[Music] I've been in and out of prisons and jails ever since I was 17 I thought I had seen it all Aryan Brotherhood members stabbing guards gang wars escapes and torture I saw many things that still give me nightmares to this day McDonald 42202 the guard barked out I jumped up the thin mattress under me exhaling a whiff of stale air I looked through the bars seeing correctional officer Shay Co Shay was a morbidly obese man with a penchant for being loud and lazy I had seen a member of the Bloods punch him straight in
the nose before a scene I still remembered with some humor sheay had crumpled like wet paper on the floor screaming and crying as more cos ran over and tackled the inmate yeah I asked Shay handed me a sheet of paper he regarded me with his gray colorless eyes congratulations you're being transferred pack your this is your last day at Springfield Correctional Center you might think I would be happy to get a transfer SEC was after all a hole the food was terrible and always cold the place always smelled like bleach and chemicals and at night
it got so cold with only my flimsy sheep sheet that I regularly woke up shivering the building was nearly a century old and the fact that it still functioned at all was a miracle in itself but to be honest I was not thrilled about the transfer I had made friends here and knew the lay of the land I didn't have to worry about getting jumped or stabbed to death in the showers as the old adage goes It's better the devil you know than the one you don't I was led out of my the next evening
with all the worldly possessions I owned which fit neatly into a clear trash bag with room to spare I owned some prison clothes toothpaste a toothbrush deodorant a Bible a pair of sandals and a radio I felt the unbearable lightness of my existence reflected in that bag as it smacked rhythmically against my leg good luck friend Josh a rather insane acquaintance of mine named Alvin called out from his cell as I passed down the Bleak concrete hallway take care man I hope we meet again on the outside I said waving knowing I would almost certainly
never see any of these people again hell I hadn't even seen my family in over 5 years none of them came to visit me anymore no one wrote me letters put money in my commissary account or sent me books to read well we're all born alone and we all die alone I thought to myself as CA walked by my side he was breathing heavily as if he had just finished running a marathon I looked over at his face seeing the burst capillaries on his nose from years of hard drinking and the squint of his little
piggy eyes there was a slight gleam of intelligence and sness behind that ugly mug though well Amigo Shay said in his slow plotting way I got assigned to go with you I'll be your ride along buddy are you excited or what I smiled faintly at him there are worse people than you here Shay I said far worse I got on the prison bus in my bright orange jumpsuit to my surprise I saw the back was nearly empty there was only one other prisoner in the back sheay sat with us to monitor us we were also
handcuffed and Ankle cuffed a chain ran down and connected the two I looked over at the other prisoner a black guy with a shaved head I think he also shaved his eyebrows I mean I literally didn't see a single hair on his head besides eyelashes which he apparently hadn't found a way to shave yet su he said I nodded Su we sat there in awkward silence as sheay plopped down hard on the bench between us it groaned like a confused old man so what do you know about this place Shay I asked he sucked down
half a bottle of coke and then heaved a deep sigh I don't know much about it to be frank he admitted sheepishly it is apparently brand new though they asked us to send a couple people who met certain criteria what does that mean the black guy asked Shay gave him a serious look come on Timmy you know what I mean hardened criminals people with long Records who tour prisons like some people tour French beaches I scoffed there are far worse people than me in prison I said well they asked for no murderers or gang bangers
too I don't know why but maybe it is some new government program they apparently call it an experimental prison what about me Timmy asked Shay apparently knew what he meant you're not a murderer Timmy Shay said his lips forming the faintest twitch of a smile you never well there was that time my girlfriend got me to drop some acid with her she went and killed her parents then we hit the Road Timmy said fondly his eyes Rising as if he were looking at a hovering angel in the far off distance you were never convicted of
any accessory charges so it doesn't count sheay retorted oh it counts Timmy drawled in his slow plotting way it counts everything in life counts if I've learned anything in the last 36 years it's that you can never truly Escape anything you've done good or bad I couldn't see much from the prison van there was a small shatterproof window in The Swinging back doors but it only gave a fleeting view of what was behind us I noticed the dark forests stretching out to the Horizon over Rolling Hills we drove for a few hours the three of
us bullshitted talking about everything from Sports to politics to the recent Spate of fatal stabbings at sec I felt the van stop I looked out the back window seeing more endless trees I didn't see a single house or car on the road we had taken this place is a ghost town I said Shay nodded yeah it's dead as Frank Sinatra around here Shay said weezing out a high-pitched laugh at his own joke this area used to be big for coal mining but as it dried up and people lost their jobs they moved away you know
