The Mortality Machine 2019

Run Time:
Two hours
Ages: 18+
Opened: January 15, 2019
Closing: February 24, 2019

The Mortality Machine - 2019 - Immersive History , Info & More

Wildrence
59 Canal Street Basement New York, NY 10002

In 2014, five people died in an illegal medical experiment in a Canal Street basement. Before their families could learn what happened, the incident was covered up: buried under a mountain of legal procedures and sealed behind a web of police tape. No one knew how those five people came to participate in the experiment, or what they were doing; only that it cost them their lives.

Some of their survivors moved on. Some fell apart. A handful kept fighting, and after five years, they've finally won the opportunity to unseal the laboratory, and learn what took their loved ones from them. When you enter the world of The Mortality Machine, you’ll take the role of one of those survivors, venturing into basement for the first time.

And what you'll find defies science and hope.

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