Aquarium Village — Attraction in Newport

I went here a year ago, and let me tell you why you shouldn't go here.

It was the middle of October of last year. Cloudy, with a storm rolling in from the ocean. As my mother and I crossed the great Newport Bridge to the south, we heard of a zoo, so we thought, let's go see this zoo. Thus, our unwise decision was made, and we went across the golden bridge.

As we turned to the left to the road to lead us there, we were met by a statue of a Mosasaur, and that was our warning, a warning to stay out or suffer the consequences. We chose the latter, and thus, the horror would begin.

We turned to the right and saw an old broken sign that read Aquarium Village. We drove by and passed a shop with a pirate statue in the front. But it was no ordinary pirate. It was a headless pirate covered in mold. Where his head was, no one would know.

As we turned to the right, we entered an alleyway filled with ducks and chickens—yes, ducks and chickens. We carefully drove by, careful not to crush them. But thinking about it now, we probably should have had to end their cursed lives. By this time, it began to rain.

The walls of the buildings were faintly painted. What was once colorful fish and sea was now stained, faded, and distorted. Coming out from one of the buildings was a man, a man whose eyes were sunken in and staring out into the nothingness like a ghost.

As we pressed on, we saw more of these ghosts sitting with the ducks and chickens. As our car drove past them, they paid us no mind, and that's because they didn't realize we were even there as if we too were ghosts to them.

As we turned the corner, to our horror, we saw caged animals being taken to a storage shed. This storage shed was amongst many in the village, and each perhaps contained an animal, a caged animal. To be sealed away and to never see daylight again. I will tell you where the souls of those people went. They went into those animals, and their bodies were taken over by the drugs they took. Forever caged as an animal.

In the middle of the street, we saw a skateboard boy boarding around a drain pipe, circling it like a buzzard, looking for his next meal.

As we drove by, he looked up at us with his red, swollen eyes and gave us a hiss, a hiss to say, 'This is my meal.' And so we press on.

We turned to the left to avoid the boy and his drain pipe and entered an abandoned village. The only life there was...

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