Cindy Caine

**Cindy Caine**, also known as **Sindy** is a recurring character from *Halloween Horror Nights*. She was originally created to be the icon of *Halloween Horror Nights: Islands of Fear* in 2002 before being replaced by the Caretaker, Dr. Albert Caine, who was later made into Cindy's father.

## History

### Background

**Note**: *Cindy Caine's origins are mysterious with two main tellings of her past, the intersection of which is unknown.*

#### Ashes to Ashes

Cindy Caine was a young girl during the 1910s-1920s who was orphaned and raised in the *Good Harvest Home for Orphans* of Carey, Ohio. Cindy appears to have been born with blonde hair, and some form of psychic powers such as pyrokinesis. In the October of 1920, she used her powers to burn down the orphanage, killing her fellow orphans who then became ghosts in the building. Following her corruption, Cindy appeared to develop black hair.

#### The Screamhouse

Presumably around 1992, Cindy was the daughter of mad surgeon/funeral parlour Dr. Albert Caine who was caretaker of Carey's *Shady Oaks Cemetery* and Funeral Home. It is unknown how Cindy became the Caretaker's daughter and despite having presumably been born around the early 1920s/late 1910s, Cindy appeared to still be a child while raised by the Caretaker. She lived with the Caine family in the victorian Caine family mansion which was repurposed by Doctor Albert into the *Shady Oaks Funeral Home*. Doctor Caine also had a photograph of Cindy with another dark haired girl seemingly identical to her, though the relationship between the two is unknown.

To further his knowledge of the human body, Doctor Caine, his assistants and his family began desecrating graves to use the corpses in their experiments. Caine desecrated over two-thousand graves, and his, "Family" was known to dance with the human remains, and even cannibalize them. When Doctor Caine required fresher specimens, he would lure away homeless people and then perform brutal procedures and experiments on them without anesthetic.

One year (presumably 1992), a pair of teenagers wandering through the cemetery happened upon one of the Caine family parties and alerted adults about it. The townsfolk became enraged and burned the funeral home to the ground with the Caine family inside. The only body recovered by police was that of Cindy Caine, while the others had disappeared. The authorities also discovered a series of seemingly endless tunnels underneath of the house, causing it to be unknown if Doctor Caine and his family had died (then returned as the undead) or escaped. Cindy's corpse was later buried in a location which her father did not know about.

#### The Resurrection

In 2002, Cindy's father was responsible for the "Islands of Fear" incident where via his experiments and occult powers he spread darkness throughout the "Islands of Adventure". Amidst this incident, Doctor Caine and his followers/family returned to the charred remains of their family home and continued their criminal activity. The Caretaker's followers were able to locate Cindy's corpse and exhume it, causing Cindy's obsessed father to dedicate himself to combining his occult and medical knowledge to reanimate his daughter's corpse.

In 2003, Doctor Caine and his society of followers moved to the town of Nobel, Georgia where they built a new "Screamhouse" to serve as their base of operations. The young corpse of Cindy was kept in an open casket, underneath of a photograph of Cindy with another, identical girl. It was presumably here that the Caretaker managed to resurrect his daughter.

#### Fear Revealed

In the year 2010, the paranormal-investigation organization *Legendary Truth: The Collective* accidentally released the God of Fear who had been influencing the events of "Halloween Horror Nights" for the past two decades, with apparent ties to Doctor Caine. Once released, Fear made the Caretaker into his *Herald of Death* while Cindy (possibly aged), accompanied her father in aiding Fear while armed with a chainsaw.

Amidst these events, she may have also terrorized the ruins of Carey's *Good Harvest Home for Orphans* though it is also possible she only did so decades prior. By around this time, a photograph/portrait of Cindy was present within the haunted Wyandot Estate of Carey, a mansion where Malcolm Wyandot murdered his family and thirteen guests on the Halloween of 1929 and which was turned into *Lydia's Bred and Breakfast* in 1991. It is unknown if Cindy had any ties to the Wyandot Estate.

### Development history

Cindy Caine was created to be icon of *Halloween Horror Nights: Islands of Fear* in 2002. She would have originally had the name **Cindy/Sindy Bearer** (a play on the word Pallbearer), and been the daughter of funeral home directors Paul and Kara Bearer. She would have lost her face and died when townsfolk burned down the funeral home for the family's crimes. She would have influenced the events of *Islands of Fear* via telepathy and appearing in dreams such as manifesting Carnage, creating Knightmare/Nightmare from her mind and the fires of the River Styx as a being of pure darkness, warping cartoon characters and circus freaks into the *Treaks & Foons*, and influencing *Jurassic Park* scientist Doctor Burton through his dreams to create mutant dinosaurs.

The Caretaker was chosen over Cindy due to a string of child disappearances occurring in Florida which would have made Cindy's character appear to be in poor taste. The Caretaker would be retroactively turned into the father of Cindy Caine. Cindy made her first official appearance in the 2006 haunted house *Screamhouse: The Resurrection*, though a character seemingly resembling Cindy did appear in the 2003 house *Screamhouse: Revisited*.

Cindy was again considered to be main icon for the 2010 Halloween Horror Nights, only for *Fear* to be chosen instead.

## Appearances

### Halloween Horror Nights

#### Halloween Horror Nights: Sweet 16

The Halloween Horror Nights website had a document covering the 2002 events of Islands of Fear with annotations from the Caretaker. The message read, " *This overlooks the true milestone of 2002...that my Followers discovered who was really buried in that grave...and that **she** would return as the result of my skill, my artistry and my obsession*" referencing his resurrection of Cindy.

##### Screamhouse: The Resurrection

Cindy made her first official appearance as a corpse in this haunted house.

#### Halloween Horror Nights: Twenty Years of Fear

Before Fear was decided on as the icon of this event, Cindy was considered.

##### Fear Revealed

Cindy was a scareactor here, aiding her father while armed with a chainsaw.

##### Legendary Truth: The Wyandot Estate

Cindy made a cameo in this haunted house as a half-covered photograph/portrait.

##### The Orfanage: Ashes to Ashes

Cindy was main-antagonist of this haunted house.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 25

##### Jack Presents: 25 Years of Monsters & Mayhem

The Caretaker and Cindy appeared on signs for Jack's circus.

## Trivia

* It is sometimes said that Cindy is the Caretaker's adopted daughter.
* Cindy Caine and Eddie Schmidt are both HHN original icons from the early 2000s who were scrapped and then retconned into being family-members with the icons who replaced them.
* *Legendary Truth the Collective Case Investigation: Boris Shuster* had the note "WHERE IS CINDY CAINE? HAVE YOU SEEN HER?" on the back.
* The photo of two girls resembling Cindy over Cindy's casket in *Screamhouse: The Resurrection* may have teased that Cindy had a twin sister.

## External Links

* *Cindy Caine on the Halloween Horror Nights Wiki.*

## References

1. ↑ The 2002 Haunted House said the events of Screamhouse's backstory occurred ten years prior
2. ↑ https://blog.discoveruniversal.com/events/a-beginners-guide-to-universals-halloween-horror-nights-lore/