“They tore the Castle down, sure. Poured a new foundation. Built it modern, clean, federal. But foundations remember. And blood don’t wash that easy.”
Location: Englewood, 611 W. 63rd Street
Established: 1938, built over the ruins of H.H. Holmes’ “Murder Castle”
Public Face: A squat, unremarkable post office on the South Side. Gray brick, iron bars, flickering fluorescents. Just another cog in the federal machine. Locals collect pensions, mail packages, and leave as fast as they can.
Veil Presence: The building was meant to bury the past, but it only built a shell around it. The basement is larger than blueprints suggest. Some employees refuse to go down there at all. Lights go out. Walls shift. Machinery hums even when unplugged. Mail disappears—or arrives postmarked 1893.
Notables: A longtime postal clerk who speaks to “someone” in the walls. A night janitor who quit after finding a bloodstained tile under the sorting machine—claimed he heard screaming through the floor.
Rumors & Hooks:
- The elevator never goes to “B2”—but if you press it three times fast, the door opens anyway.
- A bundle of undelivered letters was found behind a false wall. All addressed to women who vanished during the fair. All dated 1893.
- On certain nights, the building smells like chloroform and lye—and the locks click shut on their own.
- Veil practitioners claim the site is a sinkhole of human suffering, saturated in ritual trauma. Some say Holmes wasn’t just a killer—he was trying to open something.
- A Veil-marked PC receives a letter from this post office... postmarked three days *after* they died.
- One delivery truck won’t idle on the lot. Mechanics say it’s fine. Drivers swear it won’t run unless they leave the passenger seat empty.*Really* empty.
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