Dr. Rod Usher was a military scientist who secretly began cloning animal and plant DNA/traits to humans to produce a super human military. Due to his unconventional and highly questionable practices, his project was closed and classified as the “Nevermore Project”. He was dishonorably discharged and exiled along with his wife. Dr. Usher continued to practice his cloning experiments to no success on the property adjacent to the Museum. He had a few experiments that were very close to being aesthetically “human” and he favored these by keeping them in the house with him. The others he let occupy the barns located on the property. He has a rudimentary lab set up in the back yard in the barn. As well as, a holding pen for the humans he experiments on and for the finished products that were less than satisfactory or too violent to stay in the house. He has been very frustrated with his failed efforts and began experimenting on himself as well as his wife and daughter. They have never been off the property since being exiled. Some of his creatures have ventured out to the barns, some dwell outside as animals, and some still live in the house with the Dr. Usher and his wife.