Carey, Ohio

> "*Welcome to SCarey, A Nice Place to Die!*"
> ― Graffiti'd town sign
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**Carey, Ohio** is a real-world village in Wyandot County, Ohio. The town is a recurring setting for *Halloween Horror Nights* where it is sometimes known as the nickname **SCarey**.

## Description

Carey is a township in Wyandot County, Ohio. Throughout its history, the town town has had the newspapers, "The Carey Truth", "The Carey News" and the, "Progressor Times". By the 2010s, Carey has had several active organizations/businesses associated with its township including: *Shadowcreek Enterprises, the Wyandot County Police, Rescue Team Firefighters, the Carey Ohio Humane Association, the Carey Hunting Club, Wyandot County Farmer's Cooperative Association, Wyandot Wildlife Management Area, Triangle Moebius Ribbons, Carey Charter of American Veterans*, and *Wyandot Worship*.

### Features

* **1192 E. Findlay Street**: A house in Carey referenced by some materials of questionable continuity, as being the address for photographer Charlie McPherson.
* **120 North Vance Street**: Location of the *Wyandot County Farmer's Cooperative Association*.
* **19 Hemmingway Lane**: A claustrophobic house owned by Nicodemus Felling and used as a lair for various vampires who preyed on the townsfolk of Carey.
* **Carey Book Emporium**:
* **Carey Drive-In**: Carey's drive-in theater, nicknamed the, "Die-in" by locals due to its history of grizzly murders.
* **Carey Elementary**:
* **Carey Memorial Hospital**:
* **Carey Ohio High School**: The town's high school, whose logo/mascot was the, "Blue Devil".
* **Carey State Penitentiary**:
* **Carey Storage Palace**:
* **Carey's Women's Correctional Facility**: A women's prison.
* **Carver Farms**: A farm which was founded in 1950 by Mr. Carver and which was subject to the horror-movie, "Pumpkin Guts".
* **City of Carey Police Department**:
* **Covered Bridge**:
* **Farm**: A farm in the woods on the outskirts of Carey, which pre-dates the town itself. Every Halloween, human/pumpkin monsters known as, "Pumpkin Heads" emerge from the soil.
* **Good Harvest Orphanage**: An orphanage which was burned down.
* **Gramalkin's Hut**: The hut of the witch Gramalkin, a servant of the Pumpkin Lord.
* **Greenwood Forest**: A forest presumably in Carey, south of the Caine Cemetery.
* **Hartford Mansion**: The Old Hartford Mansion is a 19th century house surrounded by many ghost-stories made up by locals. When children on dares began disappearing in the mansion, the house turned out to have a mysterious curse and had its front door removed to prevent more disappearances.
* **Little Lake Sawyer**:
* **Meetz Meats**: A popular butcher-shop/meat factory in Carey. For three generations, this butcher-shop has been abducting and murdering criminals and homeless people to sell as meats. Their mascot is, "Meaty Meetz" and they had the slogan, "*Meaty Meats! Serving you for over 25 years*".
* **Moose River**:
* **Peck's Bar & Grill**:
* **Railroad**:
* **Shady Oaks Cemetery & Funeral Home**: Shady Oaks Cemetery (possibly also known as the Caine Cemetery) was a cemetery run by Dr. Albert Caine and the Albert Caine Society. The cemetery was shut down after it turned out that Caine was digging up corpses for his experiments. The victorian funeral-home was burned down by an angry-mob and found out to have a series of tunnels below it.
* **WKNB Station**: The TV station for Carey Ohio's Channel 21.
* **Wyandot County Hospital**:
* **Wyandot County County Water Pump House No. 19**: A pump-house connected to the sewers.
* **Wyandot County Water Treatment**: A series of sewers underneath of the town. These sewers are inhabited by reptilian monsters known as *Sculders*.
* **The Wyandot Estate**: An infamously haunted mansion in Carey.
* **Wyandot Wildlife Management Area**:
* **Wyandot Worship**: A local religious institution.

## History

### Background

#### Origins

The land which would become Carey was settled in the late 1700s by German immigrants. These immigrants created a farm which was well known for being prosperous in growing pumpkins. At some point, the crops all dried up and died and the farm was left barren.

The township of Carey was founded in 1843 or 1858.

Around 1888, murderer George Chapman (1865-1903) moved to Carey under the name of George Kubsch. George did this to avoid suspicion of involvement in the Whitechapel murders of, "Jack the Ripper", where he conducted an autopsy on two of the victims and falsified death certificates.

In the 1890s, seamstress Kathrine Hartford and photographer Victor Hartford had the Hartford Mansion constructed. The two were a happy and unremarkable people.

In 1892, George Kubsch's former accomplice Aldridge Kesterson moved to Carey with his son Thornton M. Kesterson due to suspicions of him transporting bodies for George. Aldridge then became the handyman of the Carey Elementary school. Also in that year, George Kubsch had a son named Jeremiah Kubsch.

