After the toned-down year that was
Halloween Horror Nights XI, Universal
decided to kick it back up. Step one was
to create an icon that both scared and
delivered, like always, a unique
atmosphere to the event - thus, the
Caretaker was born. His featured house
was "Scream House," in which you would
enter the home of Albert Caine and
discover the sick mutilation that lived
within the corridors of his home. Before
the Caretaker was chosen as the official
mascot, Universal was considering
another icon commonly known as Cindy.
Details on that character can be found
in our "Pre-Fear: Halloween Horror
Nights XII" article.
Dr. Albert Caine was once a
respected surgeon who later in life
became the Caretaker of the Shady Oaks
Cemetery. As well as all of the
standard practices that a Caretaker
employed, Caine and his family used
the deceased as guinea pigs in
unnatural and bizarre experiments,
even going so far as to use the
corpses as playthings in elaborate
funeral parlor parties.
The terrible sight was seen by two
teenagers who decided to take a walk
through the cemetery telling ghost
stories. Walking past the gravestones
and various monuments they heard music
carried on the wind. Following the
sound they came across the Shady Oaks
Cemetery which is where they witnessed
the Caine family dancing with the
rotted remains of decaying corpses.
Word of the grisly goings-on quickly
spread and the Police launched a
massive investigation but before it
could be completed an angry mob
comprised of the relatives of the
deceased used in the Caretaker's
experiments took matters into their
own hands. Setting fire to the whole
area they destroying the funeral
parlor and the Caine Home, with the
entire family inside. After the policy
investigation had been completed they
discovered that the Caretaker and his
family had desecrated more than two
thousand graves. They found an
intricate series of tunnels underneath
the ground that ran for miles and
miles.
Ten years later and the Shady Oaks
Cemetery has been off limits for all
comers until now. Although neither the
body of The Caretaker or any of his
demented family were discovered there
is a legend that the strange noises
that emanate from the decaying ruins
are somehow connected to the horrors
of it's past. Could the Albert Caine
and his family have escaped that fire?
As the Shady Oaks Cemetery is reopened
an intrepid research team will enter
to discover it's terrible secrets.
You, the guests of Halloween Horror
Nights: Islands Of Fear, have been
volunteered as members of that team.
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