Beech Bend Amusement Park - With Old School Haunted Dark Ride

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  • Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024

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  • @erikgriffith8857
    @erikgriffith8857 3 года назад +42

    The creepy redheaded monster woman painted on the exterior of the haunted house is from the movie, House, with Ricard Moll. I also agree that that dark ride was one of the better ones I've seen.

    • @vikinggnome
      @vikinggnome 3 года назад

      the "ex" lol. Great movie

    • @erikgriffith8857
      @erikgriffith8857 3 года назад +2

      @@vikinggnome I agree. If you haven't seen it already, I suggest the Japanese movie of the same name. I also love your username. Vikings and gnomes rule.

    • @vikinggnome
      @vikinggnome 3 года назад

      @@erikgriffith8857 I have! And that one is a whole different kind of of oddly beautiful wild ride

    • @erikgriffith8857
      @erikgriffith8857 3 года назад

      @@vikinggnome Yep. I suspect we are kindred spirits. Have a good one!

    • @Suppitschele21
      @Suppitschele21 3 года назад

      Hahaha I knew it! One of my favorite horror movies!

  • @mikedavies9379
    @mikedavies9379 3 года назад +26

    Love these old school theme parks all the classic rides and more. The dark side looked awesome . Keep them coming great videos🇺🇸🇬🇧😷👍

    • @KIM-bt7my
      @KIM-bt7my 3 года назад +4

      👍🙂👍.

    • @ronniechoate3086
      @ronniechoate3086 3 года назад +2

      @Maci Blackford This place has been around for a while. I have fond memories of my childhood at this place. I've taken my children and grandchildren here. Ronnie Millsap owned it once. He almost put it out of business.

  • @notjonahhill
    @notjonahhill 3 года назад +39

    Jacob if you see this I just wanted to say that you probably the best youtuber I've seen so down to earth funny and wholesome I life your videos been watchin for about 3 years now you always cheer me up keep doing what your doing stay safe

    • @notjonahhill
      @notjonahhill 3 года назад +4

      @Watermelon Rind I know I'm just saying he should stay that way

  • @debi1451
    @debi1451 3 года назад +37

    I actually got a bit dizzy watching you on the Wild Mouse ride, I could almost feel it!. Good video Jacob.

    • @brendakrieger7000
      @brendakrieger7000 3 года назад +4

      Same here

    • @bigjoe7926
      @bigjoe7926 3 года назад +5

      I feel it to.

    • @SnowflakeHenri
      @SnowflakeHenri 3 года назад +1

      Same here.

    • @denvernicholas1270
      @denvernicholas1270 3 года назад

      I dont mean to be so off topic but does anyone know a way to get back into an Instagram account?
      I stupidly lost the password. I love any help you can give me!

    • @jakobaarav7722
      @jakobaarav7722 3 года назад +1

      @Denver Nicholas instablaster =)

  • @freakyfridaylover-xk9xe
    @freakyfridaylover-xk9xe 3 года назад +5

    my favorite memory of Beech Bend is the ride operator letting us ride the Wild Mouse literally in the middle of a thunder storm and lightning hitting really close to us! thought I was going to die

    • @freakyfridaylover-xk9xe
      @freakyfridaylover-xk9xe 3 года назад +2

      also the haunted house is honestly scary HAHAH everything is so close to you in it

    • @_Melody_76
      @_Melody_76 Год назад +2

      nah bc i remember my sisters riding the wild mouse during that thunderstorm... lol. we go every year, its so fun. im not a big fan of the big rides bc im scared of heights, fast and spinning things so i mostly just ride the "baby" rides with the little ones lol. but the waterpark is also very fun !!

  • @OffRampAdventures
    @OffRampAdventures 3 года назад +4

    Glad to see they had some real scares on the dark ride.

