We're smack dab in the middle of Halloween season. It always goes by too fracking fast for me. I'd like to savor this season, but, that is quite difficult with work being so busy. I find myself both mentally and physically exhausted when I get home from work. The weekends seem to be my only time for solace. Well, if you consider seeking out the living dead and infiltrator their domains a form of solace.
That's just what I did as I dragged my buddies Bones and Roberto to a couple more haunted attractions this weekend.
After trying to get out of work as early as I could on Friday I stormed down the freeway and picked up Bones. Then the two of us headed west, toward Roberto's headquarters, during Friday afternoon rush hour. This gave us a good hour's worth of heavy traffic travel time. So I decided to pass the time by playing Bones one of my all time favorite, true ghost stories that I heard off of one of the Nerdist Podcast.
If you want to give yourself the chills go to HERE. It's the second part of the show. The first part features the famed astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson. Feel free to listen to his portion of the show, but, if you want to get straight to the creepiness, forward to about 53 minutes in. It is there where film director, Liam Lynch, spins a true tale of pure ghostly goodness involving his time living in a very old apartment building in England. Be sure that you are alone and the lights are down low and you have at least one Jack-O-Lantern lit in the room.
Back to the haunts! After some laborious traffic, Bones and I found ourselves at Roberto's where the three of us gathered and readied our ghoul fighting gear (warm jackets and sweaters and enough cash for two haunts and some dinner afterward.). The three of us jumped into the Roberto mobile and headed over to the next county where we first visited......
Terror @ 212 - Formally called "Haunted High presents Terror @ 212" this reboot of the old Oconomowoc Haunted High attraction (that has since been torn down) was a very pleasant surprise. I did a review of the old Haunted High last year. Having lost the old high school building to development projects, the organizers secured a business building right in the downtown area of Oconomowoc. The outside of it doesn't look that big, but the amount of freights they put inside is quite impressive. In fact, it feels far more intimate than when they ran it in the old high school building. The high school had a lot of large open spaces, but the new haunt is a lot of narrow hallways that wind around wonderful scenes, effects and tableau's. The scare-actors, though young, put on a darn good show. One of the best things is that it's pretty much a whole new show and experience which tore itself away from the repetitiveness that the Haunted High was starting to get into. Definitely worth checking out if you're in southeastern Wisconsin.
Fin and Feather Haunted Woods - After 212, we darted down a very long and very dark road. At one point we thought we took a wrong turn and were lost in the dark countryside. But, we pressed on down the road were we barley noticed the sign to the entrance of the Fin and Feather outdoor club. For the last several years these folks have been putting on a great haunted trail attraction that tends to be a bit of a sleeper hit and word of mouth haunt. This year was one of it's best and most interactive as I found out the hard way. It starts with a very dark trail dimly lit by strands of lights on each side and creepy eyes peering at you from the wooded darkness. This leads you up to a huge castle that you go through while trying to avoid the creatures within. After you escape the castle you're back in the dark woods winding you way through the darkness and trying hard not to wet yourself as chainsaw wielding mad men sneak up on you. I don't want to give too much away, but I will tell you of my personal journey into dark madness.
Toward the end of the haunt we were ushered into a building that housed one of the darkest mazes we had to go through. At first the three of us were venturing through it pretty well until we reached what appeared to be a dead end. I was at the front of the group at that point and told the other two, that we needed to head back the way we came. At that point we heard a ghastly, female voice from out of the darkness mock us. We started to head back the way we came with Roberto in the front. We reached another dead end. This time two female voices started to chastise us. They were very close by, but we couldn't see anything. Between the three of us calling to each other back and forth, the seemingly disembodied voices caught on to our names and started calling out to us. I felt my way along the walls and managed to pass by Bones and Roberto. Roberto was right behind me. I called out to him to grab on to me as I led the way. I was expecting him to gab on to the back of my sweater. Instead I felt a hand grab my own as I moved forward to find us a way out. I called out to Roberto again and was surprised to hear his voice was far behind me. Too far for his hand to still be in mine. I should have realized, Roberto would have never emasculated himself by holding my hand. I also should have realized that Roberto's hands were mysteriously Palmolive soft. It was then one of the voices revealed itself to be right next to me and was the hand that was holding mine. It was a scene right out of an episode of Scooby-Doo. Then another voice was right in front of me. Then a third voice appeared right next to me. I heard Rob and Bone's voices well ahead of me now and it sounded like they had found their way out of the maze. I was alone in the dark, trapped by three specters who held me there for a spell. After tolerating a bit more of their chastising, they led me out of the maze to the end of the attraction.
The three ghouls were actual three lovely scare-actresses whole were nice enough to pose for a picture with me after my escape from their clutches. Excellent job, ladies!!!
Well, I think that will be it for this post. I still have a few spooktastic treats up my sleeves for this season.
In the meantime, please, stay vertical!
Zangz.
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