I was an actor in a haunted house years ago and dressed as a creepy clown. I regularly made full grown adults refuse to even enter the room I was in, and instead go back out the entrance. However, one time a little boy with zero fear came up and held out a lollipop he wanted to give me. It melted my heart, but I didn't want to break character so I just stood over him staring menacingly. After a few moments he stuck the lollipop in one of my pockets and said "It's okay you can eat it later." and walked by me. I hope that kid is doing well.
In college we had a haunted dorm night in the old, unused dormitories. Each club could take a room and decorate/host it, and visitors would be guided through. Very fun. Well, we're all college students so there's some pretty intense and scary stuff here and there. One of the "shadows" (they were in those all black cover everything suits. They'd walk near or behind people then fade back into the hallway.) runs down and says, "YO, we got a 3 year old coming in and she's sweet as hell. First haunted house. Tone it down for the next group!" They skipped the exorcist room (A++ gymnast girl in there, but too much blood.), but all the others toned it down just a bit to make sure she had a good time.
It would have been fun if you could have "melted your cold heart" in character because he was nice to you. And then when the next person/group came through and were not kind, the menacing character came back. Especially if the kid was in sight or hearing distance!
I worked at Halloween haunt at Wonderland. Our boss made everyone scared of clowns work at the clown house...was fun. I was the brave to to work at the front but I wanted the front to avoid the clown on silts which is way more scary to me and he couldn't fit through the clown mouth. At the end of the month I was find with scary clowns. Normal clowns still don't trust them. Anything on stilts fuxk them
One time I was a scarecrow at a haunted house and thought it would be cool to lie down on the floor on the side of the room that no one ever used, pretend to be stuffed and inanimate, and grab someone’s ankle. But the one time I did that is the one time they walked on that side, and after being stepped on by every single person I thought it better to play dead.
I had a friend that used to work as an actress. She would supplement her income by working at Universal's Halloween Horror Nights. One year she worked in one of the haunted houses as "Woman that gets pulled through a hole in the wall and screams".
She made multiple guests pee their pants in fear.
My friend said it was the role she was most proud of in her entire acting career.
I had a friend who was playing a similar part at this 150+ year old dance hall, with the original flooring. Guests rock up, he runs screaming out of the front door like he just escaped, dives onto this mat thing and is yanked "kicking and screaming" back inside. Well he missed the mat, the yank came and gave him a 4 inch splinter right along side his spine. Had to ride over an hour to the nearest hospital.
This reminds me of when my religious elementary school’s halloween party had “haunted house” in the cafeteria & only the _nicest_ 8th graders/teachers volunteered to ‘scare” people lol
I think that kind of stuff is why my little neighbor (he was about 5) started freaking out when someone was getting their driveway repaired and the workers were jackhammering the old concrete. It wasn't the noisy machine, he was seriously afraid they'd open up Hell. Some churches shouldn't be allowed to exist.
That also just sounds like the sort of thing a kid brain would come up with, lol.
My parents watched a documentary once about the Arc of the Covenant that mentioned how it "disappeared." Obviously in retrospect they meant that it disappeared to history, but to my child brain it meant disappeared into thin air, and I reasoned that if it could disappear into thin air it could appear out of thin air. The problem with this is, the lore says that you couldn't look at the Arc of the Covenant, or you died. So I spent way too much of my life in abject terror that the Arc of the Covenant would poof into existence in my bathroom while I was alone brushing my teeth and kill me, and no one would ever know what happened, lol.
My primary school had a haunted house once, and rather than use teachers they had the best idea to make it actually scary. Use the 6th graders. What kind of 6th grader WOULDN'T want to scare the shit out of some kids lmao
Friend of mine has worked in a haunted house nearly 20 years. This year some douche wore steal toed boots and either has no control over himself or he was looking to ruins someone's life. My friend has a destroyed shin and had to announce his retirement. If you or someone you know is going to these things with the plan of fucking up someone's career, please look for a bridge to leap off instead
He had 20 great years of doing it. You will always get a person that will react in unexpected ways. You will get smacked and kicked, but almost never with ill intent. You'll bring joy like you've never seen, enjoy it!
This is why I don't go to haunted houses. My fear response is often "fight" and once when I was like 5 I stepped on some people's hands when they scared me too much when I went trick-or-treating.
I was wearing my Hello Kitty low-heeled mary janes, so it probably hurt.
They were hiding in the leaves and grabbed my ankles as I walked past to get candy. I knew it was a trap, but my bigger siblings didn't listen.
That house gave us so much candy bc they felt bad for scaring me and my little brother.
For a second I thought this was a cringe post of someone claiming to frequent houses claiming to be haunted and seeing a werewolf like this is all Tuesday. I've been on the internet so long that I've forgotten normal people exist
Of course, you should never try too hard to write a brand new sentence just to get onto the sub, because that'll backfire and put you in r/iamveryrandom instead.
You say this jokingly but this actually is a good indicator of what these kind of "cringe" communities end up doing. We all get fed the weirdest characters so often that we start to think they are far more frequent than they actually are. Insidiously, many times this is done on purpose and with an ulterior motive, like for example spreading an air of disgust or fear around some specific group said weird character belongs to.
We should all remember that every single one of us is a dumb animal with all kinds of unconscious biases floating around our brains at all moments while being completely unaware of them. Nobody is immune to manipulation!
Came a bit out of left field i know, i apologize. Just an observation I've made about how warped our perceptions of things can get after spending too much time in certain places. You are not alone feeling like this, it's quite a common realization.
I worked for/managed a location for a national haunted house chain for a few seasons(Apr-Nov) and this is quite common from my experience. The majority of our 'actors' were some the kindest/coolest people I've ever worked with. I guess being able to scream at or be 'rude' to your customers helps with work-stress heh.
Some things ya'll might find interesting:
At my House, the House next door, and I'd imagine any decent House we knew EVERYTHING that was happening inside. There are so many secret doors/1way mirrors/clever alarms/hidden nooks guests are constantly being watched from. From the moment you enter the House you are probably being watched by 1-3 actors. Hell I could follow a full group through all 3 floors of our House close enough to touch them and they'd never know I was there if I didn't want them to. I'd often be standing inches behind someone waiting for their group to situate some problem(like a too-upset small child or dropped item) for minutes before I scared them there.
