Batista's House

* Ground floor
* 1st floor
* Basement

* The Secret in the Forest
* The Secret in the Forest - Part 1

The **Batista's House**, also known as the **Abandoned Mansion**, is a key location for the investigations of The Secret in the Forest, appearing several times during the episodes. It was the house of Virgulino Batista and his family until it was abandoned after the 1918 incident, being taken in the 21th century by the Haunteds gang, that later shared it with five scientists (Eva, Eric, Mick, Paula and Valter), with the aim of creating a base for occultist experiments that would put into practice the Project Holy Cradle.

## History

In 1915, it was home to the Batista family, which had a tragic end about 3 years later, when the father of the family, Virgulino Batista, was lynched and buried in his own backyard by the population of Carpazinha. His daughter, Ana Vitória, and his wife, Lurdete, were being held by the doctor in the basement of the house, where he tried to treat what he thought was a "mental infection" caused by the two of them visiting a mysterious cave located in a nearby forest.

The house, located at the Terçalho Freitas Road, ended up abandoned and forgotten by most of the population of Carpazinha because of its considerable distance from the town'scenter. About 80 years later, the site became the base of a biker gang: the Haunteds.

Recently, in 2019, a group of five occultist doctors also chose the site as a base for conducting their experiments, sharing the environment with the gang which still occupied the place through agreements.

## Rooms

### Main Room

The doors of the house creak as they are opened by the team. They enter the Main Room: a large, rather rotten wooden hall. The fog that indicates the weakening of the veil is much stronger inside the house. Amid many papers scattered on all sides, there is a large destroyed piano covered in graffiti of anarchist symbols and pentagrams.

There are two large stairs that go up to the second floor. To the left of the entrance are two sofas around a table, next to an abandoned fireplace. The place is extremely messy and unpleasant to the smell.

Next to the sofa and amid the papers, some elements stand out: open wallets, credit cards, various pornographic magazines, torn leather jackets, drink bottles and broken disposable cups or glass. It is possible to find leaflets of establishments from various locations in the region, such as the Casper's Diner and the drugstore.

Amid this mess, the group finds the identity documents of Camila and Alice Montes, wife and daughter of Rafael Montes, murdered on November 11, 2019. They also find the second page of Lurdete Batista's diary. At the other end of the room, drawings of Subject 02 and the first page of Eric Jour's diary.

Between the stairs, there is a bookshelf hiding the entrance to the basement. In it, it was possible to find few old books of medicine and psychology, all quite dusty. In one of the other shelves, Cesar finds a very old family photo: the photo is black and white and in it, he sees a man and two women, one older and one younger, aged between 13 and 14 years.

### Bathroom

Inside the bathroom, everything is filled with blood and, in his bathtub, the team finds a Blood Zombie already killed. It was at this room that Gregório was found quite debilitated and gagged. When the group removes his gag, he is able to report what happened.

According to him, the Haunteds forced him to fight monsters, like the one lying next to him, already 2 days ago. The gang made bets on who would be the winner of the dispute, in a kind of cursed fight.

### Basement

The ladder leading to the basement is quite old and narrow and only one person can use it at a time. The steps creak with the weight of the group. When they finally reach the floor, two cells full of spiral symbol drawn with blood emerge. There are also two bookshelves in the room and a table with various medical instruments, some old and others newer stained with blood. Large amounts of dried black sludge are also noted.

The body of the Crazy Gramps is lying in front of the table, and its process of transformation into a Blood Zombie is visible. On his back the group finds a huge burn of the spiral symbol. By the degree of healing of the burn, the mark was made between 3 and 5 years ago. Next to it there were 2 pages, a page from the diary of Lurdete and the same doodle page that had already been found earlier. There is also, inside the pocket, an old rather fetid canteen, a small key and a plastic card, entirely black.

On one of the shelves, there are many very old academic books on psychology, mental disorder, therapy and medicine. All very old and dusty. On another shelf, on the right side of the room, there are several packages of medicines, most of them light sedatives with a manufacturing date of 1918.

In addition, there is another photo of the same family that was found in the main room, with a man and two women, all are happy and smiling for photo. In this image, the girl appears to be a little older, about 16 years old. The family is in front of the house, which has an aspect of very well cared for. The portrait seems to maintain some of the sanity of the environment, dissipating a bit of the fog around it. Behind the portrait reads: Batista Family 1915.

