Oct. 11, 2024

Behind the Screams: Portland's Underhill Haunted House

Behind the Screams: Portland's Underhill Haunted House

Can a haunted house be more than just jump scares and creepy corridors? Ira and Jeff from Underhill Haunted House might have the answer. As the creative minds behind Portland's spookiest fundraiser, they share how this unique attraction supports the...

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Can a haunted house be more than just jump scares and creepy corridors? Ira and Jeff from Underhill Haunted House might have the answer. As the creative minds behind Portland's spookiest fundraiser, they share how this unique attraction supports the Canon Shakespeare Company, and provides a platform for volunteers to showcase their talent in a thrilling environment.

Peek behind the curtains of a DIY haunted house where creativity thrives and budgets are tight. The Underhill team constructs each haunting scene from scratch, making innovative use of recycled materials. Attractions such as the Terror Ship, Underhill Manor, and the Witch's Bog come alive through their resourcefulness and dedication. Amidst financial challenges, their commitment to originality and heart ensures that each year's haunt offers something truly unforgettable. Grab your costume and your courage, and step into a world where artistry and spookiness collide!
Visit Underhill Haunted House's website for or volunteer information! 👻

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Someone said that they did pee themselves a little, and

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I was wondering, is this a common occurrence?

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Would you?

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Would you suggest people wear some sort of a corvincy

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pad or diapers?

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So last weekend I didn't know this was possible either.

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One of our longtime haunters who scared someone so bad

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that they left his room through an emergency exit, walked

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the exterior wall of the exhibit hall and.

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Hey, creepy people, we have a fun spooky season bonus

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episode for you today. So if you're in the Portland area,

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this might give you an idea of something fun and

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very very creepy and scary to do this October. Today,

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I'm with Ira and Jeff from Underhill Haunted House. It's

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in downtown Portland at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum. The open

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times and dates are seven to ten every Friday and

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Saturday in October, and Halloween, which is a Thursday, with

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some other special dates will go over a little bit

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later on. This is your fifth year as a haunted

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house in Portland.

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It gets a little confusing. I believe it's our fifth year.

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Is we missed a year due to COVID? Oh?

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So yeah, I think don't we don't count that year.

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Yeah, I believe you're right. I believe it's our fifth

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year here.

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But this is a fundraiser for the Portland based Canon

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Shakespeare Company.

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Yes, the Canon Shakespeare Company.

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But is so awesome. Do the actors and people involved

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with the Shakespeare Company also participate in the Haunt Yes?

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Well I'm one of them. I'm the artistic director for

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the company.

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And we're still a small company, so there's a lot

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of multiple so you'll have people who are acting, but

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when it comes to the Canon itself, they're also doing

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marketing and they're also doing the secretary and.

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All of that, so it's a lot of work. Yeah,

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is this your biggest fundraiser?

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Well, this is This is our only fundraiser for the Canon,

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and this house was a hunted house before we started

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doing it as a fundraiser for other companies.

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Twilight Theater.

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We did as a fundraiser for Twilight Theater Company for

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a couple of years and then switched to the Canon

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Shakespeare Company.

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It's such a good idea, I think to do a

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haunted house as a fundraiser. I think it's so cool

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because it's like one time a year and then you're

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kind of set for the year, hopefully set for the year, right.

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Well, and I like that with the Haunted Houses, we're

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creating an opportunity for just more community, for people to

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come in and have opportunities that they otherwise might not have.

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To learn things, to be a part of things. It's

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a lot of fun.

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Speaking of opportunities, I wanted to ask you about some

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of the volunteer opportunities you guys have, either now or

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for people for next year.

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Maybe well that would be Jeff our cast manager, amongst

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many other things that he does.

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Yeah, I mean we have, you know, myriad volunteer opportunities.

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You know, whether whether you want to act or just

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scare people with loud noisemakers, or if you want to

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come in and paint or try special effects makeup, or

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you know, try your handed building sets or from cleaning

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to sounds, costuming, costuming to lighting, two planning sort of

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anything that you would like to come down and try

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to help with.

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We're welcoming.

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That's awesome.

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So you said, do the casting do you have like

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auditions this year?

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We're trying something new.

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We're trying a new format with one of our houses

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that involves sort of more storytelling and more sort of structured,

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a structured plot through the house rather than your typical

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sort of jump scares and things you know, coming out

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at you from the dark and loud noises and things.

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There's four elemental witches that kind of stop you and

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tell you are more storytellers rather than your typical haunted house.

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So for those roles in particular, we did have short

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sort of auditions outside of that. You know, we are

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a volunteer haunted house, so we take everybody. You know,

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your want to be here is a lot of times

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greater than somebody who's the most talented actor in the

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world but doesn't want to be here exactly. You want

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to be here, you want to help us, you want

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to scare people. We've been involved in theater long enough

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that we're sure we can either help get you to

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the place where you are talented enough to scare people,

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or you fit you into a role that you're already

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great at. You have sixty or so roles. You can

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see behind me the whiteboard which has a third you know,

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that's just representative of one of our houses, one of

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the sections of characters. Oh wow, so yeah, that's a

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you know we can, we can find a place for you.