#### Twisted Tradition

At some point in the late 19th century, a kindly older man named Ernst Meier began tending to the abandoned pumpkin farm now located outside of the town of Carey in the forest. Much to the surprise of the townsfolk, Meier was able to grow pumpkins and corn from the barren farm, consumed by the forest. One Halloween, Meier announced that he needed help in harvesting the crops of his farm, and many families of Carey sent their children and teenagers to help him. When the children did not return, a group of villagers set out to visit Meier's farm and retrieve their children. Amongst these youths were: Gordon, Denny, Louise, and various whose names are unknown.

The townsfolk discovered that Meier had a circle of giant pumpkins around a bonfire, with their tops removed which had been filled with the blood of their children as he mixed the fluids and chanted. Upon seeing the angry mob, Meier screamed that they had arrived too soon and that the ritual for his master was not yet complete. The crowd overpowered Ernst as he made inhuman noises then began laughing as the crowd threw him into the bonfire. While burning, Ernst continued to chant and did not scream from the pain until the very last moments.

After this, the townsfolk buried the pumpkins containing the remains of their children. The townsfolk returned home and discussed the events only once, then chose to repress and forget about the shared trauma. Every Halloween, the children slaughtered by Meier are reborn as monstrous human/pumpkin hybrids nicknamed, "Pumpkin Heads".

#### Disappearance of Mary Worthington

On the August 27th of 1908, *Carey Elementary* school handyman Aldridge Kesterson and students Louise Hatfield, George Von Stebler, Shawn McPherson, Jim Deedle, Alice Dodgson, and Jeremiah Kubsch pulled a prank on teacher, Mary Worthington. Aldridge's own son Thornton Kesterson was not present due to having been goaded by his father.

The prank seemed to have killed Mary, and her body was never recovered though schoolmaster Mr. Renshaw found shattered glass where it should have been. Mary left behind a daughter, Marie W. Agana, and her spirit may have become the ghost, "Bloody Mary" in folklore.

On May 5th, 1910, Christian Kubsch was born in Wyandot County Hospital to an eighteen year-old Jeremiah Kubsch and seventeen year-old Elizabeth Carol.

#### World War I

During World War I (1914-1918), a Romanian man with the surname Meetz moved to Carey and started the butcher shop Meetz Meats.

#### Ashes to Ashes

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

Supposedly in the October of 1920, a young girl with pyrokinetic powers named Cindy Caine burned down the Good Harvest Orphanage where she lived.

#### The Wyandot Estate

In the 1920s, Malcolm and Lydia Wyandot constructed the Wyandot Estate. On the October 31 of 1929, Malcolm murdered thirteen dinner guests, his wife, and then commit suicide. After this event, the Wyandot Estate was believed to be haunted.

#### Meetz Meats

During the Great Depression (1929-1939), the owner of Meetz Meats (son of the founder) struggled to afford meats. Because of this he began murdering criminals and homeless people to sell as meat, which he also believed it kept the town "clean of vagrants, riffraff, and ner-do-els" . After the first murders, the meats became very popular in the town and became a family tradition for the Meetz family, carried on by Meetz son and founder's grandson Samuel "Sam" Meetz over 25 years after the company was founded.

In 1932, the *Wyandot County Farmer's Cooperative Association* was established.

#### Blade the Killer

Starting the June of 1933, a notorious serial-killer called Bobby "The Blade" Galletta was active in Carey's county. According to the Carey Truth newspaper, Bobby was responsible for the murder of twenty-two citizens of the town and would leave the corpses in places where they would be found by early-morning travellers. Bob used an old sawmill to torture his victims.

Bobby's crime-spree came to an end on October 13th after a victim named Susan Snowdon escaped the sawmill. On the October 25th of 1933, Bobby was executed by electric chair at eleven thirty p.m. in the Carey State Penitentiary. Apparently, those who attended the execution left traumatized with those interviewed claiming that they wished they had never stepped foot in the prison. Several movies, books and documentaries inspired by the events were made.

#### Bad Following Good

By 1934, the town had an orphanage on 19th street run by Headmaster Renshaw.

By 1934, Meetz Meats was being run by a cheery moustachioed man named Samuel Meetz who was seen as a local hero (it is unclear if this was the son of the original founder, or said son's son Sam Meetz). Sam Meetz started a corrupt deal with Carey's then sheriff Dewayne Davis and a rail-yard worker named Norton where Norton would spot hobos on the train who the sheriff would then arrest, drug, and get overweight on his wife Maggie's cooking before selling to Sam Meetz with a price of five dollars for the sheriff, five dollars for his wife, and two dollars for Norton.