my grandfather was a coal miner good place to build a prison huh Timmy asked if there is no one around we were cut off by a clanging alarm up ahead I heard something large moving probably the gate opening then we were inside I saw the guard towers and rolls of razor wire for a brief moment as the van pulled into an open garage the darkness immediately blanketed us the garage door slowly rolled shut behind us Shay jumped up let's get you boys inside so I can take off your handcuffs and everything he said motioning for
us to follow he pulled out a flashlight from his belt guiding us through the pitch black the dim Light Sent Shadows racing across the room like groping tentacles I caught glimpses of strange objects in the darkness they looked like medieval torture devices what is this place I whispered my voice echoed far too loudly off the cold concrete floor and walls those look like torture devices on that table sheay I think those bloody things are thumb screws and that might be a pair of Anguish I pointed to the pear-shaped object with three Wicked blades whose points
came together sitting on a a Dusty shelf the ornate handle had Springs connected to it the object could be forced into any human orifice and when the Springs were engaged it would open like a flower inside the person's body ripping their flesh apart and enlarging that orifice to a bloody gaping hole how do you know so much about this Shay asked giving me a strange look he narrowed his little piggy eyes he continued to Fumble with the flashlight peering around for a door to exit the garage I looked back at the car and saw the
driver just sitting there his entire body as lifeless and still as a mannequin I've read a few books I said as Timmy interrupted us I see a little red light glowing under that door Timmy said Shay focused his flashlight on the spot across the room I noticed what Timmy was pointing at it was an ancient looking black door the wood had started to crack and Splinter down the middle engraved in silver on the front it said entrance to North Frost Penitentiary hello Shay called toward the door as the three of us moved forward the steel
chains giving my steps a clinking Rhythm sheay reached the antique crystal door knob Timmy and I stood next to a dust covered Brazen bull its bronze mouth wide open as if it were silently roaring at us as sheay pulled open the door Crimson light flooded into the garage tinted black glass covered the back wall a speaker button sat next to the window I looked to my right seeing a massive sign sprawled across the wall there it read rules for personal conduct at North Frost rule one the cosos without faces don't work here and we don't
know who they are if you see one press one of the buttons labeled emergency dispatch that are scattered around the complex rule two when the Red emergency lights come on hide until they shut off rule three do not go into the medical ward for any reason rule 4 the warden roams the prison every night at 3:33 am looking for human meat don't let him catch you what is this a goddamn joke Timmy asked his dark face forming into a scowl uh well Shay rubbed the back of his neck looking like an obese little boy who
lost his parents I've never been here before but this is all pretty unusual I'll admit a buzzing came from the back of the room and suddenly a garish echoing intercom turned on please remove their chains and direct them through the door on the left a female robotic voice said calmly in a tone as cool as lemonade on a hot day your transfer will then be complete Shay sighed in relief good he grunted this place gives me the creeps bro you can't leave us here Timmy protested what the is this place where is everyone why is
there a room filled with bloody ancient torture devices next to the garage Shay put up his hands I'm sorry son but I have orders I'm just a messenger here I was told to transfer you here and that's what I've done he fumbled around his belt for his key ring he came over and unlocked the handcuffs and Ankle cuffs from both of us I stretched rubbing my wrists I was glad to be out of those suffocating restraints thanks for everything then I said picking up my extremely light garbage bag of possessions and heading for the door
on the left Timmy reluctantly followed behind a sign on this door read to general population but when we got to the other side and it slammed shut behind us I found a hallway filled with more red emergency lights streaming down an involuntary shiver ran down through my body I remembered those absurd rules someone had put up what had it said about red lights my mind raced for a few moments then the answer popped up it said to hide a man shrieked up ahead his voice riddled with Agony and Terror the hallway split to the right
and left and I couldn't see anyone Timmy and I stopped dude screw this Timmy said turning and running back toward the door we had come through he tried pulling it open but it was firmly locked the scream came again louder and closer but this time it was cut off suddenly I heard someone gurgling like a man with a slit throat trying to breathe and then everything went deathly silent again the gray concrete floor of the hallway had arrows pointing forward on it there were no doors here there was nowhere to hide that I could see
Timmy and I reluctantly went forward as we got to the intersection we saw the dead body of a man in a brown khaki uniform his sightless eyes remained open they stared up at the ceiling glassy and still filled with horror deep gouge marks bit deeply into the Flesh on his back and arms and chest his throat had been cut or bit open as well a spreading puddle of blood encircled his body I saw a dark blur at the end of the hallway on the right it looked like little more than a shadow I whispered to