  • @TheIluvdvds
    @TheIluvdvds 3 года назад +13

    Looks like the guy eating a 'rat' might be Bub from Day Of The Dead

  • @peedeesanddigger4862
    @peedeesanddigger4862 3 года назад +18

    Sweet, love the old amusement parks. Thanks for sharing.

  • @DC11music
    @DC11music 3 года назад +9

    You are hilarious on the scary rides! Keep on making them.

  • @m.nic.5080
    @m.nic.5080 3 года назад +14

    Almost all the animatronics in there were from Scarefactory! Very good company but very expensive. Definitely one of the highest budget Ghost Train type rides I’ve seen. I know you primarily do American travel but it would be cool to see you visit the one in Blackpool someday.

  • @Deathbruce
    @Deathbruce 3 года назад +5

    Jacob back in the 70s this was an amazing place and much different than today. Beech Bend has just about went under a few times due to changes in ownership and most of the original park is gone. I spent many of days at Beech Bend in my youth. They used to hold NHRA drags there and one of the greatest camping areas you could go to. Great vid.

  • @dawsonsdiary
    @dawsonsdiary 2 года назад +2

    I'm 28 now , but I remember my brother and I riding the haunted house ride when I was like 8 and its scared the crap out of us.

  • @johnkaczinski468
    @johnkaczinski468 3 года назад +27

    Jacob: I remember the first “Gravatron” I first rode was in Wildwood, NJ. It was called the “Hell Hole” with the guy in the middle dressed as Satan. Still the best!
    Have you ever visited Del Grosso’s Park near Altoona, PA? Old school park, smattered, but with an amazing water park. They were closed in 2020 because of COVID, but should be open in 2021.

    • @bribriboy
      @bribriboy 3 года назад +2

      I will Forever Love Gravitron.

    • @cindyrichards1118
      @cindyrichards1118 3 года назад +2

      I remember the hell hole then it became planet of the apes then starwars

  • @ToyAddict
    @ToyAddict 3 года назад +5

    "What Is That!" It's compressed air Jacob! 😆

  • @extrawhine2719
    @extrawhine2719 3 года назад +4

    this park is at my home town! The lazar fury ride used to be a petting zoo area when I was a kid.

    • @lukesigmon9601
      @lukesigmon9601 3 года назад

      You live in BG? My moms side of the family lives there and we go to Beech Bend like once a year. I love the haunted house ride.

  • @xmarksthespotmusicchannel5009
    @xmarksthespotmusicchannel5009 3 года назад +37

    The person who voiced the electrocuted man I want to ask him:
    How much do you get paid for that?

    • @ShelaRoxx
      @ShelaRoxx 3 года назад +4

      I can't with all the "effort" the voice actor put in! 😂😂

  • @jaybeatty2182
    @jaybeatty2182 3 года назад +3

    Thank you Jacob for showing me the changes in a favorite amusement park of my youth. It's been 40 years ago, but the memories of my 16 birthday at beach bend are still alive.

  • @october1634
    @october1634 3 года назад +3

    Wasn't expecting the props to look that good, most of the dark rides we've seen look a lot more home made

  • @ashbees85
    @ashbees85 3 года назад +1

    It’s Screaming Carpetbagger Season! 😄 My favorite time of year lol

  • @robertball611
    @robertball611 3 года назад +2

    I appreciate the fact that you go through the dark rides more than once. We can see more things the second time around

  • @the98liner
    @the98liner 3 года назад +6

    I love scary dark rides!! It's a good way to enjoy the horror while feeling safe in a car because I'm too cowardly to walk through haunted houses. Too bad my country doesn't have any. Also Jacob's screams are just so entertaining.

  • @smartjrchina
    @smartjrchina 2 года назад +1

    I love this dark ride. It’s so much fun.

  • @UweJMeyer
    @UweJMeyer 3 года назад +4

    I'm amused, that americans love dark rides.In Germany they have died out since decades.But Jacob, you do an exellent job as ambessedor for your nation.In the different to your Potus you have style,intelligience, humor and a friendly sympathic speech.You show the world the real US life.Thanks and please more.

