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  • #16
    A true cheerleader story:
    In the early 1960's Shimer College, Mount Carroll, Illinois established the all-time record as the losing-est small college basketball team of all time, they were hysterical to watch they were so bad!
    Some of the Shimer girls decided they needed some "Cheering", they bought material and sewed up little dresses and made up their own cheers, one cheer was this one:"Shimer's it!
    Shimer's it!
    s-h for Shimer!
    i-t for IT!"
    All screamed very wide-eyed and innocently to the crowd.
    Shimer prided itself on being a very intellectual place...most of the time.
    hauntedravensgrin.com

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    • #17
      TOO FUNNY! They must have been NCAA division 10. LOL!

      Did Shimer close down in Mt. Carrolll and move to Waukegan?! Several years ago I drove through the campus - it was housed in literally 2 OLD houses. It's a really *unique* school. ... and they no longer have an athletic program. I heard rumors that they moved to downtown Chicago. I'm a college recruiter and I was talking to one if their recruiters at a fair (poor guy had NO ONE come up to his booth all night)... he said they had under 150 students)... SMALL school!
      Blood & Kisses,

      ~ Nicole

      Production Team Member
      The White Star Farm
      "Hey Baby, this blood's for you."

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      • #18
        Shimer began in an upstairs room in downtown Mount Carroll in 1853.
        Two women began it as a finishing school for young girls.
        It was the town's school system way back then, financing was sparse so some enterprising types secretly began selling grain alcohol made locally at the mill to get money for the school, UNTIL a local preacher found out and told everyone! This was the end of Shimer being the public school.
        Shimer was actually the builder who made the women their first couple of buildings, the story was they didn't have the money to pay him so the one married him instead! Those original buildings burnt down around 1902.
        The college saw tough times, Mrs. Shimer was tending a new investment in Florida, an orange grove , when her husband commited suicide , they collected large money, this kept the school afloat, the fact that he hung himself , but there were also several large lumps on his head seemed to be unimportant ?
        The college found wealthy backers and built quite a campus of brick in a eastern colonial style-"A little bit of New England in the midwest!"
        They quit around 1978?
        That was Shimer in Waukegan. In 1963 shimer had 900 students!
        Shimer's alumi include some very original, creative thinkers, their teacher to student ratio was 1 to 10, often times.
        The campus is now on the verge of booming again with Ramada Inn making a dorm into a motel and remodeling the swimming pool below the gym for the 4,000 Park Rangers who are supposed to be attending classes here in two years.
        Campbell Center has been using the campus since Shimer left offering courses to museum proffessionals in grant writing, restoration sciences, even realistic manniquin building. their students arrive from all over the world, and alot of them find their way down here to see my Ravens Grin Inn. They are usually a very fun audience too!
        hauntedravensgrin.com

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        • #19
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          Spfx chic,
          It sounds like your active in the bussiness and industry side of it like myself. Do you go to the conventions?

          I have meet way to many people to even try and remember names, although iv'e got about 200 stored in my head, so im doing good.

          Nicole,Ron, Ken Spriggs and myself who use this board often also belong to and basicly run an off season program called Knowedge for the Carnage. All haunts in the area are invited, bring as many as you like and for a very nominal fee we have seminars and meet and greets all day. I have made tons of freinds from the Carnage. It has opened a lot of doors for our hauntless crew. Were all one huge family in Illinois and Southern Wisconsin haunts and it's only getting better and bigger. Getting 10 different rival haunts in one room is cool and no fights yet! Some freindly Duct Taping but no fights.

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          • #20
            LOL! Don't let the duct taping scare you - somehow, I've managed to avoid that (THANK GOD!).

            For the most part, they have been FREE. YES, something in haunting that you can send people to (besides TW), where they can learn... and it's FREE!!! Some host sites in the past chose to include a lunch (AT COST) with it so it was no more than $5. Another site offered a lunch, but you had to option to go off-site to eat so admission was free... only had to pay if you wanted the lunch (at cost).

            The purpose of this is to learn/share/network - NOT TO MAKE MONEY. We realize that the actors are the lifeblood of the haunts - they work in the trenches, and so this is a fun activity for them... many are highschool and/or college students so to charge to make profit would be just wrong.

            in northern IL/chicago area we've tend to do 2 a year (late Spring and early-mid summer). Not sure if WI will decide to do one of their own this year!?!? After TW we'll be putting out the call for host sites again... and hopefully this spring, posting dates and locations. Theres a website that i have to get our webmaster working on again and we have a myspace: www.myspace.com/k4tc

            It has really given our actors (and crews too) a chance to network and more imporant - it's practically eliminated the haunt-bashing that went on between haunts in our region (can I get a Kum-by-ya and an AMEN?!?!)

            It's fun to see the kids (ha! and us adults) form new friendships with this weird thing we all have in common - "a jonesin' to scare people!"

