For those of you that don't understand the haunt business, it's standard to use real chainsaws. The chain is removed so it's harmless but makes the sound of a real saw and it's quite effective at scaring people.
It really is effective. I've worked at a haunted house a few times, I was on the chain scene being one of my main scenes that year. For the scene it's a set of chains that go around the wrists and the waist and the other end was connected to large heavy boards on a concrete wall and I would lunge at people to scare them. One of the days I go to do my lunge to scare a small group of 2 and I ended up ripping the left side of chains from the wall, board and all. Luckily it missed every one and nobody got hurt. It was very awkward when they just stood there looking at me in shock as I followed with awkwardly pointing to the next scene XD
I've been working at a haunt for 5 seasons now and some of my favorite stories are from last years season. My haunt is a low budget, non-profit, volunteer based community project which means we aren't the best looking haunt but we get the job done regardless. I'm a pop box/ drop panel or que line worker. My character "Lulu" dosn't have any kids of her own but she loves kids non the less. Now Lulu has a "Day care" you can leave your kids in while you walk through. Sometimes I get a teenager or young adult try to take kids from my care when its stated only those who drop them off can pick them up for safety reasons. One night I had "Baby" (a 8 year old girl who works in the haunt) staying with me cause she was sick and couldn't act. I had a group of about 6 kids and baby sitting with me as I read them a story about the haunt. In the middle of reading this random guy came and grabbed baby off my lap saying its time to go home, now I'm good friends with baby and her family and I never meet this guy. After telling him he can't take her and grabbing her back from him he lost it. He was screaming how I was abducting his child and preceded to grab baby and run to his car. I called security and my backup and i took off running to this car. As he was pulling away, with baby screaming at me for help i leaped and jumped in the car. Long story short he got charged with child abduction, abduction of an adult, and my medical bills due to him punching me trying to get me out of his car. On a lighter note when I don't have anybody in my daycare I am free to roam in and out of the haunt. I usually try to follow one group through the haunt, scaring them at different locations. This particular group had a 10 year old boy in it, who i have successfully scared multiple time already. The last time I scared him I popped down from the ceiling right in front of him asking him if he wanted to stay with me. He pissed himself right then and started crying. I couldn't contain my laughter. I heard him mumble about staying at the daycare for the next part. The look on his face when he realized it was me who was to watch him was priceless.
Damn that intense, then again I guess people got their first experience of a scary clown doing a chase down for the first time. Hope the bastard got his dues.
Crazy as that last incident was, I suppose it turned out for the best. If that "tough guy" was crazy enough to mace someone, practically unprovoked, imagine what he could've done to any one of the actors. That one guy just happened to be able to walk it off. He could have seriously injured someone.
I work at a haunt and something insane happened... I was working as a clown as always, and I was in the part of the haunt that had a maze. It was almost the end of the night and I heard a huge BANG. My ears were ringing for a good five minutes and I smelled smoke. So I started to try and make my way out but I got lost 😂 Then when I found my way out I discovered a huge hole that had been blown through the wall right outside the maze. We had to evacuate everyone. Apparently a group of drunk people lighted off a half stick of dynamite and ran. 😂
When I was a kid my mother loved to drag my family to all the haunted houses she could find. I loathed horror of any sort before I turned thirteen so I usually pitched a fit whenever she brought me to one. One night she decided that she'd had enough of my tantrums and brought me outside of the line and told me to sit in my baby sister's stroller while the rest of the family went in. A lot of people thought I was part of the haunted house staff because I was a creepy kid sitting in a stroller staring blankly at them, which was actually kinda of fun experience for me. And the best part of the night was when my family came out and this big guy with a chainsaw came out and tried to scare them. My little sister, who is basically the sweetest person ever, walked right up to the guy and HUGGED him. Not only did the guy start laughing but the crowd saw and started laughing too. Another time when I was teenager and had (mostly) gotten over my fear of haunted houses, my mother brought us to another one and this one actor had a baby doll that she kept shoving in people's faces and my brother decided to grab the baby doll. So she and brother were enjoying themselves having a tug of war with the doll when someone asked what time it was. I pulled out my phone to check when suddenly this guy in a spiny mask with a chainsaw jumped out and chased me out of the haunt. Unfortunately I dropped my phone when he scared me and they had to shut the haunt down for about fifteen minutes so I could find my phone.
I know, right? I'm gonna try and find the haunted house's website to see if there is some brief footage of the actors doing their job (some haunted houses do that in order to "advertise" their activity).
A couple of years ago I volunteered with my theater to work at a haunted corn maze for halloween, and I got to wear the 7 foot tall grim reaper head/costume (it was HUGE) and I got to be a "roamer" (someone who doesnt have a specific spot to stay at and can roam around the maze at will). So something I started to do would be stand still as a group goes by, and start to follow them,stop when they looked behind themselves, and keep following them. At one point there was a group of a bunch of little tiny kids and their parents and I was following behind as if I were part of the group, the dad in the very back noticed me and wasn't scared and instead of doing nothing or something, he slowed down so he could walk behind me and whispered "go get him" as we basically switched places, and now I was walking behind his lil son who was spooked since they were already more than halfway through the corn maze and he turned around to look for his dad and got a good scare from looking up and seeing that giant grim reaper skull LMAO Another story is at the same corn maze and same costume, we were told to never break character unless a little child was extremely scared, and at one point another roamer came running through the maze to warn everyone that a terrified crying little girl was on her way and to not scare her, so when her mom came coming through carrying her trying to keep her calm, she immediately started crying when seeing the grim reaper costume so I ended up hoisting up all the fabric and lifting up the head enough so I could actually be seen and me along with the people at the zombie section of the maze were trying our best to tell the little girl she was okay and her mom looked so thankful
My parents used to work at a haunt and I have two stories that happened. My dad worked as the leader of the graveyard (top zombie) and he told me about his friend who decided to melt a chocolate bar in a diaper and go out back and act as if he had eaten a dirty diaper, to gross out the next group.....this was not a good idea. The group of people happened to get extremely offended because they were of different beliefs... I think. But this one dude practically clobbered my dad's friend. He didn't do that again. But he did something else later on during the season. My dad said he had just ushered a group through the graveyard and his friend took it a bit too far and chased the poor people all the way into their car. And then he hopped.....into the car.. the family was freaked out and just drove with him in the back seat. They decided to drive over to the nearest drive thru and ordered stuff. This one dude jokingly asked if he wanted anything. Still in character he said "peeepsiiii" and they got him a Pepsi eventually he growled at one of the people in the car and got kicked back out at the haunt. I know it's hard to believe but it happened. Lol I hope my dad's friend's stories made you laugh.
Never worked for a haunt but my friend has volunteered at a small, lesser-known one which was FNAF themed. The guests would get to sit in the security room that we had set up. They had actual security cams set up so you could see the other actors in the costumes walking the halls and it was really cool. Anyway, what happened was my friend and the other three actors were running around the halls, you could see when someone switched the cameras because a red light would flash. If you've ever played FNAF, you know that when you switch the cams you can sometimes see one of the animatronics standing really still and staring at the camera. So, what they were doing was running around the house as fast as they could and whenever someone switched the cameras, they would stand still and stare at the camera. Well, one of the volunteers decided that it would be funny to flip off the camera next time someone switched it, and that's exactly what she did. Her and the other volunteers were laughing their asses off at that, but they went right back into character and kept working. Everything was normal, but get this. After the last group left, security actually came to the haunt and they were with that same group from earlier, which was this lady, probably in her sixties, with a couple of little kids. Well, my friend asked what was going on, and the lady actually started screaming at her for flipping them off, to the point that security actually had to escort her out. And yes, you heard that right, she had actually called fucking security on them, and told them that my friend and the other actors had 'harassed' her and her bratty little kids. *Riiiiiggggghhhhhtttt....* Anyway, sorry for the really long story, hope you enjoyed.
XD Thats why I dont go to haunted houses. A large part of the time in fight or flight, I fight. Id hate to hit an actor. My family refuses to accept it as an answer as to why I say no though
At least you fight- I just freeze! At a mild haunted house a zombie came up to me and I just stared at its contacts (like they had pretty eyes/contacts) but I was mostly just scared. If I went to a REALLY scary one I'd probably hold up the line haha.
When I was a kid my mother loved to drag my family to all the haunted houses she could find. I loathed horror of any sort before I turned thirteen so I usually pitched a fit whenever she brought me to one. One night she decided that she'd had enough of my tantrums and brought me outside of the line and told me to sit in my baby sister's stroller while the rest of the family went in. A lot of people thought I was part of the haunted house staff because I was a creepy kid sitting in a stroller staring blankly at them, which was actually kinda of fun experience for me. And the best part of the night was when my family came out and this big guy with a chainsaw came out and tried to scare them. My little sister, who is basically the sweetest person ever, walked right up to the guy and HUGGED him. Not only did the guy start laughing but the crowd saw and started laughing too.
We have a haunted hayride at my haunt. One year, a guy got stuck under the wheel, it was like his foot or something, I don't really remember. But people started freaking out so much, that by the time someone called the police, people were saying that the wagon tipped over with people on it and people were hurt and such. Several cop cars and ambulances showed up only to see a guy caught on the wheel. We've also had several drunk guys who have to go in the "time-out" chair and wait for their group to be finished and ready to leave.
This video has inspired me to go apply for a Haunt next year, I was quite surprised to see there's one nearby where I live. Well, there's just this one person whom I don't like that might be working on it, which could ruin my experience :/
Ive never worked at a haunted house but at a county fair ive had a costumed guy follow me around mind you i was about 14 and this guy seemed older and mexican he kept saying something in spanish (the dude was in a zombie type costume) to me so i tried to find my dad so the dude would leave me alone i was running around until i finally found my dad by the ferris wheel i explained what happened my dad goes to the police at the fair thinking the guy was a worker turns out he was some random dude following me and to this day i have no clue what he wanted from me
Can't work in a haunt since I dislike crowds haha ^^' I Would if I could though, there's one near my place in Montreal at the theme park "La Ronde". It seems pretty nice . I don't know how you can handle those situations though.
I work at a haunt and this year it had tons of people going through and we have around a 4 star haunt. One night there was a group of about 7 drunk people and they were the last group so as they went through we would get more and more haunters to gang up and scare them, the thing is this was my first year, I'm weak, I'm only 5 feet tall, and I'm just barely under the legal age of working but I'm working anyway. They go through yelling and screaming, they ended up pushing me fairly hard into a wall and I had a prop strapped to my back that made my back bleed but I've been working for over 5 hours now and my whole body was numb so I didn't really feel it and I continued to scare them. At the end when they where long gone I took off the prop and one of my coworkers noticed it had blood that didn't look like the already dryed fake blood on it and asked me about it and I still was numb so I told them I didn't know where it came from so I started freaking out wondering if I hit someone and made them bleed, I started having a panic attack and as I was turning to find my mom who is the "haunt mom" and also the one to help with panic attacks they noticed the blood on my back, it was easy to see because I was wearing a childlike light pink dress that only had blood on the front and my blood was around the middle of my back, they rushed me to the manager and my mom and told them. They looked at it after calming me down and it turns out I had around 5 gashes on my back that I needed to get stitches for. I will be haunting again but will be going through the whole haunt with duct tape to tape up all the sharp parts on props and make sure that that will not happen to me or anyone else for a while.