  • @dareflyers3456
    @dareflyers3456 3 года назад +5

    I really enjoy your vidios

  • @1958darkstar
    @1958darkstar 3 года назад +2

    That was a TOTALLY amazing park!

  • @nathan.2805
    @nathan.2805 3 года назад +3

    Yo, I live 2 hours away from here! I've been here so many times and I love it

  • @CourtneyEmon
    @CourtneyEmon 3 года назад +4

    Finally caught an early upload!!! Love ya Jacob stay safe!! 💪🏾🤩

  • @bomberguy06
    @bomberguy06 3 года назад +3

    13:15 Jacob's astronaut training.

  • @DementedCaver
    @DementedCaver 3 года назад +2

    I recall staying in the campgrounds there for a night back in the 70's....went to the park in the day....loved it. The Duck ride was awesome.

  • @tiffanymachelleyoung
    @tiffanymachelleyoung 3 года назад +1

    I live in Bowling Green now and have always lived nearby. We went to Beech Bend every summer when I was a kid. I think I rode that dark ride once when I was little. Never. Again. I hate jump scares.

  • @caroleroseburgh1344
    @caroleroseburgh1344 3 года назад +3

    Hello Jacob 🖐🏼. This is awesome. I really appreciate you for sharing your experience with US. I really wish that I could have met you when you were in Michigan. But anywho no pain, no gain‼️ Enjoy The Rest of your Day ‼️😃🖐️👍.

  • @flame7315
    @flame7315 3 года назад +2

    So many fond memories going there every summer back in childhood. That place will always be held in my heart 😊

  • @shonseibert48
    @shonseibert48 3 года назад +1

    Vintage Haunted Houses are the best, u can smell the wood n history as u go thru

  • @slimraerae
    @slimraerae 3 года назад +5

    That was Michael Jackson’s Sea Dragon!! I thought they had a plaque or something telling about it! Welcome to Kentucky!

  • @caroltumey6800
    @caroltumey6800 3 года назад +1

    I did not know that Beech Bend Park was still open. Thanks for the video.

  • @LIFEWITHTHEJONESES1
    @LIFEWITHTHEJONESES1 3 года назад +1

    Living in Nashville as a kid once Opryland closed this was the goto amusement park. Thanks carpetbagger for highlighting Beach Bend

  • @jennygray6939
    @jennygray6939 3 года назад +2

    Hey Jacob! So awesome you visited my town and beech bend! The wild mouse and the haunted house dark ride are my favorite!

    • @samanderson4166
      @samanderson4166 3 года назад +1

      Going through the comments it is neat to see so many carpet bagger fans so close to my area. Greetings from G-town!

  • @juanzapata492
    @juanzapata492 3 года назад +5

    It’s very scary 😟 old school park ride and even the drawing on the wall looks awesome 😎

    • @TracyT5150
      @TracyT5150 3 года назад

      I love everytime you go to these places my family went there alot when we were growing up so THANK YOU again your awsome😁

  • @deathmetalbard
    @deathmetalbard 3 года назад +1

    Starship 4000 was always my favorite ride. It was so cool to try and move your arms and legs as it weighed on you so you couldn't move.

  • @ScarrednCharred
    @ScarrednCharred 3 года назад +2

    Saw a drunk guy throw up on the gravitron once. It was magical.

  • @applevalleyhillbillygarden1093
    @applevalleyhillbillygarden1093 3 года назад +3

    Cool. My favorite amusement park when I was a kid. Then Six Flags over Mid America came to the mid west. Sure has changed since the late 60s, but somehow has not changed that much.

  • @amblyn8254
    @amblyn8254 3 года назад +1

    Love when you do amusement park videos :D they're so cozy

  • @stanleystudios5186
    @stanleystudios5186 3 года назад +5

    Very interesting place!

