Rhianna Truex

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Ok Content Warning for:  Spiders, Lurking Disasters, Human folly, More Spiders, The Unpunished Sins of Capitalism, So Many Fucking Spiders

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In a remote Mountain Valley in central Colorado, a man named Robert Brown discovered Uranium, and mined it out of the ground for a while until he realized that he’d have to like. Invest in some actual mining equipment.  And pay his workers. 

So he instead converted the Uranium-Processing Mill into a Sugar Beet Processing Mill.  It was the 20′s and food regulations barely existed, much to everyone’s detriment.  But the Brown Sugar Mill processed Beets into sugar for decades, all through WWII, until the postwar economic boom made Cane Sugar popular again so he just... fired everyone and left the mill standing over the open mine.

Where anyone could get into it.  

Many people HAVE gotten into it, and several of them have died in it, mostly due to falling down the open mine shaft or through the rotting floors or from the roof.  Most of what got into the Mill, however was Spiders.

Millions and millions of Brown Recluse Spiders.

The Brown Radioactive Sugar Mill is the world’s densest population of Brown Recluse Spiders, which live in the Mill at such density that they’ve crowded out nearly all other life and live in a recursive, incest-and-cannibalism fueled spider-exclusive ecosystem in which spiders eat nothing but thier own kind, and the population is so isolated that all the spiders are now very closely related and only have their cousins to breed with.  And because of the abandoned uranium Mine, the Spiders are, in fact, slightly radioactive.  Some of the larger ones can set off a geiger counter!

Despite being a Condemed Radioactive Hellpit of Death, people still try to explore the Brown Radioactive Spider Mill.  Don’t. It’s a terrible way to die, and if you live, Colorado charges people for the Emergency Rescue Services if you’re trespassing or have ignored advisories. You’ll either die horribly or wish you died horribly!

-there are no brown recluse spiders in Colorado, nor are there any other recluse spiders at ALL in Colorado- while there are some verifiable reports, they’re all linked to the spiders hitchhiking in on travelers’ belongings or arriving accidentally in some other way- and there’s not a single brown recluse bite reported in Colorado history.

-Uranium mining didn’t start in Colorado on a large scale until 1949- prior to that there had been some extracted from pitchblende but nothing serious (despite major efforts in the early 40s to find uranium). before that it wasn’t commercially viable to have mines dedicated to uranium.

-John Brown wasn’t a mine owner, he was a county commissioner who became an outlaw after shooting his son in law and daughter.

-there ARE abandoned beet sugar mills in Colorado, including a kinda famous big one near Gateway

-however the big famous one isn’t infested with dangerous spiders and nobody’s ever died there since the mill closed

-all of this was extremely easy to look up, like sub five minutes to find reliable sources for everything except the identity of John Brown, and that’s the least important bit of this

-multiple people asked for sources and then the original post was deleted after an attempt to handwave the story by saying that the location is close to a town in a cartoon (South Park, obvs) and that the location wasn’t super public because people would attempt to visit the inbred radioactive spider combination sugar mill/uranium mine

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