What's YOUR biggest fear?

[NightTerror]

I think my biggest fear is anything I even suspect being rabid coming after me, especially like flying bats in caves.

[Haunted Illinois]

Where Transworld Exhibits Inc will decide to move the Haunt Show after next year. LOL.

[graystone]

You know thats not your biggest fear!!! Come on now that's Larry's biggest fear! Did he tell you to say that LMAO! Shane

[Jim Warfield]

Yes, Shane, Adam has always been Larry's puppet.

NOT!

[Kevin Dells]

There are a lot of fears here that we use in the business--even the water fears are addressed by several haunts. My daughter, who acts at the same haunt I'm at suggested another useable fear--centipedes.

It's the more esoteric fears that are harder to realise.

In the first chapter of Niven/Pournelles updated version of 'Inferno' there is a sequence that terrifies me. The main character is trapped in a 'djinn bottle'. He can 'see' the walls of the bottle--which fill his vision with a uniform featureless bronze color, he is aware,appears to have use of all five senses, but he cannot see himself.

Which reminds me of my fear that after death there is nothing but consciousness. Black all around, awareness of self, apparent bodily integrity, but nothing else.

Hopefully, madness would eventually populate such a void.

Oddly, I thought of a way to achieve this in a haunt setting

A completely dark silent room with a thickly cushioned floor about six inches below the heavily padded doorframe.

The customer walks in, drops, and is faced with featureless darkness. The fall will disorient enough that the customer will have a real problem finding an exit(not a good thing in a haunt).

Impractical, but it would get me.

Jack, I actually did experience this type of effect at a haunt but a lot higher of a fall. This was before i got into haunting myself and just toured haunts as a fan.
Otherwise i would have thought twice and went back and asked to see a manager to kick his ass knowing what i know now!

With that said, we had a reality based haunt back in the chicago area (more like Rockford but anyhow) It was a church group run haunt with a great budget BUT they did a lot of risky things and this was one of them.

Dark room, with one dimly lit light as you walked in dark as hell beyond that doorway. I believe they were depicting what suicide would be like,still not sure.

Your whole group walked up a set of stairs i counted them 6 steps at roughly 8 inches hig per step. Thats four feet to the top, you came to a platform across the top they had your entire group line up along the edge. they shut off that little light and told you to jump to your demise.


Im thinking WTF! We had no idea what was out there, what we were landing on, man it was just FREAKY! It ended up being a full four foot fall onto a hay stack that was worn thin from previous jumpers. Yes we landed on each other, it sucked but the effect was scary as hell!

[Haunting Copy]

Burning to (near) death in a fire.

Sarah

[DarkTikiEntertainment]

I'm a 6'5" hulking mass of a man, and I still get creeped out by clowns... let the mocking laughter begin...

[Haunting Copy]

What, back in the day, made anyone think clowns were a neat thing???

Sarah

[TheWillies]

Clowns were very entertaining when the circus was the big entertainment that came to town every year. They came driving in small silly cars honking crazy horns doing silly "magic tricks," juggling, and seeing how many they could fit in an old phone booth. They were actually quite funny and entertaining "back in the day" as you say.

[TheWillies]

Oh, and my biggest fear is being buried alive. Do you think it would be OK to do that to somebody in a haunt?