Half-Pete

"Half-Pete" is a reference to the mythical half man that lives in rural West Virginia in a basement of a large family. The story is told: His mother tried to abort him as an infant, however the procedure did not take. A week later, the abomination that is Half-Pete was born. With the lower section of his body skewered by incompetent surgical practices, he would physically only be half a man. Half-Pete is often referred to now as a full grown man, while other accounts say he is immortal.

He is described as vitriolic, spiteful and during bouts of his regular and intense pain, enraged. His story came to light when he tunneled out of the basement (from which he was made prisoner in) and into one of the off-set structures on the property where one of his younger siblings slept. Through years of tunneling, one night he cut his way through the carpet, attacked and killed his sibling in a bitter act of revenge over a long lifetime of abuse from the hands of his parents and siblings. Some accounts say he was force fed pain pills by members of the family wearing a "bear suit" (bear-resistance hardened suit) so as to keep the noise down during important family functions, in an effort to further conceal his existence.

Half-Pete can be used as an adjective when describing a situation, as follows...

"We came home to find in a mess of his own gore, like some Half-Pete horror show."

by Dave712 December 14, 2017