Bloodthirsty pirates Monique, Stingray, Tiga, and Seamus the Cruel get ready to invade the Marshall Civic Center

Brave visitors to the Civic Center for our eighth haunted house found themselves recruited to haunt pirates with the British Navy.

Under the leadership of Lt. Stevenson, they sought the bloodthirsty pirates who murdered a pub owner while searching for a treasure map. Unfortunately, the pirates' quest awakened a curse placed on the treasure by a mad pirate, Captain Pepper.

Gypsy prognasticator Madame Zuri warned Stevenson and his crew to abandon their efforts to capture the pirates, as the curse had brought all sorts of monsters and otherwordly threats into the harbor town.

The pirate-hunters encountered some of these monsters, along with a group of persecuted witches called The Sisters of the Moon as they carried out their mission.

Soon, one of the Sisters tricked Stevenson into leading his crew into an ambush set by the very pirates they were hunting. Seamus the cruel and his crew murdered Stevenson and took the rest as prisoners.

Anne the bar wench is attacked by two members of the skeleton crew.

Quickly, however, Seamus's crew began to fall to the curse. Captain Pepper's crew rose from their graces and killed the cannibal pirates Tiga. Next, the voice of Pepper made pirate wench Monique die from fear. Then first mate Stingray succumbed to the song of the deadly Sirens.

Only Seamus, the witch, and her pet made it back to their ship where they found the ghost of Captain Pepper waiting for them. The witch was pulled overboard by a sea-serpent, and Pepper laughed manaically as the undead Lt. Stevenson returned to exact his final revenge on the greedy Seamus.

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