Chimera House
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The Chimera House is an urban legend which consists of the usual young teens going out for a night on the town, only to stumble across a large, worn down building about 3-5 stories tall where they are offered to go on a "ride" that consists of "real" horrors inside. In the story, the teens are asked to pay a certain amount of money (anywhere from 20-100 dollars) and told they will receive a portion back for every floor they complete. The twist is that, no has ever completed the house, and the ones who tried never came back out.
Rumors state about the various horrors inside the house, from poisonous/deadly animals, to deformed humans, to the supernatural. Personal favorites among storytellers seem to be...
1-Two people go onto the ride, one disappears only to be found maimed/mutilated/dead later on by the other rider who dies of fright.
2-When the rider(s) gets to the top floor, it's filled with an excessive amount of horrific oncomings so frightening that they run from the house in pure terror and either come out completely deranged from the experience or they perish while trying to get away.
3-When the rider gets to the set of stairs that leads up to a door to the last floor, it opens onto the side of the house where the rider falls to their doom.
The legend is usually set in the south or midwest since there are a large amount of open and unknown areas in those parts. Of course, the Chimera House has never been proven to exist, though some people still search ferverently for it.
[edit] Media Similarities
- The movie "House of 1000 Corpses" by singer/film maker Rob Zombie bears a slight resemblance to the Chimera House legend, where a group of teens encounter the bizarre and freakish in a run-down house.
- Diamond Dogs, a short story by Alastair Reynolds, is about a group of people trying to get an alien artifact kept at the top of a tower protected by deathtraps.
