A Story Idea Each Day for a Month — Day 7
Let’s go creepy with this story: Broadmoor Mental Hospital: Home to some of Britain’s most notorious criminals:
The asylum hosted some of the British Empire’s most notorious criminals. Roderick MacLean, who shot at Queen Victoria at Windsor Station, was sent here in 1882 after being found “not guilty by reason of insanity”.
Possibly the most famous, though, was Dr William Chester Minor, the former US Army physician who spent 38 years in the hospital after killing a man outside his house in London after going insane.
While staying in Broadmoor, Dr Minor, a learned scholar with an enormous library, sent thousands of citations and quotations to the first Oxford English Dictionary.
Broadmoor changed from institution to hospital after the 1948 Criminal Justice Act.
In 1952 security was stepped up after a patient, J.T Straffe, escaped and killed a young girl while he was at large. Now there is a siren at the hospital — if it sounds, local schools and institutions have to lock their doors.
A cordon is also set up around the nearby village of Crowthorn and each car checked by the police.
In recent decades, the hospital’s inmates have come to include Peter Sutcliffe, the ‘Yorkshire Ripper’ jailed for murdering prostitutes in the north of England in the 1970s.
It also houses some of the country’s most serious sex offenders.
So what if there is a notorious asylum. One that had housed some of the worst and most violent criminals in history. And what if on one ungodly night (All Hallow’s Eve?), all of their deceased spirits come back to life? Does it happen every year and mayhem reigns? Is there some sort of spectral event which causes these terrors to return to haunt the earth? Is it a contained thriller where a group of students / paranormalists / hot teenagers vow to spend the night in said asylum?
Anything here with this idea?