You should check out Creepy Hallow. It's a haunt in Idaho that's actually located across an expanse of woods out in the middle of nowhere and each section of land is run by a cast of scary characters. You're led through in small groups and each stop in the woods has it's own story told by the actors. It's put on by people from ren con and there's corregraphed sword fights and monster slaying, etc. It's about $5 a group.
I worked a haunt a few times before the only bad thing that I can really remember happening was some girl getting so scared that it cost her to have a panic attack halfway through the maze, we didn't have to stop the haunt for the rest of the night but when it happened we had to wait for about an hour for the ambulance to get there because she got so scared that not even her friends were able to give her to stop crying or shaking. That was the last time I worked as a haunt
Whenever someone scares me without realizing it i punch them......i almost punched my uncle straight in the chest ;-; luckly i can catch myself doing it before i punch them..........most of the time
I got cracked over the head with a coke bottle, requiring 10 stitches in my scalp. This kid was only 15, and he was trying too impress his little girl friend, the whole thing was on closed circuit video. The next day his lawyer brother showed up, and paid for my bills, plus gave me 4 grand for my trouble. The boy who did it was banned from the place for life, and that had too hurt. Because Harry Potter opened just a little while later.
I have two bad haunt worker stories. Literally just two. I'm probably pretty lucky to have worked at haunts where we were all incredibly safe and professional and were able to handle the guests and workers really well. The first: This was my all time favorite haunt. I wished so badly that I still lived there and could still work at it. This place was ran by med school students and it was the most anatomically graphic haunt I've ever seen in my life. I worked in the 'laboratory' section as a werewolf being used as a lab rat. I couldn't move very well in my costume so, for my safety, they kept me 'locked up' in a cage they had constructed on the spot one night out of pvc pipe. I absolutely loved rattling my cage (gently) and reaching through to 'grab' at people (we weren't allowed to touch anyone). One night when I was manning my station while the 'doctor' was out on break (i.e. I was the only one in the 'room'), I had a guest come through one of the walls- literally through one of the walls. This was one of those constructed mazes inside of a large warehouse, so the walls were mostly plywood and sheets of fabric. This wall was just fabric beside my cage, because they need to make extra room for the cage itself- so no, he didn't tear the wall down or anything. He and the two girls he was with started walking around the warehouse and there was absolutely nothing I could do except break character and get them to leave the area before they broke anything or happened across actors getting dressed, because they couldn't hear me through the werewolf head and they pretty much already broke facade by finding the fake wall. I was pretty embarrassed for both myself and the haunt, but what made me mortified is that the next group coming through was pretty close behind them and I didn't have time to put my head back on before they got to my room and I could fix the wall. Okay, so it's not that bad, but I'm easily embarrassed and I felt like I (and the dumb guy, of course) ruined the night of the six people that followed. The second: This story is a bit worse, sadly. This haunt was a haunted trail ride and the first of its kind in the town I lived in. I worked really hard with the father of my friend and the rest of our small group to get people, costumes, and equipment together for this ride. It went though the alleys of the down town area in my town and stopped at the park at one point. This sounds like it wouldn't be all that great of a haunt, but this guy dropped a ton of money on this thing. He really wanted it to be successful because the town finally okayed us to do it. Tryouts were astounding. We even had a guy show up with his hand crafted, spring loaded creeper wings (from Jeepers Creepers), and a friend of mine dropped a ton of money on this amazing latex gargoyle costume. Those two guys alone really sold the the tickets. A guy from the college football team showed up and as soon as he walked through the doors we all screamed "We have our Jason!" and immediately started sizing him up and teaching him how to work the chainsaw. I felt really amazing because I had a huge part in this. I invited my sister and her friends to play victims in chainsaw chase scene and brought in people from the drama club to put lights and fog machines in the alleys. Everything went so well and we made a ton of money to fund the next year. Then, on the last night, it all went to hell. We had fog machines breaking down, the trailer blew a tire, the creeper tore a wing, at one point it rained for five minutes (sprinkled, but still enough to soak our spirits)- as soon as we had one problem fixed, another thing would happen. Then, on our last ride of the night, my sister's friend was running at the trailer from our Jason and her tennis shoes slipped on the damp pavement, and the trailer went right over both legs. She was in casts for almost a year after that. We were all sick to our stomachs and miserable over what happened, and of course, the town said we couldn't do it any more. Granted, the girl was not at all upset about getting ran over. She said it was the most fun she had ever had and as soon as she was able to walk again she would start volunteering for more haunts just because of me inviting her to that one. It didn't really make me feel any better, but I am glad she enjoyed herself. My friend's dad who ran the haunt donated the money to another local haunt because he felt bad keeping the money for himself, so at least good still came out of it. I don't think we'll ever forget that haunt. We worked so hard and it was so much fun, even though it was pretty tragic.
Never had the police involved at the few haunts I worked, years back, but there were some really interesting experiences. Just like how you have Hexy (spelling?), I had my own persona. No real name attached to it, but the other workers always called me the Skull Devil, or the Skull Cat, because of the persona (and I ultimately adopted Skull Devil as an official name). All black clothing, black shoes that were dulled so they wouldn't shine, black cloth gloves, black mesh over my face (so you can't see my eyes or my nose through the holes in the mask), black cloak and this old school latex mask. It didn't glow in the dark, but it was so white it practically glowed, if you know what I'm saying. I stalked groups, and kept them moving. Creeping, prowling, occasionally darting across their paths, in front or behind, making clicking sounds (usually just clicking large bottle caps, like the ones off of iced tea bottle, as a great noise maker), or tapping against the environment to draw attention to myself. I never spoke, which was kind of the point. Usually very quiet. One time, I 'creeped' a group of four through the entire haunt, and would pop out of trap doors--always just sort of out of view, or out of reach, and just casually wave at them. Some times, I cut them off, and would cut ahead of them to 'block' a path (not physically, they could pass me by, but I was clearly there, just around the turn, and I would be stooped over like a gargoyle, staring people down). The mesh, I could barely see through--I spent a lot of time training myself to navigate with it--but it meant I could see people's eyes and they couldn't see mine. So I would do staring contests with people as they tried to pass me by. Always quiet, never flinching, no matter what they did. Even had a few people violate the 'no touch' rule and pat me on the head. Just ignored it. Some people apparently found it amusing, but whatever. But back to this one group of four. Four women. They were mostly screamers, especially for the more in-your-face actors (and we did have a chainsaw clown that chased them straight into my stare trap). This is the crux of the weird story for you. There was this one woman who was very not-scared about the whole thing. Every time I saw her, she seemed more happy/amused by everything. She would even wave back at me when I was trying to spook the group. During my stare with her, she paused long enough that her group was beginning to get too far ahead of her, because she spent... I want to say a full minute having the staring contest with me. She did not blink. And the whole time, she just has this smile on her face, and I can't really describe it. More than happy or amused. Then I move to the side, and, without speaking, I hand gesture to her that she needs to keep moving (Skull Devil never speaks). As she passes me by, she tells me she's going to be staying around for a while (we had fried dough, hot dogs, popcorn, soda and water; some other stuff outside the haunt), and that she would like to see the man behind the mask, and that it would be "worth my time". Did not follow through, because I felt creeped out. Talked to a few other workers that night, when we were all winding down and getting ready to go home. Apparently, same woman was saying the same thing (verbatim) to like two or three others. For the rest of the crew, I myself might have been an oddity for them. I always showed up fully dressed, and except for these very rare interactions, like the one I mentioned, I never really spoke to the other workers; just communicated with hand gestures, pantomime, and heavy breathing. Always in character.
Yes, fried dough. I miss it so much. @billiebear 6 Glad you think the costume is cool; I still bring it out at friend's Halloween parties, and still pull the same stunts. And yeah, the woman was probably my most memorable guest from my time of haunting.
I wanna be like you, work at haunted house and have a similar role as you, it sounds like a character I could pull off, I couldn’t really pull off a clown or anything else but this, quiet, dressed in all black, not really being scary, just creepy, giving you that eerie feeling that something is watching you, I’d like that, I’d like that a lot.
Dang, good on you for keeping in character so well for a creep. I have to step away and compose myself whenever somebody says something like that to me. Makes me mad, but oh well, what can you do?
@@sheridankern8279 The only thing you can do, really, is keep the show going. The show must go on, as they say. For me, I think it helped because I didn't have any sort of 'breaks' from character. The longer you keep it going, the easier it becomes, imo.
I’ve never worked at a haunted attraction but when my brother and I were kids, we used to have this guy who would go full out on Halloween to the point his house was pretty much an attraction. Well one year, he decided he wanted to try and scare kids by dressing up in tattered clothes, a devil mask and carried around a chainsaw. We went up to the front door, his wife gave us our candy and as we were walking down his driveway, his basement door bursts open and he starts running at us in his costume. My brother and I scream and I run back to my dad in tears. My dad and our neighbor started laughing when they saw our reactions.
FINALLY! ANOTHER FEMALE CHAINSAW!!! I was known as Lady Chainsaw back in the 90's. I had some really good reviews. Sounds like you did the same thing I did.
Okay, my older sister used to work at a haunt. She was usually dressed as a more feminine Slenderman, and anyone that was there probably can't remember. She was in a long-ish hallway just two rooms before the end, standing in a closet. You see, to make her around 8 foot she had to stand on three-foot stilts. She came in contact with one of those hitty-people, after scaring him, the guy manages to hit my sister and she falls to the ground. The guy just looked around and was like: 'oh shit' and ran off. She did manage to get security but the guy was gone after they got there. She also managed to get off for the rest of October, was kinda sad, but never worked at another haunt. We still have the costume, at the most.
Yeah, from the haunts I've been to, they've all used real chainsaws, but they'll have rubber replacing or covering were the chained portion of the saw would be. Also, like someone else already said, they'll remove the chain all together as well. They want it to be as authentic as possible and remove the risk factors as well
I’m already imagining what was going through those kids’ heads when they realized that you and shadow kisses were actually chasing them and it’s really entertaining. I wish I could have been there to see that.