Timmy pointing we decided to go left immediately my heart was pounding at this point I felt like a soldier walking through the No Man's Land of a war zone I expected the attack to come at any moment the hallway to the left had some doors I sprinted forward as quietly as I could with Timmy closed by my side I read the first door to medical ward h no I whispered going to the second one I heard light footsteps behind me turning I saw a creature from a nightmare sneaking up on us in the bloody glow
of the emergency lights its skin was black and shiny like that of a centipedes in its general form it reminded me of a hairless werewolf it towered over us its eyes like bone white cataracts its claws as long and sharp as a dagger and yet its face seemed almost reptilian it had two small nose holes like a snake and a jaw that unhinged and dropped far below its head I saw rows of blood soaked fangs it gave off a low gurgling growl that emanated from its chest with a rush of adrenaline and a sense of
mortal Terror I pushed through the second door without reading the sign on the front Timmy was right behind me I heard him scream as he fell into me I found myself in a prison dormatory and we weren't alone as I hit the ground I saw a white face peering out at me from behind the bunk bed the man hiding there saw the Abomination behind us and got up screaming and running away the creature growled giving Chase in two powerful bounds it had rushed across the dormatory and grabbed the man by the neck I looked back
at Timmy seeing him groaning on the ground blood poured from Deep cuts on his back I grabbed him pulling him up let's go let's go no time to I said when I was cut off by the sound of a neck snapping I looked back seeing the creature had Twisted the man's head around in a circle it raised the limp body to its massive mouth and severed the head in a single powerful bite get me out of here man please Timmy whispered as I pulled him back out into the hallway I looked over seeing another werewolf
creature bounding down the hallway chasing a man in a prison jumpsuit I had no choice I pulled Timmy toward the door labeled medical ward with a creek of rusted hinges it opened we went inside to hide maybe there's something in here we can use to bandage you up I said to Timmy pulling him down the short hallway toward a room filled with single beds I didn't know why the rules said to avoid this place it looked totally empty against the back wall I saw a glass cabinet filled with bandages rubbing alcohol Band-Aids and other various
first aid supplies I ran toward it Timmy limped along after me still groaning godamn I think those claws went down to the bone he said it's going to be okay I said as I pulled out some antiseptic and bandages adding it could have been a lot worse the universe would immediately prove me right I heard a slight giggling from under one of the beds Timmy and I both froze two rotted hands reached out dragging the mutilated body of a little girl behind them she had patches of garish black stitches running across her face hands and
arms dark clotted blood dripped from the sights she wore a gors smeared hospital gown and had had no eyes I looked into the empty sockets they stared back at me like two black holes spinning in the void as she Rose her Giggles became full-blown laughter a hysterical gurgling like the laugh of a dying person then she ran at me I saw the silver gleam of a scalpel in her little hand no I screamed raising my hands to protect myself the scalpel came down slicing across my Palm it cut deeply a cold burning pain ran up
my arm I repressed the urge to scream at that moment the Red emergency lights flicked off bright fluorescent lights popped on flickering and strobing in Rapid succession Timmy ran forward tackling the undead girl but I saw more small hands reaching out from under the beds hands filled with Soares and squirming larv I could see the bones of their hands through necrotic patches eaten into their flesh I ran for Timmy grabbing him and Hauling him up time to go now I screamed pulling him forward as more Undead boys and girls rose up all with sharp knives
and surgical instruments grasped in their little hands I felt a sudden pain in my leg looking down I saw a knife sticking out of my thigh the empty eye sockets of a little boy's face stared up at me grinning like a skull I collapsed on the ground as we were surrounded I prayed to God then knowing we would die I prayed that he would forgive me for all my mistakes because I was on a fast track to the afterlife and would be seeing him in a few seconds with a sharp Cry of pain I yanked
the knife out of my leg turned in it on my attacker then a gunshot rang out the head of the nearest girl exploded in a shower of bone fragments and dead maggots I looked up seeing sheay standing at the door his pistol raised come on he screamed come on you idiots let's go now Timmy and I didn't need any more encouragement as sheay continued to blow apart the nearest of the undead Abominations we limped and scrambled towards him my leg gave a shriek of pain with every step we got out of the medical ward battered
and bruised but still alive why' you come back Shay I asked through pained breaths Shay gave me a frantic look when I got back out to the car the driver was dead his throat was ripped out or something I don't know I grabbed his keys and came back for you two I don't know where we are but I'm getting you out of here he explained I looked at him in amazement I had never thought in a million years sheay would risk his life to save some scumbag inmates so what's the plan Timmy asked sweating heavily
