Haunted Houses

From; http://www.americaninventorspot.com/best_haunted_houses
The top 13(what else) Haunted Houses in the nation. Bwahahahahahahahaha

1. Nightmare: Face Your Fear - New York, New York
2. Netherworld - Atlanta, Georgia
3. The Darkness - St. Louis, Missouri
4. Terror Behind the Walls - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
5. Headless Horseman - Ulster Park, New York
6. Rocky Point Haunted House - Salt Lake City, Utah
7. Fright Dome at Circus Circus - Las Vegas, Nevada
8. Shocktoberfest - Reading, Pennsylvania
9. Erebus Haunted House - Pontiac, Michigan
10. Seven Floors of Hell - Cleveland, Ohio
11. Asylum & Hotel Fear - Las Vegas, Nevada
12. USS Nightmare - New Port, Kentucky
13. Haunted Overload - Exeter, New Hampshire

Some place to take the one you love....to grope. :blush:

Wherez the White House?

Def. going to 7 floors of Hell this year.. I love haunted houses:reaper:

not far from reading......

I doubt I would be able to walk through one of these even if you paid me. Even reading the website literally made me shudder.

As well as being skittish and easily spooked in general, I have a long standing belief that if I saw something too scary my mind would simply snap and I would spend the rest of my days in a vegetative state. (For the record the Jekyll & Hyde family restaurant in New York freaked me out... to the disgust of the children who entered at the same time as us)

So saying, I spent hours sitting in a bar in Blackpool where the haunted house exited, laughing in sheer delight at the people who piled out, terrifed. I'd love to have a window on a haunted house, just to watch people braver than me running scared.

Edited to add - I've just seen that 7 Floors of Hell has a Haunted Circus. That means.... killer clowns.... right? I'm going to have to hide under my desk now.

I just have one word to say to you:

[COLOR="DarkOrchid"]BOO[/COLOR]

I've yet to go through a haunted house that actually scared me. I've had them raise my blood pressure and get me tense, waiting for the next goon to go "blearghhgh". But without fail, all they make me feel is the urge to punch the monsters in the mouth (not that I could cause any physical harm, what with the arthritis and all). It feels weird being herded through there though.

I would get a lot more scared if the place was empty and people weren't screaming, and they only had someone jump out on random occasions -- like once a week. Empty haunted houses are creepy.

Sundae Girl wrote:

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Edited to add - I've just seen that 7 Floors of Hell has a Haunted Circus. That means.... killer clowns.... right? I'm going to have to hide under my desk now.

And this would be the house band. I have the cd, and it's freaky as anything. A couple reviews:

this cd would go well with a bottle of whiskey on a moonlit night behind the animal cages of the traveling circus.... it really brings images of a carnival to mind...

Where do I begin? The accordion, using meat as percussion...?

This is music from a dark, seedy cabaret, or perhaps a warped little carnival in some parallel world of darkness.

mrnoodle wrote:

I've yet to go through a haunted house that actually scared me. I've had them raise my blood pressure and get me tense, waiting for the next goon to go "blearghhgh". But without fail, all they make me feel is the urge to punch the monsters in the mouth (not that I could cause any physical harm, what with the arthritis and all). It feels weird being herded through there though.

I would get a lot more scared if the place was empty and people weren't screaming, and they only had someone jump out on random occasions -- like once a week. Empty haunted houses are creepy.

You just reminded me why I stopped going after the age of 16! All the screaming and yelling. The tenseness. It is all comming back to me now. :right:

It WOULD be very cool to be alone in one of those places with just the hint of someone there but not being annoying and over dramatic.

skysidhe wrote:

You just reminded me why I stopped going after the age of 16! All the screaming and yelling. The tenseness. It is all comming back to me now. :right:

It WOULD be very cool to be alone in one of those places with just the hint of someone there but not being annoying and over dramatic.

i remember on cable they had this show where they sent regular people (youse and meese) to "authentic" haunted estates.... usually in europe. left them there (with camera crew?) and filmed the events of their night. creepy stuff. :eek:

of course nothing from Kansas would be on that list...LMAO...imagine that. They do have some pretty good multi-story one's up in KC though...they're just not that scary :(

thrillhouse wrote:

i remember on cable they had this show where they sent regular people (youse and meese) to "authentic" haunted estates.... usually in europe. left them there (with camera crew?) and filmed the events of their night. creepy stuff. :eek:

:eek: :worried: :::spooky::::



:p



Neighborhood haunted places


Landmark Harvard Exit
807 E Roy St, Seattle, WA
Moviegoers have heard mysterious laughter, while others report seeing the ghost of a hanged woman in the hallway.

Green Lake
5701 E Green Lake Way N, Seattle, WA
Though it's now a busy city park, some visitors report seeing ghosts and apparitions.