In 1934, Dewayne arrested a homeless-man from out of town named Delmar Reeves along with three others kept in the back of his station. Sheriff Davis plumped Reeves up to 202 pounds before offering him the opportunity to work for Sam Meetz, who presumably killed him for meat. On this occasion, the sheriff asked to forego his and Maggie's payment in-return for a pair of ribs from Meetz Meats to test out their new smoker.

#### Old Hartford Mansion

In the 1950s, Kathrine and Victor Hartford died. Over the years, children made up stories about Victor having been a serial-killer who photographed corpses of his victims and of Kathrine having abducted people to turn into dolls. The local children would dare each other to enter the "haunted house"s grounds or even stay the night there. When children began to disappear in the house, locals removed the door to the building pin hopes of no-one else going in. It is believed that the Old Hartford Mansion is cursed or haunted through unknown circumstances.

#### Leave it to Cleaver

In the year 1950, Carey farmer Mr. Carver established *Carver Farms*, best known for its pumpkins.

In 1951, a photograph of Samuel Meetz was taken which was then hung up in his butcher-shop. This photograph was may have also been hung up in *Tony's Pizza*, a pizzeria in Raccoon City which Sam Meetz might have visited or been connected to. Sam Meetz appeared to be the head of Meetz Meats during the 1950s. Sam Meetz ran the company at a point of high commercialization, even appearing to sell Meaty Meetz masks as merchandise. At some point, he hosted a tour of his meat-factory where he tried to have the guests murdered for meat.

Around the 1950s, Meetz Meats began the "Moonlight Drive In Movie Meal Combo" in which they sold their (secretly human) meat products to the haunted *Universal Palace Theater* and the *Moonlight Drive-In/Hollywood Drive-In* of Hollywood, Los Angeles. It is unknown if either theaters were aware of the criminal ongoings of Meetz Meats and its owners the Meetz family. Around the premiere of an independent horror film in the Palace Theater, a young girl whose older brother and parents had finished eating their food screamed when she found a severed finger inside of her hot-dog.

After this, the Universal Palace stopped serving Meetz Meats while investigators were unable to identify the human remains within while Meetz Meats made the statement " Our secret recipe is the secret of our success". The family who found the finger could later no longer stomach any non-meat foods. Due to popular demand, the theater brought the meal combos back with radio advertisements.

At some point, Sam Meetz hosted a tour of his meat-factory where he tried to have the guests murdered for meat. The outcome of this incident is unknown.

#### Late 1950s-1960s

In 1957, the *Carey Hunting Club* was established.

By 1958, Mary Worthington's granddaughter Dr. Mary Agana started her private psychiatric practice "Living Fearlessly: Specialized Treatments for Fear Based Ailments" which may have had some base in Carey. Mary came into possession of various heirlooms from her grandmother which appeared to slowly drive her to becoming mad. Mary's patients all happened to be descendants of those responsible for her grandmother's death and whom her psychiatric procedures left brutally murdered. When Mary herself died, she became the spirit "Bloody Mary" in a mirror realm where she forever tortured her victims.

In 1961, *Shadowcreek Enterprise* was founded. This business would conduct experiments for the U.S. military from their facility Shadowcreek Labs outside of Carey.

Also in 1961, a boy appeared to have been born into wealth, and would live within the Wyandot Estate. Since 1968, the boy was obsessed with bringing about one night connected to Halloween which over the years involves amassing a following of killers to make offerings, occult haunted houses, "Scare Zones", worshiping "Icons" and the ideology that we should "Be excellent to each other and party on". The closest known relative of this boy was actor Lawrence "Larry" Kurtzberg who later moved to Carey.

#### WKNB Midnight Horror Show

During the 1970s, the powerful, ancient and villainous succubus entity, "Lady Luck" posed as a woman named Moyra at *Audit Management Associates* casting the, "*WKNB Midnight Horror Show*" of Carey's WKNB Station. Claiming to represent one, "*Mr. Feld*", Lady Luck offered the role of the show's master-of-ceremonies/host *H.R. Bloodengutz* to retired Broadway actor turned taxidermist Lawrence "Larry" Kurtzberg, assuming he stop working at his uncle's taxidermist shop otherwise the agency would drop him completely. Kurtzberg accepted the role and moved to Carey, leading to the Midnight Horror Show becoming a popular horror variety show.

Over time, Larry became insane and obsessed with the role while demanding to be referred to as H.R. Bloodengutz while not being filmed. A year after Larry lost his mind, the show's ratings began to dip as a result of Larry making to program too disturbing, with advertisers more hesitant to sponsor the show. Producer John Reynolds sent a letter to Larry, informing him that the producers were planning on cancelling the show. Because of this, Kurtzberg snapped and kidnapped the producers to torture on a final live broadcast of his show. By the time the police arrived, the only survivor was John Reynolds who later died of his injuries in the hospital. Lawrence Kurtzberg was sent to prison with no regrets over his actions.

#### 1970s

In the 1970s, a man named Nicodemus Felling purchased the house at 17 Hemingway Lane. Nicodemus was (or became) a horrific vampire and used the house to be a hive of his various vampire companions.

