Summerhill Institute to Re-Open

 

Contributing Writer Samantha Darvill Nov 8, 20107

When we think about law enforcement and containment of supernatural beings in South Texas, from San Antonio to as far south as McAllen, only one name comes to mind: The Texas State Department of Supernatural Corrections.  But it soon will have competition.

With an outcry from organizations like HUF, and backed financially by religious groups like The Order of St. George, the governor's office is under increasing pressure to step up its game, as it were, to secure us from the worst of the supernatural community.

"The Vault is a security breach waiting to happen." San Judia Police Cheif Jeffery Harper said in an interview on Monday.  "We know it's going to crack.  That's inevitable.  We need a better, more secure way to deal with dangerous monsters."

When pressed for any more suggestions, Harper said that since banishment was becoming increasingly problematic, the only solution shy of execution was a stronger holding facility.  That led the discussion to the Summerhill Institute.

In 1892 the structure was completed by Austin St James, who made his torture in oil after the Civil War.  Since then questions of the safety of the structure have come into question, following the deaths of many of the crew who worked on it's construction.  Darren Cross, a representative of the Order has gone on the record as saying that the Institute was ready to accept guests, sharing the belief of Cheif Harper, that the Vault was just one more breach away from being shut down by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.  "The Vault has failed inspection four years in a row..." Harper said.  "At this point its not a matter of if it gets shut down, but when."

"When that happens..." Cross added, "Summerhill will be waiting."

"Our security is state of the art, and most of the containment structure is located underground.  We also will be employing the brightest psychiatric and medical minds to the institute to oversee recovery and rehabilitation."

Of course, questions of its status as one of the most haunted locations in the state are valid due to almost two hundred years of eyewitness accounts.   With no hard evidence to prove the existence of these apparitions, the public can only trust in HUF and the Order to have their best interests at heart.

"I do not believe for a second that either the Order or HUF have anything close to the public's best interest in mind." Said local werewolf leader Erich King earlier today.  "I've spoken to (head of the LO Vampire Council) Robert Warner and we agree that there is a lot wrong with the Summerhill Institute."

"There has always been a darkness that presides over that estate." Robert Warner confirmed, "I would not leave my worst enemy in that structure, much less an impressionable young, human, mind."