Devil's Reef Trailer Park
Some interesting new items...
News reached us recently that the Devil's Reef Trailer Park in Rhode Island has closed down. (It wasn't the most surprising news). As regular listeners will know, Kennedy visited the trailer park during the course of the investigation into Charles Dexter Ward (Season 1, Episode 6). Ward and Dr Allen had maintained a trailer there, and seemed to be doing something nefarious in the old smugglers' tunnels underneath the park.
Prior to being a trailer park, the site had been notorious as the home of Joseph Curwen's cult.
Our involvement with Devil's Reef seems not to have gone unnoticed. Someone at the company administering the liquidation got in touch with us, after listening to the show. It turns out they are trying to dispose of a bunch of stuff that they found there; various knick-knacks that were presumably marketed to visitors during the trailer park's heyday. We were only too happy to take this stuff off their hands and we are going to make it up into an add-on for our Call of Cthulhu crowdfund.
We're calling it the Devil's Reef Souvenir Pack and it comprises:
- A long-sleeved T-shirt (size can be selected in the pledge manager)
- A Devil's Reef phone/memo pad, which we assume was once placed on the phone table in those rental trailers which were connected to landlines.
- A Devil's Reef ballpoint pen, presumably for use with the pad.
- A Devil's Reef keyring - we're not sure if this was actually used for trailer keys or just something that would have been available as a memento from the gift shop.
- A Devil's Reef woven patch. Again, presumably a gift shop item.
Images created on the basis of their descriptions. We have not received the real things yet.
In addition to "official" merchandise, a number of items are on their way across the Atlantic that seem a little more... Unusual.
There is a "Rules of the Reef" laminated notice. Apparently this was displayed in the manager's office (Kennedy has a vague recollection of this), and placed in all the rental trailers. It details a quite eclectic set of dos and don't for visitors.
Also in the manager's office, the administrators found a safe containing a number of coins engraved with the words "The Esoteric Order of Dagon", and several items of correspondence, typed on an old manual typewriter, facsimiles of which we will be including in the Souvenir Pack.
The whole lot will come inside a Devil's Reef Tote Bag, and is available as an add-on in Backerkit now.