In 1975, the *Wyandot Wildlife Management Area* was established.

In 1976, the boy who lived in the Wyandot Estate was committed to the *Shadybrook Rest Home and Sanitarium* outside of Carey. This boy appeared to have been released from Shadybrook.

In 1979, the now 18-year-old boy obsessed with the Halloween Horror Nights was once against institutionalized in Shadybrook. Again, he appeared to have gotten out.

#### The Wicked Growth

> "*Summon the Pumpkin Lord, Fear opens the door, Blood is gathered, Screams carry on the night wind, Souls are taken, Bones to bind, Roots dig deep and take hold, Here is the Pumpkin Lord He grows Halloween*"
> ― The spell to summon the Pumpkin Lord
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At some point, possibly around 1987, the Halloween festivities of Carey caused a supernatural being known as the *Pumpkin Lord*, the Spirit of Halloween, to grow in a lair somewhere below Carey's forests. The Pumpkin Lord was assisted in being summoned by witch followers such as Gramalkin the Summoner and Locasta, who assembled blood and fear for him. The activities of these villains appeared to cause death and terror in Carver Farms, where one person had pumpkins painfully growing out of them, where violent skeletons & scarecrows were present, and the words, "*Fear the Pumpkin Lord*" were scrawled on the wall.

Some who were exposed to these horrors fled through the covered bridge into the *Caine Cemetery* which had more monsters. Leaving into the Greenwood Forest, some encountered the lair of Gramalkin and the summoned Pumpkin Lord.

#### Slaughter Sinema

In the 1980s, many horror B-movies were showed at the *Carey Drive-In* theater. Many grizzly murders occurred at the Carey Drive-In theater causing locals to nickname it the, "Die-In". After murders occurred during a double-feature, the theater was shut down and left abandoned for decades.

Around this period, a media company in Carey was responsible for the worldwide distribution of Music Box pictures' David Hughes directed horror-film, "Cult of the Beast Baby", which starred with Albert Caine. There was also a film called, "Pumpkin Guts", directed and presented by one Jack J. Schmidt, which surrounded the Carey location of Mr. Carver's pumpkin farm. In this film, Mr. Carver was depicted as having a deformed son called, "Gourdy" kept chained up in the basement making jack o'lanterns until Gourdy murdered his father, escaped, and began carving the townsfolks' heads. It is unknown if this film was based on true events which occurred in Carey.

In 1986, the same male obsessed with occult Halloween celebrations, now 25, was again institutionalized there. Once again, he got out of Shadybrook.

On the October 31st of 1991, the now 30-year-old male living in the Wyandot Estate had a psychological attack of extreme fear, motion sickness and dizzy spells. He was once more committed to Shadybrook and deemed a threat to others. This patient's psychological attack remained ongoing for at-least seven years. The boy's obsession with HHN traditions had apparently been going on for the past thirty years, with him slowly amassing a following which would commit ritualistic slayings and offerings.

In 1991, the Wyandot Estate was transformed into, "Lydia's Garden Bed & Breakfast". Within the B&B (if not within the original Wyandot ownership of the mansion) was what appeared to be a portrait of the mysterious old woman Elsa Strickland AKA The Storyteller associated with the realm of *Terra Cruentus*.

#### The Caretaker

Surgeon Dr. Albert Caine came to be caretaker of the Shady Oaks Cemetery at an unknown point in time. Doctor Caine renovated the nearby Victorian mansion which he and his family lived in to be the Shady Oaks Funeral Parlour. 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 (likely around 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 Albert's young daughter, 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 or escaped.

The authorities closed off any access to the cemetery and the ruins of the Caine family home were set to be demolished. A year later, three rotting corpses were discovered on the premises of Shady Oaks. Authorities began sending in research teams to investigate, only for three of them to go missing in the premises (presumably being murdered by Doctor Caine and his family). Doctor Albert Caine would become a murderous being known as, "The Caretaker", though it is unclear if he was undead or a human serial-killer.

#### Screamhouse

In 2002, ten years after the Shady Oaks cemetery was shut down, odd noises were heard coming from the Caine Cemetery. The Carey police sent in a research team to investigate the grounds, only for them to happen upon the Caretaker's minions and dark experiments.

On a documentation of the Screamhouse incident, the Caretaker wrote, "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". This presumably referred to the Caretaker's followers locating and exhuming the corpse of his daughter, Cindy Caine, whom he dug up and performed a ritual to resurrect.

By 2003, the Caretaker and his minions moved to the town of Nobel, Georgia.

#### Reflections of Fear

In 2008, on the anniversary of her death, Bloody Mary opened a portal to Universal Studios Florida. Part of her mirror domain was a mirror world recreation of Carey, Ohio used to torment her victim, Charlie McPherson. Within this world, Charlie was a 21st century photographer born on October 20, 1980 while living at *1192 E. Findlay Street* in Carey, Ohio. Here, Charlie was forever tormented by darkness, flashing lights and a zombie apocalypse where he was killed and eaten by zombies before being turned into a zombie himself.

