-McKamey Manor (San Diego): Owner Russ McKamey has spent
about $500,000 converting his home into a terrifying haunted house using
animatronics, cgi, and special effects. He also handcuffs people and covers their heads
with hoods and says that some people have gotten so scared they’ve passed out. Russ does 8 shows
every weekend in September and October and uses neighborhood kids as some of
his 15 actors.
-Zombie Crawl (Denver, Colorado): This event hosts 15,000 "zombies" every
October and includes something called the Organ Trail scavenger hunt, which founder Danny Newman describes as
“clue-solving scavenger hunt all around downtown Denver.” Some of the
challenges include crime scene investigation and eating live worms. There is also a sack
race in which zombies have to hop to a drinking station, drink some “zombie juice,” and
hop back to their starting point.
-Fearshire Farms (Angelton, Texas): Owners Rodney and Cindy
Davis transform their farm into the haunted Fearshire Farm (which includes a haunted corn maze) at night; it
is believed that the farmhouse is haunted by a family who lived and died there
in the 1800s. It is not uncommon for visitors to Fearshire Farm to soil
themselves out of fear.
-Delusion: The Blood Rite (Los Angeles): This is an
“interactive horror play” where the audience members have
to act as former patients of a dead psychiatrist who they want to resurrect. Writer/director Jon Braver is a stuntman who has made sure that his play has
“movie-quality stunt work.”
-Skin City Body Painting (Las Vegas): People go here to have
their costumes painted on; the work is very impressive, but the customers are basically naked, and the body painting costs way more than an actual costume does.
-Zombie Paintball Hayride (Fenton, Missouri): This attraction debuted in
2012; Creepyworld creator Larry Kirchner says the hayride “takes people through
an Old West town, and then everywhere you turn, there’s a creepy zombie ready
to eat you.”
-Lemp Brewery (St. Louis, MO): The brewery was shut down by
prohibition in 1919, and 5 members of the Lemp family died in the mansion that
was connected to the brewery over the next 30 years; at least 3 of these deaths were
suicides. For $20, you can go into the caves and caverns underneath the brewery
and walk through 10 scary scenes; some of the actors believe that the brewery really
is haunted.
-Statesville Haunted Prison (Crest Hill, Illinois): Mastermind John LaFlamboy says the idea of the prison is that these prisoners
were too evil for regular jail and ended up taking over the prison. This attraction has 150
inmates, 23 rooms, live roaches, spiders, and snakes (including an 8-foot boa
constrictor), and a “Clown Room.”
-Hell’s Gate Pumpkin Drop (Hope, British Columbia): People
drop pumpkins from airtrams that are 500 feet in the air.
-Zip of Terror (Boyne Falls, Michigan): This is a haunted zipline that
people have to do in the dark; when they walk through the woods to get from one
zipline to another, scary things jump out at them.
-Blackout Haunted House (New York, NY): Visitors to the “twelve
scenarios of psychological torment” must be over 18 and go by themselves with only a flashlight and a protective mask. Don’t go if you’re not willing to be groped.
-Coffin Race (Manitou Springs, Colorado): This race honors Emma
Crawford, who was buried on top of Red
Mountain and whose casket sped down the mountain after a storm. Each homemade
coffin has 1 person inside and 4 pushers (or pallbearers); the race is 195 yards with 50 teams
running 2 by 2.
I actually wouldn't mind going to the paintball one
ReplyDeleteAs to McKamey Manor and Blackout Haunted House, I don't agree with the way they are run. I don't think the customers should be touched in any way.
I am a part of a haunted house myself, Crow's Aslyum, and we make it a point not to touch the customers to avoid the claims of groping. These claims could also lead to lawsuits...
Yes, I just did a shameless plug lol
If your haunted house has a website, comment with the link, and I'll do a blog post about it. : )
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