Pike Place Market
1508 Pike Pl, Seattle, WA
The image of a Native American woman has been known to prowl the area, once the tourists have left for the day.

Hamilton Middle School
1610 N 41st St, Seattle, WA
Many have reported hearing footsteps while alone in the second-floor bathroom. Doors are known to open and close by themselves.

St. Edward State Park
14445 Juanita Dr NE, Kenmore, WA
Visitors have seen and heard the laughter of playing children, though the park seems deserted.

I have a book called "Haunted Leicester" - if anyone is ever in this part of the world I'll take you on a tour of supposed sites of hauntings. I daren't go alone.

I recommend the Haunted London walking tours to anyone there. We might not be able to match the special effects of US "Haunted Houses" but we have a capital city steeped in bloody history :)

My wheelchair never fits in them.
All going accomplishes does is makes them feel bad.

I've started thinking of Halloween now that the leaves are falling.
Even though the temp today is 28 degrees and set to continue into October!

And as I was arsing about I found this thread.
Wondered if anyone had been to any of these places, or had a personal experience with this kind of place.
I am looking to be scared vicariously.

Absolutely no fucking way in any form of hell will I go in one of those. jus' sayin'

Yeah, me too.
Ghost Stories (Cellar link) was my limit.

Are you guys talking about fakey fun haunted houses or houses that are supposed to be really haunted?

I'd love to go to one. It's been years. A fake one, I mean. A 'real' one? I could be persuaded.

For me?
BOTH.

See my earlier post. I am like un unbroken colt - skittish and easily spooked.
I can scare myself just in my own head; once an outside agency is involved I will scream. Really loudly. Without the relief of laughter afterwards. I will scream for eternity like a madwoman.

Or so I suspect.

ETA - the houses mentioned do not look like fun to me.
But yes, they are fake.
I might be better off in a real place, as I honestly do not believe in an afterlife.

I don't believe in ghosts so I'd happily go to a real haunted house. But fake haunted houses. no way. nuh-huh. not happening.

Actually i did make it through the one at Disneyland.

But that was for little kids so no-one jumped out at you

Monster, when you get international sponsorship, I'll spend the night in a real haunted house with you.

We're both sceptics, but I'll be the shrieky one.

We can tie it in with a programme/ book about ex-pats vs stay-behinds.
Or those who love the Barrowman and those who don't.
Or kids vs cats.

You know the score - nothing about "real" people is complete without some sort of ideological conflict.

Sundae;759411 wrote:

We're both sceptics, but I'll be the shrieky one.

Don't do it, Sundae. Trust me. They go for the skeptics first.

Argh!
In that case I wonder if Diz is "their" agent, as he jumps on me near every night, waking me up.

Although sometimes I wake myself up, trying to scream.
I call that a nightmare, although I know other people are more fluid in their definition.
I haven't had one for months now.

One of my fav times of year. I can go to the store and people don't think I am weird.

TheMercenary;759649 wrote:

One of my fav times of year. I can go to the store and people don't think I am weird.

That you know of. :p:

I have been in real haunted houses on a number of occasions, and fun ones only occasionally.

Friends of mine operate a haunt for the homeless at Halloween. They rip their house to pieces to bring this off.

Mansfield Prison is on my list this year. Going to drag the new g/f along with, even if she has to wear a pair of Depends.

Bullitt, I never thought I'd feel pity for a lady you dated.
But I do now...

skysidhe;276211 wrote:

:eek: :worried: :::spooky::::



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Neighborhood haunted places


Landmark Harvard Exit
807 E Roy St, Seattle, WA
Moviegoers have heard mysterious laughter, while others report seeing the ghost of a hanged woman in the hallway.

Green Lake
5701 E Green Lake Way N, Seattle, WA
Though it's now a busy city park, some visitors report seeing ghosts and apparitions.

Pike Place Market
1508 Pike Pl, Seattle, WA
The image of a Native American woman has been known to prowl the area, once the tourists have left for the day.

Hamilton Middle School
1610 N 41st St, Seattle, WA
Many have reported hearing footsteps while alone in the second-floor bathroom. Doors are known to open and close by themselves.

St. Edward State Park
14445 Juanita Dr NE, Kenmore, WA
Visitors have seen and heard the laughter of playing children, though the park seems deserted.

whaaaaat?? I've been to these places (well, been through the neighborhood of Hamiliton Middle school, and I've been to parks in Kenmore, don't remember if that was the one, but it's a small area).

Really? These are spooky places in your neighborhood? Wow. I've been so, ignorant, so insensitive. So carefree. Now I will live in fear.

Great. Thanks.