On the November 1 of 2008, paranormal-investigation organization *Legendary Truth: The Collective* had a CFO with CRO group gathering outside of the Carey Elementary School where they took a group photo. This was likely connected to them defeating the spirit of Bloody Mary a few months earlier.

Since this incident, there have been several references to presumably non-canonical zombie outbreaks related to Carey, 1192 E. Findlay Street and Charlie McPherson which could possibly be related to the torture which Mary put McPherson through. One of these incidents mentioned a zombie apocalypse beginning in Carey in the June of 2010 and where by six months later, the business ZAP (the Zombie Awareness Program) studied McPherson's photographs. Another one of these instances referenced the zombie apocalypse breaking out across the world with Carey resident Emily Alice vacationing in Paris while it happened, and sending her sister Kimberly post-cards repeating the message "GRAB CHARLIE, GO TO GRANDPA'S AND QUARANTINE YOURSELF. 1192 E. Findlay St. Carey, OH 43316 USA".

#### The Spawning

At an unknown point in time (presumably around or before 2009), a group of reptilian monsters of unknown origin known as the *Sculders* infested the sewers below Carey and began killing Carey residents to eat and shut off the water-flow. It appears that the Sculders were monsters either originating from the Dark Dimension of the Zodiac, or created through occult experiments by Doctor Rich Oddfellow who in the 1940s, used his business *Oddfellow's Trademark Trading & Imports* to ship his monsters to San Francisco before they escaped.

A group of volunteer member of the local water district were sent into the sewers to restore the water-flow, where they were attacked by the Sculders.

#### The Wyandot Incident

**Note**:  *The exact year in which Legendary Truth: The Wyandot Estate took place has yet to be confirmed, though it came out in 2010 so may take place around or by said date.*

At some point (possibly around the year 2010), a group of paranormal-investigators called the Spirit Seekers (a division/faction of Legendary Truth: The Collective) came to the Wyandot Estate with a spirit-gathering machine to see if it was really haunted. Those who attended were terrorized by ghosts, the Storyteller, and the outcome of these events are unknown. It is believed that two Spirit Seekers members were killed, one was blinded, one was possessed, and that a spirit overloaded the electrical equipment however some footage was recovered from the event.

#### The Dogs of War

At some point before 2013/2016 (possibly in 2010-2013), a US military train transporting insane super-soldiers made by *Shadowcreek Labs* (a division of Shadowcreek Enterprises) nicknamed, "The Dogs of War" crashed in Carey causing the Dogs of War to massacre much of the Carey population. The outcome of these events are unknown but the US government is believed to have been part of a cover-up of these events.

In 2013, various different items were sent to Paige Steerington, daughter of the late Legendary Truth leader Richard Steerington whose father's death lead to her investigating several supernatural events along with the corruption of Legendary Truth as, "P.S." online. She was sent these items by an anonymous ally, warning her about an evil taking root and which PS posted on her blog online. On August 6, Paige revealed several items related to the murders and execution of Bobby "The Blade", including: an old Justice magazine, a ring of keys, and a knife stained in blood. On August 9th, Paige uncovered several items related to the *Shadowcreek Labs* military train crashing in Carey, including: a pair of handcuffs, a railroad spike, a whistle, and a lock of dark hair.

#### Later history

**Note**: *There are many HHN continuity incidents which have yet to be given official dates in the timeline.* *The events of various HHN attractions* *and events which may be presumed to be around the time of their release, may be subject to getting revealed as having different dates.*

At some point, the women's prison had a fire causing multiple female prisoners to be burned and trapped between life and death.

The Iniquitous summoned the undead victims of the women's prison fire when they assembled the Legions of Horror, having the prisoners represent the *Maschorian* Legion, while armed with chainsaws.

By 2015, the town's population was 3,594. By this time (if not earlier) Shadowcreek Enterprise had a prominent position in the town of Carey. By several decades after the "Carey Die-In" was closed (possibly 2015), its supernatural presence was somehow able to seemingly materialize monsters and other horror-characters from film (though several also appear to exist as real figures within HHN continuity). Several of these horror characters were black-and-white such as: the Invisible Man, Doctor Frankenstein, Frankenstein's monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, the Wolf Man, Maleva, Count Dracula, Dracula's Brides, Count Orlok, Imhotep, Quasimodo, the Living Dead and Norman Bates. Other monsters appeared in colour such as: Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, The Thing, Chucky, Tiffany, The Strangers, Carrie, and several Purgers.

