Attempts at stopping the curse

## History

The Shadyside Curse originated after Sarah Fier was sentenced to be hanged where she promised to keep her grip upon the land. At some point, it was turned into a rhyme known to a majority of the Shadyside teenagers

## The rhyme

"*Before the witch's final breath, she found a way to cheat her death. By cutting off her wicked hand, she kept her grip upon her land. She reaches from beyond the grave to make good man her wicked slaves. She'll take your blood, she'll take your head. She'll follow you until you're dead"* which claimed that Sarah Fier was a witch who during 1666, cut off her hand and made a deal with the devil where she possessed random but innocent Shadysiders over many decades which people believed was because she wanted revenge for her death.

## First attempt: 19th July 1978

### Performers

* Mary Lane (1978)
* Christine Berman (1978/1994)
* Cindy Berman (1978)
* Deena Johnson (1994)
* Josh Johnson (1994)
* Kate Schmidt (1994)
* Simon Kalivoda (1994)

### Date

* 19th July 1978
* 2nd October 1994 (First attempt)
* 3rd October 1994 (Second attempt, successful)

### Location

* Camp Nightwing
* Shadyside High School
* Shadyside Mall

In the afternoon of Wednesday the 19th July 1978, the camp's nurse Mary Lane discovered that one of the counselors would soon be turned into the next Shadyside killer where she then went to kill the latter in order to stop the curse. However, she failed to do so when Tommy fought back which ended with the nurse being rendered unconscious and being taken away.

Later that night, Ziggy and her sister along with Alice plotted a plan to put an end to the curse by discovering it was possible if they reunited the body with its missing hand though the only two who survived long enough to reach the three were the Bermans since Alice died from being axed in the chest by Tommy who was hunting the sisters, Upon arriving at the same tree where Ziggy had been burnt that afternoon, the two realised the location was wrong and the body wasn't buried under the tree like they were lead to believe. Their attempt failed with Tommy and Harry Rooker killing Ziggy and Cindy, the night ended with the killers disappearing but Ziggy was resuscitated by Nick.

## Second attempt: 2nd October 1994

On their first attempt of ending it, Deena, Sam, Kate, Simon and Josh attempted to get rid of the killers by burning them in a bathroom at their school only for them to return soon after. After being hunted down, Deena found out about the survivor of the 1978 massacre and tried contacting her.

That same night, the group came up with a plan that involved "killing" Sam in order to get rid of the killers for good since they would vanish under the impression that their victim was dead, Deena succeeded in "killing" her girlfriend and was able to bring her back using the instructions given to her by Simon but the curse remained with the night ending in the deaths of Simon and Kate who were killed by Tommy and Ryan.

## Third attempt: 3rd October 1994

Due to Sam being possessed, Deena continued to fight to get her girlfriend back who had been sacrificed to the devil by Nick as a last minute resort. The survivors consisted of the Johnson siblings, the now adult Ziggy and the mall's janitor, Martin. P Franklin. In an attempt to stop the people the devil saw a threat, he sent the killers after them only for them to be trapped inside the shops where upon being released, they turned their attention to Nick Goode who had been covered in blood that in the dark, was a bright green paint.

In an effort to remain alive, Nick was able to escape the people tormenting him only for him to be confronted by Deena who he was seeing as Sarah who aggressively stated she would never let him go just before she stabbed him in the eye which resulted in his death, the killers then vanished which put their souls to rest and the curse ended.

## 1978

* Mary Lane- Camp Nightwing's nurse who was taken away after she attempted murder on Tommy Slater but was knocked out
* Christine "Ziggy" Berman and Cindy Berman- ended with the death of Cindy and Ziggy being "killed"

## 1994

* Deena Johnson- Survived, Killed Nick and ended the curse
* Samantha "Sam" Fraser- Overdosed, resuscitated, possessed, freed, survived
* Joshua "Josh" Johnson- Survived
* Simon Kalivoda- Axed in the head by Tommy
* Kate Schmidt- Head slice open by a bread slicer after being shoved into it by Ryan
* Christine "Ziggy" Berman- Survived