While we’re waiting for some more news about this year’s Halloween Horror Nights event, you’ve likely read a few blogs already about some of the more popular and interesting Halloween Horror Nights event icons. One of my personal favorite event icons is the terrifying Bloody Mary.
Dr. Mary Agana, psychiatrist, had been rejected funding by the National Association of Mental Health after it became clear she used fear as a torture device against her patients. Her attempts to cure them of their fears by immersing them fully in them resulted in two asylum admissions and one accidental death. The lovely doctor felt no sadness, only excitement. Her following few patients died as well. At one point, one of the doctors that had rejected her became a patient; she killed him outright and at that point was completely insane.
Her story begins in 1908, with her grandmother, Mary Worthington. She was a schoolteacher in a small town killed by a Halloween prank involving six students and the school handyman. Although there was blood and shards of glass everywhere, her body was never found.
Her granddaughter was Mary Agana. She inherited several heirlooms from her grandmother after her mother died; one of them was a silver music box that slowly begins t possess her. She starts her Living Fearlessly: Specialized Treatments For Fear based Ailments in 1958 and hires probably ex-cons and mental patients as her new assistants.
Of course, if that was the whole story, it would be rather boring… the next blog will talk about what happened to Mary Agana to make her into Bloody Mary.