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00:00For only two years, there was this pop-up haunted house attraction that would open in October.
00:17It was unofficially called Haunted Hill House, because there was some sign that looked like it
00:21was bought from Party City or something that was propped in front by the parking lot, and it said
00:25Haunted Hill House. The parking lot wasn't actually a parking lot at all, just grass that was
00:30designated as a parking area. This was the year they closed down, and this was the year my friends
00:35and I went. I went with Matt, Michael, and Eddie. We went on a Thursday night because we were in
00:41college and all of us had Fridays off, so it was definitely quieter than it would have been on a
00:45weekend. There was surprisingly no line for the ticket stand, and when we followed the directions
00:50to the entrance, there was only a really short line there and say like four people ahead of me.
00:55What we didn't realize, though, is that they were only letting one person in at a time.
01:00We had no idea that was part of this haunted house. If anything, this would make it scarier.
01:05We shoved Michael in front to go first. I was second to last before Eddie. Every couple of
01:11minutes, they would tell the next person to go in. When Matt went in ahead of me, I actually started
01:16to get nervous. I hadn't done a haunted house since I was a little kid and I was with my family.
01:21Then it was my turn to go in, as this woman dressed in some bloodied costume opened the
01:25door and told me to enter. I stepped through the door, and as it shut behind me, I was in
01:31this dark building, lit up mainly by small flashing lights. As I walked through, I was
01:37faced with a bunch of gruesome props of mutilated dead corpses and other pretty horrific things.
01:42Once in a while, actors dressed in horrific costumes would jump from around corners or through
01:46little holes in the walls. And just about every single time they got me, cause I'd jump.
01:52I was in some dark hallway separating two rooms, when I felt something brush up on me from behind.
01:57I let out a short scream as I turned, and in the darkness, I could see a tall figure in front of
02:02me. I laughed after seeing it. Then something I wasn't expecting happened next. The actor started
02:08pushing me down this dark hallway. I could hardly see anything. I was going along with it,
02:14thinking this was part of the attraction. I don't remember how long exactly I was allowing this
02:18actor to push me in the darkness, but eventually he stopped, and I heard a door close, and things
02:23went silent. I didn't know what was happening. I still thought this was part of the act, and I
02:29was definitely scared because it was pitch black. Then I felt hands grabbing me, but in a very weird
02:34way, not in a way that a haunted house actor should. I was being full on grabbed, and so I pushed the
02:40person off and said, Get the fuck off me, dude. I stood there in silence now. I said,
02:45You're going too far, man. You can't touch people like that, thinking this was still just part of
02:49the haunted house act. I waited there, expecting the actor to progress me to the next part of the
02:55attraction, or just do something, but nothing was happening. Enough time passed now that I knew this
03:00wasn't right, and so I took out my phone, even though they told us not to take our phones out at any
03:05time during the attraction. I turned on the flashlight, and found myself in a storage room
03:10with props and janitorial equipment, but I'd be lying if I said that was the first thing I noticed.
03:16The first thing that caught my attention was the tall man, standing three or four feet away from me.
03:22He didn't look like an actor at all. He wasn't wearing a costume. He was just wearing all black,
03:27with a black face mask covering half his face. I looked for the door, as I said, What are you doing,
03:32dude? He didn't say anything. He just started making these motions with his arms as if he was
03:37acting like he was supposed to be a character. I found the door, and left the room. I used my
03:42phone flashlight to navigate back down the dark hall the direction we came. When I found the next
03:46actor, who yelled at me to turn off my flashlight, I told him I was violated and assaulted by somebody
03:52who may or may not work for the attraction, and I wanted to get out of there. I could tell the actor
03:57was probably just some teenager not much younger than me, and he didn't know what to do, really.
04:01He dropped his character act and told me to just keep walking that way and that I'm almost to the
04:05end. I asked where his boss would be. He said I'd have to go back to the ticket stand, as the little
04:10manager's office is attached to the ticket stand. So I continued the rest of the haunted house,
04:15speed walking, making it clear I was just trying to get out, and a few minutes later, I was out.
04:21I found all three of my friends, who were confused how I ended up getting out last.
04:25I told them what happened, and then we all went to the ticket stand, and I asked for the manager.
04:29The worker said that he wasn't there tonight, but that he'd be back tomorrow.
04:33I told the worker about what happened, and she said she would alert the team about it.
04:37I requested my money back because of it, and she gave me back my 30.
04:41It was the next day that a girl from our college, who we all knew, posted on Facebook that she was
04:46sexually assaulted by someone in the same haunted house the night before, the night we were also
04:50there. This was the reason the place was eventually shut down that month.
