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Bryan-College Station haunted houses provide a variety of horror-inducing experiences ,
The Battalion
The time of year has come to celebrate the element of
ak at Aaron Glenn, he lefts darkness that resides within everyone. Fears and fascina-
if
ions with the unknown and occult rise to the surface and
don’t see Are eagerly explored as people seek out the thrills of Hal
loween. It is this climate that has given rise to one of the
most popular Halloween activities — the haunted house.
Although haunted houses are merely replicas of true
horrors, their artful mimicry often harbors enough pow
er to invoke genuine fear. They are dark, hazy chambers
unproven where screams and the eerie laughing of murderous men
drown out the drum of nervous hearts beating.
One local haunted house is the School of Veterinary
I Medicine's Night of Terror. Freshman veterinary student
Jay Griffin said a night at this haunted house would prove
itself to be. terrifying.
tcitf mcLuuin “It’s extremely scary," Griffin said. “The goal is to
It US WC CCIH | make it as scar y as we can without breaking the law.”
D * 7 ^ i The Night of Terror will be open from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m.
- Kice UtlCl rMljFriday and Saturday and 6 p.m. to midnight on Sunday. The
Of Olir Clthl6m^ our ^ elween 6 P -m ' an( ^ ^ P- m - is reserved for children,
•-/l t m/i C/til “The reason we’re having the children’s hour is be-
; l trl 11UU aAJicause we don’t want to scar these children for life,” Grif-
)rCS blit that¥ m sa ^‘' ^ ter ^ o’clock, it’s going to get really scary.”
" ' ■ Perhaps one of the most intriguing elements of this
haunted house is its setting. Con
structed within the old veteri
nary hospital, it immediately
^ invokes thoughts of death and
suffering.
“For one, the building
was built back in the ’50s,”
Griffin said. “It’s got a
I bunch of old brick walls
and rusty metal. That
kind of sets the table for
i all the people we’ve
V got working on it.”
Griffin said an estimated 75 people will
be dressed in costumes and prepared to
strike terror into the hearts of all they
encounter.
Another haunted house will be
created within the walls of Hotard /
Hall. Although resident adviser
and sophomore aerospace engi
neering major Cliff Smith refused
to comment on the specific features
of the project, he said a visit to the
hall would be worthwhile.
“It’s going to send little kids run
ning home crying to their parents,”
Smith said.
Hotard from Hell will
open Saturday night
at 9 p.m. and will
close at 2 a.m. Admission is $3 or three
canned food items.
The strikingly different and
sobering “Your Life’s on the Line”
program will be presented by the
Brazos Valley Council on Alco
hol and Drug Abuse on Sunday.
The presentation lacks common
Halloween themes, but the trag
ic reality it mimics might easily
be considered more frightening.
Though linked to the typical haunt
ed house by its room-to-room for
mat, it differs by the graphic mes
sage it sends.
“It’s a dramatic repre
sentation of what can
zos Valley young person involved in drugs,” said Project
Director Eric Johnson. “It basically tells the story of ‘Liz’
as she gets involved with drugs and the law.”
The program will be staged in the old Wool worth de
partment store building.
“Nothing would prepare you for what you would ac
tually see,” Johnson said. “This is the best version of the
program to ever be done.”
Johnson said the project is the result of several months
of research to make the presentation resemble the drug
and alcohol scene as it exists in the Brazos Valley.
“This isn’t something we just threw together,” John
son said. “We had a lot of local agencies come together:
TABC, local law enforcement and people in the addic
tions field. What the project is about should meet the
needs of this area.”
Johnson also said there was considerable assistance
from Texas A&M students.
Although there is a great variety in this year’s haunt
ed houses, they provide one with the opportunity to
choose the type of horror he or she would like to en
counter. From raging zombies to the horrid scenes of
drug-induced turmoil, these houses have the potential to
instill fear in all who dare to probe the darkness. •
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