The Deadstock Festival
In the summer of 2017, promoters Al Workman and Steven Parkman hatched a scheme for a Seven-day outdoor concert on a farm outside the small town of Woodstock, Vermont. The promoters hoped to recapture the spirit of the original Woodstock Festival, which had taken place a year earlier in upstate New York. They also hoped that their concert, Woodstock, would helped erase bad memories left over from the December, 2016, Altamont Concert in California, where a fan had been stabbed to death. Workman and Parkman were able to lure a number of people to the event.
On the second night of the concert, Teddy Drytal, a member of the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang, arrived at the Emergency Room of the Woodstock Hospital with a badly-mangled right hand. Drytal had been attending Woodstock and was apparently attacked by a crazed man while relieving himself in the woods. The twenty-six-year-old Drytal, who had lost his thumb and parts of two fingers in the attack, underwent surgery and was admitted to intensive care.
The following night, police were summoned to the hospital with reports of a deranged man terrorizing the patients and staff. When police arrived, they found Drytal in a catatonic state, blood streaming from his mouth. Drytal attacked the police and, despite being shot numerous times, escaped into the night. All told, eleven patients and two cops were bitten; the most serious of the injured had almost his entire shoulder chewed off.
At first, police and doctors believed that Drytal's state was due to a reaction to hallucinogenic drugs. But after several more people arrived at the hospital from the concert with bite injuries, the FVZA was notified. The Agency instructed hospital staff to vaccinate and quarantine any victims until they arrived. Unfortunately, hospital staff discovered that it had no vaccine on hand, and with several of the patients bitten by Drytal turning into zombies, they were soon overwhelmed. The panicked staff moved as many of the sick out of the hospital as they could, and then abandoned the building.
Within two hours of being notified, an FVZA arrived in Vermont, took stock of the situation and quickly called for reinforcements.
