The Hedge Maze
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citygritThe Hedge Maze is definitely green — at first. On the outside, the maze itself looks like any other kind of maze. Nothing special about it.
In truth, the Hedge Maze on the Wolfgang family estate has been afflicted by a phenomena known as a warp.
As kids, Alexander and his brothers were told never to go inside. One time, though, his older brother Dominick wound up getting lost in the labyrinthine paths, and while they didn’t talk much about it, Alexander was quick to write his brother’s behavior off. They had both just lost their mother shortly before the experience, so it was natural for their minds to play tricks on them. It was understandable, right?
However, the hedge maze has a crazy effect on the mental state of a person. Bad mojo swarms its walls the moment you step foot within it. You will walk around and feel as though someone follows you. If there is someone by your side, they won’t appear the way they were before, not to your perception. It’s all about the perspective changes on the person themselves. On you. Soon, you’ll start to see things. Hear things. You may listen to voices within the foliage, or see a lost loved one wandering around but never quite catch up to them. Suffer any mental traumas prior to entering, it would reflect on your experience within these green passages.
While Dominick Wolfgang had been lost in the maze, he claimed to have seen apparitions of their mother, Breña, shortly after her supposed “suicide”. It’s never really known whether or not if there is actually something that controls the warp within the maze itself, or if it’s entirely imagined by the person wandering within it after a long period of time. Self-induced insanity dances in the air.
An example would be: Assume James Sunderland were to get lost in the hedge maze. In no less than an hour, he would likely experience some Silent Hillish illusions. Some of the monsters might appear, or he might just hear them and not see them anywhere at all. Conversely, he might also see pleasant or unpleasant images of his dead wife within it, maybe run into completely altered sections that remind him of Silent Hill.
Again, the maze is based purely on the perception of the one who ventures into it.
Eventually, the sky starts to change a different color, and you start to see things swimming and climbing around it. Everything becomes monochromatic and there becomes absolutely no color at all. It’s like walking right into an old black and white film.
You never really find your way out of the maze in the end. Something actually takes you out, but you never quite know who or what it is.
In truth, the Hedge Maze on the Wolfgang family estate has been afflicted by a phenomena known as a warp.
As kids, Alexander and his brothers were told never to go inside. One time, though, his older brother Dominick wound up getting lost in the labyrinthine paths, and while they didn’t talk much about it, Alexander was quick to write his brother’s behavior off. They had both just lost their mother shortly before the experience, so it was natural for their minds to play tricks on them. It was understandable, right?
However, the hedge maze has a crazy effect on the mental state of a person. Bad mojo swarms its walls the moment you step foot within it. You will walk around and feel as though someone follows you. If there is someone by your side, they won’t appear the way they were before, not to your perception. It’s all about the perspective changes on the person themselves. On you. Soon, you’ll start to see things. Hear things. You may listen to voices within the foliage, or see a lost loved one wandering around but never quite catch up to them. Suffer any mental traumas prior to entering, it would reflect on your experience within these green passages.
While Dominick Wolfgang had been lost in the maze, he claimed to have seen apparitions of their mother, Breña, shortly after her supposed “suicide”. It’s never really known whether or not if there is actually something that controls the warp within the maze itself, or if it’s entirely imagined by the person wandering within it after a long period of time. Self-induced insanity dances in the air.
An example would be: Assume James Sunderland were to get lost in the hedge maze. In no less than an hour, he would likely experience some Silent Hillish illusions. Some of the monsters might appear, or he might just hear them and not see them anywhere at all. Conversely, he might also see pleasant or unpleasant images of his dead wife within it, maybe run into completely altered sections that remind him of Silent Hill.
Again, the maze is based purely on the perception of the one who ventures into it.
Eventually, the sky starts to change a different color, and you start to see things swimming and climbing around it. Everything becomes monochromatic and there becomes absolutely no color at all. It’s like walking right into an old black and white film.
You never really find your way out of the maze in the end. Something actually takes you out, but you never quite know who or what it is.