  • @lindzlou97
    @lindzlou97 3 года назад +6

    Hey I'm early Woo Hoo! plus I love Amusement Parks 💚 Hope you are doing well

  • @witnesswithinChrist
    @witnesswithinChrist 3 года назад +1

    Man wished the rumbler was runnin. Its an experience. Glad you liked it bro!

  • @lilbear8612
    @lilbear8612 3 года назад +2

    Whoa! I would've never thought you'd come to my hometown. Allow me to welcome you to Bowling Green. It's great to have you!

  • @Katreyn_
    @Katreyn_ 3 года назад

    I used to love the Starship like ride as a kid at the local fairs. But I don't think I could handle that as a adult. Thanks for riding some of the rides for us. NIce to see the old classic rides.

  • @melisagilbert4486
    @melisagilbert4486 3 года назад +1

    Here in New Brunswick Canada we call that space ship ride the gravatron, it is fun, just so much g force

  • @cardinaloflannagancr8929
    @cardinaloflannagancr8929 3 года назад +1

    It's the closest you'll get to simulated death, excellent quote. Excellent sense of humor and delivery love your videos Carpetbagger.

  • @lissachocolate
    @lissachocolate 3 года назад +1

    What a nice park, I think old school parks are more fun, lines are usually shorter and I like the older rides. The wild mouse looked great! Dark rides are always fun!

  • @SuperRegx
    @SuperRegx 3 года назад +1

    Good to see you in my home state. I haven’t been back to that park since they updated it. Loved the video. Thanks for doing what you do.

  • @joshbygosh
    @joshbygosh 3 года назад +1

    My neck of the woods. This is a fun place to spend a Saturday, done that a few times. Glad you visited.

  • @bunnymomjulie6719
    @bunnymomjulie6719 3 года назад

    Yeah, dude. We're too old for the Gravitron. Plus, it stopped being fun when I was too fat for the panel to slide up. LOL! Your POV on the Wild Mouse was very good. It is the very first time I ever felt any motion from a video. A lot of people complain about that all the time, but I didn't think it was possible. Every time you hit a curve, I feared for your life, careening off the track into the abyss below... xoxo

  • @lunalynn70
    @lunalynn70 3 года назад

    Used to go to Beech Bend in the 70s gave me my love for amusement parks.

  • @legowarrior2461
    @legowarrior2461 3 года назад +3

    love this channel

  • @michaelgayandproud6466
    @michaelgayandproud6466 3 года назад +2

    Love old amusement parks thanks for sharing

  • @itsChrisUlmer
    @itsChrisUlmer 3 года назад +3

    Was surprised to see how high quality the interior characters were compared to those guys on the porch haha. They could’ve at least covered up the giant amps next to the guy getting shocked. 😂 Still great tho!

  • @natekrieger5741
    @natekrieger5741 3 года назад +1

    My Step Dad & I went on the Crazy Mouse on My Birthday in 2018 @ the fair we visited!!!!!!! We had a Blast!!!!!!!

  • @toystorylover5257
    @toystorylover5257 3 года назад

    Cool video! I like that dark ride. It was really cool. I also like that roller coaster you went on. Awesome! It spins! But you get dizzy. Thanks for sharing!

  • @NurseHensley
    @NurseHensley 3 года назад +1

    I used to love the Gravatron!! We used to hang upside down and do tricks in the one that came to our county fair when I was a kid!

  • @stevenchaffin8817
    @stevenchaffin8817 3 года назад

    I used to work here still live 10 minutes away. The original cars they used are in a museum due to the fact they are some of the oldest in the world still in operation and the haunted house animations was updated a few years ago.

  • @scottrousseau496
    @scottrousseau496 3 года назад +1

    That actually looks like a great little amusement park! Some very unique rides. Great video! This one's....... in the bag.

  • @rosemary-bn2di
    @rosemary-bn2di 3 года назад +1

    Awesome amusement park, love it ❤️

  • @KelleyRSmokyMThappiness14
    @KelleyRSmokyMThappiness14 3 года назад

    That’s awesome! I live about 45 minutes away from there.