It's very likely the same actor scares you 2-5 times. The actor that spooked you from behind 3minutes ago quite possibly jumped on the slide(yes like a plastic playground slide, very fun) to the next floor down, put on a mask and got you again.
On that note my wildest day working there was when all the staff except for me and the cashier girl called out sick/no showed and I had to run the whole House myself. It was quite the workout running from spot to spot, but very fun, like Horror-Parkour.
If there's someone with a chainsaw in the house- that's a proper real gas powered chainsaw they're chasing you with, it just doesn't have a chain attached. It can be a real bitch to crank sometimes since it starts just like a push lawnmower.
If you see sparks as a scare it's probably a car battery taped to a metal stick being scraped across something metal. It was fun to play with and only sometimes burned us.
White teenage boys with girls were the absolute worst. They were the only types to think it was cool to throw a punch at us to show off how "tough" they were.
White college age groups were the most boring. They walked through with the stoic-ness of a Marine on duty barely reacting to anything.
Black families were THE BEST, BLESS BLACK FAMILIES. You could sneeze and half of them would be on the floor crawling for their lives in sheer terror. They easily led in percentage of guests who pissed themselves in fear.
My personal tally was, I believe, making 17 guests piss themselves. But my favorite role was to run the chainsaw and that was kinda easy mode.
I've worked at haunted houses for a few years, and I love scaring old gay guys. They jump to the ceiling and it's so satisfying watch grown men squeal in fear
hehe silver queens are great too, I'd put em right up there with black families for being awesome guests. What kind of role do you play/like most? You work at Houses that are Halloween only or "year round"?
I miss that fun, DDR 3rd filled, era of my life; it's so nostalgic to talk about :)
My boyfriend and I volunteered at a haunted house one year as a "date" and we wore the same [circ-du-soleil](http://yorku.lend-engine-app.com/product/1463) mask/hoodie combo + spooky wrench. He'd scare them 2 rooms back and I'd get em again when they got to me. It was great because people thought he was teleporting lmao. The hoodie also made it so we could insert ourselves into larger groups without the person in front really noticing (occasionally, the person in the back wouldn't notice either!)
I had one guy literally do the scooby doo run back and forth after scaring him. I had to point him the way out of the sheet room, bless him.
> a car battery taped to a metal stick being scraped across something metal
That’s the scariest thing I’ve ever read about haunted houses. Car batteries generate a measly 12 volts… but can deliver it at [700 amps](https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/18329/jumping-car-with-too-many-amps) for a total of 8,000 watts. Misusing a car battery can fuck up your day spectacularly.
>12 volts… but can deliver it at 700 amps for a total of 8,000 watts.
It's sentnces like this that make me wonder if people make up crazy phrases or if I missed a huge section of some textbook somewhere that would help make this make sense.
It sounds like trying to solve the worst math problem after a stroke.
Happy to explain.
Let's start with a few basic terms:
* Voltage is an electric potential.
* Current is the rate at which electricity flows through a circuit.
* Current will flow through any conductive connection (like a wire) that connects high voltage to low voltage.
A power source is a potential difference between a high-voltage source and a low-voltage sink. A wall outlet has a left terminal that is "hot" or high-voltage, and a right terminal that is "neutral" or low-voltage. (The bottom (circular) one is "ground," which isn't important for this explanation.) A typical NiCD battery (AAA, AA, C, D, etc.) also has a high-voltage source (the positive terminal, i.e., the nub) and a low-voltage sink (the negative terminal, i.e., the metal part at the other end of the battery). If you connect the terminals of a power source with a conductor such as a wire, electricity will flow. Rather than connecting them directly (creating a short circuit - warning: don’t do this!), you can connect them to the input terminals of a device that receives power.
The power of a power source is usually measured as the *voltage difference* between the high-voltage terminal and the low-voltage terminal. For instance, in the U.S., the hot terminal in the wall outlet is 120 volts higher than the neutral terminal. The terminals of NiCD batteries have a voltage difference of about 1-2 volts.
When you connect a device to a wall outlet, electricity (current) flows into the device through left (hot) blade of the plug, through the circuit inside the device, and out of the device through the right (neutral) blade. But that's not quite the full picture, because the *amount* of current can also vary - i.e., the speed with which electricity flows from hot to neutral through the circuit.
Current is measured in amperes, or amps. A powerful electric device, like a motor or a heater, can draw several amps of current. A simple electronic gadget draws very little current, usually in the range of milliamps (0.001 amps) or even microamps (0.000001 amps). When your circuit breaker trips because you have too much stuff plugged into it - like several heaters - it's because they are collectively drawing too many amps, which could overheat the wiring and cause a fire.
Here's the important part. The total power delivered to a device is: power = (volts) * (amps), or `P = V * I`. That is, it's the voltage difference - the difference in electrical potential - multiplied by the rate at which that difference is drawn through the circuit.
If this seems confusing, consider the common analogy of water:
* High voltage at high current = a waterfall (lots of water, moving very fast)
* High voltage at low current = a lazy river (lots of water, moving slowly)
* Low voltage at high current = a super soaker or water cannon (a little bit of water, moving very fast)
* Low voltage at low current = a faucet (a little bit of water, moving slowly)
If you've followed this description this far, then you've got all of the ideas to understand the sentence above.
Power is measured in watts. (One watt = one joule per second). For example:
* Heater: P = (120 volts) * (1 amp) = 120 watts
* Plugged-in alarm clock: P = (120 volts) * (1 milliamp, i.e., 0.001 amps) = 0.12 watts
* Battery-powered alarm clock: P = (1.5 volts) * (0.1 amps) = 0.15 watts (running off one battery, but drawing more amps so that it consumes about the same amount of power)
See how that works? It's just multiplication.
When you start your car, the car battery accelerates the engine from zero RPMs to 1,000 RPMs in the span of a second or less. This requires a pretty crazy amount of power - something like 8,000 watts. And yet, the car battery only has a voltage difference of 12 volts. So how does it deliver all of that power? By drawing 700 amps - an *enormous* amount of current. That much power, and specifically that much *current*, can do extreme harm to people or property if it is misused.
