Category:Story

This page is subject to change, as more clues still remain to be found and the stories of Dungeon Nightmares and Ergastulum: Dungeon Nightmares III seem to be connected to the second game.

WOMAN
Your character is a woman suffering from pavor nocturnus (aka Night Terrors). Her age is unknown at time she experiences these nightmares, but she seems to be 45 years old, or older. Her name is not known. Her story is being pieced together by the optional newspapers' contents, notes found inside dungeons, drawings found at the beginning of Night 4 and the content of her nightmares, the dungeons and the monsters themselves.

According to Optional Noewspaper #4, Lisa seems to have been born in 1937. She was 2 months old when she lost her entire family (both her parents, her 13-year-old brother and her 11-month-old sister) to a farm fire that burnt her house. Only a corner of the bedroom survived. She was rescued and tranferred to a hospital, where she recovered.

According to Optional Newspaper #2, in early 1950 (13 years later) Lisa, 13, was in a school trip. Her entire class and possibly even more students were staying at a hotel at the time and particularly, in the 3rd floor. It is clear that students were afraid of what was behind the door of room 307 (several notes found referring to that room). A fire started in the 3rd floor, under unknown conditions, eventually killing 127 people, including many students. She seems to have survived that fire as well. Although the newspaper suggests that at least early investigation ruled arson out, there are currently 3 theories about the way the fire started:


 * 1) She started the fire, out of fear, with the intention of burning whoever stayed at Room 307 without remembering herself doing it, thus, being another cause of her nightmares. She may have had nightmares, or hallucinations regarding what was inside that hotel, thus this madness could be what drove her to believe that Room 307 housed her enemy.
 * 2) Whoever lived in Room 307 started the fire, being the serial killer who was caught in 1958. He used Room 308 to kill people.

Both theories seem possible, but there still are clues that don't quite fit with either of them.

According to Optional Newspaper #4, after attacks in churches that occured in 1982, an abandoned house was found to contain satanic symbols, pentagrams and slogans in walls. In the photo, a message "Mary kill me" is visible. The woman, now 45, is believed to be the culprit, after suffering of pavor nocturnus for so long that she completely lost her mind.

What is still not understood?
The woman's name, her connection to Mary and why Mary wants to punish her. There is a hypothesis that she is also called Mary and that she is the 7th victim of the serial killer, who in fact survived, but not enough information to back this up has been foun yet, thus it seems quite unlikely.

MAN
According to Optional Newspaper #3, in 1958 a serial killer was caught. He had already killed 6 women who all were named "Mary" and he was trying to kill a seventh victim, who survived. He is believed to be the "Explorer with Unknown Motives", the character played as in the first game, since he left a note stating that he killed Mary. He was probably afraid of Bloody Mary, a well-known urban legend that is explored in Ergastulum: Dungeon Nightmares III.