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I have thought about opening my own haunted attraction someday, and I wanted to bounce some ideas around here and get some feedback.

I've done quite a bit of research and I'm well aware of the time and money involved in having your own attraction. And besides my research I have friends who are involved at a local Jaycees and we often talk about this subject. But this isn't something I'm going to rush right out and do, this is kind of a long-term idea.

First of all, there's not a whole heck of a lot to do in this area anymore. Most things like malls, movie theaters, you have to about drive 45 minutes or so to get to.

I was thinking about having an attraction that is open year-round because some people don't restrict good scary fun to just October.

There used to be one around here every Halloween. But they closed it down because it was too scary. People were throwing up and having all kinds of problems, I never went though.

The funny thing was it was a church that put this on, their interpetaion of hell. There were people (I think actors xd ) being whipped and tortured, and they'd chase the people around with whips and axes (I think). The city closed it down because they thought it was too realistic or something stupid.

Makes you think differently about christian churches no?

Do tell.

That'd be kind of tiring to replace the paper each time. Anyways, I've participated in a haunted house or two, and I have to say the room I was put into last year was just plain awesome. Ok so it's really all about Atmosphere.

So what they had us do was wear these white ghostface masks. (They weren't ghost face, they were the Tragedy and Comedy masks things really. But elongated.) Anyways, we then put on these black robes that hid our skin. Here's the best part though. The Room was painted black and the only thing illuminating it was a blacklight. But here's the catch... The room had the same copies of masks taped to the wall so you didn't know which ones were us, and which were fake. I got some good scares in there.

I thought of that, if I could think of a way to use a long roll like they use in a doctor's office that I could keep replacing in seconds it wouldn't be so bad.

I work across the street from the city newspaper and we've bought what is called an end roll very resonably from them a few times. I could get a few of these and they would last a while.



Sounds like a take on the dot room. Good idea though. I always thought those theater masks were freaky looking anyway.

Speaking of the ghostface masks, I remember seeing those on the shelves of dollar stores everywhere before Scream came out. Then they made their way to bigger department stores. For an inflated price of course.

If nobody posts soon, the bump ninjas are going to attack, and I cannot be held responsible. mrgreen