Haunted House - so SCARY that you get your money back!

Found this one on Snopes.com. I know it isn't news, but being that it is October, and Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, I wanted to share.

If you read the article referenced above, you will see that according to snopes.com, there is no such place as the "haunted house so scary that if you make it all the way through you get your money back". Boy am I disappointed. I have heard for most of my adult life that I needed to get up to Kansas City MO in October, and tour this mythical haunted house, and have always wanted to go!

Personally, I find most of the haunted attractions around Joplin disgusting, not scary. I'm not into blood and gore. I like mind tricks, like the power of suggestion. Or being startled so good that I scream.

I remember a haunted house I went through when I was sixteen. The scariest part of the whole gory mess was the upstairs. They had a maze, with a strobe light and the theme music from the original Halloween movie. I was so scared I almost peed my pants. Michael Myers terrifies me, because the first time I watched that movie I was about five years old, it kind of stuck with me. Funny thing about that floor of the haunted house - it was only music and a maze, nothing jumped out and got me. There was no Michael Myers. (The power of suggestion!) And, to date, that is still the scariest haunted house I have ever been in.

I have been in the Raycliff Manor. I must say, it was off season, so I wasn't really in the right mood, but we went because they were raising money for a good cause. Anyhow, they startled me A LOT. I screamed often, and then, because they were succeeding in startling me, they picked on me for most of the walk through. Those actors are awesome at their jobs. It is a good place to go, if you like being startled, and not grossed out. They even tell a little story that goes along with it. (I'm not trying to "plug" Raycliff Manor. Please don't take it that way.)

Back to the original storyline; I watch a lot of educational television, and I remember last year (I don't remember which channel); one of them ran a series of "Scariest Spook Houses" or something like that. The scariest one I saw, I believe use to be in New Orleans. From what I could tell, it was like walking through an old abandoned home that friends of Rob Zombie had lived in. Then, even though it appeared abandoned, there were actors inside just waiting to scare you. They showed a girl that actually came out of the last door having peed her pants, and another middle aged man had to be taken by ambulance to the emergency room because he had a heart attack. (Whether or not it was induced by the trip the haunted house, one will never know. However, I'm sure the owners of the haunted house liked that for advertisement.) This particular place was shut down because certain citizens believed it to be ran by Satanists, and complained to the city officials. Sad. I would like to have gone there.

Anyhow, as you can tell, I really enjoy the Halloween season. I throw a party every year, and every year my costume gets scarier and scarier. I love it. People don't recognize me; therefore I can become an actor as well. It is so much fun.

Happy Haunting!!