I actually was just reading about this on Yahoo this morning. I haven't been here yet and honestly, I don't think I want to go either. :eek:

http://news.yahoo.com/clinton-road-jersey-most-terrifying-road-u-194000764.html?bouchon=501,ny

Clinton Road, New Jersey: The most terrifying road in the U.S.

About seven years ago, my cousin Julie and her husband Mark moved back to New Jersey from South Carolina. After months of searching, they found a great house in West Milford, New Jersey. Julie, who I grew up with, called me and asked me to meet them at the house and let them know my opinion.
After checking out a map online, I saw the home was on a street just off Clinton Road north of Route 23. I drove up Green Pond Road, got onto Route 23, and then turned right onto Clinton Road. Almost immediately, I noticed that Clinton Road was different from almost all the roads in New Jersey.
There were no homes along the road and no connecting roads. Clinton Road was very curvy and kept winding around between different bodies of water. At one point, I saw what looked like shack off to the right along a dirt driveway, and later on, I saw an old kiln by the road. But other than that, there was nothing along Clinton Road. Isolation was the word that came to my mind to describe the road.
After about 10 miles, I reached the street off Clinton Road where the house was. The house was great, with four bedrooms, three bathrooms, and a finished basement. It was perfect for Julie, Mark, and their kids. While looking at the house, I mentioned how creepy Clinton Road was. Julie's realtor shot me a look and looked like she wanted say something not particularly nice to me, but she said nothing.
On the way home, I went down Clinton Road just as it was getting dark. I had not gone more than a couple miles down the road when headlights appeared out of nowhere behind me. The headlights came right up behind me and then backed off. I was not in a hurry, so I slowed down and put my blinker on to let the vehicle pass, but the headlights also slowed. The headlights kept following me down Clinton Road until I got near Route 23, and then suddenly, the headlights disappeared.
A few weeks later, Julie invited me and another cousin of ours, Mike, back to the house. They had made an offer on the property, and it was accepted, so they were having a little party one night after work. Mike and I drove up Clinton Road to get to the house. Within a mile of turning on Clinton Road, headlights again appeared out of nowhere and rushed up to us, but then backed off. I told Mike the same thing happened the first time on the road.
The headlights kept following us, and I was keeping an eye on them in the rearview mirror when Mike shouted, "Look out!" I hit the brakes and saw something like a giant white rabbit running off into the woods. Mike asked what it was, and I told him it was likely an albino deer. I had worked at the fenced-in Hercules complex in Roxbury, New Jersey, for a few years, and there was an albino deer on the grounds then. It would look like a lot of different things when it ran around at night.
As we finally approached some lights in the distance, the headlights behind us vanished as if they were never there. We went into the house and it was pretty cold, as the heat didn't work. Mike told everyone about the headlights and the creature that ran in front of us on Clinton Road. One of the neighbors Julie and Mark had met and invited over, John, came over at the mention of Clinton Road.
"Clinton Road," he said, "is the most haunted road in America." John told us he had lived in West Milford his whole life and that Clinton Road was to be avoided at all costs. He told us a frozen dead body had been found along the road a few years ago. Clinton Road was where the mob dumped their dead bodies. He said that Satan worshipers would also gather along the road and then row out to an island in the middle of one of the lakes and perform satanic rituals.
He also said that strange creatures lived along Clinton Road. They were the result of interbreeding between the local animals and the wild animals that escaped from Jungle Habitat, which was a wild animal amusement park located in West Milford that was run by Warner Brothers in the 1970s. After Warner Brothers closed the park in late 1976, they were rumored to have let a lot of the animals just go into the local woods rather than pay to have them transported somewhere else.
He told us the headlights we had seen were from ghosts that would appear out of nowhere and follow cars along the road at night. That's why the headlights suddenly appeared and disappeared. Mike and I laughed at what the neighbor told us, but we also asked him for another road to take out of there. He told us to take Union Valley Road, which paralleled Clinton Road and was not haunted.
When I got home that night, I went on the Internet and typed in "Clinton Road" in Google. I was amazed to find that Clinton Road was pretty famous as a haunted road. The frozen dead body story was true, the result of a serial mob killer nicknamed The Iceman who used to freeze his victims before dumping them. Jungle Habitat in West Milford was also real. I found tons of stories relating how terrifying Clinton Road is online. The Travel Channel did a show about Clinton Road, calling it the most terrifying road in America. Others have made scary videos about Clinton Road and posted them on YouTube.
In the end, Julie and Mark did not buy the house in West Milford because the home inspection turned up too many problems, including the heating problem. I was relieved to hear that because I did not want to have to travel along the most terrifying road in America, Clinton Road, to see them. But for anyone out there who wants to be scared to death, Clinton Road can be reached right off Route 23 in Newfoundland, New Jersey. The road runs about 10 miles between Newfoundland and West Milford.
If you do drive along Clinton Road though, you do so at your own risk. It is just a creepy, scary, isolated road. You have been warned by someone who has been there.