In 2016, writer/conspiracy-theorist Thaddeu Hampton wrote a book titled, "Dogs of War: An Epic Cover Up" on the subject of the government covering up the Dogs of War who terrorized the people of Carey. According to Hampton, evidence being stored by them in the Carey Storage Palace were mysteriously burned, hinting at the government destroying evidence. In 2016, the comic publisher *Ultra Violent Comics* was banned in Carey due to them being attributed to a rise in violence and giving a child a seizure. On the June 27 of 2016, an edition of the Carey News was released with stories on the Ultra Violent News ban, government cover-up, and institutionalization of, "Chance".

On one Halloween (possibly around 2018), Carey highschool students Chad, Mindy, Preston and Trisha encountered the Pumpkin Heads of Meier's farm. A teenaged girl named Mindy attempted to save her boyfriend Chad from the monsters.

At some point, the patient from the Wyandot Estate was either released or escaped from Shadybrook. It might be implied that he did so within a transport vehicle which crashed into the township sign of his home-town, Carey where he hid out in a haunted house home, making deranged ramblings of predictions. The writings left behind by the inmate mentioned not knowing if he's a man or a monster, some sort of community hunting as one on people showing up from all around the town, and ominous predictions of horrors which will commence on that night including: the monster having his mate and feeding, leather being ripped from flesh, the house on the hill which will be haunted, icons emerging as one, and it being time to "Unleash the beast".

### Development history

One of Halloween Horror Nights' creators originates from Carey, Ohio.

## Appearances

### Halloween Horror Nights

Carey has appeared in several Halloween Horror Nights events, scare zones and haunted houses.

#### All Nite Die-In: Double Feature

This was a scare-in set at the, "Die In" theater featuring characters from various horror movies.

#### Halloween Horror Nights: Reflections of Fear (HHN 18)

Carey, Ohio was referenced in the backstory of Bloody Mary and the ancestors of her many victims.

##### Dead Exposure

Charlie McPherson's press-pass identified his address as *1192 E. Findlay Street* in Carey, Ohio. The haunted house may have been set in a Mirror realm recreation of Carey.

##### The Skoolhouse

This haunted house was set in the Carey elementary school.

#### Halloween Horror Nights: Ripped from the Silver Screen (HHN 19)

Two of the promotional stories tied into the history of the Universal Palace Theater had allusions to Carey. The "Severed" story surrounded Meetz Meats selling human meat to the Universal Palace Theater while the "Missing" story had a wrench labelled " County Water & Sewer Department" found and the documents "COUNTY BUILDING DEPARTMENT ACCESS TUNNEL TO WATER/SEWER PUMPHOUSE 19 PERMANENTLY CLOSED BY ORDER OF COUNTY" present.

##### Horrorwood Die-In

Flyers promoting Meetz Meats' association with the Moonlight Drive-In and Universal Palace could be seen.

##### Leave it to Cleaver

This haunted house revolved around Meetz Meats.

##### The Spawning

This haunted house had guests take on the roles of volunteer members of the water district, going to the sewers to restore water-flow only to be attacked by the Sculders.

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

##### Legendary Truth: The Wyandot Estate

This revolved around the Spirit Seekers investigating the Wyandot Estate.

##### The Orfanage: Ashes to Ashes

This was set in the *Good Harvest Orphanage*.

##### Zombiegeddon

The pre-show video mentioned the first zombie outbreak being recorded in Carey in June, 2010. It is unclear if this is in the same continuity, however, as Zombiegeddon appears to exist in a version of the HHN continuity where a zombie apocalypse occurred in the 2010s.

#### Halloween Horror Nights XXII: Once You're Inside, There Is No Way Out

##### Dead End

This haunted house took place in the Old Hartford Mansion.

##### The Legions of Horror

The inmates of Carey's Women's Correctional Facility were live-performed characters.

#### Halloween Horror Nights XXIII: What Evil Has Taken Root?

Paige Steerington received items related to Bobby the Blade and the Dogs of War.

##### Afterlife: Death's Vengeance

This was set in the Carey State Penitentiary, with guests assuming the POV of Blade as he is executed and punished in the afterlife.

##### Havoc: Derailed

The military train in this haunted house crashed in Carey.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 25

Jack's prison maniacs wore prison uniforms from the *Carey Women's Correctional Facility*.

#### Halloween Horror Nights 28

##### Dead Exposure: Patient Zero

Carey, Ohio was referenced in this haunted house's backstory. Relevant to the haunted house's backstory, several photographs were sent to Kimberly "Kim" Duncan at 1192 E. Findlay Street in Carey by her sister Emily Alice on vacation in Paris. This is presumably not in the main continuity of Halloween Horror Nights as it surrounds a universe in which a Zombie apocalypse occurs in the 21st century.

##### Seeds of Extinction

There was a board mentioning the :*BATTLE OF THE BANDS AT THE PHOENIX ARENA!*" where one of the bands was "The Carey Ohio Pops" scheduled to perform the 22 of August. This allusion is presemably non-cannonical as it exists in an apocalyptic future.

