)

Zones

Lights Camera Hacktion Eddie’s Revenge

30 Years, 30 Fears

Crypt TV

Seek And Destroy

Gorewood Forest

Houses

Netflix The Haunting of Hill House

Puppet Theatre: Captive Audience

HHN Icons: Captured

Case Files Unearthed: Legendary Truth

Wicked Growth: Realm Of The Pumpkin

Beetlejuice

Welcome to S-Carey: Horror In The Heartland

Universal Monsters: Bride of Frankenstein Lives

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Revenge of the Toothfairy

Texas Chainsaw Massacre is so low on the list because there is a lot of dead animals. A lot. Like, taxidermied and props-made but it's a lot. And there's a big one that you almost trip over. I really wanted to like it.

[magicalserendipity]

AND THAT’S IT! SAYING GOODBYE TO #HHN30!!!!!!! It’s so hard saying goodbye to something you love so much.. Tonight is my last night dancing with the most handsome devils and the baddest witches! IT HAS BEEN AN INCREDIBLE SEASON AND I AM SO SAD TO BE LEAVING MY FAVORITE SPOOKS IN THE FOG @horrornightsorl!!!!!!!!!!!!! I literally teared up in ICONS saying bye to all my icons and faves. So many fun memories were made here with so many beautiful and amazing people. My heart is FULL!!!! My definitive list of my top house this year: 🎃The Wicked Growth Realm of The Pumpkin ❤️‍🔥 HHN ICONS: Captured 🧛🏽 Case Files Unearthed: Legendary Truth I can’t wait to be back again next year and do #HHN31! I know it’s going to be bigger and more insane! I can just FEEL IT!!!! Now I don’t have to come back to Orlando every other weekend and I’m happy to finally ~rest~ for a bit.. Hahahaha! Till’ next time, Horror Nights! 🥺🖤✨🥺🖤✨🥺🖤✨🥺🖤✨ (at Halloween Horror Nights - Universal Orlando) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVJ3sPVgYkH/?utm_medium=tumblr

[ionlycareabouthhn]

Every HHN House I Have Ever Done: Ranked

Yes, I’m a lunatic. This list grows larger and larger each year. It’s always interesting to see how things shake out....apparently I hit 101 houses this year. Woo! Here goes nothing....

1.      The Shining

2.      Halloween

3.      From Dusk Till Dawn

4.      Silent Hill

5.      Catacombs

6.      25 Years of Monsters and Mayhem

7.      Saws n’ Steam

8.      Nevermore: The Madness of Poe

9.      Poltergeist

10.  Nightingales: Blood Prey

11.  Silver Screams

12.  Universal Monsters

13.  Dead Waters

14.  Gothic

15.  Carnival Graveyard

16.  Slaughter Sinema

17.  House of 1000 Corpses

18.  Krampus

19.  Hive

20.  Dollhouse of the Damned

21.  Dracula: Legacy in Blood

22.  Puppet Theatre: Captive Audience

23.  Yeti Terror of the Yukon

24.  Wicked Growth: Realm of the Pumpkin

25.  Beetlejuice

26.  Body Collectors: Recollections

27.  Ghostbusters

28.  Graveyard Games

29.  HHN Icons: Captured

30.  Walking Dead: No Safe Haven

31.  Evil Dead

32.  Scarecrow: The Reaping

33.  Seeds of Extinction

34.  The Bride of Frankenstein Lives

35.  Case Files: Unearthed

36.  Insidious

37.  Cabin in the Woods

38.  Revenge of the Tooth Fairy

39.  American Horror Story vol. 2

40.  American Horror Story

41.  Texas Chainsaw Massacre (16)

42.  Alice Cooper: Welcome to my Nightmare

43.  Havoc: Dogs of War

44.  Winters Night

45.  Tomb of the Ancients

46.  Dead End

47.  Leave it to Cleaver

48.  Frankenstein: Creation of the Damned

49.  The In-Between

50.  Stranger Things

51.  Trick r Treat

52.  The Haunting of Hill House

53.  Nightingales: Blood Pit

54.  Lunatics Playground

55.  Freddy vs Jason

56.  Us

57.  Giggles and Gore

58.  Ghost Town

59.  Havoc: Derailed

60.  House of Horrors

61.  Roanoke: Cannibal Colony

62.  Depths of Fear

63.  Stranger Things 2

64.  Scary Tales: Deadly Ever After

65.  The Exorcist

66.  La Llorona

67.  Welcome to Scarey: Horror in the Heartland

68.  Killer Klowns

69.  Horrors of Blumhouse

70.  Halloween II: Hell Comes to Haddonfield

71.  The Orfanage

72.  Saw (17)

73.  Dead Exposure: Patient Zero

74.  Run

75.  Zombiegeddon

76.  The Thing

77.  Legendary Truth: Wyandot Estate

78.  The Forsaken

79.  Texas Chainsaw Massacre (21)

80.  The Walking Dead: End of the Line

81.  American Werewolf

82.  Halloween 4

83.  Dracula Untold

84.  Alien vs Predator

85.  The Fallen

86.  The Walking Dead 5(2016)

87.  The Walking Dead: Living and the Dead

88.  Penn and Teller: New’ked Vegas

89.  Blumhouse 2

90.  Asylum in Wonderland

91.  HR Bloodengutz

92.  Ash vs. the Evil Dead

93.  After Life: Death’s Vengeance

94.  Walking Dead: Dead Inside

95.  Psychoscareapy: Echoes of the Past

96.  The Hallow’d Past

97.  The Purge

98.  Resident Evil

99.  The Wolfman

100.  Hades: Gates of Ruin

101.  Saw (09)

There it is. I said what I said.

[bound-books-and-glowing-clouds]

i KNEW there was something off about conjure the dark. i just couldnt place it. so here's pictures from conjure the dark

and at first i thought these runes were the ones that had to do with this year's event but.. then i was looking through case files unearthed and

Some of these symbols have to do with the Legions of Horror. Conjure the Dark has to do with the Legions of Horror

[graceandtheidiotsquad]

ITS HHN SEASON BABYYYYY!!!

*Holding Boris Shuster* EVERYONE UNFOLLOW ME NOW THIS MAN AND HIS CRAZY ASS ADVENTURES ARE ALL IM GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT FOR A FEW MONTHS!

[disneyfirsttimer]

from WDW News Today

[wizard101exe]

I was going to do just the icons but I got (very easily) convinced to do one for Mister Shuster as well