[ WP ] The Forbidden Zone

Good evening class. Sit down, sit down. All right. This will be the fourth part of my semester lectures. Now, yesterday we covered primitive physical deities and all the myriad properties of them. Today however, we will be covering Eldritch locations and areas. or as I like to call them, `` places and spaces'' 
 
 Some, as you know, are well defined and documented, the Eternal Voyage of the steamship Comet for example. While carrying a load of iron ore, it was torpedoed off the coast of Nova Sidon. Sank within the minute taking her crew down with her. Every year, the Comet appears on the quay at the start of her final trip and makes her way for two week towards Nova Sidon till she reaches her final resting place. Once there, she suffers the same fate that has befallen her for eighty-three years. It is readily visible, and expeditions have boarded the vessel and even had conversation with the apparitions of the crew. These interviews are remarkable and were among the greatest information as to the afterlife in living memory. While we do not have time to go through them all, they are on page 137 in your textbook. Questions on them will be on the exam. 
 
 Others are far more obscure, such as the Chapel of Saint Hans of Burbage. It was built in the year 1348 by the renowned architect Jans Reiter It has the remarkable ability to `` fling'' occupants forward through time. In many ways it is a primitive time machine or cryonic device. It would be more well known if it was n't for the fact that the amount of time an occupant travels is *ahem* fuzzy. Out of the twelve people who've stayed the night, five have so far reemerged from their vigil. The shortest fling, was only three days, and the longest yet to emerge, two hundred and ten years. After being questioned, all agreed that to them, time passed only a night, regardless of the length of time traveled. This was corroborated by one of the occupants, a Mr. John Fisher who had on him his pocket watch. After reemerging the date on his watch was that of the morning after his vigil. 
 
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 Now, to finish up for today. The infamous Hangman's Hill in Ingham County, Michigan. It appeared on June 23, 1933 at 1:36 A.M. We know this because the owner of the land the hill resides on, a dairy farmer by the name of Franklin Arthur Stout, had a grandfather clock in his home just a quarter of a mile away from the Hill. This clock is visible to telescopes through the dining room window. The reason telescopes and other optical devices are used is because it is impossible to go near it. All forms of electronic device fail within a mile of Hill. This phenomenon is a perfect sphere of two miles in diameter. This is why there is a no fly zone around the area. It also continues underground. Battery powered equipment is rendered inert. Chemical lights however work as they are supposed to. If this loss of technology is disconcerting, then the second `` barrier'' is far more grim. At the half mile mark, is the Death Zone. The similarity to the mountaineering term is intentional. The name is apt. Any creature with a vertebrae suffers extreme seizures and hemorrhaging immediately after crossing the half-mile mark. No one who cross the boundary has survived. 
 However, while those facts alone would make it a place of interest, it is the hill itself that attracts the most attention. Approximately 151 meters tall, it is assume to be made of the same soil type as the surrounding area. Pinus strobus, White Pine, covers most of the hill along with Jack Pine Pinus banksiana. The Jack Pine is interesting, as most Jack Pine stands are found farther north. The focal point however is natural clearing on the South side of the hill. There, is the Hangman's Tree; a massive white oak, Quercus alba. On it, are dozens of corpses. The exact number and makeup of these corpses varies, for every night at 1:36 lightning strikes the tree and in that moment new bodies grace the tree for that day. All attempts to witness or photograph the exchange have failed. Always new corpses. Men, women, children all hang from those branches. There's is no apparent pattern to the grim fruits. People from every time and place have been found swaying in the wind. Chinese from the Ming Dynasty, business men, nurses, all sorts of peasants, roman legionaries the list is endless. I myself, once saw one of Napoleon's Marshals there. Call it an average of 26 bodies a day... nearly 3/4 of a million people have grace that tree. 
 
 Anyways, class is just about done. Remember! Your papers are due in my inbox at 2:30 on Monday. Have a good one.
