Brittney Kinsley lists the characters she's played at the Grimes Castle haunted house - a maid, an evil doctor and a torture victim - but she is interrupted by owner Michael Grimes before she can describe her role as a maid.

Grimes points to a seat splashed with red paint that's sitting in pile of materials and props at the warehouse where the haunted house is being built.

"There's the bloody toilet that she was puking in," he said smiling Tuesday.

She said she doesn't mind and is proud of all the ideas her son comes up with.

"Oh," she said, "I've done all kinds of things."

But building the haunted house for over a month has been difficult at times for everyone, Michael Grimes said, referring to the one half-broken box fan they have at the warehouse.

"We have our own little nightmares," Fenn said.

Grimes Castle gates opened for the first time on Friday the thirteenth and by Saturday night nearly 1,000 people had walked, ran and screamed their way through 4,000 square feet of the horrific halls. The screams echoing through the Carson City building, Saturday, were as consistent and ear-piercing as one would hear at a wild rollercoaster ride. Valerie Kelly moved from south Florida to Carson City to haunt Grimes Castle as Grand Witch, after hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma scared her out of her home. She said frightening Northern Nevadans has been well worth the move. Two girls told Kelly at the entrance to the castle, Saturday night, that they weren’t afraid, but by the time they reached the end, they were hugging each other and screaming. Theresa Kelly, Valerie Kelly’s mother, said she hasn’t had the guts to venture in to it. “I’ve been here from the building of it, you would think I’d be brave enough to go through it,” Theresa Kelly said. “But after hearing the screams and seeing the white faces I haven’t worked up the courage.” A cast of more than 30 volunteers douse themselves in blood, inflict fake wounds on each other and scream themselves horse for the sheer enjoyment of inflicting terror. Michael Curtis has always adored Halloween. He’s volunteered in haunted houses and even constructed his own home haunt to scare the children in his neighborhood. But that hobby became too expensive for him so he said he’s delighted to volunteer for Grimes Castle as a grave robber. “It’s almost like I feed off of their adrenaline rush, when I scare people and all of a sudden their adrenaline is pumping my adrenaline starts pumping -- it’s like a high that I get all through the night,” Curtis said. The Borrelli family came to enjoy the Halloween spirit. “I like being scared,” Michelle Borrelli said. “That’s why I come, to watch them run,” Glen Borrelli said of his wife Michelle and his daughter Megan. They wandered through the castle of long, dark hallways, mad scientists’ laboratories and cemeteries to be bombarded with the insane ramblings of clowns and ghosts. “No clowns!” Megan Borrelli said as she ran out of Grimes Castle “Look at her – she’s shaking,” Michelle Borrelli said as her 12-year-old daughter Megan held out a trembling hand. “She practically dragged us out of some of the rooms,” Glen Borrelli said. “I wanted to enjoy the scenery.” “You just about broke our fingers,” Michelle Borrelli teased Megan while massaging feeling back into her hand.