Halloween Horror House

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By Todd 'Tombstone' Curran
On October 29th, as Turner Valley School kids prepared to crusade for candy, they were hijacked by Halloween and rerouted to the Legion and Lions Club Spook House.
Just in its second year, word of the Children's Spook House is getting around. “We had over 30 kids come through last night,” says Spook House brainchild Jessica 'Freakshow' Friesen. “And then all the Turner Valley School students today. We spooked 'em good!”
I walk through the basement door and am gathered into the clutches of a spooky assault with tortured screams and moving black walls. The walls are black plastic, rippling with basement air that projects movement in front and behind you. It's darker than a reaper's eye socket and there's no telling when an escaped mental patient might spring from the shadows and bust into your skull, or worse yet, the Monster Mash.
Jessica and the other Legion bar staff spent 10 days decorating the basement of the building with sizzling electric chairs, gory dungeons & cannibalistic picnic caskets, and it was worth every creepy minute. “The amount of people that she's scared the last few days is phenomenal,” says Legion Branch Manager Tyler 'Bats for Breakfast' Bray. “She even got ME good yesterday.”
But Jessica and her sinister minions might not be the only ones putting up a fright. “There was an old caretaker named Bill that died in the building,” Tyler says. “It's an old building, but when the music comes on by itself or the printer starts shooting paper, we think it's Bill just having some fun with us.”  That story should raise the hair of a few grade school goblins!
“We've had a lot of kids thanking us and saying how much they enjoyed it,” says Lions Club Dead President Dave Parsons. Open like a wound from October 28th to 31st, the Children's Spook House had a horrifying Halloween run and it'll be back next year…with a vengeance.