Haunted House Employees Share Their Craziest Stories!

#1 Ko'ed For The Win!

Sometimes, people get scared senseless! These Haunters recollect when their victims knocked themselves out!

"I'm in the same corner of the room frozen when a person pushing another person in a wheelchair walks in. I stay frozen and assess the situation. The person in the wheelchair looks mentally able and I start to think- man it would suck if I came to a haunted house and nobody scared me because I was in a wheelchair, so I waited for them to pass me and slowly crawled across the floor towards the person in the wheelchair, jump up and yell. The person in the wheelchair looks at me sarcastically like really? BUT the person pushing the person in the wheelchair took off at top speed and before I could yell out- they ran through the curtain at the end of the hall- well past that curtain the hall changed directions, but that person obviously had no way of knowing that so they slammed the person in the wheelchair into the wall. I ran to go help, but before I could get there they were gone."

"Having worked in a local house for a few years, I've seen some hilarious things. Among them, a super tough guy who's giving his girlfriend shit for being creeped out. I pop out behind him in full costume as Jason, which elicits a high pitched shriek from him. He's backing up further until my buddy, in full Freddy regalia sneaks into his blind spot. Dude runs, slams into a wall and knocks himself stupid. Girl laughed. Was hard not to hide our shoulders from bouncing up and down from laughter."

"I work as a zombie for a zombie survival experience in an abandoned mall. The experience is in 2 halves; the first half being the scripted ‘movie' experience and the second half being the skirmish where the survivors are let out into the mall to find supplies and ‘cure' components.

One of the areas in the basement of the mall is a large open space save for support pillars and an escalator going to the upper floor. It is completely pitch black in there. The survivors all have tac-torches but still don't provide too much light.

For the ‘skirmish' part of the experience, one of the zombies gets to be the ‘boss' zombie and dress up as the clown. Whilst the normal zombies are slow shamblers, the clown howls with evil laughter and is allowed to sprint at the survivors. This particular day I was the clown.

I followed a group of 5 or so survivors into the pitch black basement without them knowing I was there. (We know the place pretty well so can vaguely work our way around the place even in the dark.) The large basement room only has one exit, so as soon as they'd ventured in there, I followed, essentially trapping them in. They were your typical middle aged male bravado kinda guys so I decided they were the perfect targets to fuck with.

As soon as I'd gotten them into the basement room, from behind a pillar I squeezed my clown nose which squeaks quite loudly and quite hilariously (to me at least). All the torches are pointed on this pillar so I figure I might as well reveal myself. I slowly lurch round the pillar into their firing line (they're armed with airsoft guns). I do my disgusting zombie clown laugh and break into a sprint towards them.

They don't stick around to shoot me, they turn and run as fast as they can. Unfortunately for one of them, 10 feet behind him was one of the large support pillars which he greets full speed with his face and gets knocked clean out for 10 or so seconds. I saw him hit the pillar but didn't realise he'd knocked himself out until my co-workers later told me about a guy with a bleeding nose and concussion stumbling out of the basement asking to be taken back to the safe room.

I don't even feel bad, if anything it means I'm doing my job properly."

#2 Work Hazards Abound!

Often times, people react with the fight part of the "flight or fight" instinct. Just take if from these pros.

"It was really easy to hide in a corner and then sneak up behind them and do something. This one large guy was really scared. He was about halfway through the room and had no idea I was there. I sneaked up behind him, got just a couple inches away from him, and whispered ‘run.' He screamed, whipped around, and elbowed me straight in the face. Broke my nose."

"While working on our Alien maze, I had a monster come running out of the maze looking for me or anyone wearing a security vest because someone had clotheslined another monster across the throat and was now refusing the leave the maze. We had to remove him. And the girl he clotheslined had to go the hospital because he bruised her throat. (She was fine by the next day)."

"I turned a corner and saw some middle aged woman screaming and violently stomping out some guy who was dressed up as a scarecrow. I think his job was to lay on the ground, and just kind of lurch forward at people as they walked by, and he scared the lady so badly that she just started curb stomping the shit out of him. She eventually stopped after he started screaming, and he just kind of got up and limped out of the room."

"Not personally witnessed, but here's my story. About six years ago I worked at a haunt in North Carolina. In one part of the trail, there were body bags that contained mannequins, except one that had a coworker inside. He freaked out a lot of people, but one group came through, drunk and high, got really freaked out and beat him pretty badly. He got sent to the hospital, they got sent to jail."

"I was on a hayride once where a guy with a chain saw jumped on the wagon and scared a large black woman so badly that she whipped her purse at him and knocked him over the side of the railing while screaming about the devil. Best sh*t I'd seen in a while."

#3 Those Reactions!

Of course, the way people act when scared is hilarious in and of itself!

"When one particular big, burly dude figured out I was not, in fact, a mannequin and I could, in fact, get out of my "cage" and come for him, he ran so fast he went through one of our temporary walls like something out of a cartoon. Worst for him, funniest for his friends and me!"

'When I was 17, I was working in one as a scarecrow. Many people didn't know I was real because I only scared one out of every 10 people or so. I saw a bachelorette party come in. They all had matching green tube tops. I jumped out and screamed at the 3rd woman in line (out of 8 or so). She jumped and screamed so bad that her breasts popped out of her shirt. She fell down against a wall and sat there for a moment, not realizing her breasts were out. One of them said "umm Sarah? Look down" She quickly looked down, blushed, and fixed her shirt.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, was the first pair of tits I'd seen in my life."