On the hitting part I have a story...when I went with my older brother, into a horrorride we didn't knew there were at the end real people in the house to scare you. Most of the scares were done by puppets and decoration, they had a lot of jumpscary things happening, so up until that point we were quite amused at the atraction. Then at the end a guy in a costume layed his hand on my shoulder...I acted in reflex and just swiftly lifted my fist straight and with force upwards without looking behind. When I heard the "AUTSCH!" I knew I had hit a person. Looking back as we just drove outside with the small car thingy I saw the guy holding his nose under his mask and called back to him a "Sorry!" Since come on, that was his job to do that. And my brother was joking that someone who wanted to abduct me would be really unlucky.
I was offered a job at a haunt, even though I am piss my pants scared of haunted houses. I happily took the job, and being the very thin, flexable, and gangly girl I am... I was set up as a zombie to run after people towards the end of a maze. I was on all fours, and chasing people like a fucking maniac. I would keep myself low to the ground, and almost jump, then use my arms to push myself forward. I was in this amazing face makeup (Thank you Sarah, your spooky nurse routine always got a good scare, and your make up was gorgeous!) I would keep my mouth open, and my tongue out so I was constantly drooling and foaming at the mouth. Needless to say, I loved that job.
I was a zombie for my first year haunting, at a local hayride. Once I figured out a really effective routine and was getting scares in every group, I started gaining some real confidence in my ability. And then it just so happens that one cart has a big, ripped dude on my side of the scene (like, he could easily be a bouncer or fighter of some kind if he wasn't already) who had his arm around this pretty blonde woman. Instant prison mentality with him. One look at him and immediately I'm thinking "yup, you're mine now, time to see how good this scare really is." So I do my slow build part of the routine and see he's cautiously amused by the slow, shambling, trapped zombie. The second his guard drops and he's looking at my partners in the scene, I do my actual scare and charge straight at him, screaming and jumping up on the side of the cart. The sound that came out of this grown man.. a "yelp" is the only word I can think of to accurately describe it. About 2 octaves higher than I would've guessed possible for him. His girl jumped too, but shortly realized that sound was not her, and she looks over at him and practically laughs herself to tears, still laughing as the cart starts moving on to the next scene. Needless to say if I didn't already love that job by that point, that would've done it.
K funny story from me! Alright, so my friends and I were just walking around town this holloween, and we went in this haunted house (it's like, super cheaply made, about 4 actors, only had 4 rooms that were smaller than I was comfertable me. I was with one of my guy friends, a chubby blond dude, and we were just walking through the house, and this one mad schientice runs up to us shaking real metal chains saying that he was going to chain us up and experiment, I scream and cower (in the fight or flight responce, mine is accually Freeze XD) but my guy friend started bolting to him. But, in my fright, I grabbed him and tried hiding in his arm. I took less than 5 seconds to get us out of there (it was the last room) and only later did I relise he tried fighting the scientict. (one of my friends ended up telling us)
I do production arts in college and our first project was a halloween walk through (without acctors we had to do all the effects) and it's so much fun I LOVED IT I would love to do an actual professional one. !!
A long time ago when I was like 13 14 I can't remember Me my sister and my dad and one of my cousins decided for Halloween to go to a haunted forest similar to a haunted house but obviously in a forest about halfway through or so one of the parts was this like hallway that had a guy in a wear wolf costume chases us with a fake chainsaw I ran like I was about to die and I wasn't looking where I was going so I ran into a tree at full sprint the guy asked if I was ok I was because lucky me I wasn't looking forward so I didn't hit my full face on the tree but yah needles to say I wasn't aloud to go to anything like that for the rest of my childhood 😆 🤣
My first haunt. I got to scare people in a historic mansion in Auburn wa. Anyway I had a female classmate who was pretending to be a face on a staircase. She got kissed by a stranger.
I've started a new tradition at home for Halloween scaring people who come for candy my hearing is really good and I know my way through the halls well so I sit on a stool in all black with a black baliclava over my entire head so before people ring I lift my head one reaction I got was pure terror and a group just ran like hell because I stood up before they rang and I had to break character and remove my hood and mind u they were like 4 13yos so I got them good but I kinda feel bad if u have any cool ways to scare people pls tell me so I can use I'm going to ask a friend if he wants to help if so we're going to have some fun
So I work in a haunted opera house and I sing ring around the rosy and I look like I have the plague and someone thought I was fake even though I was singing lmao. They were drunk.
I work in a haunt that isn't.. regulated very well. The actors get drunk and smoke weed sometimes. It's not great but usually everything ends up okay.. except for this one night a few years ago. There was a man and woman couple that decided to join our skit that year and let me just say, she was very flirty with all the other guys. Eventually her boyfriend found out and was trying to fight the guys she was flirting with.. um what? He ended up hitting another guy to the ground for no reason! Security was called on the boyfriend and they both were banned. Absolutely ridiculous.
Well the closest I've come to a work story is from other people such as my dad or my friends. One such case was with a coworker my dad had and this one is very recent. So there's this guy my dad used to work with we call red beard (bet you can't guess why) and his job was to drive on the week days and then do dock work on Saturdays, turns out he didn't want to work on Saturdays even though it was part of his job. Red beard kept complaining about it and eventually people got tired of his crap and he got fired from Fed Ex. There's one other I'd like to tell but out of respect I will not, It isn't my story to tell but it is a crazy work story my friend experienced recently that cause them to get so fed up they quit without even putting their 2 weeks. It was very bad and what went down should never go down in the work place but sadly it does. It wasn't sexual assault mind you but it was very abusive and wrong.
I’ve worked at a theme park turned haunt in October and it’s one where once you enter the park there is always a chance at being scared. We have actors called ‘roamers’ who just roam the park scaring as they go. Often they will have a designated area but some float all over. My fiancé was a roamer for 3 years. Let me preface with my fiancé is a man but he has a great butt and he also walks with a hip sway. He’s also only 5’8” and an average build. So one year he played this creepy ninja character and it had a silicone mask so his face was totally covered. He was put in a terrible spot and often couldn’t hide well enough. So instead he would just walk out in the open and scare with a turn around. Well one group of young men decide that my fiancé must be a woman based on their walk and decide to harass him. One grabbed his butt and the others were still debating if he was in fact a woman. In response he says in the deepest voice he can ‘oh my’ 😂 this probably scared the guy more than his creepy mask to begin with and the others gave him crap the rest of the night I’m sure.
I would love to work in a haunt because it sounds like fun and I think I would be good at scaring people! But hearing those story's makes me a little unsure something bad might happen if I do it or something. I don't know I just hope one day I could work a haunt like that~
Chainsaws would be a horrible choice for a zombie apocalypse. Your chain would get jammed way too early and if the zombification came from disease, you could easily get infected from the blood splatter. Long range, quiet weapons are the best.
It's so sad that haunted houses and Halloween aren't so famous in Germany, so I don't really have the chance to get into one or even work there. At least not if I don't want to give out my money for a theme park. We have theme parks where around Halloween are attractions (is it the right word) to go onto, also Haunted houses, but they are not so spooky. If I remember correctly it was... 5 or 8 years in the back and my boyfriend, his friend, his girlfriend and I were going onto some of the horror things (I bet the only creepy one was the hospital one and we didn't go there, because we weren't allowed to stand in line because it was so full XD). It was like a mix of Zombies and ghosts on an open field, so not so creepy. But I find this story still funny and even kinda cute but creepy at the same time xD So we stood in the line and when we finally were the ones to get onto this field through an open door but there was this Zombie guy, who let the people through with (I guess) a fake knife or something like that. He was sitting there. And suddenly he put this knife between my boyfriend and me, our friends were already further on and my boyfriend didn't notice at first, that I wasn't coming. So I was there and the guy took me to the side, where he was and said something like, that I'm his meat now and everything. I was VERY shy at that time and I get scared very fast, also it was my first experience, so I was a little bit freaking out in my mind. I didn't know what to do. So I was standing there. And after a few minutes I was just like almost whispering with a squeeky voice: "C-can I go back to my boyfriend now?" I bet I was blushing wildly. And I believe, that this guy found my reaction to cute to say no. Because he was at first really scary and manly. And suddenly he felt so nice and cute (I kinda liked him) and he just said "Okay yes" and let me go but in such a nice tone in his voice xD It was kinda cute how he reacted. But yeah het let me go and I went to my boyfriend, who was asking what happened xD This was my weirdest experience and sadly one of my last ones, because after that I didn't really go to the park again, even if I wanted to, and hauntes houses aren't so famous around here... I still love this story xD I don't know why. Maybe because I liked this guy and hoped to meet him again, because he was really kinda cute and charming. I wanted to talk to him more. But I was so shy XD And we didn't get back that XD
I want to join a haunt when I'm older (yes im a 14 year old girl who made my friends mom take a picture of me with Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers they where trick or treaters)
I only did a one night haunted house for little kids but we were suppose to scare the kids, not be gentle. I was a roamed and I ran up to a kid who was trailing behind her mom and the mom yelled at me not to run at her. I had another kid who was getting out of the car so I paced back and forced on the sidewalk staring at him and waiting for him to pass me and the mom yelled at me to not scare him and "how would you like it if I scared you" um, you're literally walking him to a haunted house, he's going to get scared. I also had the little kids who were volunteering demand that my friends who were walking through to leave because they were laughing, they are highschoolers walking through as elementary school kids were trying to scare them, they were just enjoying themselves but the kids flipped out.
Okay, so, this isn't a haunt story, but a similar one nonetheless. I have a character that I made called Piper (made the mask, then found out a character called Masky looks almost exactly the same. FML. So just picture Masky with thicker eyebrows and plumper lips on the mask.) Anyways, my friend, who I'm just going to call Cat, isn't the biggest fan of Piper. She came over to my house for a sleepover and had to leave to go fix her hair in the mirror or something. Me being the absolute horrible friend I am hurriedly dug out my Piper mask and pulled my hood over my head and got in position. She came in and didn't freak out at first, but then I lifted my head and she jumped back like two feet. Upon discovering Piper's twitchy movements and random appearances freak her out, I did everything in my power that day and the next to slip the Piper mask on and wait in random places. Long story short, Cat hates Piper with a burning passion, and I got some decent practice perfecting Piper's creepy jittery movements and behavior, which is good because I hope to work at a haunt someday.
