Tanna

There's a story of a guy that was playing a joke on his friends, so he got in the elevator, kept the door open enough just to get his head through, and then pushed the button to the next floor. He was decapitated. That one? I always thought that happened at Xavier... (I wouldn't bother to Google it, I've never found any substantial proof that this happened anywhere.)

We went on the 23rd. There were hardly any roaming monsters, and only a few were willing to interact. The Clowns and the Slaughterhouse were good. I have a fear of mummers, so naturally, being a Midwesterner, and spending my youth running through cornfields, I like Cornstalkers. The evening was not as exciting as last years excursion, it's almost as if the whole evening was dulled down compared to last year. The Coney Island Midway was barren. Last year it was steeped in monsters. My big complaint was waiting an hour for Flight of Fear. It seemed they only had one car, and the crew were being very pokey and talking and joking with each other seemed more important than doing their work. Also, patrons, please watch what you eat, as a favor to the other patrons. In that hour long wait for Flight of Fear, we were trapped behind a young lady that had such terrible silent but deadly gas that I was suggesting sotto voce to my party that if someone is that sick, they should go home, and not make others sick with their noxious fumes. It was noticeable six people back from her. Another request to the patrons of the park, please I beg you. Be scared. Just walk in and laugh and be scared. The monsters need something to react to other than "I'm too cool." What's better than waiting in line and hearing the screams of people from within the Scarezone? When someone gets into the spirit of being scared, the monsters work harder, then the other people in your group get scared, the monsters work even harder, etc., and it works for both of you. We all have fun.

I found out the night it happened, from a friend who was working at KI that night. I recall him being a character actor. I don't know if he was working or on break, but he was by the Eiffel Tower when it happened. The operator of the elevator said there was a thump. then blood started running down the outside of the box. I don't want to say his name, but the character actor saw the elevator himself. He was close enough when it came down to see it. He was shaking when he talked about it. I was at his girlfriend's house at the time, (she was my cousin,) when he came over to talk about it. He was let off of work early. My aunt got him some of her best scotch, and he told us about what he saw and heard. From what the police could tell, John Harter was climbing on the inside of the tower to the top. There was no room for both him and the counterweight where he was climbing. As he was climbing up, the counterweight came down, smashing him full on, and that's when he fell onto the top of the elevator. It evidently wasn't a simple decapitation, because they had a large area taped off to look for body parts. Edit: I called my cousin and double checked the story. The counter weight was going up, caught him, and dragged him through the rollers at the top of the tower. I had my direction wrong.