On the table next to the wall, inside the drawers, there are several drawings of parts of the human body, isolated, with various notes everywhere. There are also spreadsheets. "It’s as if they are registering several different things in various places of the body with various calculations that you do not understand". These pages don’t look old.

### Kitchen

The kitchen has a lot of garbage thrown on the floor, bottles of whiskey and cachaça, boxes of pizza and rotten food. The smell of slurry is quite strong. In the background, you see some barrels and stacked bags. There are also several pamphlets from different pizzerias and, amid them, another page from the diary of Eric Jour (Unforeseen). Getting close to the barrels and bags, it is possible to identify agricultural products, such as seeds and fertilizers, all of the brand: Verdante, a company located in São Paulo.

### Office

The office is very well maintained in relation to the other rooms in the house. It appears to be one of the most used and clean rooms. In this room there are several shelves and in them, several old, outdated books of medicine and psychology, quite dusty. On the left, a picture of a beautiful landscape in the forest in which it is possible to spot caves in the background, it is signed “Ana”.

Below the frame is a fallen table with several books and papers and a sheet that catches the group’s attention: the first page of the diary of Lurdete Batista. At the end of the room, there is a large spiral symbol drawn on the floor a little off, with a table on it. On the table there is an open medical book, the page in question is about the human muscular anatomy. There are several notes on this page, calculations around the human body as a whole. It is also possible to notice black pen scratches that appear on the face and intertwine throughout the body. The result is very similar to the Black Carrion. On this table, a page from the diary of Eric Jour (Calculations). Next door, there is also a *print* from Google Maps printed from a forest on the side of a road with a red circle marked on a half brown dot. The photo is of low quality. The team recognizes the brown dot as being their own home.

### Hallway and Barrels

Connected to the main room by a narrow corridor, there's this more spacious corridor. This corridor is covered in dried blood everywhere. At the bottom, there are 3 barrels on one spiral symbol painted on the ground. The group can also see skulls, skeletons and bones of different animals and humans scattered around one of the barrels. This barrel has some cracks, and through it, it's possible to see that it is also full of bones.

One of the barrels is ajar and it is possible to see that it is full of different stones and metals in rocky shape. The last of the three barrels is leaking the black sludge, already known to the group.

### Warehouse

Inside the warehouse there are several boards, empty boxes, old clothes thrown, tools, pliers, hammers and nails. In one of the corners it is possible to see axes with some old and rotten logs cut. In addition to all these objects, there are also 3 more barrels.

As they approach, they can see that one of them is full of cloths, fabrics, some with ink marks. Another barrel, which was closed, had a greenish goo that was clearly remains of a very old paint that had already dried and rotted. It is possible that the ink lost some of its color over time. The last of the barrels had a purple liquid with a strong smell of alcohol: wine.

### Gallery

The studio is described as an abandoned art gallery. It is possible to see several old paintings, which one day were beautiful paintings of landscapes, forests, animals, but, due to degradation, mold and lack of care are partially or totally destroyed.

However, what most catches the attention of the room is the repetition of the same painting: a cave, drawn in exactly the same position. When they look more at the paintings, they can see a small variation between them. Initially, light shades of brown were used, but gradually these shades were replaced by darker ones, Black gains and space and with each frame becomes more and more prevalent. It was as if, with each painting, the cave became darker and darker. The inner walls of the cave became thicker and thicker, made with black ink, giving the impression that something was coming out of the cave.

The last paintings in this collection show black paint coming out of the cave and apparently consuming the surrounding nature in a circular shape. The last of the pictures gives the impression of a beautiful cave painting, which was covered with a lot of black paint. It is as if the author, after completing the picture, dipped his brush in black paint and made many, many circular movements repeatedly over the cave, covering almost the entire picture.

In addition to the paintings, it is also possible to notice several art books scattered throughout the room, all very old. There are also several painting materials, such as brushes, different paints, empty canvases, etc. Amid all this, the group was also able to find page 4 of the diary of Lurdete Batista.

### Bedrooms

The occultists eventually used the house of Dr. Virgulino as a base. Upstairs there were 4 rooms in which they seemed to sleep and carry out their studies.

