ImaginariumMadscientist444
The imaginarium chamber

2013 — now

The record

A timeline drawn only from indexed posts, public profiles, and what Megan spoke to this house. She holds more than twenty-two million screenshots. That vault stays hers. This is the labeled slice.

Public + spoken

  1. 1995

    Frankfort High School

    Public record

    Megan Ridenour, later Whitacre, Class of 1995, Ridgeley / Fort Ashby, West Virginia. Occupation listed years later on an alumni profile: microbiologist / lab scientist / teacher / mom.

  2. 2003

    Diagnosis

    Public record

    Mediastinoscopy — lymph nodes taken from the mediastinum under ventilation — to diagnose sarcoidosis. She has had to spell the surgery and the disease for people who could not. The scientist in her own chart.

  3. 2009

    April 30 — father

    Public record

    She has written that her father, Elliott Thomas Ridenour Jr, died in her living room that day. She is working on his legacy, and her grandfather's, since returning east. Navy family. She still talks to him. Always a Ridenour — Cherokee, Shawnee, Blackfoot. The Other Side wing is for that.

  4. 2013

    The year of the box

    Public + spoken

    Lost it all. Domestic violence survived alone. Jayne Ballad on Facebook, she tells us. August 11: @Madscientist444 is born on Twitter. 444 — the PO Box for what childhood lost. The fight that is still the fight.

  5. 2020–22

    Travel scientist

    Public record

    Luray, Virginia, then New Jersey (Monmouth Medical Center, essential personnel license), then New Orleans (NOEH under emergency COVID license, then Children's, Louisiana state medical license). She has written of working in six states since COVID began, Stage 4, because faith told her to, since before the first degree.

  6. 2022–23

    Indian Health Services

    Public record

    After New Orleans, she went north as an IHS contractor in South Dakota — on reservation, crisis temperatures, Christmas 2022 through New Year 2023. She has written it on GoFundMe and on X: contractor, with a soul. Then the long road home.

  7. 2024–25

    The Imaginarium named

    Public record

    Public posts revive Mad Scientist 444 after New Orleans and name the Imaginarium of Madscientist444 as a nonprofit humanitarian project. Instagram: I am a Medical Laboratory Scientist who also loves visual arts, nature, and photography. I love to create.

  8. Nov 2025

    Journey back to West Virginia

    Public record

    Public Facebook: updating friends about the journey home after a difficult period. Interview with university-hospital laboratory leadership for microbiology and molecular diagnostics. Long game: rare-disease research lab, jobs in the hometown.

  9. 2026

    Illinois, then home

    Public + spoken

    Spring posts: targeted and poisoned with family in Illinois; three attacks in one week; evidence moved east; a bike stolen in Alton. She writes: I survived Illinois and am safe back in Maryland. August 23, 2026: back with WVU Medicine, a site near the Lake. @imaginarium4443 opens. Website launch, she promised. This is that launch.

  10. May 2026

    The village named

    Public + spoken

    Public X: I always wanted to build my self sustainable living village on mountain with my Zomes for work projects. A mountain she has been to before — you can almost touch the stars. Spoken here: the Apothecarium of Madscientist444, grown on that land.