I didn't exactly do a "haunted house" per-se, but I did to a ghost tour for October at this historic farm. I was portraying the French psychic medium Mlle Lenormand, psychic to the Bonapartes and more. For my act, I spoke of her most famous predictions and actually gave readings in full character complete with passable French. For my outfit, I wore an antique veil and, me being the troll I am, silently lurked in the shadows as people passed by scaring everyone-- it was great! Best part was my readings were accurate :D
One time a friend of mine lost her glasses on a haunted house, but that's really the most exciting story I have. Not much happens to me in haunted houses lol
my father and I worked in a haunt where it was... semi? interactive. It was like lazer tag with zombies. So my dad is a big muscular dude, huge. not super duper tall, around 5,9", 5'10", and I'm around 5'4''. so we get dressed up and get a good amount of scars and die quite a few times. it's fun until this group of about 2 or three dudes comes in. Our haunt's policies are that if you get hit, it's your fault because you were too close (which is fine, we didn't have many incidents). I was sitting in a chair around a corner and scared them... but got bashed in the head a few times with the nose of a lazer gun. hurt like hell but i didn't break character and died after they tagged me. then comes my dad's scare. This one dude is a little taller than me, and I pop out before he can get to my father's area to give him a scare. I get shot by his buddy and fall to the floor because, well, i'm 'dead'. this guy stops and kicks me in the side (as if to check if i was really dead) before looking back at his target. My dad is hiding behind some broken washing machines, and jumps out, screeching and groaning as loud as he can. This guy screams, and then... doesn't have either a fight or flight reaction. nope. he runs straight down the hallway lined with machines, raising the butt of his gun up to clock my dad in the head. He could have just shot him, he was far enough away, but no, he came right at him screaming as his buddies ran to shoot my dad before their friend could hit him. they were successful, and the guy complained about it, saying "Guys, I had him!" or something like that. Turns out he didn't only try that with my dad, but with multiple other actors down the line. Especially when he ran out of "ammo" (the guns are loaded with something that pops very loudly when you pull the trigger, so it sounds like a gun but it isn't), and he actually nearly hit one of the girls in the group i was with. Security got called in and he was banned. I've also gotten punched in the nose while being a clown and got a split lip from the gun haunt again. Being an actor is fun.
I used to work in a haunt before I was diagnosed with breast cancer. But basically i was a clown-ish thing. Her name was "zoe the clown" basically I had red and purple around my eyes with black dots- black lipstick and all that fun stuff. What I would do is I would hide in a maze and follow people around and scare them or jump out of corner and all the stuff. One time I followed a small group and i'd randomly growl and hide or sharpen a knife against another or maybe start up my chainsaw a little. I, having to be a killer clown, jumped down from the maze top and started laughing and chased them- i then started dragging my chainsaw on the ground and laugh like a fricken psychopath And my character has blood dripping from her mouth and eyes so that scared them more. XD. I loved that job
I've never worked at a haunted house as that is, unfortunately, not a thing in my country. But I have two stories about haunted walks on a holiday. The first one was in germany. I think I was about 15, maybe a little older. and I joined some kids on the haunt as the last group. I knew my dad was going to be scaring us, as I saw him leave with all the people earlier. My group was actually having a pretty good time and we were singing some silly songs. I knew the area pretty well so I was aware of where I was going and we had to cross a bridge. I was pretty sure someone would be around there, since we didn't have a scare for a while. When we crossed that bridge, my dad walked out of a cave near the brigde and everone of our group started yelling and running. I stayed behind the group and was like "hey dad.." and continued my walk. My group hadnt realised I was behind them and they were all a little on edge. I managed to get pretty close to them without being seen and just casually said "boo" and they started yelling again. the other story takes place in sweden. This place I didn't know very well, we had only been there for a few days but there was a haunted walk trough the forest next to the campsite. We weren't allowed to bring any phones, flashlights or other simmilar attributes. (I did take my phone, just in case) I thought of myself that I was pretty though and punk at the time and that I wouldn't be the one to get scared that easily. OH BOY I was wrong.. We had some minor scares from people, and were actually having fun doing this, until we came at an open space. Mind you, it was extremely dark, with no moonlight. We stood there for a solid 5 minutes wondering how to get to the other side without crapping our pants. We decided to just grab eachothers hands and make a run for it. Someone jumped out with a chainsaw from behind a tree and started running after us. Like you said theres the fight or flight reaction; I ended up turning 180 degrees and straight up ran back, pulling one person of the group with me. My dumb ass didnt realise, running in a forest in the dark isnt the best idea. I tripped over a root and had the girl fall over me too. The dude with the chainsaw stood over me and I was pretty sure that I was close to death. However, the guy helped me up and walked me to the other side of the open space, I had sprained my ancle but I was having so much adrenaline flow through me, I didnt realise until I got back at the campsite and saw that I was covered in mud, tears, and blood. I had fun nevertheless and can't wait to be able to scare people myself sometime!
Insane stories! Why would you bring mace to a haunt? If anything went down were you planning on using it in your defense. That's a safety hazard to not only the guests but the workers as well. How differently would anything have happened if he sprayed a worker because he got too scared? Yikes! At my first haunt we warned as workers that we could really get up in their faces as long as we don't touch them. Understandable, just be prepared to handle it calmly and safely if they managed to touch us, that includes breaking character if necessary. Thankfully nothing happened that involved security or an ambulance, but there were a few close calls and one time someone actually pushed their hands against my shoulders to create distance. It was a fear reaction so I understood, but I did have to break character and warn them to try to not touch the actors. Thankfully we both said our apologies and went back to a successful night.
I worked at a haunt, and I swear while I seriously loved my job, it was so dangerous, I got punched, my friend got punched, people were destroying the haunt and slamming the walls into the actors. The weekend before Halloween was insane. I dont think my haunt calls the police but I've had to report groups and what the worst part was is that our security didn't even stop the group
Hello 😌 So I have a quick story considering I work at A haunt and I’ve been there for six years now this happened during a year where the theme was doll factory. So it was pretty standard to see dolls running around being cute see being creepy and everything else. I was a doll character named Evelyn that was a ragdoll that rode around on a little tricycle and couldn’t walk correctly. My face was also horribly disfigured looking like if it was ripped in half and stitched back together with the wrong face. Anyway all and I acted pretty cute and really creepy. However during this year there was a lot of drunk groups and I am not very tall person mind you I am very petite size so I cannot intimidate as much as I should as a greeter but my personality makes up for it. Anyway after the drunk group starts walking through with seven or eight people thanks start getting weird. This is very tall and skinny boy from the group before they go pins me to a wall. And you could say he was the classic Romeo that all haunt females should fear. However because of my character a lot of people became fans of it and some of the people within the line started shouting at the man and so he quickly ran after his group afterwards security came and talk to me about it. That was my strangest night this year I have a lot more stranger ones but that one truly comes to mind.
I have a funny Haunt story from a few years ago. I was in a room of this huge house that was called 'The Dead Zone' and the room that I was at was called 'Tool Time', and my job was to run from out of the corner and scream at people and tell them to get out of the house. So, Tool Time looks like a shed with blood everywhere, bloodied up manikins and manikin parts in bags, it was great. But I was working with the main actor for 'Tool Time' and we had a little hand saw and table for him to reeve up and dance around on. Well in the middle of one of the nights my co-actor forgot to turn off the flickering lights in the room and we were sitting and waiting and this guy the same height as me (5'1") and you could tell he was shaken up to all hell, but he came running in at full speed into the room and he just stops and looks at us. And we stop and look at him. And then its like I switch clicks in mine and my buddy's head and he reves up the hand saw I start screaming at the dude but his going the wrong way and his for real freaking out and screaming and I have to run up to him and somehow get him to go the other way and eventually he does but his group is a long way back so my buddy and I just look at each other in amazement of the fact that that had just happened. All in all, it was a great experience and I would gladly go work in a Haunted House again given the chance.
It was my 3rd season at my local haunt and me and my friend Light (we do a duo act Shadow and Light) were working in the forest part and he had the bright idea for both of us to climb a tree and drop down on the next people that came through (he has a Scythe and I have a motor saw) So we waited and this group pf 4 14-18 year olds walk through our part. So he drops down first and I revved my saw and dropped down second. (Im a girl and Light is a guy) one of the guys swings at Light and hits him in the chest so Light swung his scythe and barely hit the guy and the police got called. The got in a fight , and it was a huge mess overall.
I worked one this year too as Michael Myers, and let me tell you, it is amazing when you scare someone by doing almost nothing but walking slowly at them with a knife
I love being a clown at my haunt! Doll girls are great, too, because I can just shriek and laugh, meaning that I don't have to hide when I laugh at them for running and freaking out like morons.
My one time at one of the intense haunted houses I nearly got my group stuck in the "butcher" room because somehow I was in front and did not want to go near the butcher guy to the exit, got lost for a few minutes in the clown area, (it was very impressively disorienting for how small it was) and punched a foam head on a string because I was getting so fed up by that point. XD The foam head came back at me so I guess I got what I deserved for that.
The nearest experience to a haunted house I ever had were a few staffmembers at the freefall-tower in a park, wearing costumes and waiting behind doors. I scared them and we both got a laugh out of it, but I've never been scared. I wish we had haunted houses here in germany, but we don't even have cornmazes sooo...
For those of you that don't understand the haunt business, it's standard to use real chainsaws. The chain is removed so it's harmless but makes the sound of a real saw and it's quite effective at scaring people.
i use your stories as my bedtime stories :D
Damn, Madame, back at it again with the Insane Clown Posse. (You're like Violent J, ShadowKisses is like Shaggy 2 Dope.)
It really is effective. I've worked at a haunted house a few times, I was on the chain scene being one of my main scenes that year. For the scene it's a set of chains that go around the wrists and the waist and the other end was connected to large heavy boards on a concrete wall and I would lunge at people to scare them. One of the days I go to do my lunge to scare a small group of 2 and I ended up ripping the left side of chains from the wall, board and all. Luckily it missed every one and nobody got hurt. It was very awkward when they just stood there looking at me in shock as I followed with awkwardly pointing to the next scene XD
Madame Macabre i work at a haunt and this is beautiful to me, i love making people scream..there are some issues sometimes, but we can always fix it😈👻
Oooh make sense i was like seems really dangerous lol 😂
I want to make a sign that says feed the clowns and have kettle corn on the sign 😂
Heta GamerGal XD
Please don't feed the clowns, your peasant feast probably isn't good enough for them anyways.
Arcader Alcadia we require only the best ingredients to keep our coats and markings bright and lustrous.
Madame Macabre Ah! of course, of course.
Clown husbandry Tumblr be like:
I've been working at a haunt for 5 seasons now and some of my favorite stories are from last years season. My haunt is a low budget, non-profit, volunteer based community project which means we aren't the best looking haunt but we get the job done regardless. I'm a pop box/ drop panel or que line worker. My character "Lulu" dosn't have any kids of her own but she loves kids non the less. Now Lulu has a "Day care" you can leave your kids in while you walk through. Sometimes I get a teenager or young adult try to take kids from my care when its stated only those who drop them off can pick them up for safety reasons. One night I had "Baby" (a 8 year old girl who works in the haunt) staying with me cause she was sick and couldn't act. I had a group of about 6 kids and baby sitting with me as I read them a story about the haunt. In the middle of reading this random guy came and grabbed baby off my lap saying its time to go home, now I'm good friends with baby and her family and I never meet this guy. After telling him he can't take her and grabbing her back from him he lost it. He was screaming how I was abducting his child and preceded to grab baby and run to his car. I called security and my backup and i took off running to this car. As he was pulling away, with baby screaming at me for help i leaped and jumped in the car. Long story short he got charged with child abduction, abduction of an adult, and my medical bills due to him punching me trying to get me out of his car.
