Weird Wednesday: Urban Legends

[sherlockian-syn.livejournal.com]

Hello, everyone! I’m sherlockian_syn and this week is full of spooky themes! Today's theme is urban legends. Prompts can be related to scary stories told around the campfire (or a flashlight) that are meant to unsettle you. Is it some kind of curse? Will something (or someone) appear at a certain time on a certain day in a certain place? Go wild!

Just a few rules:
No more than five prompts in a row.
No more than three prompts in the same fandom.
Use the character's full names and fandom's full name for ease adding to the Lonely Prompts spreadsheet.
No spoilers in prompts for a month after airing, or use the spoiler cut option found here.
If your fill contains spoilers, warn and leave plenty of space, or use the above mentioned spoiler cut.

Prompts should be formatted as follows: [Use the character's full names and fandom's full name]
Fandom, Character +/ Character, Prompt

Some examples to get the ball rolling...
+ Astro, any, someone mentions a curse in passing and it puts everyone on edge
+ Stargate Atlantis, any, discussing how Atlantis was once only a legend
+ Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes (+/ any), Legend of Sleepy Hollow AU

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Not feeling any of today’s prompts? Check out the just created Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet. For more recent prompts to write, you can also use LJ’s advanced search options to limit keyword results to only comments in this community.

While the Lonely Prompts Spreadsheet and LJ's advanced search options are available, bookmarking the links of prompts you like might work better for searching for in the future.


tag=urban legends

Comments

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Prodigal Son, Edrisa + any, she's excited that their latest crime scene is in the 'haunted abandoned insane asylum.'

Fill: Edrisa + Malcolm + Dani (Monster Hunters 'verse)

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

“This is so exciting!” Edrisa exclaimed. “I’ve been dying to come here!”

“Inside voice,” Dani reminded her. “We’re being stealthy, remember?”

“Oh, right. Sorry.”

There was silence for almost a full sixty seconds. Dani was counting in her head.

“Dr. Kendall was employed here for almost forty years. He was really interested in the way the human brain works.”

“Experiments?” Dani asked Malcolm.

“Most likely,” Malcolm replied.

“Wonderful.”

Ferncliff Island Asylum was creepy enough without adding medical experiments into the mix. The massive building had been abandoned for almost seventy years. The glass in the barred windows was broken, the grounds were hopelessly overgrown, and the inside of the building was littered with organic debris, small animal corpses, and abandoned equipment.

“Did you know Dr. Kendall mastered the transorbital lobotomy at least ten years before Freeman? He was really innovative.”

“Is she hero-worshipping a crazy asylum doctor?” Dani asked Malcolm.

“She has eclectic interests,” Malcolm replied.

“Eclectic. Right.”

Ferncliff looked exactly like the type of place that would be crawling with ghosts, but that’s not why Dani and her team were there. Dani’s Watcher, Gil, was pretty sure something unnatural had moved in. They needed to figure out what that something was.

“Dr. Ballen was here before Kendall, and he was a real monster,” Edrisa said. Her flashlight beam moved erratically from ceiling to floor to wall. “Lots of surgeries without any pain medication or anesthesia, although to be fair, the use of anesthesia wasn’t used much at that time. Can you imagine having surgery while you were wide awake?”

“She’s going to give me nightmares,” Dani muttered. “And that’s really saying something.”

“Edrisa, what can you tell us about the building?” Malcolm asked.

Thus redirected, Edrisa filled them in on the history of Ferncliff, from the time it was built to the time it was abandoned. The stories got a little less gruesome and a lot sadder, but all things considered, Dani would take it.

They didn’t encounter any ghosts, despite Ferncliff being the perfect setting for a haunting. And they didn’t encounter anything else, either. No creature. Not even the hint of one.

It was possible Gil just wanted to get them out of the library for the day.

“You guys, this was the best day!” Edrisa enthused when they finally left Ferncliff.

Dani and Malcolm shared a grin, even though Dani was tired from slogging through the entirety of the abandoned asylum.

Maybe Edrisa’s enthusiasm wasn’t such a bad thing. Sometimes.

Re: Fill: Edrisa + Malcolm + Dani (Monster Hunters 'verse)

[vanillafluffy.livejournal.com]

That was fun! Made me think of a cross between "The House on Haunted Hill" (the Geoffrey Rush remake) and the real life Waverly Hilly sanatorium. Uber creepy!

Re: Fill: Edrisa + Malcolm + Dani (Monster Hunters 'verse)

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it!

Re: Fill: Edrisa + Malcolm + Dani (Monster Hunters 'verse)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. Love it. Died over Dani telling Edrisa inside voice and Malcolm and Edrisa geeking a bit about the asylum (yes Gil was just trying to get rid of them). The local asylum here was one Freeman did a lot of work in

Re: Fill: Edrisa + Malcolm + Dani (Monster Hunters 'verse)

[brumeier.livejournal.com]

Some creepy, terrible stuff happened back in the day under the heading of 'medical exploration'. Yeesh. But I'm so glad you liked this! Edrisa would be so fascinated by the history there, even the seriously morally dubious stuff. LOL!

Re: Fill: Edrisa + Malcolm + Dani (Monster Hunters 'verse)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

definitely dubious stuff (but it gives me some talking points with my nursing and pre med students) Edrisa definitely would be (Malcolm too, it's scary how many interests they share)