The Monument Mythos

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The Monument Mythos is an analog horror web original series featuring a number of Eldritch locations across the United States the viewer is likely to already know as national landmarks.

Available on Mister Manticore’s YouTube channel, and ran from 2020 to 2023. A playlist can be found here.

Tropes used in The Monument Mythos include:

• Alternate History: Many things in this history of the United States occur differently than in real life.
• Apocalypse How: By 2020 Alcatraz has reached west Texas.
• Big Applesauce: The Libertylurker resided beneath the Statue of Liberty, and a special tree was moved to the Rockefeller Center.
• Bizarre Alien Biology: A few examples:
  • The corner folk are seemingly capable of traveling between and jumping between planes.
  • Alcatraz Island is capable of reproduction. Exposure to radiation speeds it up, and by 2020 it extends to west Texas.
  • The Special Tree the Washington Monument was built around. The monument can bend, and has odd capabilities.
  • Special trees in general seem to be connected with alternate worlds, can sing, and some claim they are more manlike than tree, despite appearances.
• Body Horror: Riley Tillon had his internal organs folded.
• Christmas Episode: ROCKEFELLERTREETRAGEDY is a Christmas story, though not a happy one.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Grasserman thinks that George Washington died, and a double was placed as president.
• Dug Too Deep: John D. Rockefeller resorts to hiring diggers to move a special tree after cutting it down and blasting it with dynamite prove ineffective. It takes them several years to dig out the tree.
• Everyone Is Satan in Hell: Those opposing James Dean liken him to Satan. A poster is shown saying "JAMES DEAN IS SATAN" in DEANDEMOCRACY.
• Historical Domain Character: Many make an appearance or are referenced.
  • Ulysses S. Grant, and Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the designer of the Statue of Liberty in LIBERTYLURKER.
  • Ronald Reagan in LINCOLNLOOKER
  • James Dean, Richard Nixon, George Wallace, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr, and Stanley Kubrick appear or are mentioned in DEAMDEMOCRACY.
  • George Washington, or at least a double, plays a central role in DELAWAREDOUBLE.
  • John D. Rockefeller, Fiorello La Guardia, and John D. Rockefeller Jr are shown or mentioned in ROCKEFELLERTREETRAGEDY.
• Human Popsicle: Either George Washington or his double is found frozen in the Delaware river on Christmas Eve, as reported on in December 27, 1976 WBOC-TV broadcast.
• Landmarking the Hidden Base: The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, contains the Libertylurker and effectively a mass grave.
• Living Statue: An odd variety. The American government puts someone inside the Lincoln monument, where they can only peer out of his eyes be fed an odd suit. At least once the wrong person is chosen.
• Loads and Loads of Characters: Pulls in many Historical Domain Characters.
• Monumental Damage: Played with.
  • Typically inverted, bad things happen to people at monuments.
• In 2000 the Washington Monument is vandalized with Graffiti.
  • On August 7th, 2003 Mount Rushmore is defaced with graffiti.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: In ALCATRAZATTACK radiation therapy is tried on Alcatraz Island. Instead of having a projected movement of landfall in 1995-2000 and subsequent elimination of San Francisco from 2010 to 2050, it created many clones of the island and accelerates the process, reaching west Texas by 2020.
• Not the Fall That Kills You: Happens off screen in WASHINGTONWORMHOLE. People who enter the Washington Monument are housed to the top of the hollow interior, then dropped.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: It takes the Americans four years to stop making changes to the plans of the Pedestal for the Statue of Liberty.
• Our Angels Are Different: The "Air Force One Angel" in AIRFORCEONEANGEL.
• Our Presidents Are Different: James Dean becomes the 37th president of the United States.
  • John D. Rockefeller is revealed to be a two term president in an alternate world at the end of ROCKEFELLER TREE TRAGEDY.
  • The American president has the authority to designate someone a Lincolnlooker without a trial for as long as they are president.
• The Plague: The Infection is repeatedly mentioned in graffiti.
• President Evil: What some believe James Dean to be.
• Rushmore Refacement: Happens to Mount Rushmore at the end of RUSHMOREREVENGE, though it’s more of a distortion of existing heads than an ego-trip.
• Weaponized Landmark: A few:
  • Confederate Prisoners of War are lead to the unfinished Washington Memorial during the American Civil War.
  • A odd example more about suffering than destruction. The Lincoln Memorial is used as an instrument of torture for one person the President of the United States just doesn’t like.