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Oh yeah, and I've I've worked with people that have

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struggled with you know, they want to be a part

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of it and they want to act, but they're just

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they've never done it before, so the nerves get to

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them and they struggle with that. One girl in particular,

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I had, she could not get loud, like she could

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barely get her voice above a whisper, and the more

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people were around and just it was, it became impossible

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for her, the worse of God for her. We ended

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up putting her in a completely dark room and then

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give her a costume and makeup that completely covered her,

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so that in the dark room she became invisible to

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where all she had to do was open her eyes

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and smile. And after about a week of that she

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found her voice and towards the end of that season, yeah,

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she was a banshee.

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Oh wow.

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My thing what I like doing with people in volunteers,

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especially the actors, is people who've always wanted to but

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have no experience. It goes back to acting one on one.

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You know, if it's a mask or if it's makeup,

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you get it on them and it sets them free.

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You get to see the timidity and the self doubt

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and the fear fall away, because when you're covered, you're

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not yourself. Yeah, so you get to explore. And we've

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got people who just all day long they want to

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do is what we call a pop scare. So they

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just come out from behind something or a slam panel

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opens or or whatever, and they're just come out and

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attack and then they retreat and they're gone again. To

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people who like with Jeff what he was saying about

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the Witch's Book, much more character.

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So it's engaging.

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There's an element of improv to it, but it's also

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an element of storytelling, so that you're getting this connection

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between the actor and the audience member.

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But it's so cool.

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I think that's sometimes a lot scarier than the jump scared.

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But we want to do it. We want to do

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it all, you know, but we do well. We want

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to have it be good and have people entertained.

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We also.

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We want the people who are here volunteering to be

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a part of it to feel like they're getting something

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out of it. They're growing, they're getting new experiences, they're

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having fun. I tell people all the time, if you're

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doing something here and you're not having fun. Stop, we

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got to talk. Your time is valuable, don't waste it,

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don't waste my time. Let's let's find you something that

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you're going to enjoy and have fun doing.

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That's so awesome, especially for for a volunteer position. It's

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like it's not a lot of pressure, but you still

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you still want them to have a good time and

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you know, make it worth their while. And so I

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found a review on your website that says, quote great Haunt,

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low budget.

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But with a lot of heart behind it.

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But looking through your Instagram and seeing and seeing some

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of the makeup and the set design, like, to me,

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it didn't look that low budget, you know what I mean.

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It looked like you have some really really talented people

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doing makeup, set design and acting as well. What do

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you think about the low budget comments.

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I think that's a compliment.

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I love it.

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The Death Star was low budget, you know, but it

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was awesome, you know. And then we take a lot

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of our especially our sci fi special effects, and that's realm,

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you know. The Death Star was just a bunch of

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plastic stuff glued onto other plastic stuff and then spray

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painted silver, you know, and that's you know, we're lucky

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because the Rose Garden, sorry, the Moda Center's trash room

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is just a little bit over that way, so we're

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able to just go and get a bunch of discarded

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things that we can just go And I mean, pilfer, I.

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Know a lot of people, especially today, and you know

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rightfully so expect haunted houses to be these huge, very

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well financed professional productions. And uh, my wife is a

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special effects artist in film. I'm a prop maker in

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film Feaster Famine. Sometimes we have a bit of money,

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sometimes we don't. And every year we do this, we

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take a big risk, We take a loan to try

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to make it happen. And then when you put an

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advertising and you put in the fact that there are

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some people here who deserve to be paid just what

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they do, what they bring to the table, and the

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time that they spend. But yeah, most of our walls

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are recycled from TV shows. A lot of our gag

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is recycled from you know, stuff that I would go

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up to a coordinator on set were like, if you

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want to have some money and have less waste, let

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me take that for you. So in some ways we

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are still kind of like what you would call in

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the industry a home haunt where it's not high glass,

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high professional. You know, we're not spending two to three

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hundred thousand on a whole bunch of animatronics and on

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a bunch of boot boxes. Things that can control the

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motion and dictate how many times something does something or

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repeats itself, or different patterns for how it would interact

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on's set off one of our people. He's building that

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stuff on his own. Wow, just to make it happen.

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And so yeah, when the people like low budget, Yeah,

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definitely a little budget, but with about three times the heart

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that the guys who've got the chet books have.

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I feel like you can get a lot more creative

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too if you're making something from scratch, and then it

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probably looks a lot.

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Scarier if it's not super polished.

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Right.

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Well, I think there's a certain level of pride that

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goes into it from our volunteers when we've put.

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That much effort into something.

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You know, you can buy the wall treatments and the

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you know, vacui formed things that are all.

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Finished and polished and good.

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But if you have a team of volunteers that have

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actually put in the time to make this their own.

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Then you know that really does cement in that this

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is this is ours, this is something that I've built,

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this is something that I'm proud of. And I think

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that really translates into the performances, into the commitments, into the.

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General morale, you know.

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Yeah, pride of ownership, pride of ownership.

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Yeah, you touched on the Witches fog House. But let's

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talk about the other two, correct, the terror Ship and

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then under hill manor so can you tell me a

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little bit about each of those without any spoilers. We

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want people to go and see it for themselves.

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So the Terrorship was new last year.