On a lighter note when I don't have anybody in my daycare I am free to roam in and out of the haunt. I usually try to follow one group through the haunt, scaring them at different locations. This particular group had a 10 year old boy in it, who i have successfully scared multiple time already. The last time I scared him I popped down from the ceiling right in front of him asking him if he wanted to stay with me. He pissed himself right then and started crying. I couldn't contain my laughter. I heard him mumble about staying at the daycare for the next part. The look on his face when he realized it was me who was to watch him was priceless.
Damn that intense, then again I guess people got their first experience of a scary clown doing a chase down for the first time. Hope the bastard got his dues.
Crazy as that last incident was, I suppose it turned out for the best. If that "tough guy" was crazy enough to mace someone, practically unprovoked, imagine what he could've done to any one of the actors. That one guy just happened to be able to walk it off. He could have seriously injured someone.
I work at a haunt and something insane happened... I was working as a clown as always, and I was in the part of the haunt that had a maze. It was almost the end of the night and I heard a huge BANG. My ears were ringing for a good five minutes and I smelled smoke.
So I started to try and make my way out but I got lost 😂
Then when I found my way out I discovered a huge hole that had been blown through the wall right outside the maze. We had to evacuate everyone. Apparently a group of drunk people lighted off a half stick of dynamite and ran. 😂
Tootie The Clown oh my god that's insane!!
Dynamite: The ultimate maze shortcut
TheBrokenMadMan True, true... They were smart men.
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When I was a kid my mother loved to drag my family to all the haunted houses she could find. I loathed horror of any sort before I turned thirteen so I usually pitched a fit whenever she brought me to one. One night she decided that she'd had enough of my tantrums and brought me outside of the line and told me to sit in my baby sister's stroller while the rest of the family went in. A lot of people thought I was part of the haunted house staff because I was a creepy kid sitting in a stroller staring blankly at them, which was actually kinda of fun experience for me. And the best part of the night was when my family came out and this big guy with a chainsaw came out and tried to scare them. My little sister, who is basically the sweetest person ever, walked right up to the guy and HUGGED him. Not only did the guy start laughing but the crowd saw and started laughing too. Another time when I was teenager and had (mostly) gotten over my fear of haunted houses, my mother brought us to another one and this one actor had a baby doll that she kept shoving in people's faces and my brother decided to grab the baby doll. So she and brother were enjoying themselves having a tug of war with the doll when someone asked what time it was. I pulled out my phone to check when suddenly this guy in a spiny mask with a chainsaw jumped out and chased me out of the haunt. Unfortunately I dropped my phone when he scared me and they had to shut the haunt down for about fifteen minutes so I could find my phone.
it'd be cool if there was footage of you scaring people in the attraction
Yeah, it would be hilarious to see all the different reactions! 😂😂😂
It'd be funny if one of them were a fan and knew it was Madame Macab chasing them. They're like yasss, I'm being chased by my favorite narrator! haha
I know, right? I'm gonna try and find the haunted house's website to see if there is some brief footage of the actors doing their job (some haunted houses do that in order to "advertise" their activity).
A couple of years ago I volunteered with my theater to work at a haunted corn maze for halloween, and I got to wear the 7 foot tall grim reaper head/costume (it was HUGE) and I got to be a "roamer" (someone who doesnt have a specific spot to stay at and can roam around the maze at will). So something I started to do would be stand still as a group goes by, and start to follow them,stop when they looked behind themselves, and keep following them. At one point there was a group of a bunch of little tiny kids and their parents and I was following behind as if I were part of the group, the dad in the very back noticed me and wasn't scared and instead of doing nothing or something, he slowed down so he could walk behind me and whispered "go get him" as we basically switched places, and now I was walking behind his lil son who was spooked since they were already more than halfway through the corn maze and he turned around to look for his dad and got a good scare from looking up and seeing that giant grim reaper skull LMAO
Another story is at the same corn maze and same costume, we were told to never break character unless a little child was extremely scared, and at one point another roamer came running through the maze to warn everyone that a terrified crying little girl was on her way and to not scare her, so when her mom came coming through carrying her trying to keep her calm, she immediately started crying when seeing the grim reaper costume so I ended up hoisting up all the fabric and lifting up the head enough so I could actually be seen and me along with the people at the zombie section of the maze were trying our best to tell the little girl she was okay and her mom looked so thankful
My parents used to work at a haunt and I have two stories that happened. My dad worked as the leader of the graveyard (top zombie) and he told me about his friend who decided to melt a chocolate bar in a diaper and go out back and act as if he had eaten a dirty diaper, to gross out the next group.....this was not a good idea. The group of people happened to get extremely offended because they were of different beliefs... I think. But this one dude practically clobbered my dad's friend. He didn't do that again. But he did something else later on during the season. My dad said he had just ushered a group through the graveyard and his friend took it a bit too far and chased the poor people all the way into their car. And then he hopped.....into the car.. the family was freaked out and just drove with him in the back seat. They decided to drive over to the nearest drive thru and ordered stuff. This one dude jokingly asked if he wanted anything. Still in character he said "peeepsiiii" and they got him a Pepsi eventually he growled at one of the people in the car and got kicked back out at the haunt. I know it's hard to believe but it happened. Lol I hope my dad's friend's stories made you laugh.
Never worked for a haunt but my friend has volunteered at a small, lesser-known one which was FNAF themed. The guests would get to sit in the security room that we had set up. They had actual security cams set up so you could see the other actors in the costumes walking the halls and it was really cool.
Anyway, what happened was my friend and the other three actors were running around the halls, you could see when someone switched the cameras because a red light would flash. If you've ever played FNAF, you know that when you switch the cams you can sometimes see one of the animatronics standing really still and staring at the camera. So, what they were doing was running around the house as fast as they could and whenever someone switched the cameras, they would stand still and stare at the camera. Well, one of the volunteers decided that it would be funny to flip off the camera next time someone switched it, and that's exactly what she did.
Her and the other volunteers were laughing their asses off at that, but they went right back into character and kept working. Everything was normal, but get this. After the last group left, security actually came to the haunt and they were with that same group from earlier, which was this lady, probably in her sixties, with a couple of little kids.
Well, my friend asked what was going on, and the lady actually started screaming at her for flipping them off, to the point that security actually had to escort her out. And yes, you heard that right, she had actually called fucking security on them, and told them that my friend and the other actors had 'harassed' her and her bratty little kids.
*Riiiiiggggghhhhhtttt....*
Anyway, sorry for the really long story, hope you enjoyed.
XD Thats why I dont go to haunted houses. A large part of the time in fight or flight, I fight. Id hate to hit an actor.
My family refuses to accept it as an answer as to why I say no though
At least you fight- I just freeze! At a mild haunted house a zombie came up to me and I just stared at its contacts (like they had pretty eyes/contacts) but I was mostly just scared. If I went to a REALLY scary one I'd probably hold up the line haha.
Blane Li im a flight
When I was a kid my mother loved to drag my family to all the haunted houses she could find. I loathed horror of any sort before I turned thirteen so I usually pitched a fit whenever she brought me to one. One night she decided that she'd had enough of my tantrums and brought me outside of the line and told me to sit in my baby sister's stroller while the rest of the family went in. A lot of people thought I was part of the haunted house staff because I was a creepy kid sitting in a stroller staring blankly at them, which was actually kinda of fun experience for me. And the best part of the night was when my family came out and this big guy with a chainsaw came out and tried to scare them. My little sister, who is basically the sweetest person ever, walked right up to the guy and HUGGED him. Not only did the guy start laughing but the crowd saw and started laughing too.
We have a haunted hayride at my haunt. One year, a guy got stuck under the wheel, it was like his foot or something, I don't really remember. But people started freaking out so much, that by the time someone called the police, people were saying that the wagon tipped over with people on it and people were hurt and such. Several cop cars and ambulances showed up only to see a guy caught on the wheel. We've also had several drunk guys who have to go in the "time-out" chair and wait for their group to be finished and ready to leave.
This video has inspired me to go apply for a Haunt next year, I was quite surprised to see there's one nearby where I live.
Well, there's just this one person whom I don't like that might be working on it, which could ruin my experience :/
Go for it. It's the highlight of my year for the last 7 seasons
Ive never worked at a haunted house but at a county fair ive had a costumed guy follow me around mind you i was about 14 and this guy seemed older and mexican he kept saying something in spanish (the dude was in a zombie type costume) to me so i tried to find my dad so the dude would leave me alone i was running around until i finally found my dad by the ferris wheel i explained what happened my dad goes to the police at the fair thinking the guy was a worker turns out he was some random dude following me and to this day i have no clue what he wanted from me
Can't work in a haunt since I dislike crowds haha ^^' I Would if I could though, there's one near my place in Montreal at the theme park "La Ronde". It seems pretty nice . I don't know how you can handle those situations though.
I work at a haunt and this year it had tons of people going through and we have around a 4 star haunt. One night there was a group of about 7 drunk people and they were the last group so as they went through we would get more and more haunters to gang up and scare them, the thing is this was my first year, I'm weak, I'm only 5 feet tall, and I'm just barely under the legal age of working but I'm working anyway. They go through yelling and screaming, they ended up pushing me fairly hard into a wall and I had a prop strapped to my back that made my back bleed but I've been working for over 5 hours now and my whole body was numb so I didn't really feel it and I continued to scare them. At the end when they where long gone I took off the prop and one of my coworkers noticed it had blood that didn't look like the already dryed fake blood on it and asked me about it and I still was numb so I told them I didn't know where it came from so I started freaking out wondering if I hit someone and made them bleed, I started having a panic attack and as I was turning to find my mom who is the "haunt mom" and also the one to help with panic attacks they noticed the blood on my back, it was easy to see because I was wearing a childlike light pink dress that only had blood on the front and my blood was around the middle of my back, they rushed me to the manager and my mom and told them. They looked at it after calming me down and it turns out I had around 5 gashes on my back that I needed to get stitches for. I will be haunting again but will be going through the whole haunt with duct tape to tape up all the sharp parts on props and make sure that that will not happen to me or anyone else for a while.
You should check out Creepy Hallow. It's a haunt in Idaho that's actually located across an expanse of woods out in the middle of nowhere and each section of land is run by a cast of scary characters. You're led through in small groups and each stop in the woods has it's own story told by the actors. It's put on by people from ren con and there's corregraphed sword fights and monster slaying, etc. It's about $5 a group.
