File X13 · Archived 2014–2017
Before the Sleep Study: The Xperiment 13 File
From Dr. Frederick Darling · Recovered Oct 19, 2026 · Fiction
People ask how long I’ve been doing this work in Cayce. Longer than you’d think. Hall of Horrors has been open, in one form or another, for decades. My part of it began in 2014.
2014 · Xperiment 13
Brentwood Behavioral. The first time my work was opened to the public. On Blackout Nights, each visitor got one glow stick and no lights. I showed them the way myself.
2015 · X13: Evil Never Dies
They closed the hospital. It did not stay closed. Neither did I.
2016 · The Experiment 13 Project
The third year. By then the staff had learned not to ask what was behind the .
2017 · Origins
The year they told my story: where I came from, and what I became. That October the grounds outside were overrun, and visitors had to fight their way out through the Mission: Survival Zombie Experience. Some of my earlier patients did not take well to .
The quiet years
I stepped away. Other things moved into the building while I was gone. A stockyard. A blood moon. Vampires. A farm and the witch beneath it. A funeral director and his museum. I kept notes on all of them. Memory is my specialty.
2026 · R.E.M.
Now I’m back, with a subject whose nightmares are something better than dreams.
Every file I’ve kept points to the same conclusion:
— F.D.
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