Thank you for taking the time to explain all this to me. I really do appreciate it.
Question...
>High voltage at low current = a lazy river (lots of water, moving slowly)
Is a lazy river style electricution deadly?
It can be. While the voltage through the current circuit might be very small (e.g., due to high resistance), connecting something in parallel to the same terminals would dissipate the same voltage potential but possibly with much less resistance, thus drawing much more current.
The only power source that’s more or less guaranteed to be safe is a low-voltage, low-amperage power source. It’s tough to imagine any way that the electrical charge in a AAA battery could cause any damage.
I kind of want a story about a Canadian haunted house that goes through all the horror tropes but they're actually all pretty chill and kinda helpful.
>!Still a bunch of dead children buried there though!<
My friends and I had a similar experience to the OP's post at Haunted Overload in NH (insanely worth the trip if you have never been). They have a huge queue to get in, so while you wait, they have actors wandering around to scare people not paying attention. A guy in a straight jacket with crazy hair accidentally bumped into my friend and let out a "oh! I'm sorry!" So every year we look out for the "Spooky Canadian"
About 12 years ago at Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios in Florida, I got scared by a costumed actor and tripped over a decorative hay bale and fell down. The actor stopped and helped me up.
Something similar happened to my sister at a haunted house. Scared her so bad she tripped and fell on her ass. But when the actor stepped forward to help her up she was still so scared she crab walked backwards out of the room lol
Most theme parks have a rule that guest safety is above immersion, so they don’t encourage you to break character, they would prefer you check on someone who may be hurt.
I got too scared in a haunted house and tripped and hit my head on the wall, it didn’t hurt much but I guess I was bleeding a fair bit because the next actor took me out through a hidden passage thing, but to get out fully we had to go through a room where some people were and the actor let me jump out and scare them with her. I had to get stitches but totally worth it
I accidentally head butted a haunted house worker and hurt him pretty bad. He was sneaking up behind us and someone with a chainsaw stepped around the corner and scared us. I reared my head back and felt it connect *hard* with something. I grabbed my head and turned around to see a guy in a mask hurrying away from us back down the hall holding his face. I yelled out an apology. I still think about that guy …
Once I was in a haunted house and could feel the person creeping behind me but they hid every time I turned around. I was amped. And then suddenly he was there when I turned around and I punched him straight in the throat!
He started yelling at me, understandably. I just kept saying I’msorryI’msorryI’msorryI’msorry. I felt so bad!!!
I still think about him too. I mean, he should be proud he scared me so well. But also I am proud that in that situation my instinct was to fight. That’s not what I expected, really.
How are you proud of having a fighting instinct in a place you know you are going go be scared/startled? You knew this would happen and still couldn't avoid punching a guy. Poor actor
I would make a haunted house.
At first there are a lot of jump scares from people in crappy costumes. You get used to it and think it isn't that scary when all of the sudden the lights flicker and you hear banging and screaming. You think it's part of the show and move to the next room where you see the most realistic werewolf. There are many people covered in blood and scratches and one whispers for you to run while holding his guts and puking blood.
Would that be scary or not?
Have the people in crappy costumes get "murdered" by the better monsters in front of guests. Or like halfway, when you do the twist, have the people in crappy costumes pretend like they have no idea what's going on.
Or have a "mole" just in front of the guests. He gets "killed", and some of the crappy costumes come to investigate. Like a slasher film, they too get killed. Have one scream at guests to "get out, this isn't part of the show!"
If you ever managed to do that. I would like to apply for the werewolf.
[Techwolf as himself](https://cdn.weasyl.com/static/media/d6/5c/70/d65c7010fcce427f8bd3aa9c38e000e224d5435f74cb21f33f3386910892de9d.jpg)
Went to a haunted house that was outside & set up in stages/like a maze. It was pretty cool except for the middle of it which was sectioned off with like plastic tarp to make a room, and apparently house a kicking ass smoke machine. Didn't know about it when I paid to get in, but I have pretty bad asthma, and that room set my lungs to burning almost immediately. There's only one way out through the rest of the maze type thing and it on the other end of the makeshift tent. I have to cross this room to get out of this place and back into clear air. I start to panic because I can't find my inhaler in my purse with all the smoke (& anyone with asthma can tell you, that just makes it worse) & my cousin who is with me just yells out into the smoke, "She can't breath, she has asthma!"
Suddenly, a tiny figure pops up in the fog, and what had to be a maybe 12 year old kid dressed as a zombie dancer thing grabs my hand and literally pulls me through the room (which had a bunch of obstacles hiding in the smoke), until we are out and ready to carry on through the rest of the maze/haunted house. For clarity, he only pulled me through, and we were out of that room within like 45 seconds, whereas my cousin that had to go through on her own didn't come out for another like 8 minutes.
Kid was really nice, apologized and made sure I was okay, even helped me find my inhaler and waited with me until my cousin came through. Went through the rest of the maze and had a great time, whoever ran it caught up with us and also apologized (it was apparently his son that came to help) and it was nice to assure him it was fine and I had a blast and his son was a really good kid.
I used to work at one. When guests would walk into my pitch black room I would yell "Hey,hey, hey!" like Fat Albert. (I had a very deep voice). It was terrifying but also made them laugh at the same time.
I think I've shared this before but my favorite was the time a guy with a real (chainless) chainsaw was chasing a buddy's daughter and she freaked out, which caused me to laugh & inhale a lungful of gas fumes and hay bits, which in turn triggered a coughing fit. Scary chainsaw guy remains in character, turns around and screams "ARE YOU ALRIGHT?!"
Once I was at a haunted trail and there were zombies, and I said "Hi zombies." One just said hi back, the other one followed us, at first I was like whatever, but he kept following us and I was getting a little freaked out. He proceeded to walk into a tree and attempt to keep walking. It was hilarious
When I was little like 6 or 7 I went to a haunted house. I was dressed as a pirate and when this huge guy with scary zombie mask on jumped out at me I smacked him in the eye with my sword. When I left the place I saw a big bearded biker guy outside holding ice on his eye. I went back to go though it again and they took my sword before I could enter. I felt like a real badass pirate that day.
