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October 11 1931, Los Angeles.
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A conflagration of biblical proportions
incinerates nearly everyone...
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...in what was once LA's
most celebrated medical facility:
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The Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute
For the Criminally Insane.
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But the secret this inferno burned free
was far more frightening...
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...than any picture
Hollywood could produce.
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A sanitarium of slaughter...
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...supervised by a surgeon gone mad:
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Richard Benjamin Vannacutt.
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Doctor Richard Benjamin Vannacutt.
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Little known today...
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...but likely the most prolific
mass murderer of this century.
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He out-butchered Bundy.
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He made Manson look meek.
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And the site ofhis carnage
still exists today...
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...restored almost to its original state.
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But it has yet to be inhabited1
because some say...
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...the spirits of Vannacutt and his victims...
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...still live within the walls
of the House on Haunted Hill.
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No shit.
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We'll be back with more
Terrifying But True in a moment.
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No need, baby.
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You just gave me everything I needed.