* **Top Left Room:** The room is abandoned full of cobwebs. There was a spider in the room, killed by Thiago and Cesar. In the bedroom there are several small boxes, such as aquariums, filled with different types of land. There are several books and fallen papers near the table, all covered in black webs. Among the roles there is what appears to be a positive pregnancy test. There are also several archaeological notes, on different cults of the Middle Ages, specifically in Europe and island regions in Europe. The annotations are quite complex, demonstrating that they were made by someone very versed in the subject (probably Eva van Gloss). There are also archaeology books and several sheets with calculations and more advanced calculations of physics. The characters also found piles of books, among them “Autonomous survival manuals”, construction manuals, manufacture of materials and tools. Amid all this, the group is able to find a page from the notebook of Eric Jour (Migration).

* **Top Right Room:** An abandoned room, full of papers for all sides and several books and drawings on top of a desk in the corner of the room. At the end of the room there are several cages and dead animals, skeletons inside jars and boxes, all rotting. Many corpses of rats, squirrels and unknown animals. All are surrounded by black ooze. Next to these animals are several delicate tools, such as small pliers, thin scissors and some scalpels. Among these objects there is a black box, thin, the size of an A4 sheet. There is a password with 5 letters in this box, each with 5 options. The answer to open the box is **berço (cradle)**. Inside this box would be found two more entries in the notebook of Eric Jour (Dra. Eva once more! and Analysis), in addition of a drawing from "Subject 04". The room doesn’t seem to have been abandoned for over 100 years. The bed seems to have been used and is covered by a sheet not so old and not so dusty. Next to another table, there are several papers with drawings of human anatomy and several recent books on human anatomy, organs and human musculature.

* **Lower Left Room:** This was the last room that was opened by the team. In the background, there was furry creatures resembling rats, still alive. Those creatures were very agile and fast and had the spiral symbol on its heads. As they move, they leave a trail of black ooze. The rats possess some kind of poison, an acid. After the battle they were able to better analyze the room. In between there was a large spiral symbol drawed on the floor. There are several drawings played from animals at different stages of decomposition thrown around the room. It clearly has more objects than the other rooms upstairs. Among these objects, books on agronomy, livestock, animals, cookbooks with different natural ingredients. There are also books on zoology, drawings of larvae and insects. There are also several pots with traces of black slime, in which there are dead plants around every room. According to the master: “*they could see that 'she' was testing various types of plants or animals, or insects, usually around this symbol. She was trying to see how this symbol affected different plants*”.

* **Lower Right Room:** There are many papers and books thrown around the rooms. Inside this room were two mattresses and hidden behind one of them was the Crazy Gramps. There are many papers and books thrown around the rooms. Inside this room were two mattresses and hidden behind one of them, was He seemed extremely frightened of the group, wanting to protect themselves. Behind the old man there are several pages with scribbles and other things thrown. There are also in this room (architect) blueprints of different houses and environments. There are also in this room several books on metallurgy, lists with various building materials, books on sound insulation, architecture and civil engineering. Amidst this hodgepodge, the page 5 of the diary of Lurdete Batista.

## Evidence and information

 Second page of the diary of Lurdete Batista found on a table.
 Basement
 A completely black card found in the hand of the Crazy Gramps.
 First page of the diary of Lurdete Batista.
 Top Left Room
 Sixth page of the diary of Eric Jour, found with the pregnancy test
 Fifth page of the diary of Lurdete Batista.

## Gallery

Bloody ground floor of the house after Team H and allies' battle against the Haunteds and the CarrionBloody 1st floor of the house after Team H and allies' battle against the Haunteds and the CarrionBatista's House on Calamity's opening
## Notes and references

### Notes

1. ↑ A readable version of this page was obtained by Elizabeth Webber in the 8th episode of The Secret in the Forest.
2. ↑ A readable version of this page was obtained by Elizabeth Webber in the 8th episode of The Secret in the Forest.
3. ↑ A readable version of this page was obtained by Elizabeth Webber in the 8th episode of The Secret in the Forest.
4. ↑ A readable version of this page was obtained by Elizabeth Webber in the 8th episode of The Secret in the Forest.
5. ↑ A readable version of this page was obtained by Elizabeth Webber in the 8th episode of The Secret in the Forest.

### References

1. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 1 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h41m55s)
2. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 1 (*watch on YouTube* at 3h41m22s)
3. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 8 (*watch on YouTube* at 2h38m12s)
4. ↑ The Secret in the Forest - Episode 5 (*watch on YouTube* at 4h07m40s)