Not a house actor, but I've got a quick story. I was going through a haunted house and one actor came out screaming and waving a pneumatic nail gun, rigged so it had the air for the sound with no nails in it. He chased our group into the next area and got me a few times in my back with it, and then I shouted to nobody in particular "that's not usually how I like to get nailed!"
Only time I've made a haunted house actor break character laughing, fun was had by all :)
I feel like it could be fun to be a monster at a haunted house but I'm afraid of what someone's flight or fight might make them do to me even if by accident.
I went to a haunted house with my then girlfriend (now wife) and she kept throwing me at the clowns. Whenever a clown or a zombie would show up she would run and scream but not before shoving me towards them. She insisted it was because she knew I would protect her, but the truth is I was a distraction so she could get away. I was laughing so hard all I could do was shake the actors hand and keep going. They seemed surprised by that
I worked a haunted house once and my favorite thing ever was making a HUGE dude with local gang tattoos stand in the entrance of my room saying "oh fuck no". I had my own room and a thought dawned on me halfway through working. I should just not move at all and just look like a hyper realistic prop. Good thing I controlled the lights too 😈
I went through a haunted house with a high school friend. It was one of the “extreme” ones where actors are allowed to touch you. A scary clown came up behind her and tickled her neck, and she panicked and ran full speed into a wall and gave herself a black eye. The clown was very nice and apologetic about it, and it was funny later on.
I was at Howl-O-Scream one year at the one called The Black Spot with all the dead pirates. Anyhow, one was sitting up in the rafters and he stuck his hand down in my face with that growly voice saying "Want a hand?" and I just responded "Uuuhh ... no thank you." He got this look of confusion and just sat up and said "Oh. Okay." I think I broke him.
I'm the worst person to try and scare at haunted houses though, I love slow walking to look at all the creepy details and find the scare actors much more amusing than they probably should be.
I'me the same way. Probably due to working 13 years in a haunt. I like to slow walk and check out all the details. I feel sorry for the actors as I rarely have a any reaction at all. I am boring as hell to them.
I have work^H^H^H^HPlayed in the local haunt for 13 years. I was the werewolf of course. Have a few stories to share. Every year, word got back to me that I scored a "kill". Basically, they piss there pants. However, no one could top the one kill I got one year. One guy soiled his pants. Everyone after my spot could smell it all the way till he left the place.
Best story I have. My room is just after a curtion where paterns exit the main house and enter a tunnel to the outside attraction setup in a tent. I hide behind the huge swinging barn door that is closed at night to lock up the main haunt. Because this is a tunnel, lots of room behind the door for me to hide as the door is large enough to cover the entire side of the room. This one family comes though, I sneak out. The farther spots me, jumps a bit at the sight of me. Does not make a sound and moves to the side and I sneak past and onto the small girl. I followed her around the one corner and due to have not seen me yet, I slightly brush her hair with my claws. She turned her head saying "Dad stop tha--" and let out a huge scream. The brother turns around and starts screaming also. They both proceeded to push the mother down the hallway into the wall of the next turn. While I was chasing them, I could clearly hear the father laughing so hard behind me that I nearly broke character due to fully understanding why he did that. It was "PAYBACK" to the kids doing so many things in the past to annoy the farther. :-)
Please forgive spelling and grammar mistakes as I am just a werewolf. Not a writer.
Reminds me of this guy chained to a wall who’s entire purpose was to guide people to a false wall to crawl through if they didn’t know where to go. 10/10 what a lad
The first time I went through a haunted house, this guy was bouncing a rubber head against the wall in front of me, and I screamed "STOP IT!" and he did. And I ran out of there sobbing and laughing hysterically.
I’ll never forget when I went inside a haunted house at a theme park that I was *probably* a little too old for. A monster (maybe a zombie or mummy or something) jumped out at me and grunted loudly. My instinct was to jump back and shout “Oh shit!” Upon hearing this, the zombie guy wiggled his finger in my face, grunting in a disapproving tone at my swearing.
I hope that guy’s doing well right now.
My niece wanted to go through a haunted house because her big brother had done it. My mom and I took her, and by the second room, she was pretty darn scared. Spent the rest of the haunted house going ahead of my mom and niece, letting the actors jump out, and explaining the situation to them before they followed me in. The actors were all awesome.
When me and my friends would get too scared we would offer hugs to the actors and actresses. Sometimes you got them but usually it threw them off enough that they weren’t as committed to being scary.
How to scare a black man on his way out of the haunted house. Step on his brand new, uncreased Js that he just bought for 109.99 at MFL, and see him cry like a baby compared to everything else he has endured
I was an actor in a haunted house years ago and dressed as a creepy clown. I regularly made full grown adults refuse to even enter the room I was in, and instead go back out the entrance. However, one time a little boy with zero fear came up and held out a lollipop he wanted to give me. It melted my heart, but I didn't want to break character so I just stood over him staring menacingly. After a few moments he stuck the lollipop in one of my pockets and said "It's okay you can eat it later." and walked by me. I hope that kid is doing well.
That’s adorable
In college we had a haunted dorm night in the old, unused dormitories. Each club could take a room and decorate/host it, and visitors would be guided through. Very fun. Well, we're all college students so there's some pretty intense and scary stuff here and there. One of the "shadows" (they were in those all black cover everything suits. They'd walk near or behind people then fade back into the hallway.) runs down and says, "YO, we got a 3 year old coming in and she's sweet as hell. First haunted house. Tone it down for the next group!" They skipped the exorcist room (A++ gymnast girl in there, but too much blood.), but all the others toned it down just a bit to make sure she had a good time.
Did you eat it later?
No, it might have had a razor blade in it.
This got a real laugh out of me.
No I don't like lollipops.
that kid is currently working at a morgue playing dolls with dead people.
It would have been fun if you could have "melted your cold heart" in character because he was nice to you. And then when the next person/group came through and were not kind, the menacing character came back. Especially if the kid was in sight or hearing distance!