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We're getting to the point now where we'll have a

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theme for a couple of years. So one of the

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houses was the Junkyard, which was fun at the last

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year is always the best year. It's kind of the

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joke is like the year you're doing it before you

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do something.

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New is the best year.

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So the Junkyard, dead cars with flashing lights, it was amazing.

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Every year you want to be better.

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And this guy right here for the Tearship, the effort

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that Jeff's put into it with how you just using

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an engraving machine, what.

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Is it called that's a C N C.

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Router, so he'll route PLEXI run a strip of LED

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across the top of it and makes these lights look

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futurist stick and using old computer monitors that we found

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worked after a freak duck come out of the dump

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at the motor center to you know, make monitors for

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the ship.

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And just his creativity is the engine room is amazing.

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What he's done again you you suggest and rightfully so

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not to give stuff away. I'm trying in my excitement

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to express the coolness but not give it away.

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But the idea is.

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Is, yes, it's your your spaceship that's been out too far,

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out too long. It's all gross and mucked up, and

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then the aliens have gotten into it.

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Spooky, that's so cool. What about the Underhill manner?

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So Underhill the manner is something that while will never

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get rid of the manner, but the themes of the

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manner can change from you know, Underhill Hospital to right now,

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it's the manor with family pires.

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That's the thing.

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That's a good mix of stuff. You got the witches,

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aliens and vampires. I love it. So where do you

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get the inspiration for the houses?

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Every year?

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It starts out with well, with the idea of you know,

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what would be cool to do next? Also, though it

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depends on what our resources are, because you know, again

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we're a good season is the season we break even

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and everything's paid for, you know. And considering that we're

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in this space for roughly four months between that and

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the advertising and then all the money is that get

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paid to all the other organizations here that do things,

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it can add up pretty fast. So like the terror ship,

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we wanted to do a ship. We had a bunch

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of walls that were roughly the same color, and then yeah,

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we just went. We went for a We went and

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to the good old bins and every cool plastic plastic

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key thing we could find, from NERF guns to contraptions whatever.

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Because what's crazy, and as Jeff was mentioning, like with

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the Death Star and what they used to do in

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the seventies in the eighties is you would just take

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all this gack and then mount it on something and

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then paint it. And when you paint it and then

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you give it detail, it changes. It goes from looking

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like a bunch of junk screw to a wall to

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things that look like they have purpose. You don't know

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what it is, but you know that it looks it

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tells overall, it tells a tale that this is a

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part of a ship.

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And then you put black light on it and it

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looks cool.

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Yeah, you got to have the black light.

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But a lot of the designs of the houses, a

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lot of the themes, that comes from my wife, Christina.

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She's the one that's been doing this for close to

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thirty years. She started out at a Haunt down in

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California that was an old two story mall and the

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whole thing was the haunted house. So this is this

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is She loves doing the mazes and she just gets

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these feelings like I think whitches are it?

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Well, she's right, something I thought was so cool and unique.

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I don't think i'd ever really seen it before. You

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have a halloween market in the space as well, a

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bizarre Is the market area really scary too or is

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it just kind of like.

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A normal No, it's it's scary, Okay. No jump scar

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is going to come out from behind a booth or something.

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We tell our actors that's strictly off limits. That in

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the bathroom, No jump scares, no scare zones, no scare zones.

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In fact, we have if the houses themselves are too

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much for our patrons, we have at the very end

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in the or in the halloweens are the Scaredy Cat Lounge,

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which is very well lit, very pot pink with the walls,

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a very comfy couch. But you just have to sit

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in shame somewhere that's like Scaredy Cat Lounge where everyone

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can see you as they exit. Yeah, but yeah, it's

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a safe space right next to all the merch.

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I feel like if I took my co host there,

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I would just have to PLoP her down there and

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just leave her there the whole time.

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If you guys, if you guys wanted to come through,

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you should come through and bring her a little early

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and we'll put her in makeup and we'll.

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Put her somewhere in the house.

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Oh my gosh, and she can hunt you.

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She might be into that. It might be payback.

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But with the with the Halloween Bazaar, sometimes just the

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cost of booths is outrageous.

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What people have to pay just to display there. You

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know there was real estate. Yeah, it's crazy expensive. What

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we do is we tell people you can put up

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your booth and your tent and leave it. And the

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cost of that space is ten percent of your sales

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as a donation from you to the Canon Shakespeare Company,

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so it's deductible for them.

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That's the that's the cost. And what we'd like to

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do is just focus on.

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You know, small privately owned companies, mom and pop companies,

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you know, like us artists people like that, and just

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it's a it's an opportunity for for artists to be

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seen by a lot of people and not lose a

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bunch of money doing it.

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So yeah, and it's like the perfect time of year,

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the perfect area. Like all of those people I'm sure

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would be into anything spooky they're selling at the market

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if they're coming to a haunted house, right, But if

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anyone is interested, So you said, you still have spots,

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and I assume there's like a form online you would

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fill out if you're interested in being in the market.

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The person who's in charge of is the one who

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who puts that all together. So there's not a place

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to sign up for it that I'm aware of.

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We would have to talk to her, okay, but people

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could contact you if they were Oh.

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Yeah, definitely, and you're presenting some questions like oh, Okay, well, these.

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Things need to change.