##### Slaughter Sinema

This haunted house started at the Die-In cinema, before having guests enter the worlds of various fictional 1980s horror movies. It was also mentioned on the poster for, "Cult of the Beast Baby", along with the Caretaker's alter-ego of Albert Caine in a starring-role. The, "Pumpkin Guts" film segment was set on Mr. Carver's farm in Carey.

##### Twisted Tradition

A township of Carey sign appeared. The attraction concerned the Meier's farm and Pumpkin Heads fighting students of Carey Ohio High School

#### Halloween Horror Nights 30

##### Halloween Horror Nights Tribute Store (2021)

The 2021 Halloween Horror Nights Tribute Store had a, "Township of Carey" sign lodged into a wrecked transport vehicle for Shadybrook Asylum. Also present here was a document from Shadybrook on inmate relative of H.R. Bloodengutz, mentioning how Bloodengutz belonged to Carey, Ohio and used to live within the Wyandot Estate. It is very possible that this tribute store was actually set in Carey, Ohio as messages from the inmate mentioned him returning home, which could further be interpreted as the Tribute Store taking place within the Wyandot Estate. Also in this store was a black & white photograph of the *Twisted Tradition* building and a pumpkin-head outside of it.

##### Scarecrow Stalk

In a shop at Marvel Superhero Island, a scarecrow child could be seen reading comics from *The Carey Press*. These comics referenced past Halloween Horror nights features such as "Body Collectors Recollections" and "Yeti: Terror of the Yukon".

##### Welcome to SCarey: Horror in the Heartland

This was an assembly of haunted houses, all set in Carey.

##### The Wicked Growth: Realm of the Pumpkin

This haunted house was set in the area around Mr. Carver's farm.

#### Hive

This haunted house was set in 19 Hemmingway Lane.

#### H.R. Bloodengutz Presents: Holidays of Horror

This haunted house was set during H.R. Bloodengutz's final broadcast.

#### Lunatic's Playground 3D: You Won't Stand a Chance

An enlarged edition of, "The Carey News" newspaper was part of the facade.

#### Screamhouse

This haunted house took place in Shady Oaks funeral home.