I worked a haunt a few times before the only bad thing that I can really remember happening was some girl getting so scared that it cost her to have a panic attack halfway through the maze, we didn't have to stop the haunt for the rest of the night but when it happened we had to wait for about an hour for the ambulance to get there because she got so scared that not even her friends were able to give her to stop crying or shaking. That was the last time I worked as a haunt
Whenever someone scares me without realizing it i punch them......i almost punched my uncle straight in the chest ;-; luckly i can catch myself doing it before i punch them..........most of the time
I got cracked over the head with a coke bottle, requiring 10 stitches in my scalp. This kid was only 15, and he was trying too impress his little girl friend, the whole thing was on closed circuit video. The next day his lawyer brother showed up, and paid for my bills, plus gave me 4 grand for my trouble. The boy who did it was banned from the place for life, and that had too hurt. Because Harry Potter opened just a little while later.
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It pays to have a security camera at haunts.👍
Omg what haunt do you work at I totally wanna come!?!?!?
One time we went to a corn maze, and someone had a panic attack so bad that an ambulance was called.
I have two bad haunt worker stories. Literally just two. I'm probably pretty lucky to have worked at haunts where we were all incredibly safe and professional and were able to handle the guests and workers really well.
The first: This was my all time favorite haunt. I wished so badly that I still lived there and could still work at it. This place was ran by med school students and it was the most anatomically graphic haunt I've ever seen in my life. I worked in the 'laboratory' section as a werewolf being used as a lab rat. I couldn't move very well in my costume so, for my safety, they kept me 'locked up' in a cage they had constructed on the spot one night out of pvc pipe. I absolutely loved rattling my cage (gently) and reaching through to 'grab' at people (we weren't allowed to touch anyone). One night when I was manning my station while the 'doctor' was out on break (i.e. I was the only one in the 'room'), I had a guest come through one of the walls- literally through one of the walls. This was one of those constructed mazes inside of a large warehouse, so the walls were mostly plywood and sheets of fabric. This wall was just fabric beside my cage, because they need to make extra room for the cage itself- so no, he didn't tear the wall down or anything. He and the two girls he was with started walking around the warehouse and there was absolutely nothing I could do except break character and get them to leave the area before they broke anything or happened across actors getting dressed, because they couldn't hear me through the werewolf head and they pretty much already broke facade by finding the fake wall. I was pretty embarrassed for both myself and the haunt, but what made me mortified is that the next group coming through was pretty close behind them and I didn't have time to put my head back on before they got to my room and I could fix the wall. Okay, so it's not that bad, but I'm easily embarrassed and I felt like I (and the dumb guy, of course) ruined the night of the six people that followed.
The second: This story is a bit worse, sadly. This haunt was a haunted trail ride and the first of its kind in the town I lived in. I worked really hard with the father of my friend and the rest of our small group to get people, costumes, and equipment together for this ride. It went though the alleys of the down town area in my town and stopped at the park at one point. This sounds like it wouldn't be all that great of a haunt, but this guy dropped a ton of money on this thing. He really wanted it to be successful because the town finally okayed us to do it. Tryouts were astounding. We even had a guy show up with his hand crafted, spring loaded creeper wings (from Jeepers Creepers), and a friend of mine dropped a ton of money on this amazing latex gargoyle costume. Those two guys alone really sold the the tickets. A guy from the college football team showed up and as soon as he walked through the doors we all screamed "We have our Jason!" and immediately started sizing him up and teaching him how to work the chainsaw. I felt really amazing because I had a huge part in this. I invited my sister and her friends to play victims in chainsaw chase scene and brought in people from the drama club to put lights and fog machines in the alleys. Everything went so well and we made a ton of money to fund the next year. Then, on the last night, it all went to hell. We had fog machines breaking down, the trailer blew a tire, the creeper tore a wing, at one point it rained for five minutes (sprinkled, but still enough to soak our spirits)- as soon as we had one problem fixed, another thing would happen. Then, on our last ride of the night, my sister's friend was running at the trailer from our Jason and her tennis shoes slipped on the damp pavement, and the trailer went right over both legs. She was in casts for almost a year after that. We were all sick to our stomachs and miserable over what happened, and of course, the town said we couldn't do it any more. Granted, the girl was not at all upset about getting ran over. She said it was the most fun she had ever had and as soon as she was able to walk again she would start volunteering for more haunts just because of me inviting her to that one. It didn't really make me feel any better, but I am glad she enjoyed herself. My friend's dad who ran the haunt donated the money to another local haunt because he felt bad keeping the money for himself, so at least good still came out of it. I don't think we'll ever forget that haunt. We worked so hard and it was so much fun, even though it was pretty tragic.
Never had the police involved at the few haunts I worked, years back, but there were some really interesting experiences. Just like how you have Hexy (spelling?), I had my own persona. No real name attached to it, but the other workers always called me the Skull Devil, or the Skull Cat, because of the persona (and I ultimately adopted Skull Devil as an official name).
All black clothing, black shoes that were dulled so they wouldn't shine, black cloth gloves, black mesh over my face (so you can't see my eyes or my nose through the holes in the mask), black cloak and this old school latex mask. It didn't glow in the dark, but it was so white it practically glowed, if you know what I'm saying.
I stalked groups, and kept them moving. Creeping, prowling, occasionally darting across their paths, in front or behind, making clicking sounds (usually just clicking large bottle caps, like the ones off of iced tea bottle, as a great noise maker), or tapping against the environment to draw attention to myself. I never spoke, which was kind of the point. Usually very quiet.
One time, I 'creeped' a group of four through the entire haunt, and would pop out of trap doors--always just sort of out of view, or out of reach, and just casually wave at them. Some times, I cut them off, and would cut ahead of them to 'block' a path (not physically, they could pass me by, but I was clearly there, just around the turn, and I would be stooped over like a gargoyle, staring people down). The mesh, I could barely see through--I spent a lot of time training myself to navigate with it--but it meant I could see people's eyes and they couldn't see mine. So I would do staring contests with people as they tried to pass me by. Always quiet, never flinching, no matter what they did.
Even had a few people violate the 'no touch' rule and pat me on the head. Just ignored it. Some people apparently found it amusing, but whatever.
But back to this one group of four. Four women. They were mostly screamers, especially for the more in-your-face actors (and we did have a chainsaw clown that chased them straight into my stare trap). This is the crux of the weird story for you. There was this one woman who was very not-scared about the whole thing. Every time I saw her, she seemed more happy/amused by everything. She would even wave back at me when I was trying to spook the group.
During my stare with her, she paused long enough that her group was beginning to get too far ahead of her, because she spent... I want to say a full minute having the staring contest with me. She did not blink. And the whole time, she just has this smile on her face, and I can't really describe it. More than happy or amused. Then I move to the side, and, without speaking, I hand gesture to her that she needs to keep moving (Skull Devil never speaks). As she passes me by, she tells me she's going to be staying around for a while (we had fried dough, hot dogs, popcorn, soda and water; some other stuff outside the haunt), and that she would like to see the man behind the mask, and that it would be "worth my time".
Did not follow through, because I felt creeped out. Talked to a few other workers that night, when we were all winding down and getting ready to go home. Apparently, same woman was saying the same thing (verbatim) to like two or three others.
For the rest of the crew, I myself might have been an oddity for them. I always showed up fully dressed, and except for these very rare interactions, like the one I mentioned, I never really spoke to the other workers; just communicated with hand gestures, pantomime, and heavy breathing. Always in character.
Yes, fried dough. I miss it so much.
@billiebear 6 Glad you think the costume is cool; I still bring it out at friend's Halloween parties, and still pull the same stunts. And yeah, the woman was probably my most memorable guest from my time of haunting.
I wanna be like you, work at haunted house and have a similar role as you, it sounds like a character I could pull off, I couldn’t really pull off a clown or anything else but this, quiet, dressed in all black, not really being scary, just creepy, giving you that eerie feeling that something is watching you, I’d like that, I’d like that a lot.
Dang, good on you for keeping in character so well for a creep. I have to step away and compose myself whenever somebody says something like that to me. Makes me mad, but oh well, what can you do?
@@36ford5w You should go for it. You'll need to practice, of course, but that in itself can be quite fun.
@@sheridankern8279 The only thing you can do, really, is keep the show going. The show must go on, as they say. For me, I think it helped because I didn't have any sort of 'breaks' from character. The longer you keep it going, the easier it becomes, imo.
I’ve never worked at a haunted attraction but when my brother and I were kids, we used to have this guy who would go full out on Halloween to the point his house was pretty much an attraction. Well one year, he decided he wanted to try and scare kids by dressing up in tattered clothes, a devil mask and carried around a chainsaw. We went up to the front door, his wife gave us our candy and as we were walking down his driveway, his basement door bursts open and he starts running at us in his costume. My brother and I scream and I run back to my dad in tears. My dad and our neighbor started laughing when they saw our reactions.
FINALLY! ANOTHER FEMALE CHAINSAW!!! I was known as Lady Chainsaw back in the 90's. I had some really good reviews.
Sounds like you did the same thing I did.
I'd love to work at a haunt one year. It seems like so much fun!
Okay, my older sister used to work at a haunt. She was usually dressed as a more feminine Slenderman, and anyone that was there probably can't remember. She was in a long-ish hallway just two rooms before the end, standing in a closet. You see, to make her around 8 foot she had to stand on three-foot stilts. She came in contact with one of those hitty-people, after scaring him, the guy manages to hit my sister and she falls to the ground. The guy just looked around and was like: 'oh shit' and ran off.
She did manage to get security but the guy was gone after they got there. She also managed to get off for the rest of October, was kinda sad, but never worked at another haunt. We still have the costume, at the most.
You actually used a REAL chainsaw!? O_o
A recipe for manslaughter and lawsuits if I ever heard one. Next storytime will be "10 Haunted House Guests I Accidentally Murdered".
All haunts do. They remove the chain so it's safe. We use them all the time at the Field of Screams
Leanne Meyer ^^ It just makes a good sound
They take the the chain off so it's safe.
Yeah, from the haunts I've been to, they've all used real chainsaws, but they'll have rubber replacing or covering were the chained portion of the saw would be. Also, like someone else already said, they'll remove the chain all together as well. They want it to be as authentic as possible and remove the risk factors as well
I’m already imagining what was going through those kids’ heads when they realized that you and shadow kisses were actually chasing them and it’s really entertaining. I wish I could have been there to see that.
On the hitting part I have a story...when I went with my older brother, into a horrorride we didn't knew there were at the end real people in the house to scare you.
Most of the scares were done by puppets and decoration, they had a lot of jumpscary things happening, so up until that point we were quite amused at the atraction.
Then at the end a guy in a costume layed his hand on my shoulder...I acted in reflex and just swiftly lifted my fist straight and with force upwards without looking behind.
When I heard the "AUTSCH!" I knew I had hit a person.
Looking back as we just drove outside with the small car thingy I saw the guy holding his nose under his mask and called back to him a "Sorry!"
Since come on, that was his job to do that. And my brother was joking that someone who wanted to abduct me would be really unlucky.