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That's that's something that's been a part of this process

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over the last several years. As we're just like, we

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are a very safe space. We have a very strict

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no bullying, no threats of violence, no violence, no aggressive

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aggression policy.

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So it's just and over we've developed that over.

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The last several years, and when something happens that we

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were ready for it, then the policy gets updated. But

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also with things like that too, where it's like, oh,

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we should have some place where people if they're interested,

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once the word gets out and it becomes more known

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in the city that this is and that's what we

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want is that this is a place.

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For artists to show their stuff. Yeah, to put in

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an application for it.

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Okay, So I wanted to talk about the Lights Out

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special event that is Thursday the twenty fourth, and the

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title seems a little self explanatory, but can you tell

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us a little bit about what changes with the haunt

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and the extra do environment.

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Well, yeah, we we hand out sort of small you know,

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pin lights, sort of the finger lighty led lights to

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each of our participants. Not so much so they can

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see their way through in the dark, more so we

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can see where they are.

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Oh, it's a false sense of security because they have

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some light.

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It's not that great. Just get you caught right, Yep, yep.

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We we do leave on you know, emergency exit lights

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because the fire marshal would be angry if we didn't.

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But outside of that, yeah, it's more or less just

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a blackout event.

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Feel your way around in the dark, try to it.

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It's intense. It's not for everybody, but every year we will.

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You started doing it and we just we've had this

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slow build of very committed people that every year, are

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you doing it again?

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Are you doing it again? Yes, yes we are, and

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they love it.

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Those creepy people, man, they just want to be so scared,

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but you do have so maybe not so scary.

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Stuff kids Monsterfest yet.

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That is Sunday, the twentieth and twenty seven. Yes, I

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just kind of have one question asking for a friend.

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Do the adults get to come and do they get

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wands as well?

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Adults can come and know they don't get ones because

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the wands only work for the children. We've had several

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complaints over the years when people are they show up

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and what they expected was because the tickets are cheaper,

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and they expected to be able to go through the

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haunted a cheaper price, but still have the late night

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scared shenanigans. And they've been very upset because kids Monsterfest.

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It's just that it's during the daytime. What we do

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is we close down one of three houses, so we

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only have two houses open. We close the scariest, goorious

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house down. That makes sense, and then kids are given me.

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And what the kids are told is that the magic

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wands only work for them, so they can't hand it

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off to the adults. They're the only ones that can

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use it. It will only work for them. And most

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monsters are being good little monsters because it's daytime. Daytime

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is bedtime for monsters. But there are some naughty monsters

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running about and if they see one, point their magic

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wand at it and tell it, go to bed, monster,

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go to bed. And I always say this after I

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tell that, when I tell people what it is and

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how it works, Like, you don't know fear until you've

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been hunted by seven.

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Year olds for four it's a workout.

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Yeah, they come after.

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You, oh my god.

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Yeah, But it's just it's so much fun. It's one

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of the more simply the most rewarding of the of

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the Haunt days, just because it's just straight fun because yeah,

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you get to act just so goofy. We're all dressed,

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you know, as very clownish, like bright colors.

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You know.

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We're just giving all of the power to these ten

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and under kids.

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And oh my god, they're coming watch out you guys,

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and yeah, just running for our lives from toddlers. It's amazing.

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A lot of falling over.

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Yeah, and they take it to heart real fast.

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It's also really interesting because when we started doing we realized, wow,

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we're getting some insight into how some of these kids

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are parented, because some kids will be like, go to sleep, monster,

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and other kids are like monster, I.

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Told you go to sleep.

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Go to sleep.

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Break down and the parents are behind the kid and

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they're like, oh, let's see.

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Oh it's so sweet though, even though I wouldn't get

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a wand.

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No, it's it's it's like just say, it's really rewarding,

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and we've a lot of parents have really appreciated having

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something close in town to do with with their kids.

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And we lower the price because we are closing one

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of the houses also, we just we have a lower

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price because it's for families.

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Yeah, so I imagine that seeing everything be put together

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behind the scenes kind of takes some of the mystery

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out of the haunted house. But when all is said

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and done and the lights go down, do you guys

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ever get scared seeing it all come together?

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We encourage the actors to try and scare.

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Us as much as possible. I mean, especially me.

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I mean it's my job as the as the cast

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manager to you know, critique performances, make sure they're doing

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the right thing. So I try to drill into them.

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Please don't drop character, please, you know, keep what you're doing,

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show me, show me what you got kind of thing.

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And most of the time they're good. And a lot

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of the time, yeah I get, I do get scared.

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One person in particular that like Iris had started off

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you know, behind a slamp pannel tim and is all

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get out. Could only you know, shut shut a thing

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from behind the wall. This last weekend, I think scared

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me three times in the course of like two turns

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of a hallway. It's just completely come out of their

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shell and got me, you know. So it's definitely more

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the more the people like the the scares and the

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gags themselves. You know, I know, I know those are coming.

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But the things that people do get me all the time.

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Or like, you know, if we have a new actor

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00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:34.400
that I've never met before and they come out of

480
00:25:34.440 --> 00:25:35.880
the the would work to surprise me.

481
00:25:36.759 --> 00:25:39.319
Yeah, it's great, cure are you?

482
00:25:39.359 --> 00:25:40.359
Are you supposed to be here?