## Trivia

* The "Township of Carey" sign says the town was established in 1843 while other signage identifies it as 1858.
* Several descendants of those involved in Mary Worthington's death are shown to be inhabitants of Universal Orlando's New York. Many of them were victims of Mary Worthington's granddaughter, Dr. Mary Agana.
* George Chapman/Seweryn Antonowicz Kłosowski is a historic criminal though his relationship with the town of Carey is fictional.
* One of the portraits in the Wyandot Estate was of the Storyteller, a Halloween Horror Nights icon.
* Concept art for the Carey welcome sign had the message, "Welcome to SCarey, Horror in the Heartland".
* Some numbers in Carey lore are tributes to HHN's history:
	+ October 25th is a date which tributes when Halloween Horror Nights began.
	+ The Spawning's pump house number 19 was a reference to it being the 19th year of HHN.
* It is unclear/inconsistent if the fictional *Universal Palace Theater* is set in Carey or not:
	+ Evidence in favour of the theater being in Carey:
		- It is known that Meetz Meats supplied them with meat, with the mystery tie-in for Leave it to Cleaver involving a family having found a severed human finger in a concession hot-dog.
		- The mystery tie-in for, "The Spawning" mentioned teenaged boys sneaking into the theater only to disappear and be inferred to have been ripped apart by the Sculders. A waterworks wrench was found at the scene of the disappearance.
	+ Evidence opposed to the theater being in Carey:
		- A ticket for the theater found in *Legendary Truth the Collective Case Investigation: Boris Shuster* identified the theater as being in Hollywood, California (Los Angeles). The canonicity of this merchandise is unconfirmed.
		- When the Usher first introduced the Universal Palace Theater, he stated, "Since her grand opening in October 1922, all of Hollywood's greatest movies have graced her screens", implying the theater is in Hollywood.
		- The flyers for the Palace Theater's "Moonlight Drive In Movie Meal Combo" with Meetz Meats also associated the deal as occurring with the Moonlight Drive-In, the setting of the Horrorwood Dine-In scarezone which was explicitly set in Hollywood. This deal also confirms that regardless of the Universal Palace Theater's location, Meetz Meats dealt their meats outside of Ohio (possibly also implied by Meetz Meats references on the poster for Doctor Oddfellow's circus in HHN 32, and the *Meetz Locker* in New York at HHN 31).
* A business-card for Dr. Mary Agana in *Legendary Truth the Collective Case Investigation: Boris Shuster* merchandise identified Agana as being based out of Carey, Ohio. The continuity of this is unknown.
* In the Spawning, a bottle of *Sleepwell* could be seen on the desk of the water plant manager. This is a fictional drug from the 2007 haunted house *A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dreamwalkers* where it was used to prevent nightmares (and Freddy Krueger). Dr. Mary Agana (a major HHN character connected to Carey lore) was to have Sleepwell on her own desk during *Reflections of Fear* while the Caretaker had it in his medicine cabinet during *HHN Icons Captured*.
* One reported store-front easter-egg in a window at Universal Studios had a travel poster promoting visits to Carey in autumn.
* Carey has a fictional sister-city called Carae in France.
* The Jack J. Schmidt director of, "Pumpkin Guts" is a reference to Halloween Horror Nights icon, Jack Schmidt AKA *Jack the Clown*.
* In *The Wicked Growth: Realm of the Pumpkin*, the cemetery associated with the Caretaker is known as the Caine Cemetery (an allusion to the Caretaker's real name Dr. Albert Caine) rather than Shady Oaks.
* The Covered Bridge in *Wicked Growth: Realm of the Pumpkin* is an allusion to the bridge from Washington Irving's *The Legend of Sleepy Hollow* (1820) while Little Lake Sawyer references the murderous Sawyer family from *The Texas Chainsaw Massacre* (1974). It has also been used as an alternate surname for HHN icon, Eddie Schmidt.
* A 2023 poster for Halloween Horror Nights, themed to a poster for Doctor Oddfellow's circus mentioned, "Meetz Meats Burgers" being sold at his circus and the, "Wicked Growth Pumpkin Patch" sponsoring the show.
* Hellgate Prison's appearance in *Welcome to SCarey: Horror in the Heartland* may imply that the penitentiary is located within the vicinity of Carey.
* *Dead Exposure*, *Dead Exposure: Patient Zero* and *Zombiegeddon* are all haunted houses which include Carey and take place in a continuity in-which a zombie apocalypse transpires. Both Dead Exposure haunted houses contain allusions to the character of Charlie McPherson and his supposed address 1192 E. Findlay Street.
* It is possible that the entity being worshipped in *Twisted Tradition* was the Pumpkin Lord, given the connections to supernatural pumpkins in Carey, how several Pumpkin Heads accompanied the Pumpkin Lord in *Horrors of Halloween*, and how the theming of *Twisted Tradition* was similar to that of *The Wicked Growth: Realm of the Pumpkin*.
* The story Bad Following Good mentioned a Headmaster Renshaw working at an orphanage on 19th street. This is presumably connected to Mr. Renshaw, who was a teacher at Carey Elementary when Mary Worthington disappeared.
* Alice Dodgson's name was a reference to *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland*, sharing her first-name with the story's protagonist and last-name with author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (better known by his pen-name, Lewis Carroll). This is due to Alice's daughter Dianne Bennet developing a phobia of fairy-tales and being trapped in Bloody Mary's looking-glass.
* Carey would have tied into the backstory of scrapped HHN 18 icon, Nathaniel Crowe. It would have been revealed that the land on which the Caretaker's home was built was cursed land where nothing grew, and where wars were fought. After the fire burnt down the Caretaker's home, the land would go into the ownership of farmer Nathaniel Crowe. Crowe would only prosper by hosting Jack the Clown's Carnival of Carnage, and return to his struggles once the carnival left. After bleeding onto a piece of paper left by Jack, the blood would form a poem to give Crowe visions of past icons Jack the Clown, the Director, the Storyteller and the Caretaker choosing him to be the next icon and leading to crows ripping his head apart to turn into a jack o'lantern dedicated to Halloween's traditions.
	+ Nathaniel Crowe made a cameo in the haunted house *The Wicked Growth: Realm of the Pumpkin* where within Mr. Carver's Pumpkin Farm, he could be seen getting picked apart by crows.

## External links

* *Carey, Ohio on the Halloween Horror Nights Wiki.*

## References

1. ↑ https://wdwnt.com/2021/09/review-welcome-to-scarey-horror-in-the-heartland-haunted-house-at-universal-orlandos-halloween-horror-nights-30/
2. ↑ "Twisted Tradition" backstory by HHN senior show director Senior Show Director
3. ↑ Township of Carey sign.
4. ↑ https://www.piratesandprincesses.net/review-of-welcome-to-scarey-hhn30-house-at-universal-orlando/
5. ↑ https://www.hhnyearbook.com/2013/10/hhn-23-on-this-date-in-1933-bobby-the-blade-executed/
6. ↑ Possible year setting comes from "Meetz Meats pick-up 9/6/87" note on chalk board in Carver Farms
7. ↑ https://insidethemagic.net/2017/10/history-universals-halloween-horror-nights-haunted-town-carey-oh/
8. ↑ https://touringplans.com/blog/s6\_hhn2018/
9. ↑ https://universalparksnewstoday.com/2021/09/photos-scarecrow-stalk-brings-trick-or-treat-fun-to-universal-orlando-resort/
10. ↑ https://twitter.com/bioreconstruct/status/1431411327948447749