  • @Coffeeandghosts1258
    @Coffeeandghosts1258 3 года назад +4

    Lady with the Orange hair scary monster looks like the monster from the movie 1989 house

  • @rocdocs
    @rocdocs 3 года назад +1

    DARK RIDES 4 EVA! Look forward to watching this with Baby Ball this evening.

  • @amyyoshikawa7698
    @amyyoshikawa7698 3 года назад +1

    Hi Jacob awesome vlog at an old school dark ride amusement park in Bowling Green, KY. Stay safe and happy haunts 👍🏻👻

  • @OldMovieRob
    @OldMovieRob 3 года назад +1

    I think it's awesome how you go right for the dark ride first.

  • @nicochicago2028
    @nicochicago2028 3 года назад +1

    Nice theme park Jacob.

  • @Cemmccoy0830
    @Cemmccoy0830 Год назад

    I love this ride! I grew up in Bowling Green and went every summer

  • @kyleh698
    @kyleh698 3 года назад +1

    Great content as always!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @mick_c_horror_and_pop_culture
    @mick_c_horror_and_pop_culture 3 года назад +1

    Awesome, awesome video.
    The Monster/Women is Sandy from House(1986) and The Zombie eating, is Bub from Day of the Dead(1985). The others......Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre: part 2(1986). The white Ghoul-looking fellar might be Nosferatu. 🎃

    • @marilynstark4988
      @marilynstark4988 11 месяцев назад +1

      Good job! I painted those creatures in the early 80’s
      Glad they’re still holding up

  • @suicidebyfema4767
    @suicidebyfema4767 3 года назад +3

    "What are you doing here tonight?"
    "Nawt a whole lawt."
    Just cuz you're in Bowling Green :)

  • @freakysteve5133
    @freakysteve5133 3 года назад

    That's a dragstrip next to it, we raced there in the 80's.
    Looked like they were doing a drift competition.
    When we raced there in the eighties the park was abandoned. And we explored it late at night, it was very creepy with 2 old school spook house dark rides.
    In the 80s the dragstrip started doing big bracket races and became pretty popular, the couple that own the track bought the park and fixed it up got it running again.

  • @chrisfirth5261
    @chrisfirth5261 3 года назад +4

    I’m actually early !!! Love ya vids man !

  • @happysavage6660
    @happysavage6660 3 года назад

    The Starship 4000, is giving me vibes, of a washing machine, made to sit in, and ride, for humans! lol

  • @bartplays3392
    @bartplays3392 3 года назад +7

    Yay dark ride

  • @ville666sora
    @ville666sora 3 года назад

    The small, old timey theme parks are always the most fun to visit. My local park keeps removing their old, classic rides and replacing them intense steel coasters and thrill rides that no one is really asking for in the first place. I never ride them because I don't enjoy intense thrill rides that much, and the rare times I'm in the mood for them I just go to like, Six Flags or something instead.

  • @Warriorfan287
    @Warriorfan287 3 года назад

    I live 5 minutes from here! We love Beech Bend

  • @abadonedexplorers
    @abadonedexplorers 3 года назад

    I rode the wild mouse and the spaceship ride at the Iowa State Fair 2021. Very fun.

  • @ShewannaCreativeCircle
    @ShewannaCreativeCircle 3 года назад +1

    Thanks for the vlog

  • @tammywilliams8199
    @tammywilliams8199 3 года назад +1

    My home town! I get season pass to Beech Bend Park every year.