483
00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:43.599
People crawling on the ground every time? Every time.

484
00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:48.200
Crawling is just so creepy.

485
00:25:48.599 --> 00:25:50.599
But yeah, it's it's you think you're in a space

486
00:25:50.640 --> 00:25:51.960
and there's no one around it, and you look down

487
00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:53.279
and they're right above your feet.

488
00:25:54.880 --> 00:25:55.559
Looking up at you.

489
00:25:57.319 --> 00:25:59.319
There's yeah, when you when you do this, when you're

490
00:25:59.319 --> 00:26:03.599
in the industry, you don't get scared anymore because you

491
00:26:03.960 --> 00:26:06.799
see all of the mechanisms and all of the all

492
00:26:06.839 --> 00:26:09.240
of the things behind it. You can still appreciate when

493
00:26:09.279 --> 00:26:11.720
things are well done though, whether it's a set or

494
00:26:11.720 --> 00:26:14.559
whether it's a performance. But like, yeah, like Jeff said,

495
00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:18.160
we tell our actors all the time, just because you

496
00:26:18.200 --> 00:26:21.000
see us, don't let us pass by, come after us,

497
00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:25.640
Try something new, try something bold, because once in a

498
00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:30.279
while I can still be gone. I can and oh

499
00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:33.240
man like and it's a badge of honor when you

500
00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:34.920
can get someone who's been doing this for years and

501
00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:37.640
years and years, so we encourage them to do that

502
00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:40.799
because it's good for them when they're like, oh my gosh,

503
00:26:40.799 --> 00:26:43.039
I did it, and for us it's like, oh, man,

504
00:26:43.440 --> 00:26:44.359
who has been a while.

505
00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:50.000
When I was snooping through your Instagram, I saw one

506
00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:53.799
of the reels of people their reactions after they were

507
00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:56.519
getting out of the house, and someone said that they

508
00:26:56.559 --> 00:27:00.880
did pee themselves a little, and I was wondering, is

509
00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:02.240
this the common occurrence?

510
00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:03.200
Would you.

511
00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:09.680
Would you suggest people wear some sort of corvency pad

512
00:27:09.960 --> 00:27:10.519
or diaper.

513
00:27:10.880 --> 00:27:21.680
So last weekend, which was our first time ever encountering

514
00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:24.640
something like this, I didn't know this was possible either.

515
00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:30.640
One of our longtime haunters, who was also very instrumental

516
00:27:30.680 --> 00:27:35.160
in building the whole Haunted house, scared someone so bad

517
00:27:35.200 --> 00:27:39.319
that they left his room through an emergency exit, walked

518
00:27:39.480 --> 00:27:44.880
the exterior wall of the exhibit hall and projectile vomited

519
00:27:45.640 --> 00:27:46.839
a really entire wall.

520
00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:48.839
Oh no, which.

521
00:27:48.640 --> 00:27:50.920
We're in the process of building him a trophy.

522
00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:54.119
Because it's just the most amazing thing.

523
00:27:55.000 --> 00:28:00.920
Yeah, So, where diaper and bring a bar.

524
00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:06.240
Just in case of your prone to fits of vomiting

525
00:28:06.680 --> 00:28:08.880
or you know, have.

526
00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:13.039
Iritable Yeah, people ask questions that are someone like that

527
00:28:13.160 --> 00:28:16.319
or that are like that, and it's just know yourself,

528
00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:22.039
know what your limitations are, because we also have people

529
00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:25.960
that are like, can I bring my kid? And I've

530
00:28:25.960 --> 00:28:30.039
had fifteen year old's sixteen year olds make it through

531
00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:32.119
the first room and they're done.

532
00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:34.839
They and they will not go back. I feel bad.

533
00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:40.400
It's like, because you know, no refunds, but yeah, you

534
00:28:40.440 --> 00:28:43.160
guys are missing out on like ninety five percent of they.

535
00:28:43.039 --> 00:28:44.200
Won't go back. Yeah.

536
00:28:44.279 --> 00:28:48.720
Man, We had a girl go through Kids Monsterfest. She

537
00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:52.200
was about eight or seven somewhere in there, and her

538
00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:54.759
parents had a great time, and she was sad. She

539
00:28:54.799 --> 00:28:57.960
came out, she said, and my wife was there and said, well,

540
00:28:58.519 --> 00:29:00.640
did you not have a good time? And her response

541
00:29:00.759 --> 00:29:04.759
was it wasn't scary. So we gave them comp tickets

542
00:29:05.359 --> 00:29:08.200
to come back later that night when all three houses

543
00:29:08.200 --> 00:29:10.680
were open, you know, all of the ruckus and the

544
00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:13.640
blood and the grossness and the screams and the terror.

545
00:29:14.119 --> 00:29:16.680
So they go through third house, they come out, the

546
00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:23.200
parents are just like and she was she almost she

547
00:29:23.279 --> 00:29:26.519
was gonna split, she was. Her eyes were smiling. She

548
00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:29.680
was like, oh it was so oh, it was so scary.

549
00:29:29.720 --> 00:29:30.480
It was so good.

550
00:29:31.519 --> 00:29:33.000
Oh my gosh.