            PS: Jim, that's one unsual school - whether or not I believe your colorful history of it!?! I wonder if that's where John Hughes got the name for the fictional North Shore Illinois town of "Shimer" in his 1980's teenage classic flicks?!?! Hmmmmmm....
            Blood & Kisses,

            ~ Nicole

            Production Team Member
            The White Star Farm
            "Hey Baby, this blood's for you."

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            • #21
              In 1950 a life-long Mount Carroll resident was visiting on the east coast and an uppity woman said, "Mount Carroll? Isn't that where that Shimer College is? That college that had that Socialist give the graduation speech?"
              Then 40 years later : "Mount Carroll? Isn't that where that year-round Haunted House is ?"
              I just have to bashfully smirk each time someone tells me this common story.
              One such story came from a man in Florida who has never been to Illinois as he told his Illinois friend all about the Ravens Grin!?
              Ravens Grin had been in The Chicago Tribune and they sell that paper all over. ( The Florida edition printed color pictures of my house, the Illinois edition printed them in Black & White?)
              One man discovered my house as he sat next to a stranger on a flight to Europe, when he got back, he came here.
              One man wanted a bumper sticker from me to put on his Harley(I had only had bumper stickers for about two months)
              "Where did you happen to see one of my bumper stickers?"
              "On a Harley at Daytona, during "Bike Week".
              Wow!
              hauntedravensgrin.com

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              • #22
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                Originally posted by Kevin Dells
                Spfx chic,
                It sounds like your active in the bussiness and industry side of it like myself. Do you go to the conventions?

                I have meet way to many people to even try and remember names, although iv'e got about 200 stored in my head, so im doing good.

                Nicole,Ron, Ken Spriggs and myself who use this board often also belong to and basicly run an off season program called Knowedge for the Carnage. All haunts in the area are invited, bring as many as you like and for a very nominal fee we have seminars and meet and greets all day. I have made tons of freinds from the Carnage. It has opened a lot of doors for our hauntless crew. Were all one huge family in Illinois and Southern Wisconsin haunts and it's only getting better and bigger. Getting 10 different rival haunts in one room is cool and no fights yet! Some freindly Duct Taping but no fights.
                Kevin, yep, I help do it all. LOL. Actually, in all my years of haunting, I've only been to one convention. That was HauntCon last year as it was close to home. I do plan, however, on going to TW next year in LV. I was hoping to make it this year to Chicago, but the cards just fell wrong. (Day jobs *sigh*) :?
                www.mindseizure.com
                www.myspace.com/mindseizurehauntedhouse

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                • #23
                  I am Mr. Binky, the wonderful evil clown.
                  Brad Bowen
                  Owner/Operator of the Ultimate Fear Haunted House in Shreveport, LA
                  www.ultimatefear.net

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                  • #24
                    I always play this character with kind of a burlap sack mask(not a scarecrow). I know that isn't much of a description, I will try and post a picture. I would like to try and play a clown sometime though.
                    Jared Layman

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                    • #25
                      I played a creepy little girl in the attic then I moved to under the bed.

                      like my 2nd home under there.
                      Savana Wehunt

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by Jim Warfield View Post
                        During the old JC's Haunted House I was "The Guy Who Actually Scared Our Tour Guide", infront of his customers he was leading and narrating the house for.

                        Of course I couldn't be as noteworthy as an insurance man who was standing urinating in the foul ,broken toilet there when the door was swung open for everyone to see!
                        The odor rising up from that commode was deadly!
                        I'm a tour guide, and I've had people scare me by touching my hand when I reach for a button, crawling out of the ceiling, and sticking their heads through gates. Once I even had a guest who made me scream because I looked at her and she had her hair in front of her face like the girl in The Ring. Funny thing is, I'll scream in mid-sentence and usually the tour doesn't even notice. It'll be like, "This monsterous device is old EEEEK! rusty, our furnace..."

                        Were you supposed to be the insurance guy urinating in the toilet? Why was there a smell? Please tell me it's not what I think!!

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                        • #27
                          I am Animal, a cannibalistic mass murderer who has accepted the wildlife freedom of natures predators opposed to the confines of the human world. I was eventually arrested, and then began an uprising within my cage that is the prison. Now, I lead the inmates through chaos & anarchy, and we strike fear into those who enter.

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                          • #28
                            I'm an evil clown. I usually work the clown room or the slaughterhouse.

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                            • #29
                              my role

                              i play a silent butcher that carries a severed head,and also sniff the patrons that walk threw my seen[cant spell].:evil::evil::evil:

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                              • #30
                                I play...

                                Marisol
                                Gabrielle
                                Lavathra

                                Marisol: She is the girl dressed in a white dress with black hair covering her face ("The Grudge " girl). I appear out of nowhere (because I use the secret passageways) and chase the customers around.

                                Gabrielle: She is a vampire that appears in the graveyard eating a man's brains. I chase the customers and grab them sending them into another room.


                                Lavathra: She is a witch who unleashes the crazy clowns.

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