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I'm just thinking of that one song: "I'm gonna whoop somebody's a$$. . . "
I just tried to look up the song. For some reason, I couldn't find it. :(
I was offered a job at a haunt, even though I am piss my pants scared of haunted houses. I happily took the job, and being the very thin, flexable, and gangly girl I am... I was set up as a zombie to run after people towards the end of a maze. I was on all fours, and chasing people like a fucking maniac. I would keep myself low to the ground, and almost jump, then use my arms to push myself forward. I was in this amazing face makeup (Thank you Sarah, your spooky nurse routine always got a good scare, and your make up was gorgeous!) I would keep my mouth open, and my tongue out so I was constantly drooling and foaming at the mouth. Needless to say, I loved that job.
I was a zombie for my first year haunting, at a local hayride. Once I figured out a really effective routine and was getting scares in every group, I started gaining some real confidence in my ability. And then it just so happens that one cart has a big, ripped dude on my side of the scene (like, he could easily be a bouncer or fighter of some kind if he wasn't already) who had his arm around this pretty blonde woman.
Instant prison mentality with him. One look at him and immediately I'm thinking "yup, you're mine now, time to see how good this scare really is." So I do my slow build part of the routine and see he's cautiously amused by the slow, shambling, trapped zombie. The second his guard drops and he's looking at my partners in the scene, I do my actual scare and charge straight at him, screaming and jumping up on the side of the cart.
The sound that came out of this grown man.. a "yelp" is the only word I can think of to accurately describe it. About 2 octaves higher than I would've guessed possible for him. His girl jumped too, but shortly realized that sound was not her, and she looks over at him and practically laughs herself to tears, still laughing as the cart starts moving on to the next scene.
Needless to say if I didn't already love that job by that point, that would've done it.
I'd pummel the hell outta the guy too.
I miss being a scarecrow so much.
MadameSquad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'd love to work in a haunt someday
I have learned of my fight or flight reaction in a haunted house. Either “oh hi” , or “holy ****”
K funny story from me!
Alright, so my friends and I were just walking around town this holloween, and we went in this haunted house (it's like, super cheaply made, about 4 actors, only had 4 rooms that were smaller than I was comfertable me. I was with one of my guy friends, a chubby blond dude, and we were just walking through the house, and this one mad schientice runs up to us shaking real metal chains saying that he was going to chain us up and experiment, I scream and cower (in the fight or flight responce, mine is accually Freeze XD) but my guy friend started bolting to him. But, in my fright, I grabbed him and tried hiding in his arm. I took less than 5 seconds to get us out of there (it was the last room) and only later did I relise he tried fighting the scientict. (one of my friends ended up telling us)
someone once tried to poke my eyes out with his thumbs as i worked as some with a half burned face look in a horror themed kitchen
What is the average diet of a clown so I know what to feed the clowns
Candy probably
Miss Merry thank u for the info
Your welcome
He blinked...
AND THEN HE WAS PISSED
That's a pathetic hissy fit to get violent for people scaring you in a HAUNTED HOUSE!
Trying to argue with drunken protomachooze is like eating broken glass... best case you get a horrible stomach pain. I've dealt with several xD
A few years ago I accidentally elbowed a haunt worker by opening a curtain I did apologize but I completely didn’t mean to do that
I do production arts in college and our first project was a halloween walk through (without acctors we had to do all the effects) and it's so much fun I LOVED IT I would love to do an actual professional one. !!
A long time ago when I was like 13 14 I can't remember Me my sister and my dad and one of my cousins decided for Halloween to go to a haunted forest similar to a haunted house but obviously in a forest about halfway through or so one of the parts was this like hallway that had a guy in a wear wolf costume chases us with a fake chainsaw I ran like I was about to die and I wasn't looking where I was going so I ran into a tree at full sprint the guy asked if I was ok I was because lucky me I wasn't looking forward so I didn't hit my full face on the tree but yah needles to say I wasn't aloud to go to anything like that for the rest of my childhood 😆 🤣
Speaking of chainsaws I was recently at a drive through haunted house and there was a guy who literally stuck a chainsaw through the open window!!!
My first haunt. I got to scare people in a historic mansion in Auburn wa. Anyway I had a female classmate who was pretending to be a face on a staircase. She got kissed by a stranger.
if someone would actually stand there and look you straight into the eyes without pissing themselves, would that be suprising
I've started a new tradition at home for Halloween scaring people who come for candy my hearing is really good and I know my way through the halls well so I sit on a stool in all black with a black baliclava over my entire head so before people ring I lift my head one reaction I got was pure terror and a group just ran like hell because I stood up before they rang and I had to break character and remove my hood and mind u they were like 4 13yos so I got them good but I kinda feel bad if u have any cool ways to scare people pls tell me so I can use I'm going to ask a friend if he wants to help if so we're going to have some fun
So I work in a haunted opera house and I sing ring around the rosy and I look like I have the plague and someone thought I was fake even though I was singing lmao. They were drunk.
I work in a haunt that isn't.. regulated very well. The actors get drunk and smoke weed sometimes. It's not great but usually everything ends up okay.. except for this one night a few years ago. There was a man and woman couple that decided to join our skit that year and let me just say, she was very flirty with all the other guys. Eventually her boyfriend found out and was trying to fight the guys she was flirting with.. um what? He ended up hitting another guy to the ground for no reason! Security was called on the boyfriend and they both were banned. Absolutely ridiculous.
I wouldn't be surprised if the mace guy also got sued by at least one of the innocents he also sprayed.
Well the closest I've come to a work story is from other people such as my dad or my friends. One such case was with a coworker my dad had and this one is very recent. So there's this guy my dad used to work with we call red beard (bet you can't guess why) and his job was to drive on the week days and then do dock work on Saturdays, turns out he didn't want to work on Saturdays even though it was part of his job. Red beard kept complaining about it and eventually people got tired of his crap and he got fired from Fed Ex. There's one other I'd like to tell but out of respect I will not, It isn't my story to tell but it is a crazy work story my friend experienced recently that cause them to get so fed up they quit without even putting their 2 weeks. It was very bad and what went down should never go down in the work place but sadly it does. It wasn't sexual assault mind you but it was very abusive and wrong.
So cool I love it ♥️
I work at a haunted trail that has an actual haunted house on the property. And a lot of crazy things happened.
You would hate my uncle.
He literally just stares at HH workers.
If u still do haunted house things u should use hidden cameras and put them here I would love to see that
I hate those types of guys as well! There are too many of them at my school...
Okay, I am just going to pit it out there, if you die, I will resurrect you, what ever the price, you need to stay alive!!
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When she said Mase I thought she ment the mid evil kind
Hi ma'am
Im a kid but i want to work at a haunt when i turn 16
I’ve worked at a theme park turned haunt in October and it’s one where once you enter the park there is always a chance at being scared. We have actors called ‘roamers’ who just roam the park scaring as they go. Often they will have a designated area but some float all over. My fiancé was a roamer for 3 years. Let me preface with my fiancé is a man but he has a great butt and he also walks with a hip sway. He’s also only 5’8” and an average build. So one year he played this creepy ninja character and it had a silicone mask so his face was totally covered. He was put in a terrible spot and often couldn’t hide well enough. So instead he would just walk out in the open and scare with a turn around. Well one group of young men decide that my fiancé must be a woman based on their walk and decide to harass him. One grabbed his butt and the others were still debating if he was in fact a woman. In response he says in the deepest voice he can ‘oh my’ 😂 this probably scared the guy more than his creepy mask to begin with and the others gave him crap the rest of the night I’m sure.
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Does anyone know where I can read the seer?
on her devaintart page actually
On her DeviantART. But don't get your hopes up, it's been discontinued
that last one had me rolling
i am a haunt worker myself
I want to work in a haunted house
I would love to work in a haunt because it sounds like fun and I think I would be good at scaring people! But hearing those story's makes me a little unsure something bad might happen if I do it or something. I don't know I just hope one day I could work a haunt like that~
I would love to go into this haunt XD
Btw I love Hexis design
I like the way you describe the predator/prey mentality you have at the beginning... Like a greyhound chasing a rabbit... With a chainsaw... :)
Team me your secrets of how to work a chainsaw. You know in case of the zombie apocolypse xD
Chainsaws would be a horrible choice for a zombie apocalypse. Your chain would get jammed way too early and if the zombification came from disease, you could easily get infected from the blood splatter. Long range, quiet weapons are the best.
It's so sad that haunted houses and Halloween aren't so famous in Germany, so I don't really have the chance to get into one or even work there. At least not if I don't want to give out my money for a theme park. We have theme parks where around Halloween are attractions (is it the right word) to go onto, also Haunted houses, but they are not so spooky. If I remember correctly it was... 5 or 8 years in the back and my boyfriend, his friend, his girlfriend and I were going onto some of the horror things (I bet the only creepy one was the hospital one and we didn't go there, because we weren't allowed to stand in line because it was so full XD). It was like a mix of Zombies and ghosts on an open field, so not so creepy. But I find this story still funny and even kinda cute but creepy at the same time xD
So we stood in the line and when we finally were the ones to get onto this field through an open door but there was this Zombie guy, who let the people through with (I guess) a fake knife or something like that. He was sitting there. And suddenly he put this knife between my boyfriend and me, our friends were already further on and my boyfriend didn't notice at first, that I wasn't coming. So I was there and the guy took me to the side, where he was and said something like, that I'm his meat now and everything. I was VERY shy at that time and I get scared very fast, also it was my first experience, so I was a little bit freaking out in my mind. I didn't know what to do. So I was standing there. And after a few minutes I was just like almost whispering with a squeeky voice: "C-can I go back to my boyfriend now?"
I bet I was blushing wildly. And I believe, that this guy found my reaction to cute to say no. Because he was at first really scary and manly. And suddenly he felt so nice and cute (I kinda liked him) and he just said "Okay yes" and let me go but in such a nice tone in his voice xD It was kinda cute how he reacted. But yeah het let me go and I went to my boyfriend, who was asking what happened xD
This was my weirdest experience and sadly one of my last ones, because after that I didn't really go to the park again, even if I wanted to, and hauntes houses aren't so famous around here...
I still love this story xD I don't know why. Maybe because I liked this guy and hoped to meet him again, because he was really kinda cute and charming. I wanted to talk to him more. But I was so shy XD And we didn't get back that XD
These are great
I want to join a haunt when I'm older (yes im a 14 year old girl who made my friends mom take a picture of me with Jason Voorhees and Michael Myers they where trick or treaters)
Could u tell me which Haunted House u worked at and if they do tours? I live in AZ and I'm always looking for a good scare.
