Personnel Files

John Black

At 17, John Black ran away from his small backwoods Alabama town to join the American Expeditionary Force heading to Europe in 1917. The “grand” adventure turned into everlasting horror. After suffering a permanent facial disfiguration, John returned home hoping to find peace in his old life. When he returned, he found his entire town decimated by a polio outbreak, and worse yet, his facial disfiguration prevented him from finding work.
Turning to the West as a final escape, John traveled to the desert to find a quiet living as a prospector. No one knows what happened to him those first few years in the desert. Something finally pushed him over the edge into criminal insanity. He was eventually captured, found cowering in a corner of his small shack chewing on human flesh. After being convicted of multiple counts of murder, John was sent to ASLA for treatment. After being admitted, there is no further mention of John except for one note in Dr. Ambrosi’s journal.

NOTE FROM DR. AMBROSI:
"The patient’s facial disfiguration is so severe it is causing the other patients to fall into fits of psychosis. In order to prevent this from happening, I have had a steel mask welded around his face. Hopefully, this will also prevent him from eating any more nurses."

Dr. Ambrosi PhD

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