THE STORY
The urban legend of the Bishop Factory Butcher has led to countless rumors and speculation. The following is the true account of the events that led to the deaths of nine women and to the creation of the place now known as the Necropolis. Bishop Manufacturing closed its doors in August 2003. Two women that had worked at the plant were reported missing in the following weeks, both under suspicious conditions. Over the next four months, seven more women were reported missing, leaving friends and family scrambling to have their loved one's face appear on every street corner and kiosk.
Amid the Christmas cheer, a downtown shopkeeper noticed a gruesome scene and alerted the police. They arrived to find a woman, battered and bloody, clawing her way down the alley. As they approached, the woman became hysterical. With rapid speech, she wove a story of abduction and torture for six days at the hands of a sadistic madman. While she was taken for medical attention, the officers inspected the location she reported her dreadful ordeal had taken place, none other than the recently vacant Bishop Manufacturing. The officers were not prepared for what they found.
They stumbled into a horrific scene of ghoulish slaughter, ripped from the screen of a horror movie. A blood soaked chair under hot lights filled the center of a small room. A table with various implements of torture and dissection were within arms reach of the horrible chair. Lining the walls of the room were shelves of video tapes. The officers later discovered the video tapes contained hundreds of hours of torture and mutilation of the nine local women reported missing over the past few months. Even more repulsive was the record of each woman's slow, agonizing death.
Other rooms of the vacant Bishop Manufacturing plant were filled with rotting corpses and body parts. The media had dubbed him the Bishop Factory Butcher and the old plant a Necropolis, city of the dead, due to the number of bodies found inside.
The butcher's identity was pieced together from his macabre videos and from the statements of his only surviving victim. He was Charles Gish, a former employee of Bishop Manufacturing and a shy, quiet, loner with no previous record of malevolence. It was the call of one woman that set up Mr. Gish for arrest. She called campus security when a man, matching the description of Charles Gish, was leering at her through her dorm room window. The killer then fled into a nearby wooded area. When police arrived, Charles was standing calmly under a tree, daring them to come at him, acting as though we wanted to be caught.
A search of Mr. Gish's apartment revealed that he was actively pursuing several more women. It was also discovered that Mr. Gish had an affinity to wearing women's clothing and a full clown costume was found. The Bishop Factory Butcher later revealed his life-long desire to be a clown and that he would sometimes wear the costume while torturing his victims.
At his trial, Mr. Gish seemed to revel in the re-living of his crimes and in the anguish of his victim's families. The trial was quick with a unanimous guilty verdict and a quick sentence of death by electrocution. Several so-called experts of the paranormal spoke out in opposition to the capital punishment of the Bishop Factory Butcher. Dr. Fredrick Oerlock made many appearances, claiming that Charles Gish was more than a man. He was pure evil and the only thing holding back the fullness of his wrath was his mortal body. Dr. Oerlock claimed putting Mr. Gish to death would only unleash this evil. "No one should feel safe at that place. The pure negative energy released at that location due to the countless hours of pain and torture and the deaths of nine innocent women have made the boundary between our world and the spirit world very thin and may have even punched holes in it. Anyone entering that place is at risk of slipping into a world that exists only in his mind. The Bishop Manufacturing plant is truly a necropolis, a city of the dead."
Most dismissed these claims, but not all were deaf to his pleas. Despite the warnings, Charles Gish was, in fact, put to death. Many hoped the execution would allow the community to finally put the tragic events behind them. However, strange things continued to happen at the plant, and the nine women were not the last to die.
A popular tabloid television series, American Maniacs, sent a team of investigators to the Bishop Manufacturing plant. Included in the team was a psychic and a camera crew. Madam Rainita Meldore claimed that if he was an evil presence, his signature would be left at the place of his crimes. The TV special showed her entering the plant, obviously agitated and affected. She described an inconceivable number of voices crying out to her from deep within the building. She told how she felt pulled into the building by souls flocking to it like a beacon. The remainder of their experience is documented only by the audio equipment, as the video flickered out. On these takes you can hear a mix of screams and eerie whispering sounds, possibly the voices of the dead.
This is, however, all that is known about the Madam and her camera man. Her sound technician was found six days later, battered and bloody, clawing his way out of the same ally where the surviving victim of Charles Gish was found. The technician fell into some form of shock catatonia and has not spoken a word or made any human contact since the ordeal.
In the months that followed, the abandoned Bishop Manufacturing Plant became a place for teenagers to test their courage. That is, until several went missing, and have never been heard from again. A lone video tape was found just inside the entrance to the plant. It showed footage filmed by one of the teenagers who disappeared. Just before the tape ends, something attacks the young man. Some people swear that if you pause the tape at just the right moment, you can almost make out what looks like a clown.
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