I'm scared by the lack of paragraphs.
Ow! Ow! My EYES!

Clinton Road - so scary it's named after a Democrat!!

that's a nice bit of Jersey lore there, BeeDee. Thanks! Love the scary this time of year!

And then there's this by the side of the road I drove a couple of weeks back. http://cellar.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=34261&stc=1&d=1317500874

Sundae;761929 wrote:

I'm scared by the lack of paragraphs.
Ow! Ow! My EYES!

Sorry...that's the way it copied.:o

Brianna;761931 wrote:

Clinton Road - so scary it's named after a Democrat!!

that's a nice bit of Jersey lore there, BeeDee. Thanks! Love the scary this time of year!

Glad you enjoyed it. Did you know that Jersey has it's own devil too?

The Jersey Devil

The Jersey Devil, the supposed mythical creature of the New Jersey Pinelands, has haunted New Jersey and the surrounding areas for the past 260 years. This entity has been seen by over 2,000 witnesses over this period. It has terrorized towns and caused factories and schools to close down, yet many people believe that the Jersey Devil is a legend, a mythical beast, that originated from the folklore of the New Jersey Pine Barrens. Others disagree with this point of view. The following text will show there is evidence to support the existence of an animal or supernatural bring known as the Jersey Devil. The evidence consists of the stories of the Jersey Devil's origin, the sightings of it, and finally, the theories on it.

More in link...
http://theshadowlands.net/jd.htm

Bruce Springsteen even has a song about it.

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BeeDee - are you, in some way, working for the New Jersey Tourism bureau?

:lol:

Brianna;762013 wrote:

BeeDee - are you, in some way, working for the New Jersey Tourism bureau?

:lol:

I should with the bad rep we have! Next up, a thread about the beautiful beaches here.:D

done many a design job on the refineries there in jersey. some better than others but from my experience jersey is industrial. i know it's more than that but having never been....enjuneer made the field trips, going by what i know. would love to see pics of the beaches! and other stuffs!

plthijinx;762021 wrote:

done many a design job on the refineries there in jersey. some better than others but from my experience jersey is industrial. i know it's more than that but having never been....enjuneer made the field trips, going by what i know. would love to see pics of the beaches! and other stuffs!

Unfortunately, that's how most people see New Jersey, especially if all they travel is the NJ Turnpike. But there really are some very beautiful areas here. I'll post up some pictures soon. :)

BrilliantDisguise;762030 wrote:

But there really are some very beautiful areas here.

Absolutely, as soon as you get away from the people, its beautiful :)

classicman;762037 wrote:

Absolutely, as soon as you get away from the people, its beautiful :)

:eek::p:

dave you crack me up!

Sorry BDE - that was not directed at you. :o
I lived in central jersey for three years. Its actually a beautiful state. The northern part was ruined by the New York overflow. The southern beaches are great when the tourists (NY'ers) are gone. The oceans have been over-fished by people who just wanna catch and kill as many as they can with little regard for sport. Did I miss anything?

ETA - Oh wait - its got great gas prices!

classicman;762053 wrote:

Sorry BDE - that was not directed at you. :o
I lived in central jersey for three years. Its actually a beautiful state. The northern part was ruined by the New York overflow. The southern beaches are great when the tourists (NY'ers) are gone. The oceans have been over-fished by people who just wanna catch and kill as many as they can with little regard for sport. Did I miss anything?

ETA - Oh wait - its got great gas prices!

:lol:Looks like you covered everything.

So we were neighbors for 3 years? I actually wish I could move further south. I would love to be at the beach all year. Maybe someday.

beach = super pics!

Stumbled across these haunted house reaction shots on flickr.
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It's fun to browse through them and look at the dynamics of the different groups. And here's one poor girl that went through by herself.

Keep scrolling and you'll come to one where there is someone in the photo who wasn't there in real life....

It's the ghost of someone who died from a heart attack the previous year.

It's true.
My cousin's husband's best friend's daughter emailed it to me.

Very funny but the comments are brutal. Brutal. very funny, but brutal.

i wanna know what theyre all seeing!

Your junk.

i would have remembered that. most women just pass out.. there's not a lot of screaming or eyes bulging....

How bout the dudes?

let's just stop this now. I'm becoming uncomfortable with the imagery/.

One of the comments said they were reacting to a "speeding car" coming straight at them.

It's pitch black, they are holding on to one another as they shuffle blindly forward, and then a pair of headlights comes straight at them, probably with a roaring engine sound too.

ah.... yeah.. that'd startle ya.

One of these was used for a Fark Photoshop contest