“He was a mean old man, owned this mine a million years ago. Made the miners work real hard and didn't give them any money or food for their kin. One day a bunch of miners sat down and just stopped working. Old man Herzog, he didn't like that. Not a bit. So, he blew them all up! With a million-million tons of dynamite! No one wanted to work in the mine after that. Then Ol' Herzog came down here and hung himself. They say his angry ghost still haunts the mine. That doesn't scare me, though.”— Kenny
Old Man Herzog was the owner of the Herzog Mine before the Great War.
Background[]
According to Kenny, Herzog was a "mean old man" who treated his miners extremely poorly, and as a result they eventually refused to work. Herzog became angry with the miners, and the conflict between them escalated to the point where Herzog killed them with dynamite. He then committed suicide by hanging himself, and his remains can still be found hanging from the ceiling of the mine in Blackdamp Shaft.
According to Kenny, the swampfolk believe that Old Man Herzog's ghost still haunts Herzog Mine. Kenny encourages this superstition through the use of traps to keep out unwanted visitors.[1]
Appearances[]
Herzog's skeleton appears only in the Fallout 3 add-on Point Lookout.
References[]
- ↑ Lone Wanderer: "Why are you hiding down here?"
Kenny: "Swamp Folk know Ol' Herzog's Mine-hole. Say it's haunted. So I knew most folk wouldn't wander this way, except outsiders like you. Doesn't usually take more than a clapper-jaw on the leg to scare them off."