551
00:29:33.160 --> 00:29:35.680
So you got to know yourself. Yeah, you got to

552
00:29:35.720 --> 00:29:39.000
know yourself. You got to know. It's great for us.

553
00:29:39.160 --> 00:29:41.839
I mean, the worst case scenario what happens is is

554
00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:42.880
we have to shut a house down.

555
00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:44.559
This happened outside, so we didn't.

556
00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:47.440
But there's been times where I've had to stop a

557
00:29:47.519 --> 00:29:51.279
line and then backs up to enter and people get upset.

558
00:29:51.359 --> 00:29:53.279
You know, they don't want to that natural. You know,

559
00:29:53.400 --> 00:29:57.039
I'm not upset with that. You're standing around for ten minutes,

560
00:29:57.079 --> 00:29:59.279
fifteen minutes. You want to know why you just waited

561
00:29:59.279 --> 00:30:01.839
to get in. You're standing again? What's going on? And

562
00:30:01.880 --> 00:30:04.920
then the best time that ever happened was is people

563
00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:08.359
started getting vocal about it. And as it started getting

564
00:30:08.400 --> 00:30:13.640
vocal to people, it has batsuits head to toe because

565
00:30:13.640 --> 00:30:17.799
someone had had made a mess, they.

566
00:30:17.680 --> 00:30:18.640
Had lost mowel control.

567
00:30:19.640 --> 00:30:21.839
And they come out pushing the cart but they feel

568
00:30:21.880 --> 00:30:24.480
like the goggles and the thing yellow suits and they're

569
00:30:24.680 --> 00:30:26.839
gloves and they're pushing it. And I watched him go by.

570
00:30:27.240 --> 00:30:29.000
I turned to the guy who was making a noise,

571
00:30:29.119 --> 00:30:29.720
a lot of noise.

572
00:30:29.759 --> 00:30:31.039
He was like, this is stupid. I don't want to

573
00:30:31.039 --> 00:30:32.000
be here. What's going on? Once.

574
00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:35.000
It takes a long and I just tread him ready, sir,

575
00:30:35.519 --> 00:30:39.079
We're ready for you, all nice and clean.

576
00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:41.519
He didn't want to go.

577
00:30:44.759 --> 00:30:46.359
Maybe that's why he was trying to get out of

578
00:30:46.440 --> 00:30:48.720
the line before it actually opened up again, because he

579
00:30:48.799 --> 00:30:49.480
was too scared.

580
00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:51.759
But he was, yeah, this is stupid. Well we have

581
00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:53.640
to wear oh man.

582
00:30:53.920 --> 00:30:57.519
So but yeah, there have been accidents.

583
00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:01.279
I was going to ask, what the weirdest thing you've

584
00:31:01.319 --> 00:31:04.680
ever had to clean up from a haunt was? I

585
00:31:04.720 --> 00:31:08.799
feel like you kind of answered it.

586
00:31:10.319 --> 00:31:15.839
Yeah, we were. It's nice to still be surprised, and

587
00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:16.799
that was a surprise.

588
00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:21.359
I can't imagine the type of things people I don't know,

589
00:31:21.359 --> 00:31:24.200
because I imagine people just like ah and like losing

590
00:31:24.240 --> 00:31:25.160
all of their stuff.

591
00:31:27.400 --> 00:31:29.319
It seems like several times a year we have to

592
00:31:29.319 --> 00:31:32.279
go on a cell phone hunt through the twelve thousand

593
00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:36.400
or so square feet of haunted house and it's you know,

594
00:31:36.759 --> 00:31:40.119
typically kicked under something. We find them fairly quickly, to

595
00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:40.680
our credit.

596
00:31:40.720 --> 00:31:47.119
But yeah, stuff goes flying. We find earrings, necklaces, jewelry, phones.

597
00:31:48.559 --> 00:31:51.480
Be careful, put your stuff on ropes so you don't

598
00:31:51.519 --> 00:31:53.880
lose anything. And to be so scary.

599
00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:59.119
And it's just you know, they'll they'll get through it

600
00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:03.880
three houses before they realized they've lost something, and they've

601
00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:11.039
gone through sprinting at some points because there's just.

602
00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:09.400
Just to get through it.

603
00:32:10.480 --> 00:32:14.119
That shows how like scary and into like the story

604
00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:17.519
and the scenery they are if they are forgetting that

605
00:32:17.599 --> 00:32:18.440
they've lost something.

606
00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:22.480
That's That's what I'm really I'm proud of is our

607
00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:25.640
are Haunt is getting a reputation now for being very

608
00:32:25.759 --> 00:32:29.759
actor centric and focused and being scary because of it,

609
00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:34.640
because we don't really have anything in the way of animatronics,

610
00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:37.839
so it's on our actors.

611
00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:41.440
Yeah, there's another I mean plus about being low budget.

612
00:32:41.480 --> 00:32:44.480
You know, we have to we get to rely on

613
00:32:44.920 --> 00:32:47.279
these actors that are you know, getting better and better

614
00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:52.359
year after year, that are just continuing to surprise me

615
00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:55.920
over and over as as I go on. You know,

616
00:32:55.960 --> 00:33:00.440
we have people now in higher positions of sort of

617
00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:03.640
more authority, that are taking on more sort of directorial

618
00:33:03.720 --> 00:33:07.599
roles that I'm walking into Haunts finding that they've choreographed

619
00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:10.920
these sort of elaborate routines that are just amazing and

620
00:33:11.319 --> 00:33:13.559
brilliant just taking it on themselves.

