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#imagining Dean geeking out about all the superhero movies that had catches at the cable cars actually
deanwasalwaysbi · 2 years
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Insane actually that Sam and Dean never had a hunt in New York City, specifically on Roosevelt Island.
It has to actually be one of the most concentrated hauntings in the entire United States. Only 2 miles long and 800 ft wide at its widest point, then Blackwell Island housed prisons, "lunatic asylums", and the city's mandatory smallpox quarantine hospital all at the same time.
30,000 people died in the Renwick smallpox hospital alone. Patients were as likely to die from the conditions there as they were of the disease. Locals still speak about strange lights and noises coming from the roofless ruin at the island's southern tip.
Nearby visitors say they can hear the inmates of Blackwell Penitentiary working in the neighboring quarry where they were sentenced to hard labor breaking the stones used to build Renwick.
Ships were regularly wrecked at the north end of the island which sticks out of the Hudson River and came to be known as "Hell's Gate".
People currently live in the 500 condos that were built inside the former insane asylum. The hospital treated its 1,700 patients so terribly that Nellie Bly's famous expose on the place sparked outrage and an overhaul of the entire mental health industry. Residents claim their pets refuse to go in certain areas of their apartments. In the shadow of New York City, one of its inmates literally escaped and built a fortress to protect the island from an invasion he'd decided was coming. The wall still stands accompanied by a poem he carved into the rock asking passersby to pray for his soul.
It's serene and peaceful now, but it is unclear just how many tens of thousands died in these quarantined institutions.
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Also, I just want to see Dean freak out in a cute & funny way in a lil cable car high above the water.
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