I only did a one night haunted house for little kids but we were suppose to scare the kids, not be gentle. I was a roamed and I ran up to a kid who was trailing behind her mom and the mom yelled at me not to run at her. I had another kid who was getting out of the car so I paced back and forced on the sidewalk staring at him and waiting for him to pass me and the mom yelled at me to not scare him and "how would you like it if I scared you" um, you're literally walking him to a haunted house, he's going to get scared. I also had the little kids who were volunteering demand that my friends who were walking through to leave because they were laughing, they are highschoolers walking through as elementary school kids were trying to scare them, they were just enjoying themselves but the kids flipped out.
Okay, so, this isn't a haunt story, but a similar one nonetheless. I have a character that I made called Piper (made the mask, then found out a character called Masky looks almost exactly the same. FML. So just picture Masky with thicker eyebrows and plumper lips on the mask.) Anyways, my friend, who I'm just going to call Cat, isn't the biggest fan of Piper. She came over to my house for a sleepover and had to leave to go fix her hair in the mirror or something. Me being the absolute horrible friend I am hurriedly dug out my Piper mask and pulled my hood over my head and got in position. She came in and didn't freak out at first, but then I lifted my head and she jumped back like two feet. Upon discovering Piper's twitchy movements and random appearances freak her out, I did everything in my power that day and the next to slip the Piper mask on and wait in random places. Long story short, Cat hates Piper with a burning passion, and I got some decent practice perfecting Piper's creepy jittery movements and behavior, which is good because I hope to work at a haunt someday.
I didn't exactly do a "haunted house" per-se, but I did to a ghost tour for October at this historic farm. I was portraying the French psychic medium Mlle Lenormand, psychic to the Bonapartes and more. For my act, I spoke of her most famous predictions and actually gave readings in full character complete with passable French. For my outfit, I wore an antique veil and, me being the troll I am, silently lurked in the shadows as people passed by scaring everyone-- it was great! Best part was my readings were accurate :D
One time a friend of mine lost her glasses on a haunted house, but that's really the most exciting story I have. Not much happens to me in haunted houses lol
I am so interesting in the making and everything behind haunted house and everything that involves them. Ahh
my father and I worked in a haunt where it was... semi? interactive. It was like lazer tag with zombies. So my dad is a big muscular dude, huge. not super duper tall, around 5,9", 5'10", and I'm around 5'4''. so we get dressed up and get a good amount of scars and die quite a few times. it's fun until this group of about 2 or three dudes comes in. Our haunt's policies are that if you get hit, it's your fault because you were too close (which is fine, we didn't have many incidents). I was sitting in a chair around a corner and scared them... but got bashed in the head a few times with the nose of a lazer gun. hurt like hell but i didn't break character and died after they tagged me. then comes my dad's scare. This one dude is a little taller than me, and I pop out before he can get to my father's area to give him a scare. I get shot by his buddy and fall to the floor because, well, i'm 'dead'. this guy stops and kicks me in the side (as if to check if i was really dead) before looking back at his target. My dad is hiding behind some broken washing machines, and jumps out, screeching and groaning as loud as he can. This guy screams, and then... doesn't have either a fight or flight reaction. nope. he runs straight down the hallway lined with machines, raising the butt of his gun up to clock my dad in the head. He could have just shot him, he was far enough away, but no, he came right at him screaming as his buddies ran to shoot my dad before their friend could hit him. they were successful, and the guy complained about it, saying "Guys, I had him!" or something like that. Turns out he didn't only try that with my dad, but with multiple other actors down the line. Especially when he ran out of "ammo" (the guns are loaded with something that pops very loudly when you pull the trigger, so it sounds like a gun but it isn't), and he actually nearly hit one of the girls in the group i was with. Security got called in and he was banned. I've also gotten punched in the nose while being a clown and got a split lip from the gun haunt again.
Being an actor is fun.
I used to work in a haunt before I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
But basically i was a clown-ish thing. Her name was "zoe the clown" basically I had red and purple around my eyes with black dots- black lipstick and all that fun stuff. What I would do is I would hide in a maze and follow people around and scare them or jump out of corner and all the stuff. One time I followed a small group and i'd randomly growl and hide or sharpen a knife against another or maybe start up my chainsaw a little. I, having to be a killer clown, jumped down from the maze top and started laughing and chased them- i then started dragging my chainsaw on the ground and laugh like a fricken psychopath And my character has blood dripping from her mouth and eyes so that scared them more. XD. I loved that job
I've never worked at a haunted house as that is, unfortunately, not a thing in my country. But I have two stories about haunted walks on a holiday.
The first one was in germany. I think I was about 15, maybe a little older. and I joined some kids on the haunt as the last group. I knew my dad was going to be scaring us, as I saw him leave with all the people earlier. My group was actually having a pretty good time and we were singing some silly songs. I knew the area pretty well so I was aware of where I was going and we had to cross a bridge. I was pretty sure someone would be around there, since we didn't have a scare for a while. When we crossed that bridge, my dad walked out of a cave near the brigde and everone of our group started yelling and running. I stayed behind the group and was like "hey dad.." and continued my walk. My group hadnt realised I was behind them and they were all a little on edge. I managed to get pretty close to them without being seen and just casually said "boo" and they started yelling again.
the other story takes place in sweden. This place I didn't know very well, we had only been there for a few days but there was a haunted walk trough the forest next to the campsite. We weren't allowed to bring any phones, flashlights or other simmilar attributes. (I did take my phone, just in case) I thought of myself that I was pretty though and punk at the time and that I wouldn't be the one to get scared that easily. OH BOY I was wrong.. We had some minor scares from people, and were actually having fun doing this, until we came at an open space. Mind you, it was extremely dark, with no moonlight. We stood there for a solid 5 minutes wondering how to get to the other side without crapping our pants. We decided to just grab eachothers hands and make a run for it. Someone jumped out with a chainsaw from behind a tree and started running after us. Like you said theres the fight or flight reaction; I ended up turning 180 degrees and straight up ran back, pulling one person of the group with me. My dumb ass didnt realise, running in a forest in the dark isnt the best idea. I tripped over a root and had the girl fall over me too. The dude with the chainsaw stood over me and I was pretty sure that I was close to death. However, the guy helped me up and walked me to the other side of the open space, I had sprained my ancle but I was having so much adrenaline flow through me, I didnt realise until I got back at the campsite and saw that I was covered in mud, tears, and blood. I had fun nevertheless and can't wait to be able to scare people myself sometime!
Insane stories! Why would you bring mace to a haunt? If anything went down were you planning on using it in your defense. That's a safety hazard to not only the guests but the workers as well. How differently would anything have happened if he sprayed a worker because he got too scared? Yikes! At my first haunt we warned as workers that we could really get up in their faces as long as we don't touch them. Understandable, just be prepared to handle it calmly and safely if they managed to touch us, that includes breaking character if necessary. Thankfully nothing happened that involved security or an ambulance, but there were a few close calls and one time someone actually pushed their hands against my shoulders to create distance. It was a fear reaction so I understood, but I did have to break character and warn them to try to not touch the actors. Thankfully we both said our apologies and went back to a successful night.
I worked at a haunt, and I swear while I seriously loved my job, it was so dangerous, I got punched, my friend got punched, people were destroying the haunt and slamming the walls into the actors. The weekend before Halloween was insane. I dont think my haunt calls the police but I've had to report groups and what the worst part was is that our security didn't even stop the group
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So I have a quick story considering I work at A haunt and I’ve been there for six years now this happened during a year where the theme was doll factory. So it was pretty standard to see dolls running around being cute see being creepy and everything else. I was a doll character named Evelyn that was a ragdoll that rode around on a little tricycle and couldn’t walk correctly. My face was also horribly disfigured looking like if it was ripped in half and stitched back together with the wrong face. Anyway all and I acted pretty cute and really creepy. However during this year there was a lot of drunk groups and I am not very tall person mind you I am very petite size so I cannot intimidate as much as I should as a greeter but my personality makes up for it. Anyway after the drunk group starts walking through with seven or eight people thanks start getting weird. This is very tall and skinny boy from the group before they go pins me to a wall. And you could say he was the classic Romeo that all haunt females should fear. However because of my character a lot of people became fans of it and some of the people within the line started shouting at the man and so he quickly ran after his group afterwards security came and talk to me about it. That was my strangest night this year I have a lot more stranger ones but that one truly comes to mind.
I have a funny Haunt story from a few years ago. I was in a room of this huge house that was called 'The Dead Zone' and the room that I was at was called 'Tool Time', and my job was to run from out of the corner and scream at people and tell them to get out of the house. So, Tool Time looks like a shed with blood everywhere, bloodied up manikins and manikin parts in bags, it was great. But I was working with the main actor for 'Tool Time' and we had a little hand saw and table for him to reeve up and dance around on. Well in the middle of one of the nights my co-actor forgot to turn off the flickering lights in the room and we were sitting and waiting and this guy the same height as me (5'1") and you could tell he was shaken up to all hell, but he came running in at full speed into the room and he just stops and looks at us. And we stop and look at him. And then its like I switch clicks in mine and my buddy's head and he reves up the hand saw I start screaming at the dude but his going the wrong way and his for real freaking out and screaming and I have to run up to him and somehow get him to go the other way and eventually he does but his group is a long way back so my buddy and I just look at each other in amazement of the fact that that had just happened. All in all, it was a great experience and I would gladly go work in a Haunted House again given the chance.
It was my 3rd season at my local haunt and me and my friend Light (we do a duo act Shadow and Light) were working in the forest part and he had the bright idea for both of us to climb a tree and drop down on the next people that came through (he has a Scythe and I have a motor saw) So we waited and this group pf 4 14-18 year olds walk through our part. So he drops down first and I revved my saw and dropped down second. (Im a girl and Light is a guy) one of the guys swings at Light and hits him in the chest so Light swung his scythe and barely hit the guy and the police got called. The got in a fight , and it was a huge mess overall.
Oh my god you had the mukogawa exchange students come through! I'm pen pals with one of the girls who went through!
I worked one this year too as Michael Myers, and let me tell you, it is amazing when you scare someone by doing almost nothing but walking slowly at them with a knife
I would've been freaking out if I saw out of both excitement because I'm a fan and fear because of the chainsaw.
I love being a clown at my haunt! Doll girls are great, too, because I can just shriek and laugh, meaning that I don't have to hide when I laugh at them for running and freaking out like morons.
My one time at one of the intense haunted houses I nearly got my group stuck in the "butcher" room because somehow I was in front and did not want to go near the butcher guy to the exit, got lost for a few minutes in the clown area, (it was very impressively disorienting for how small it was) and punched a foam head on a string because I was getting so fed up by that point. XD The foam head came back at me so I guess I got what I deserved for that.
The nearest experience to a haunted house I ever had were a few staffmembers at the freefall-tower in a park, wearing costumes and waiting behind doors. I scared them and we both got a laugh out of it, but I've never been scared. I wish we had haunted houses here in germany, but we don't even have cornmazes sooo...