The
Pig Woman.
Somewhere in the US state of
Wisconsin, is the last remains of a hospital built in the mid to late eighteen
hundreds. It was a successful hospital and even donated some of its time to
create new cures for illnesses that pop up now and then. But for some reason
just before the Great Depression, it was closed and then later fell apart due
to weather and nature. Nobody knows why it was immediately shut down. Some say
that it was due to money problems. While others say that there was an outbreak
of something, and it had to be put under quarantine. It remained a mystery for
centuries. Until a group of urban explorers discover some documents and shed a
light on the real reasons.
In 1933, a woman was brought
into the hospital after developing a strange new illness. The doctors went into
overtime trying to find a cure for her. But no matter what they did, the woman
grew worse and worse. It looked like that she would never be cured. Until one
of the doctors discovered something. While reading a book on mystical healing,
he read about a ritual that involves making a drink out of wild herbs, water
from a nearby stream, and a quarter pint of blood from an animal that had been
part of a sacrifice. This potion would cure the drinker of any illness known or
unknown. The doctor brought this idea to the other doctors and (as was
suspected) he was laughed at. But the doctor refused to give in and set about
to re-create the potion himself. He managed to locate some of the wild herbs in
the nearby woods and the rest of them he brought from local apothecaries. He
then went and collected water from a nearby stream and purchased some pigs
blood from a slaughterhouse. Then alone in his study, the doctor begins to mix
the ingredients together and soon created the potion.
He quickly yet secretly
visited the ill woman and told her that he had found a cure for her illness and
sated that she must drink the potion in one go. Wanting to be cured of her long-term
illness, the woman took the potion and drank it all. While the doctor performed
some sort of chanting (this was also part of the ritual). And at first, all was
fine. Over the next few days the woman showed signs that her illness was fading
away and that she was almost cured. The doctor was over joyed with this and
began boasting about it to the other doctors. Who were both shocked and amazed
that a potion found in an old book was able to cure someone. But the
celebrations were short lived. As soon things began to turn bad.
Three weeks after she was
cured, the woman began to act strangely. The first thing was that she had
difficulty talking. She slowly lost the ability to talk and could only
communicate with grunts and squeals. Then she began to change physically. Her
hands and feet changed into trotters, her ears grew bigger and longer, her nose
turned into a snout, she grew tusks, and she had even grown a tail. After a
month, she no longer resembled a woman. She was now a human/pig hybrid. The
doctors were horrified by this and blamed the one who had caused this. And on re-reading
the old book, they discovered something truly horrifying. The formula stated
that if the animal’s blood wasn’t from a sacrificed, then the drinker will
slowly turn into the animal itself. This was truly bad for the doctors. Not
only did one of them turn a woman into a hideous monster, but that they all
would be blamed for this and would properly be hanged. So, there was only one
option left…
It was quick and easy. The pig
woman was taken deep into the cellars of the hospital and was shot through the
head. Her body was then placed inside the incinerator (which was used to burn
bodies who have died from a plague or something else) and it was burned into
ashes. And after that, the doctors all agreed to never speak of this again and
to keep it a secret from the rest of the world. And that was it for many years.
Until one day, the hospital suddenly began to suffer from bad luck. And the
doctors themselves began to be killed off in weird yet horrifying ways. The
public weren’t told how and why they died but what they were told was that
their bodies were in a real mess. As if a wild animal had been eating them.
Fearing that whatever was killing the doctors might keep coming back, the other
staff and patients were quickly moved to other hospitals. And several armed
policemen kept guard at the hospital. Waiting for whatever was killing the
doctors to return and capture it. But many years passed, and nothing happened. So,
the police decided to build a large fence around the building and left it for
nature to reclaim it.
The hospital remains there to
this very day. Yet it is now a shell of its former self. Now and then urban
explorers would often force open a window or a door and go wondering about
inside. It was all good for a while until they begin to hear a weird sort of grumbling.
Like that of a wild animal trying to talk. People would either go and see what
was making the noise or get the hell out of there. Which one would you choose if
you just so happen to be exploring an abandoned hospital and started hearing a
low grumbling? If I were you, I would choose the get out of there option.
Because you may not like what
you find!