04:54I reached out to her on Facebook. It sounded like we had the same exact experience, only
05:00the aggressor got a lot more physical with her. She pressed charges on the owner of the
05:05attraction for, I'm assuming, negligence. The attraction staff, of course, swore that that
05:09man who assaulted the two of us didn't actually work there. I'm sure that's the truth, but
05:14I don't understand how they didn't have proper security measures in place to prevent something
05:18like this from happening.
05:28This was the first and last time I ever went to a haunted house attraction.
05:32I live in Fort Worth, Texas, and every year there's this big haunted house attraction that
05:37opens up. A few of my friends wanted to go this year, and I figured it's time I just
05:41finally experience a haunted house. For a little early context, I had a very troubled childhood
05:47that's caused me to develop PTSD, but I'll get more into that later. It was a weekend,
05:52so nobody wanted to go into this sober. My friend Noah hosted a little pregame for all
05:56of us. It was going to be six of us, my three guy friends and two of their girlfriends.
06:01We all smoked and drank in Noah's backyard, everyone thinking it would make the experience
06:06more fun. We bought our tickets for the attraction on their website while we were pregaming.
06:11I rarely ever smoked weed because it makes me kind of paranoid, but I guess tonight I wanted
06:15to try smoking again and see if I could overcome that barrier, and I felt good actually. I think
06:21the mix of alcohol and weed kind of cancelled out the usual negative thoughts I would have from
06:25just smoking alone. Eventually, we called an Uber to the attraction, which was like 20 minutes
06:29away from Noah's house. There was a half hour line, the place was pretty busy. We made friendly
06:35with the people in line ahead of us. I was pretty crossfaded, honestly, but I wasn't gone.
06:40Like I remember just about everything that happened. When we got to the front, I started feeling a bit
06:45woozy, but I didn't say anything to my friends. We entered the haunted house, and from the start,
06:51there was a lot of screaming and intensity. The actors were really good, but intense, and it was
06:56starting to give me anxiety. I was starting to realize how not okay I was, and how much of a mistake
07:02getting high was. One of the haunted house actors must have realized how scared and quiet I looked,
07:07and he chose to get in my face trying to scare me, yelling and making noises. I'm not going to lie,
07:13I was starting to internally freak out, but I was trying to keep it together in front of my friends.
07:18This haunted house was going on for what felt like forever, and in my condition,
07:22every single jump scare made me almost shit my pants. All the flashing lights and fog really made
07:27this whole experience even more trippy and surreal. We came to this room lit up with an eerie red glow,
07:33with a bloodied man dressed as a guy in a suit and top hat yelling at us, part of the act.
07:39But behind him, in the corner of the room, was a guy who wasn't dressed as anything.
07:44He was just standing there looking at me, into my soul. And as I realized I was looking at the
07:49face of my father, I let out a scream straight from my stomach, as I felt every hair in my body
07:54stand up. The room went silent, and my friends looked at me laughing at first, thinking I was
08:00joking around. But when they saw I was serious, one of the girls grabbed me and asked what's wrong.
08:06I said it's my dad. I pointed to the corner where there was now no one standing.
08:11I remember all my friends and the actor being confused, and everyone could tell I was not
08:15messing around. My friends knew about my troubled past. There's no one there, one of my friends said.
08:22The actor apparently asked my friends if I was okay. I was now in the middle of a full-on panic
08:26attack, yelling, I want to leave, I want to leave. Noah left with me through a side exit,
08:32and he sat with me while our friends finished the attraction. It wasn't cheap, so I wasn't going
08:36to make them all come out with me. As we sat outside the place, Noah told me I shouldn't have
08:41smoked so much, as he tried to assure me that my dad wasn't in there. I was just hallucinating.
08:47So my father used to abuse my siblings and I. I'm the oldest, so I remember the most of it.
08:51He left us and our mom one day and never came back when I was 10. My close friends know about
08:57this, to a certain extent, so I didn't have to explain to Noah. When our friends were done,
09:03they met us at a Wendy's nearby where I was just trying to eat to help calm me down.
09:07I was embarrassed, but my friends didn't judge, thankfully. Not to my face, at least.
09:12I went home earlier than everyone else. I didn't want to spoil their nights. When I got home,
09:17I knocked out right away, I guess because of how drunk and high I was. That night,
09:22I was having a nightmare about the scene at the haunted house, and my father, standing in the
09:26corner of the room, he was saying, wake up, Charlie. And I did wake up. I woke up in my dark
09:32room in the middle of the night to see my father, towering over my bed, looking down at me with his
09:38eyes open super wide. It was literally this towering, nine-foot-tall version of my father,
09:43her, bending down with his body contorting in an impossible way. When I saw it, it took
09:48me a few seconds for me to digest what I was looking at, and scream straight from my stomach
09:52again. My mom came rushing in and turned on the lights, and the apparition was gone.
