Palisades Rathouse

Summary

July 30, 2008: Two elderly sisters (who are twins), following a strange strain of Christianity, have fed enormous hordes of rats in their home in a suburb of Los Angeles, California - adding tens of thousands, and possibly hundreds of thousands of rats to the community.

See Also

• Crazy Cat Lady
• Seems similar to the Hindu Karni Mata temple at Deshnoke.

Source

Bibliography

1. Original article

2. The Karni Mata temple

3. Arcana Wiki Map entry

Game and Story Use

• In a fantasy game, a follower of a god of pestilence could do something similar - though presumably, he'd use a more circumspect feeding place for the rats (the sewers, for example).
• Maybe the twins wanted to create the mother of all rat kings?
• If someone can get magical energy from animal sacrifice, breeding and attracting a few tens of thousands of rat like this could be a fairly efficient way of doing so. Of course, this will might alert others that something strange is going on…
  • One sick day and you're actually providing a human sacrifice to the rat god.