  • @stephenpierson2958
    @stephenpierson2958 3 года назад +1

    Man do I miss the log ride at Dollywood. Wish that they could bring it back and the flooded mine. Thank you for the video

  • @dannymartin1114
    @dannymartin1114 3 года назад +1

    That magic show was something else

  • @davidstoffel4683
    @davidstoffel4683 3 года назад +2

    That is one of my favorite dark rides, love beech bend, you should go to the lost river cave in town

  • @hannahstahl1857
    @hannahstahl1857 3 года назад +1

    I haven’t been to beech bend since I had my first born 3yrs ago. I’m glad you’re going to it because when we went down there we went to the corvette museum first then beech bend and did the go carts, the Kentucky rumbler and the 0 gravity fall thing

  • @sunnyflower768
    @sunnyflower768 3 года назад +1

    youre by far my favorite youtuber! i love you dude!💖

  • @searcher00211
    @searcher00211 3 года назад +4

    Nice eclectic collection for a smaller cart. That haunted house dark ride looked especially interesting. Thanks for sharing your experience. Will you be doing haunts this year? I loved that haunted house style intro for videos!

    • @MichelleEvans
      @MichelleEvans 3 года назад

      searcher00211 most haunted houses are not going to be open this year due to coved-19.

    • @searcher00211
      @searcher00211 3 года назад

      Michelle E. Evans most of the haunts in my neck of the woods are open for business with COVID precautions. I won’t be going to them myself, but I was wondering if Jacob might venture into any this year.

  • @mistybailey4798
    @mistybailey4798 3 года назад +1

    Been there. Kentucky is my home state. My dad used to work for the owner of the park.
    They do those car shows every year.

  • @BOUNCERBABE
    @BOUNCERBABE 3 года назад

    In the UK, during the 80’s and 90’s we used to call them gravity wheels. The little town I grew up, we had an annual charter fair. We had a gravity wheel there. It wasn’t enclosed, it was all open. It would spin you, to get you stuck to the wall and then the arm would lift the wheel. I absolutely loved it back in the day.

  • @lauraodle5816
    @lauraodle5816 3 года назад

    Loved the rides! I definitely WON'T be going on the; "Think I'm going to be sick!" ride! Thanks for a great time!

  • @motorizedmisfit-artist8535
    @motorizedmisfit-artist8535 3 года назад +1

    That reminded me of Capt. Spaulding’s Murder Ride.

  • @paulfeagans9904
    @paulfeagans9904 3 года назад +1

    Sigh...Beech Bend. Went there when it first opened. I was in grade school and we went for a few years. There was a drag strip there also. Later in my high school years we would go to Kings Island and Six Flags over Mid America.

  • @roostercrws3x
    @roostercrws3x 3 года назад +1

    Love your vids ❤️❤️❤️

  • @christopherevans9119
    @christopherevans9119 3 года назад +1

    Not bad for a old school Haunted ride... 👍

  • @LindsayTVFilm
    @LindsayTVFilm 3 года назад +1

    15:50, a lot of boardwalk parks have larger versions. Six Flags Fiesta Texas has an even bigger version where the vehicles get raised above the ground

  • @babyr3ject236
    @babyr3ject236 3 года назад

    Was my favorite ride as a kid. Wanna buy it one day.

  • @anthonybomberry9935
    @anthonybomberry9935 3 года назад +5

    I believe that airplane ride is a new zampella ride

  • @rauladdams5709
    @rauladdams5709 3 года назад

    Haven't watched yet, am so right now.
    Just discovered after moving down that way, that this is actually new home park...
    Thought for years now that it was Dollywood.
    It's been dang tough to find any walkthroughs...being such a dang small park mostly.
    I thank you!
    Stay Safe!

    • @rauladdams5709
      @rauladdams5709 3 года назад

      Opossum strumming banjo while kicked back in an old-school plastic strap lawn chair next to a pop up trailer?
      Thats worth a subscription.
      What did I stumble on here??

    • @rauladdams5709
      @rauladdams5709 3 года назад

      Good stuff!
      Hopefully me and the family can get out there to check it out for ourselves :)
      Really does look like a perfect closer park for our needs. lol.

  • @franknowak9305
    @franknowak9305 3 года назад +1

    Thanks so much for these great videos.