07/07/2022
What is ? Pt. 1
Hart Island is an uninhabited island in New York City’s East River. Over the past 200 years, it’s been used as a tuberculosis sanitorium, a psychiatric institution, a POW camp, a missile silo... and up to the present, a mass grave.
Over a million people are buried on Hart Island in unmarked plots. Until recently, Hart Island was maintained by the NYC Department of Corrections, with burials being performed by inmates from Rikers Island. Public access was restricted.
Because of its dark history and difficulty to access, Hart Island has always been a popular destination for urban explorers.
On October 12, 2021, we found a Reddit post from a user called u/urbexmachina, claiming they came across an occultist gathering of millionaires while exploring an abandoned section of the island.
According to u/urbexmachina, they were exploring the ruins of the sanatorium on the south side of Hart Island when they came across a fleet of town cars, private helicopters, and a cabal of high society visitors around one of the abandoned buildings.
After following the group inside, they claim to have witnessed a black-tie cocktail reception, followed by a disturbing ritual.
We might have written this off as standard Reddit creepypasta, but one detail stuck out at us:
u/urbexmachina said they heard several references to the word Skinner. “The Skinner incident,” “the Skinner situation,” “what happened in Skinner.”
That led us to look into the only place called Skinner any of us were familiar with: The tiny fishing island of Skinner, Oregon.
To be continued…
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