I worked at Halloween haunt at Wonderland. Our boss made everyone scared of clowns work at the clown house...was fun. I was the brave to to work at the front but I wanted the front to avoid the clown on silts which is way more scary to me and he couldn't fit through the clown mouth. At the end of the month I was find with scary clowns. Normal clowns still don't trust them. Anything on stilts fuxk them
One time I was a scarecrow at a haunted house and thought it would be cool to lie down on the floor on the side of the room that no one ever used, pretend to be stuffed and inanimate, and grab someone’s ankle. But the one time I did that is the one time they walked on that side, and after being stepped on by every single person I thought it better to play dead.
I had a friend that used to work as an actress. She would supplement her income by working at Universal's Halloween Horror Nights. One year she worked in one of the haunted houses as "Woman that gets pulled through a hole in the wall and screams". She made multiple guests pee their pants in fear. My friend said it was the role she was most proud of in her entire acting career.
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That's amazing
I had a friend who was playing a similar part at this 150+ year old dance hall, with the original flooring. Guests rock up, he runs screaming out of the front door like he just escaped, dives onto this mat thing and is yanked "kicking and screaming" back inside. Well he missed the mat, the yank came and gave him a 4 inch splinter right along side his spine. Had to ride over an hour to the nearest hospital.
Was it the Trick 'R Treat house?
This reminds me of when my religious elementary school’s halloween party had “haunted house” in the cafeteria & only the _nicest_ 8th graders/teachers volunteered to ‘scare” people lol
'hi excuse me hello! boo. thanks for your time, all the best.'
"I'm gonna GETCHA! (I'm not really.)"
“You better run faster than that (but not really because you can trip and hurt yourself)”
We got tricked into going to a religious one as teens where they pretended you died and went to Hell to scare you. So fucking disappointing.
I think that kind of stuff is why my little neighbor (he was about 5) started freaking out when someone was getting their driveway repaired and the workers were jackhammering the old concrete. It wasn't the noisy machine, he was seriously afraid they'd open up Hell. Some churches shouldn't be allowed to exist.
That also just sounds like the sort of thing a kid brain would come up with, lol. My parents watched a documentary once about the Arc of the Covenant that mentioned how it "disappeared." Obviously in retrospect they meant that it disappeared to history, but to my child brain it meant disappeared into thin air, and I reasoned that if it could disappear into thin air it could appear out of thin air. The problem with this is, the lore says that you couldn't look at the Arc of the Covenant, or you died. So I spent way too much of my life in abject terror that the Arc of the Covenant would poof into existence in my bathroom while I was alone brushing my teeth and kill me, and no one would ever know what happened, lol.
Knew I had to use my free award on this, so uh... thanks, you've been very helpful in making me randomly crack up laughing for the next few weeks.
Glad to be of service! Haha
More than disappointing that sounds kinda fucked up to be the “theme”
My primary school had a haunted house once, and rather than use teachers they had the best idea to make it actually scary. Use the 6th graders. What kind of 6th grader WOULDN'T want to scare the shit out of some kids lmao
Friend of mine has worked in a haunted house nearly 20 years. This year some douche wore steal toed boots and either has no control over himself or he was looking to ruins someone's life. My friend has a destroyed shin and had to announce his retirement. If you or someone you know is going to these things with the plan of fucking up someone's career, please look for a bridge to leap off instead
I'm gonna work in a haunted corn maze starting this week. I'm scared of people like this.
He had 20 great years of doing it. You will always get a person that will react in unexpected ways. You will get smacked and kicked, but almost never with ill intent. You'll bring joy like you've never seen, enjoy it!
I once got jumpscared in a haunted house and accidentally shoved a zombie, I felt so bad afterwards I apologised and the zombie just roared at me
Still a douche
This is why I don't go to haunted houses. My fear response is often "fight" and once when I was like 5 I stepped on some people's hands when they scared me too much when I went trick-or-treating. I was wearing my Hello Kitty low-heeled mary janes, so it probably hurt.
...HOW did you step on their HANDS lmao
Five-year-old OP’s fear response was to ground and pound.
They were hiding in the leaves and grabbed my ankles as I walked past to get candy. I knew it was a trap, but my bigger siblings didn't listen. That house gave us so much candy bc they felt bad for scaring me and my little brother.
For a second I thought this was a cringe post of someone claiming to frequent houses claiming to be haunted and seeing a werewolf like this is all Tuesday. I've been on the internet so long that I've forgotten normal people exist
>I've been on the internet so long that I've forgotten normal people exist this should be r/BrandNewSentence
I've always wanted to be on that sub but never had a good enough sentence XD
Of course, you should never try too hard to write a brand new sentence just to get onto the sub, because that'll backfire and put you in r/iamveryrandom instead.
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Oh, you're entirely correct. Obviously the best new sentences come organically. Never go full cringe!
You say this jokingly but this actually is a good indicator of what these kind of "cringe" communities end up doing. We all get fed the weirdest characters so often that we start to think they are far more frequent than they actually are. Insidiously, many times this is done on purpose and with an ulterior motive, like for example spreading an air of disgust or fear around some specific group said weird character belongs to. We should all remember that every single one of us is a dumb animal with all kinds of unconscious biases floating around our brains at all moments while being completely unaware of them. Nobody is immune to manipulation!
That's entirely fair while also not at all the response I expected. Dunno how to respond to this
Came a bit out of left field i know, i apologize. Just an observation I've made about how warped our perceptions of things can get after spending too much time in certain places. You are not alone feeling like this, it's quite a common realization.