his eyes wild and pained how are we getting out of here without dying Shay Shrugged the door locked behind us when we came in I said unless we can break it down and get back to the car we passed by buttons labeled emergency dispatch under glowing red emergency signs I wondered if we could get help somehow through them halt someone cried from behind us I looked back seeing a man in a black Correctional officer's uniform he ran toward us his hand on the radio hanging from his belt but something immediately medely seemed off about the
figure as he got closer I realized why he had no face his entire head was just smooth white skin without hair or any signs of features he spoke again and the voice seemed to come from all around his body you must report to the medical ward the strange figure said we do not allow injured people in the hallways no we're fine Shay said grinning see buddy I work for the doc too he pointed at the identification clipped to his breast pocket the figure raised his radio to his lips we have resistance near dormatory 1 the
fake Co said Into His Radio before any of us could stop him sheay ran forward knocking the radio from his hand the co instantly straightened up and whipped out his pistol pointing it at Shea's torso he fired and I saw Shea's chest explode in a blossoming flower of blood no damn it Timmy said running forward I saw a silver gleam in his hand and I realized he had taken one of the scalpel from the undead sheay had killed in the medical ward as the fake Co spun to point the pistol at Timmy Timmy ran into
him stabbing the scalped deeply into the CO's neck they fell together with Timmy on top of the fake Co his body weight drove the scalpel deeper into the white featureless skin blood the color of soot spurted from the wound the gun went off the bullet missing Timmy entirely and smashing into the ceiling the CO's gurgling death gasps seemed to come from all around his body I grabbed Timmy get the guns I said they're both dead we need the guns he nodded grabbing the CO's gun and taking an extra Magazine from his belt I did the
same with Shay's gun and magazine I pressed the button labeled emergency dispatch as more Faceless Men appeared far off down the corridor then we fled as fast as we could from that hallway but seeing as we were both in pretty bad shape shape it wasn't very fast at that point I was just glad to be alive though we wandered around the prison avoiding the faceless cosos whenever we saw them patrolling the hallways they would radio to each other their voices always surrounding their bodies rather than coming from their heads which I found extremely eerie and
unsettling a couple times I saw Men In Black SWAT suits with automatic rifles gunning down the fake cosos I wondered if this was the emergency dispatch Timmy and I avoided them as well and we gave a wide birth anytime we heard gunfire we passed cells with mummified corpses hanging from the ceiling we passed dormitories where the victims of the strange werewolflike creatures littered the floors rotting and stinking like roadkill occasionally I would catch a glimpse of another Survivor a pale face peeking out from some hiding spot but Timmy and I kept pushing forward looking for
a way out we were in a sprawling gymnasium sitting down and resting for a few minutes when we encountered the warden we heard a demonic Roar from the hallway a mixing of many strange inhuman tongues as Timmy and I sat up quickly a decapitated body flew into the gym and a Creature From Hell Followed after it the body smacked into the concrete wall with a soft fleshy whack the warden stood 10 ft tall he had on a black Correctional officer's uniform and a leather visor cap his face looked like it had no flesh a thick
layer of bone covered it with two reptilian eyes peering out from behind slitted pupils he hissed a forked tongue shooting out of his gaping ma his fingers looked like Sharp daggers of bone a smell like old leather and Blood Rose from his body shoot it I screamed raising the pistol and firing at its head the first shot blew off its visor cap revealing the hairless reptilian skull underneath but the bullet only gouged the top of its skull it ran at us with powerful bounding steps covering the distance in moments Timmy and I fired as fast
as we could as it got within a few feet of us it bounded into Timmy like a freight train hitting a car Timmy's body went flying and smashed against the back wall with the sound of Bones shattering I slammed another magazine in the pistol as the warden turned to me we had hit it I saw one of its eyes had exploded in a shower of Gore and vitous fluid and its head was bleeding badly I raised the gun aiming for the same eye and firing the warden smacked his hand against his face as if he
had forgotten something falling to the floor I ran forward putting the pistol Point Blank against his ruined eye before emptying the clip by the end he wasn't moving anymore oh God I said walking over to Timmy I saw his shattered legs his broken spine and his snapped ribs he coughed up blood I'm sorry Timmy I really am his head might have nodded slightly as he died giving a final death gasp before falling still I found a ring of keys on the warden's body in excitement I ran downstairs and tried the locked door it worked I
went to the van pulling out the dead driver and starting it after smashing through the garage door I drove it through the gate it did catastrophic damage to the prison van but it got me far enough away before the engine gave out I don't know what kind of prison that was but I hope I never see that hellscape again