"There was one woman in particular that wasno nice way to put it. She was a whale of a human being. This lady flies backward, nearly taking out the wall, then proceeds to the mattresses. I follow her, of course, and she falls down. I sh*t you not, rather than try to stand up, she rolls out of the room like you would down a hill, screaming like a banshee the whole time."

"The other night we had a couple come in and they were obviously drunk. This couple was so scared the woman took off her shoe and started to beat the victim with it. The husband grabbed chainsaw guys nipple and twisted it while screaming as loud as possible. The same woman proceeded to just squat and pee in the clown scene."

"Husband, wife, and their 8-year old daughter are leaving the haunted house. Big bro turns on the chainsaw in one pull and revs it hard over his head. The dad grabs his daughter, throws her to the side causing her to trip over the mom, and then he sprints straight out the door, leaving his wife and child to fend for themselves. The wife is completely despondent as the weight of the situation occurs to her The scariest thing you can see on Halloween: a woman who just found out the father of their child will instinctively sacrifice both of them and run from danger."

#4 Here Comes The Excrement!

Awwww... to literally scare the pee and crap out of a person!

"I'm a psycho clown who wields a chainsaw and I jump out and chase people out the door at the end of the haunted house. I scared a group of guys and I'm pretty sure one sh*t himself, my whole room reeked of pure unadulterated a**hole for far too long to have been a fart."

My family used to run a haunted house through my high school years (when me and my friends could help out). We went all out - we hand built a couple of coffins, we had a small airplane that had been sitting in a junkyard delivered to our backyard that we 'haunted' and let people walk through, we had rooms designed to disorient people with bright strobe lights and checkerboard walls, and a lot of other generally scary shit.

In one of the strobe rooms, we dressed a guy up in a checkerboard suit, hat and makeup, and you wouldn't be able to see him plainly standing in the middle of the room - he scared the piss out of a few people. After they were done with that room, they had to walk through me standing in a coffin pretending to be a mannequin. I took it very seriously, and the best one was after a young boy peed his pants in the strobe room, his mom and young sister were standing in front of me, talking to my dad about it - basically shooting the shit. The daughter whispered "mom... that doll in the coffin moved" and the mom came right up to me, poked me, watched me, and said "no honey, it's not real".

Well I was (and still am) real, and all three of them pissed their pants. 100% ratio on that tour.

"It happened to a friend of mine. She had large bat wings that year, and the girl can do some kind of inhuman screaming. Well, she generally screamed and then popped out at people, enormous bat wings spread, and scared them to death. This one customer. Oh, this one person. There was a foul smell soon after she did her thing, and in a moment she noticed the person doing a weird dance. Well, person left and the smell was there and getting worse. Turns out the "dance" was this person making sure the turd they had just shat out stayed in the room with my poor friend. Other than that we get an enormous amount of creative exclaimations, bunch of people peeing, and something gets broken every year. This year, we've had a door break down because two terrified girls ran through it. We had to stop the haunt to try and fix it."

"My family used to run a haunted house through my high school years (when me and my friends could help out). We went all out - we hand built a couple of coffins, we had a small airplane that had been sitting in a junkyard delivered to our backyard that we 'haunted' and let people walk through, we had rooms designed to disorient people with bright strobe lights and checkerboard walls, and a lot of other generally scary shit.

In one of the strobe rooms, we dressed a guy up in a checkerboard suit, hat and makeup, and you wouldn't be able to see him plainly standing in the middle of the room - he scared the piss out of a few people. After they were done with that room, they had to walk through me standing in a coffin pretending to be a mannequin. I took it very seriously, and the best one was after a young boy peed his pants in the strobe room, his mom and young sister were standing in front of me, talking to my dad about it - basically shooting the shit. The daughter whispered "mom... that doll in the coffin moved" and the mom came right up to me, poked me, watched me, and said "no honey, it's not real".

Well I was (and still am) real, and all three of them pissed their pants. 100% ratio on that tour."

"I volunteered for a local Haunted House one year and made a girl pee herself. Literally all I did was stand right on the other side of the door and put on the evilest grin I could conjure up. I was dressed as some kind of crazy blood soaked mail man or something. They didn't give me any lines or directions, they basically just told me to be scary. So, some poor girl walked in, held in the arms of her boyfriend and upon seeing me she screamed so fucking loudly and just wet her pants right there. Her boyfriend just kept pushing her through my room and into the next. It was an interesting experience."

#5 Expect The Unexpected!

Of course not everyone reacts the same way!

"I once made the mayor of my town shield himself with a small child. I was in a smallish room with a steel grate separating me from the folks walking through, it was my job to make sparks on said grate with a car battery.(Safe, I know) Anyways, I guess I really timed it right."

"Favorites:

Giant boyfriend using his tiny date as a human shield being picked up by the waist band

Large black girl running like hell screaming "MY WEAVE MY WEAVE"

Gay couple screaming "I'm gay!" In defense. We are equal opportunity haunters, we scare all creeds and sexualities."