621
00:33:13.720 --> 00:33:16.519
And so you've got you've got two actors doing a

622
00:33:16.519 --> 00:33:20.160
little sort of vignette that they've worked out together as

623
00:33:20.200 --> 00:33:20.960
people come by.

624
00:33:21.359 --> 00:33:22.079
Yeah, it's great.

625
00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:24.839
That is so fun. Well, now I want to volunteer

626
00:33:25.640 --> 00:33:28.920
do Yeah, I'm coming down. You can't stop me.

627
00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:33.799
Yeah, I mean, if you would like to volunteer underhillpdx

628
00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:37.960
dot com monsters needed link that will send an email

629
00:33:37.960 --> 00:33:40.359
directly to me and I will reach out via phone

630
00:33:41.079 --> 00:33:42.960
within a couple of days and we'd love to have you.

631
00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:47.720
Yeah, definitely, probably sometimes I haven't said it time for

632
00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:49.319
it yet, but what I like to do is, if

633
00:33:49.400 --> 00:33:53.400
not two different times, at least one time, have an

634
00:33:53.400 --> 00:33:59.079
actor's workshop, which is part just acting but also acting

635
00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:02.000
for the Haunt. I've been in theater since I was

636
00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:05.880
a kid, and I love it. It's my passion and I

637
00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:10.840
love helping people figure ways to do it and be

638
00:34:10.960 --> 00:34:13.679
involved in it. I'm very much of a you want

639
00:34:13.679 --> 00:34:16.679
to be an actor done, You're an actor. There's no

640
00:34:16.880 --> 00:34:20.400
like secret handshake, there's no like code that you need

641
00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:23.280
to know to be an actor. No one, no one

642
00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:25.360
gate keeps that unless you give them the power too.

643
00:34:25.400 --> 00:34:27.599
So I tell people, if you want to be an actor,

644
00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:29.440
you're an actor. Now you've got to be better the

645
00:34:29.519 --> 00:34:32.679
onus of that is on you, and uh so come

646
00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:35.000
in and volunteer for us and be scary and if

647
00:34:35.039 --> 00:34:38.840
you want, you know, learn some learn some stuff about

648
00:34:38.840 --> 00:34:41.320
acting and have fun.

649
00:34:41.679 --> 00:34:44.800
Yep, you want to go have some spooky fun.

650
00:34:44.719 --> 00:34:50.840
Right, yeah. And it's I've seen.

651
00:34:52.280 --> 00:34:56.719
Some haunted houses where regrettably, unfortunately, I feel like that's forgotten.

652
00:34:57.119 --> 00:34:58.960
You know, it's you can.

653
00:34:58.800 --> 00:35:01.320
Get caught up in all of the uh the technical

654
00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:04.760
side of it and in the presentation.

655
00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:06.480
And it's good to have those things. I mean, you

656
00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:07.559
want those things.

657
00:35:07.280 --> 00:35:10.199
Because it all, it all just adds to the overall

658
00:35:10.239 --> 00:35:16.760
experience and the omvioance of it. But uh, I've seen

659
00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:21.960
actors that are just there to be there. Oh you look,

660
00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:23.559
you see it, you can see it.

661
00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:24.800
The eyes are very important.

662
00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:29.119
I tell people, when you're having fun joy, your eyes

663
00:35:29.159 --> 00:35:32.599
are smiling, they're a light, they're they're telling you that

664
00:35:32.760 --> 00:35:36.880
this is a moment that everyone's involved in. And some

665
00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:38.639
some of the times you go to these places and

666
00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:47.360
actuals just no, no, no, no, that's oh my gosh,

667
00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:51.559
your poor your poor kid. So that's you know, we

668
00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:56.119
really put the emphasis on there, you being present, being

669
00:35:56.159 --> 00:36:01.440
in the moment, having energy, enjoying the experience and not

670
00:36:01.480 --> 00:36:04.159
being afraid of failure. Don't be afraid to get it

671
00:36:04.199 --> 00:36:07.480
wrong as an actor. What's really cool about being in

672
00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:12.039
an a haunted house. You get a fresh audience every minute.

673
00:36:13.119 --> 00:36:13.840
That is true.

674
00:36:13.920 --> 00:36:17.880
Didn't work, Try something else, did it work? Okay, Try

675
00:36:17.880 --> 00:36:19.920
a variance, try to up the anti, try to play

676
00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:26.599
it differently. And as we say, if you can't scare them,

677
00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:30.719
make them laugh, can't make them laugh, gross them out,

678
00:36:31.639 --> 00:36:34.159
can't gross them out, make it awkward.

679
00:36:35.840 --> 00:36:37.599
I feel like that's what I would be good at,

680
00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:38.920
is making things awkward.

681
00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:42.440
Oh I love making things awkward. That's like a lot

682
00:36:42.440 --> 00:36:49.639
of my interaction with people is to just be that personally. Hey,

683
00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:53.000
do you just hate it when people like don't pick

684
00:36:53.079 --> 00:36:58.880
up on social cues And then I'll go away and.