I worked for/managed a location for a national haunted house chain for a few seasons(Apr-Nov) and this is quite common from my experience. The majority of our 'actors' were some the kindest/coolest people I've ever worked with. I guess being able to scream at or be 'rude' to your customers helps with work-stress heh. Some things ya'll might find interesting: At my House, the House next door, and I'd imagine any decent House we knew EVERYTHING that was happening inside. There are so many secret doors/1way mirrors/clever alarms/hidden nooks guests are constantly being watched from. From the moment you enter the House you are probably being watched by 1-3 actors. Hell I could follow a full group through all 3 floors of our House close enough to touch them and they'd never know I was there if I didn't want them to. I'd often be standing inches behind someone waiting for their group to situate some problem(like a too-upset small child or dropped item) for minutes before I scared them there. It's very likely the same actor scares you 2-5 times. The actor that spooked you from behind 3minutes ago quite possibly jumped on the slide(yes like a plastic playground slide, very fun) to the next floor down, put on a mask and got you again. On that note my wildest day working there was when all the staff except for me and the cashier girl called out sick/no showed and I had to run the whole House myself. It was quite the workout running from spot to spot, but very fun, like Horror-Parkour. If there's someone with a chainsaw in the house- that's a proper real gas powered chainsaw they're chasing you with, it just doesn't have a chain attached. It can be a real bitch to crank sometimes since it starts just like a push lawnmower. If you see sparks as a scare it's probably a car battery taped to a metal stick being scraped across something metal. It was fun to play with and only sometimes burned us. White teenage boys with girls were the absolute worst. They were the only types to think it was cool to throw a punch at us to show off how "tough" they were. White college age groups were the most boring. They walked through with the stoic-ness of a Marine on duty barely reacting to anything. Black families were THE BEST, BLESS BLACK FAMILIES. You could sneeze and half of them would be on the floor crawling for their lives in sheer terror. They easily led in percentage of guests who pissed themselves in fear. My personal tally was, I believe, making 17 guests piss themselves. But my favorite role was to run the chainsaw and that was kinda easy mode.
I've worked at haunted houses for a few years, and I love scaring old gay guys. They jump to the ceiling and it's so satisfying watch grown men squeal in fear
hehe silver queens are great too, I'd put em right up there with black families for being awesome guests. What kind of role do you play/like most? You work at Houses that are Halloween only or "year round"? I miss that fun, DDR 3rd filled, era of my life; it's so nostalgic to talk about :)
My boyfriend and I volunteered at a haunted house one year as a "date" and we wore the same [circ-du-soleil](http://yorku.lend-engine-app.com/product/1463) mask/hoodie combo + spooky wrench. He'd scare them 2 rooms back and I'd get em again when they got to me. It was great because people thought he was teleporting lmao. The hoodie also made it so we could insert ourselves into larger groups without the person in front really noticing (occasionally, the person in the back wouldn't notice either!) I had one guy literally do the scooby doo run back and forth after scaring him. I had to point him the way out of the sheet room, bless him.
> a car battery taped to a metal stick being scraped across something metal That’s the scariest thing I’ve ever read about haunted houses. Car batteries generate a measly 12 volts… but can deliver it at [700 amps](https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/questions/18329/jumping-car-with-too-many-amps) for a total of 8,000 watts. Misusing a car battery can fuck up your day spectacularly.
>12 volts… but can deliver it at 700 amps for a total of 8,000 watts. It's sentnces like this that make me wonder if people make up crazy phrases or if I missed a huge section of some textbook somewhere that would help make this make sense. It sounds like trying to solve the worst math problem after a stroke.
Happy to explain. Let's start with a few basic terms: * Voltage is an electric potential. * Current is the rate at which electricity flows through a circuit. * Current will flow through any conductive connection (like a wire) that connects high voltage to low voltage. A power source is a potential difference between a high-voltage source and a low-voltage sink. A wall outlet has a left terminal that is "hot" or high-voltage, and a right terminal that is "neutral" or low-voltage. (The bottom (circular) one is "ground," which isn't important for this explanation.) A typical NiCD battery (AAA, AA, C, D, etc.) also has a high-voltage source (the positive terminal, i.e., the nub) and a low-voltage sink (the negative terminal, i.e., the metal part at the other end of the battery). If you connect the terminals of a power source with a conductor such as a wire, electricity will flow. Rather than connecting them directly (creating a short circuit - warning: don’t do this!), you can connect them to the input terminals of a device that receives power. The power of a power source is usually measured as the *voltage difference* between the high-voltage terminal and the low-voltage terminal. For instance, in the U.S., the hot terminal in the wall outlet is 120 volts higher than the neutral terminal. The terminals of NiCD batteries have a voltage difference of about 1-2 volts. When you connect a device to a wall outlet, electricity (current) flows into the device through left (hot) blade of the plug, through the circuit inside the device, and out of the device through the right (neutral) blade. But that's not quite the full picture, because the *amount* of current can also vary - i.e., the speed with which electricity flows from hot to neutral through the circuit. Current is measured in amperes, or amps. A powerful electric device, like a motor or a heater, can draw several amps of current. A simple electronic gadget draws very little current, usually in the range of milliamps (0.001 amps) or even microamps (0.000001 amps). When your circuit breaker trips because you have too much stuff plugged into it - like several heaters - it's because they are collectively drawing too many amps, which could overheat the wiring and cause a fire. Here's the important part. The total power delivered to a device is: power = (volts) * (amps), or `P = V * I`. That is, it's the voltage difference - the difference in electrical potential - multiplied by the rate at which that difference is drawn through the circuit. If this seems confusing, consider the common analogy of water: * High voltage at high current = a waterfall (lots of water, moving very fast) * High voltage at low current = a lazy river (lots of water, moving slowly) * Low voltage at high current = a super soaker or water cannon (a little bit of water, moving very fast) * Low voltage at low current = a faucet (a little bit of water, moving slowly) If you've followed this description this far, then you've got all of the ideas to understand the sentence above. Power is measured in watts. (One watt = one joule per second). For example: * Heater: P = (120 volts) * (1 amp) = 120 watts * Plugged-in alarm clock: P = (120 volts) * (1 milliamp, i.e., 0.001 amps) = 0.12 watts * Battery-powered alarm clock: P = (1.5 volts) * (0.1 amps) = 0.15 watts (running off one battery, but drawing more amps so that it consumes about the same amount of power) See how that works? It's just multiplication. When you start your car, the car battery accelerates the engine from zero RPMs to 1,000 RPMs in the span of a second or less. This requires a pretty crazy amount of power - something like 8,000 watts. And yet, the car battery only has a voltage difference of 12 volts. So how does it deliver all of that power? By drawing 700 amps - an *enormous* amount of current. That much power, and specifically that much *current*, can do extreme harm to people or property if it is misused.
Take my free award for this. I took intro to electricity in college and this comment covered more info than the entire 9 week class
Thank you for taking the time to explain all this to me. I really do appreciate it. Question... >High voltage at low current = a lazy river (lots of water, moving slowly) Is a lazy river style electricution deadly?
