a most disturbing and twisted exhibit featuring various artifacts from Morgan’s personal collection.
What is believed to be the relatively intact remains of this exhibit has been recently discovered when underground water caused the ground beneath a section of Memorial Hall to collapse exposing this forbidden treasure. Why was it sealed away to be forgotten? What strange terrible things could have happened there causing it to be struck from all historical records?
Do you really want to find out??
Morgan’s tragic past
When he was eight years old, Morgan ran away from home.His life had been less than happy with wicked adopted parents. He stowed away on a circus train passing through town and was soon on his way to an incredibly interesting new life. It wasn’t until the train had crossed half way across the country that Morgan was discovered.
Eventually, Morgan was accepted by the Circus People and raised as one of their own children. Morgan worked very hard and learned everything about the sideshows, strange exhibits, exotic creatures, and eccentric people. When Morgan was old enough to travel on his own, he was sent to faraway lands to “collect” new “exhibit pieces” for the side shows. This exposed him to strange and bizarre creatures and places. He experienced more things of the unusual in his early life than most people could experience in a lifetime. This exposure to so much forbidden knowledge may have twisted Morgan’s mind a bit left of center. He realized it would be best for everyone involved if he left his life with the sideshows and pursued a more stable and “respectable” career.
Morgan later became a highly respected taxidermist working for a prestigious museum in Pennsylvania for much of his adult life. After an unfortunate indecent that occurred in the museum in 1850, Morgan was accused of unspeakable deeds, publicly ridiculed and dismissed. He vowed that he’d prove his innocence, and that those responsible for his accusations and dismissal would pay dearly. It was at this time that a traveling carnival was making its way along the east coast. As fate would have it, or by some twist of cosmic coincidence, Morgan visited the carnival in Haddonfield NJ. Morgan decided to join this traveling band of social outcasts.
As it turned out some of the ancient clowns and performers were Morgan’s “circus family”, the same people he was raised by so many years before. It was then, in the next venue, in 1876 at a centennial celebration in a place called Memorial Hall in Philadelphia, the unsuspecting world saw the unveiling of Morgan Grisly’s Magnificent Museum of Morbid Monstrosities.