685
00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:00.400
Keep talking to you like you have to conversation.

686
00:37:00.440 --> 00:37:01.360
But that was talking.

687
00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:08.039
Yeah, they left random like, oh man, that's just the worst.

688
00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:12.760
I love awkwy me too.

689
00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:13.679
That was great.

690
00:37:14.320 --> 00:37:17.079
Just some examples of what you could be doing in

691
00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:20.800
the Haunted House if you were a volunteer. Well, thank

692
00:37:20.840 --> 00:37:23.760
you guys so much again for coming on with me.

693
00:37:24.199 --> 00:37:28.199
I really wanted to find something local, something that was

694
00:37:28.239 --> 00:37:31.960
for a good cause. So hopefully everyone goes and checks

695
00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:36.719
out Underhill Haunted House and gets super scared and has

696
00:37:36.920 --> 00:37:37.599
so much fun.

697
00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:39.400
Well, thank you for having us.

698
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:41.880
It's this has been fun to just sit down and

699
00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:46.320
talk about what we do here.

700
00:37:46.800 --> 00:37:49.760
So you have tickets on the website, right, that's where

701
00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:52.360
you get your tickets, and you do say to pre

702
00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:55.400
purchase tickets because you pick like a time slot, correct.

703
00:37:55.599 --> 00:37:55.960
Yeah.

704
00:37:56.039 --> 00:37:58.119
Yeah, And that's so that people don't end up waiting

705
00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:02.039
three hours to get in, especially towards the end of

706
00:38:02.039 --> 00:38:04.800
the season when more and more people start coming. It

707
00:38:04.880 --> 00:38:10.159
really can back things up. Also, something very important if

708
00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:14.000
you can take the max here or carpool or taken

709
00:38:14.159 --> 00:38:20.239
an uber or what have you do, because this is

710
00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:23.119
a very happening place. So often there's several events going

711
00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:28.559
at once, and the parking is not cheap. Parking starts

712
00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:31.159
around twenty eight dollars.

713
00:38:31.400 --> 00:38:34.000
Yikes, and it goes today.

714
00:38:34.119 --> 00:38:35.480
Yeah, it goes up from there.

715
00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:38.719
Wow. Okay, that was a good tip.

716
00:38:38.599 --> 00:38:41.639
Then, because sometimes you know, people see that and then

717
00:38:41.800 --> 00:38:45.679
we get hate mail, get that one star review. I

718
00:38:45.679 --> 00:38:47.440
don't know why I paid this, and then I had

719
00:38:47.440 --> 00:38:49.440
to pay the service fees and then they maybe pay

720
00:38:49.519 --> 00:38:50.280
forty dollars to.

721
00:38:50.239 --> 00:38:54.440
Park my car and we're like, sorry, we didn't do that.

722
00:38:54.960 --> 00:38:59.199
Have you been downtown before? It's kind of how it goes.

723
00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:02.079
But yeah, every max line stops within a.

724
00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:04.559
Block, so oh perfect, perfect.

725
00:39:04.679 --> 00:39:06.800
So I mean or just you know, park, park up

726
00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:10.159
by the Lloyd Center and stretch your legs for a bit,

727
00:39:11.719 --> 00:39:15.199
walk a few blocks. Save the money and the aggravation.

728
00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:18.760
Oh my goodness. Yeah, and it takes forty five minutes

729
00:39:18.760 --> 00:39:21.760
to an hour to park, and then and then another

730
00:39:21.840 --> 00:39:22.320
hour to.

731
00:39:24.199 --> 00:39:25.519
It gets it gets messy.

732
00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:27.760
So yeah, don't do that, guys.

733
00:39:29.119 --> 00:39:31.639
We always suggest to people to try to find other means.

734
00:39:32.039 --> 00:39:36.079
Thank you alrighty, well, you guys have so much fun

735
00:39:36.519 --> 00:39:39.599
with the rest of your haunting season, and I hope

736
00:39:39.639 --> 00:39:42.519
so many people come and you run out of tickets.

737
00:39:42.880 --> 00:39:44.760
Wow, thank you very much.

738
00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:48.440
Thank you guys, absolutely, thank you.

739
00:39:48.960 --> 00:39:57.320
Fue I definitely would I want to come see the

740
00:39:57.320 --> 00:39:58.079
witches Bog.

741
00:39:58.320 --> 00:39:59.320
That sounds amazing.

742
00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:01.920
I cannot drag my co host out there because she

743
00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:05.719
doesn't do I'm already taking to her to a cemetery

744
00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:07.800
and she's not into that, so I can't.

745
00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:09.719
I can't get her to go to a haunted house.

746
00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:12.760
But well, she should she should volunteer as an actor.

747
00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:16.159
There's a there's an old, cliched joke about the people

748
00:40:16.159 --> 00:40:18.760
who can't go to the haunted house because it's too terrifying.

749
00:40:19.320 --> 00:40:22.320
Make the best actors.

750
00:40:22.199 --> 00:40:23.400
That might make a lot of sense.

751
00:40:23.400 --> 00:40:24.000
They really do.

752
00:40:24.559 --> 00:40:27.360
She terrifies me all the time, so