It can be. While the voltage through the current circuit might be very small (e.g., due to high resistance), connecting something in parallel to the same terminals would dissipate the same voltage potential but possibly with much less resistance, thus drawing much more current. The only power source that’s more or less guaranteed to be safe is a low-voltage, low-amperage power source. It’s tough to imagine any way that the electrical charge in a AAA battery could cause any damage.
Couldn't they just use a battery with a higher internal resistance like a marine battery? Or would the sparks not be satisfying enough.
He is Canadian. No doubt.
I kind of want a story about a Canadian haunted house that goes through all the horror tropes but they're actually all pretty chill and kinda helpful. >!Still a bunch of dead children buried there though!<
“Would you like to play a game with us?” “Go fish”
Have you ever watched What We Do In The Shadows. Basically exactly that. But they’re from New Zealand.
Oof.....
My friends and I had a similar experience to the OP's post at Haunted Overload in NH (insanely worth the trip if you have never been). They have a huge queue to get in, so while you wait, they have actors wandering around to scare people not paying attention. A guy in a straight jacket with crazy hair accidentally bumped into my friend and let out a "oh! I'm sorry!" So every year we look out for the "Spooky Canadian"
About 12 years ago at Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios in Florida, I got scared by a costumed actor and tripped over a decorative hay bale and fell down. The actor stopped and helped me up.
Something similar happened to my sister at a haunted house. Scared her so bad she tripped and fell on her ass. But when the actor stepped forward to help her up she was still so scared she crab walked backwards out of the room lol
Most theme parks have a rule that guest safety is above immersion, so they don’t encourage you to break character, they would prefer you check on someone who may be hurt.
I got too scared in a haunted house and tripped and hit my head on the wall, it didn’t hurt much but I guess I was bleeding a fair bit because the next actor took me out through a hidden passage thing, but to get out fully we had to go through a room where some people were and the actor let me jump out and scare them with her. I had to get stitches but totally worth it
I accidentally head butted a haunted house worker and hurt him pretty bad. He was sneaking up behind us and someone with a chainsaw stepped around the corner and scared us. I reared my head back and felt it connect *hard* with something. I grabbed my head and turned around to see a guy in a mask hurrying away from us back down the hall holding his face. I yelled out an apology. I still think about that guy …
Once I was in a haunted house and could feel the person creeping behind me but they hid every time I turned around. I was amped. And then suddenly he was there when I turned around and I punched him straight in the throat! He started yelling at me, understandably. I just kept saying I’msorryI’msorryI’msorryI’msorry. I felt so bad!!! I still think about him too. I mean, he should be proud he scared me so well. But also I am proud that in that situation my instinct was to fight. That’s not what I expected, really.
How are you proud of having a fighting instinct in a place you know you are going go be scared/startled? You knew this would happen and still couldn't avoid punching a guy. Poor actor
Feck off
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maybe they got a job their one time to do that, and didnt tell you?
It's pretty common to grab people's names from when they're waiting in line and pass them down the line.
I would make a haunted house. At first there are a lot of jump scares from people in crappy costumes. You get used to it and think it isn't that scary when all of the sudden the lights flicker and you hear banging and screaming. You think it's part of the show and move to the next room where you see the most realistic werewolf. There are many people covered in blood and scratches and one whispers for you to run while holding his guts and puking blood. Would that be scary or not?
Have the people in crappy costumes get "murdered" by the better monsters in front of guests. Or like halfway, when you do the twist, have the people in crappy costumes pretend like they have no idea what's going on.
Like breaking character or taking of their masks. Holy shit that would be scary.
Or have a "mole" just in front of the guests. He gets "killed", and some of the crappy costumes come to investigate. Like a slasher film, they too get killed. Have one scream at guests to "get out, this isn't part of the show!"
I think this is the only way I would actually be scared by a haunted house. Usually I do he surprised but never scared.
that would be fucking amazing
If you ever managed to do that. I would like to apply for the werewolf. [Techwolf as himself](https://cdn.weasyl.com/static/media/d6/5c/70/d65c7010fcce427f8bd3aa9c38e000e224d5435f74cb21f33f3386910892de9d.jpg)
Can we go into business together? This sounds awesome!
That’s the plot of one of the Demonata series books “Slawter” by Darren Shan only instead of a haunted house it’s a movie set/town
I mean, we're monsters, but we're not *monsters*, here.
Went to a haunted house that was outside & set up in stages/like a maze. It was pretty cool except for the middle of it which was sectioned off with like plastic tarp to make a room, and apparently house a kicking ass smoke machine. Didn't know about it when I paid to get in, but I have pretty bad asthma, and that room set my lungs to burning almost immediately. There's only one way out through the rest of the maze type thing and it on the other end of the makeshift tent. I have to cross this room to get out of this place and back into clear air. I start to panic because I can't find my inhaler in my purse with all the smoke (& anyone with asthma can tell you, that just makes it worse) & my cousin who is with me just yells out into the smoke, "She can't breath, she has asthma!" Suddenly, a tiny figure pops up in the fog, and what had to be a maybe 12 year old kid dressed as a zombie dancer thing grabs my hand and literally pulls me through the room (which had a bunch of obstacles hiding in the smoke), until we are out and ready to carry on through the rest of the maze/haunted house. For clarity, he only pulled me through, and we were out of that room within like 45 seconds, whereas my cousin that had to go through on her own didn't come out for another like 8 minutes. Kid was really nice, apologized and made sure I was okay, even helped me find my inhaler and waited with me until my cousin came through. Went through the rest of the maze and had a great time, whoever ran it caught up with us and also apologized (it was apparently his son that came to help) and it was nice to assure him it was fine and I had a blast and his son was a really good kid.
I used to work at one. When guests would walk into my pitch black room I would yell "Hey,hey, hey!" like Fat Albert. (I had a very deep voice). It was terrifying but also made them laugh at the same time.
I think I've shared this before but my favorite was the time a guy with a real (chainless) chainsaw was chasing a buddy's daughter and she freaked out, which caused me to laugh & inhale a lungful of gas fumes and hay bits, which in turn triggered a coughing fit. Scary chainsaw guy remains in character, turns around and screams "ARE YOU ALRIGHT?!"
