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The construction manager, Rick, told me that a year or two ago a couple of employees came to look at sector D’s mechanical penthouse, which is on the roof of the three-storey portion of the complex and is full of ductwork. In the plans for the Villebois Community, which is being built on the old Dammasch site, the three-storey building is left standing and they wanted to discuss removing the mechanical penthouse to put up a gazebo and a gas fireplace, amongst other amenities.
They were walking back to the office when they found blood on the 2nd floor. They decided to follow the drops. The first drops they found were dried, but became wetter and more numerous the closer they got to the source. At one place they found blood spattered holes in the wall, possibly created with a pipe. They followed the drops down to the morgue, where they found huge, wet puddles of blood, as though the person had just stood in one place and bled out. There were also footprints and bloody hand prints all over the wall indicating the person had gone round and round and round the morgue.
They were walking back to the office when they found blood on the 2nd floor. They decided to follow the drops. The first drops they found were dried, but became wetter and more numerous the closer they got to the source. At one place they found blood spattered holes in the wall, possibly created with a pipe. They followed the drops down to the morgue, where they found huge, wet puddles of blood, as though the person had just stood in one place and bled out. There were also footprints and bloody hand prints all over the wall indicating the person had gone round and round and round the morgue.
Startled and worried, Rick and his guests ran back to the office to call the police. Several officers arrived and every one spent hours searching the building. They searched every room, every nook and cranny but couldn’t find the injured person. They did find his entry point, however: a window with broken glass in the frame. The glass had blood on it and it was clear that he’d been badly cut by the glass as he entered the building. They never found him; they ran an analysis on the blood but no ID came up. They assumed that he was a lost ex-patient and figured he must have exited from the same window he entered, although they found no evidence outside the window that he’d actually left.
Some time elapsed before the film-makers came to shoot their movie at Dammasch. When they did, the film crew washed the bloody hand-prints off the morgue’s tiled wall. The drippy blood on the wall in the first image below is all that remains of that night. The image next to it is a photo of bloody-looking tubes I found on the floor and the far right image is a mistake made by my scanner!
Some time elapsed before the film-makers came to shoot their movie at Dammasch. When they did, the film crew washed the bloody hand-prints off the morgue’s tiled wall. The drippy blood on the wall in the first image below is all that remains of that night. The image next to it is a photo of bloody-looking tubes I found on the floor and the far right image is a mistake made by my scanner!