09:58My heart was racing and my blood ran cold. I cried to my mom that I saw dad. It was one of
10:03the most scarring nights of my adult life. I don't touch weed or any substances anymore besides light
10:09alcohol, and I'm never going to a haunted house attraction again after that.
10:22During COVID, I thought it would be fun to get a job at a local haunted house attraction.
10:27My friend Marissa was already working there, and she told me they were looking for new actors and
10:31actresses. She pulled some strings and got me a job after I met with the owner. There were multiple
10:37sections to the haunted house attraction, including three haunted houses and the haunted corn maze.
10:43On my first day on the job, there was some slight rehearsing my character and just demonstrating my
10:47acting skills to one of the supervisors who was on duty. My role for the night was assigned to be
10:52a damsel in distress, and this meant I was going to be tied to a pole and yelling at the guests to
10:57help me as they walked past me. Of course, all guests would be told before entering not to touch any
11:02of the actors or actresses, so they would know not to actually untie me when I'm screaming,
11:07help me. So before opening time, the supervisor slash coordinator Jeremiah walked me to my post,
11:13quite literally my post, because I'd be tied to a wooden post in the corn maze.
11:18I was honestly surprised that I actually had to be tied up and not just pretend.
11:22I asked how I would go to the bathroom and such. He said there would be short breaks between sessions.
11:27He also said there would be another supervisor nearby if I should need anything,
11:31which made me feel a little better. Once he walked away, I was left alone.
11:36There were a bunch of sound effects and scary ambiance loops echoing through the cornfield
11:39from the various speakers hidden throughout the maze. Pretty soon, a little air horn sounded in
11:44the distance, indicating that the attraction was open and to get into character. I was nervous but
11:49excited. Since I was more so in the middle of the corn maze, it wasn't until a few minutes passed
11:54that the first guest would be passing me. I started to put on my best performance as a damsel in distress,
11:59so I screamed and fake cried, begging everyone who passed for help, saying he's coming back soon,
12:05untie me. Some people would play along and say things back, and I'd improvise responses and
12:10character. Everyone was wearing face masks because of COVID, so I couldn't see people's entire faces.
12:16Eventually, two male guests, who looked to be in their 30s, walked past looking at me,
12:21not saying a word. One of them slowed down as he just shot me this gaze with his big eyes that quite
12:27honestly creeped me out. They kept walking and disappeared further into the maze. This was around
12:33the time I was starting to realize there would be long gaps between guests sometimes. I could
12:38suddenly hear someone brushing through the crops nearby. I was wondering if it was a staff member.
12:43The guests weren't supposed to stray off the path. I turned completely around and saw two men
12:49emerging from the crops, towards the pole I was tied to, the same two men from before.
12:54Something wasn't right. I broke character and said, you guys can't stray off the path,
12:59and then one of them laughed under their mask, and the two men started speaking in some other language,
13:04I think Russian. Then one of them walked back to the path, but in the opposite direction that the
13:08guests are supposed to go. He just started standing there, keeping watch it seemed, while the other
13:13one started to inappropriately grab me. I knew what was happening immediately, and I started screaming
13:19bloody murder, saying help, this isn't part of the act. I called out things like I'm being assaulted,
13:24and moments later one of the supervisors emerged, seeing if I was okay. By then the two men had
13:30already run away. I was untied and escorted out of the maze. I called my parents, and they insisted
13:36I just leave right now. I left, and Jeremiah and one of the other supervisors said I'd be paid for the
13:42night, and if I didn't want to come back they'd understand, but to just keep them in the loop.
13:46I wish I could say it was over though. On my drive home, I was extra cautious to make
13:52sure I wasn't being followed. I noticed halfway home that the same white car was behind me the
13:57whole time. I started making turns down random streets, and when the white car stayed behind
14:02me every single time, I knew I was being followed. I knew I had to find the nearest police precinct,
14:08so I typed in police station on Google Maps, and I started driving to it. They followed me the whole
14:14way until I pulled into the parking lot of the precincts. Then they kept driving. I never
14:18saw the car again. I sat in my car for ten minutes before finally turning it back on and
14:23driving home, confirming every few seconds that I wasn't being followed. I didn't return
14:28to work at that haunted house attraction again.