The Bound Woman

The Bound Woman
Series Information
Status:	Deceased (1987); ghost still bound to earth

The Bound Woman is the ghost of Susan LeGrow and the third ghost in The Black Zodiac.

Biography

Life

Susan had a privileged life and was a member of her school's cheerleading squad. Her parents were among the richest people in town, thus instantly making her among the most popular girls at school. However, Susan also had a highly defining feature; her infidelity, which left many of Susan's ex-boyfriends heartbroken. Her friends warned her she would regret it someday, but she didn't listen.

Susan dated the captain of the school football team, Chet Walters, and, like all her ex-boyfriends, she cheated on him with another boy on the night of senior prom. When Chet caught Susan with another boy, he angrily clubbed Susan's new boyfriend to death and tied Susan up. He then killed her by strangling her with his tie and breaking her neck, and buried her body under the 50-yard line of the school football field.

The symbol of the Bound Woman

After Death

Susan's buried corpse was unearthed two weeks after her death. Following her death, Susan's spirit remained bound to earth, and was later captured by Cyrus Kriticos to become The Bound Woman. The Bound Woman was then moved to the basement of Basileus's Machine with the other eleven ghosts.

The Bound Woman is the second ghost to be released. Right after her release, The Bound Woman lures Bobby into the basement, and approaches him from behind, scaring him off.

Later, a Latin chant causes The Bound Woman, along with the other eleven ghosts, to go to the centre of the machine and power it up. When The Bound Woman and the other ghosts are freed from the trance, they throw Cyrus into a rotating crest of rings. The house then explodes shortly after, destroying its walls, and freeing The Bound Woman and the other eleven ghosts.

Trivia

• The Bound Woman's hands are almost always tied behind her back. However, when she and the other ghosts kill Cyrus, her hands are untied.
• The Latin inscription beneath The Bound Woman's symbol in The Arcanum, "Soror Dira" translates to "Dire Sister".
• Interestingly, much like The Jackal, the whispers which signal The Bound Woman's presence appear to be insane screams and rapid, high-pitched laughter.