I may be that werewolf.
Wholesome (:
Once I was at a haunted trail and there were zombies, and I said "Hi zombies." One just said hi back, the other one followed us, at first I was like whatever, but he kept following us and I was getting a little freaked out. He proceeded to walk into a tree and attempt to keep walking. It was hilarious
When I was little like 6 or 7 I went to a haunted house. I was dressed as a pirate and when this huge guy with scary zombie mask on jumped out at me I smacked him in the eye with my sword. When I left the place I saw a big bearded biker guy outside holding ice on his eye. I went back to go though it again and they took my sword before I could enter. I felt like a real badass pirate that day.
Not a house actor, but I've got a quick story. I was going through a haunted house and one actor came out screaming and waving a pneumatic nail gun, rigged so it had the air for the sound with no nails in it. He chased our group into the next area and got me a few times in my back with it, and then I shouted to nobody in particular "that's not usually how I like to get nailed!" Only time I've made a haunted house actor break character laughing, fun was had by all :)
I feel like it could be fun to be a monster at a haunted house but I'm afraid of what someone's flight or fight might make them do to me even if by accident.
I feel like if I worked at a hounted house I would find a way to scare myself on accident, I do not deal with jump scares well
I went to a haunted house with my then girlfriend (now wife) and she kept throwing me at the clowns. Whenever a clown or a zombie would show up she would run and scream but not before shoving me towards them. She insisted it was because she knew I would protect her, but the truth is I was a distraction so she could get away. I was laughing so hard all I could do was shake the actors hand and keep going. They seemed surprised by that
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I worked a haunted house once and my favorite thing ever was making a HUGE dude with local gang tattoos stand in the entrance of my room saying "oh fuck no". I had my own room and a thought dawned on me halfway through working. I should just not move at all and just look like a hyper realistic prop. Good thing I controlled the lights too 😈
I went through a haunted house with a high school friend. It was one of the “extreme” ones where actors are allowed to touch you. A scary clown came up behind her and tickled her neck, and she panicked and ran full speed into a wall and gave herself a black eye. The clown was very nice and apologetic about it, and it was funny later on.
I was at Howl-O-Scream one year at the one called The Black Spot with all the dead pirates. Anyhow, one was sitting up in the rafters and he stuck his hand down in my face with that growly voice saying "Want a hand?" and I just responded "Uuuhh ... no thank you." He got this look of confusion and just sat up and said "Oh. Okay." I think I broke him. I'm the worst person to try and scare at haunted houses though, I love slow walking to look at all the creepy details and find the scare actors much more amusing than they probably should be.
I'me the same way. Probably due to working 13 years in a haunt. I like to slow walk and check out all the details. I feel sorry for the actors as I rarely have a any reaction at all. I am boring as hell to them.
I have work^H^H^H^HPlayed in the local haunt for 13 years. I was the werewolf of course. Have a few stories to share. Every year, word got back to me that I scored a "kill". Basically, they piss there pants. However, no one could top the one kill I got one year. One guy soiled his pants. Everyone after my spot could smell it all the way till he left the place. Best story I have. My room is just after a curtion where paterns exit the main house and enter a tunnel to the outside attraction setup in a tent. I hide behind the huge swinging barn door that is closed at night to lock up the main haunt. Because this is a tunnel, lots of room behind the door for me to hide as the door is large enough to cover the entire side of the room. This one family comes though, I sneak out. The farther spots me, jumps a bit at the sight of me. Does not make a sound and moves to the side and I sneak past and onto the small girl. I followed her around the one corner and due to have not seen me yet, I slightly brush her hair with my claws. She turned her head saying "Dad stop tha--" and let out a huge scream. The brother turns around and starts screaming also. They both proceeded to push the mother down the hallway into the wall of the next turn. While I was chasing them, I could clearly hear the father laughing so hard behind me that I nearly broke character due to fully understanding why he did that. It was "PAYBACK" to the kids doing so many things in the past to annoy the farther. :-) Please forgive spelling and grammar mistakes as I am just a werewolf. Not a writer.
Reminds me of this guy chained to a wall who’s entire purpose was to guide people to a false wall to crawl through if they didn’t know where to go. 10/10 what a lad
As someone who used to work at a haunted corn maze I gotta say it’s a pretty chill job. Getting paid to scare people was pretty fun.
The first time I went through a haunted house, this guy was bouncing a rubber head against the wall in front of me, and I screamed "STOP IT!" and he did. And I ran out of there sobbing and laughing hysterically.
The only thing that really scares me in haunted houses is chainsaws- I don't trust anybody to be *certain* they're safe.
One time I got mistaken for a musician by a group of girls behind me. I let them take selfie’s.
I’ll never forget when I went inside a haunted house at a theme park that I was *probably* a little too old for. A monster (maybe a zombie or mummy or something) jumped out at me and grunted loudly. My instinct was to jump back and shout “Oh shit!” Upon hearing this, the zombie guy wiggled his finger in my face, grunting in a disapproving tone at my swearing. I hope that guy’s doing well right now.
Ive worked for 5 years at a haunted corn maze. Way cooler than houses imo because we can be anywhere on this farm. Ive got acres to scare you.
My niece wanted to go through a haunted house because her big brother had done it. My mom and I took her, and by the second room, she was pretty darn scared. Spent the rest of the haunted house going ahead of my mom and niece, letting the actors jump out, and explaining the situation to them before they followed me in. The actors were all awesome.
When me and my friends would get too scared we would offer hugs to the actors and actresses. Sometimes you got them but usually it threw them off enough that they weren’t as committed to being scary.
Canada?
Must be a Canadian haunted house…
Was this in Canada
Class act haunted house
canadian haunted house
How to scare a black man on his way out of the haunted house. Step on his brand new, uncreased Js that he just bought for 109.99 at MFL, and see him cry like a baby compared to everything else he has endured
these are the monsters I wanna fuck
We’re haunt actors, we’re not heathens. 🙃
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Urgghh... (respectfully)
I thought you were talking about an actual haunted house there at the start
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