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At some point, Watson Pritchett became the owner of the house. Several attempts were made to reconstruct it over the years, but the workers were killed by the ghosts inhabiting the building before reconstruction could be completed. The Vannacutt Psychiatric Institute, as seen in the 1999 House on Haunted Hill filmįollowing the fire in 1931, the asylum was left abandoned. Vannacutt, who died in the building to remain trapped in the house and to do Baphomet's bidding by trapping and killing nearly anyone else who entered the facility. The Baphomet Idol forced the souls of all the dead staff and inmates, including Dr. A fire started in the sealed, chaotic asylum, and all of the staff and inmates were killed, except for five of Vannacutt's staff. However, during the revolt, Vannacutt was able to activate the mechanism which sealed the iron gates on all the asylum's doors and windows, thereby trapping the escaped inmates and him and his staff.
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However, in 1931, one of the inmates led a revolt against the institute's staff. After he was corrupted by the Idol, throughout the early 20th century, Vannacutt began performing gruesome and torturous experiments and medical procedures on the patients. Vannacutt discovered the Baphomet Idol and was corrupted by its evil, he hid the Idol in the heart of the house a chamber the entrance to which was hidden at the back of one of the furnaces in the asylum's crematorium.
The Institute was built by the grandfather of Watson Pritchett, and was run by Dr.