Day 10
An extreme night at a haunted house. So we drove to the field of screams PA for a special event haunt.
Thestart was a hayride that was quite fantastic. It had a few scenes but the enhancements included having someone shoot us with fire extinguishers , cover us in silly string in a spider web area and have actors often hopp onto the hayride, but that wasn't all; they dragged other guests on the floor. A couple were even abducted by some people to put them on the next hayride going through I assume we had someone randomly thrown on ours while driving around.
The hayride was the best part; the second one was the toxic wasteland, which mainly was an atmospheric post-post-apocalypse without many actors or genuine scares. At one point, they grabbed my girlfriend and me and put us in a coffin together and said if you aren't close, now you will be together forever. She started laughing, and when they let us out, one of the scare actors was like you two better like each other now or something, and she flatly stated oh, we had had sex in a coffin before the person almost broke character and was like, wait?
What the hell are you talking about? A he looked confused; I sort of sheepishly said yeah, it's true shrugging as we walked away.
Other than that, someone made people eat raw sardines, which is not my thing, so I didn't take it. That was pretty much all for the second attraction. The third attraction was called the darkness, and for me, this one had some legitimately annoying moments.
There were moments in long, dark hallways where I was legitimately confused about where I was going. At one point, we were going through an attic crawl space, and someone went the wrong way and, I believe, got stuck while we were going through.
At one point, an emergency had happened, so emergency people were coming in. Had I known, I would have responded as well, but my girlfriend was you're not working.
They have them. I mean, what good is being an EMT if I don't help people? It is one of my core functions, anyway. They also gave a shot of vinegar; it didn't seem immensely enhanced from the regular night.
The last haunted experience, called the asylum, did have some enhanced moments. There was at one point a room where someone threw a net over my head and pushed me into someone else who grabbed me, and then some random creepy little girl asked me to look at the poo in her diaper. Although, as someone who works in healthcare, I could tell instantly it wasn't poo. You can't mistake the smell of that.
In reality, it was the chocolate sauce and dirt, and I mean, I guess some could find that creepy. There was a room of people who injected us with this pink liquid and dripped it all over us. In another room, a mysterious girl grabbed me and started to draw on my head using a charcoal stick.
So overall, do I feel the extreme night was more than a typical experience? Yes, of course, but on the professional haunted extreme ratings, I think I give it a 4.5 on the outer scale, even if some might put it at a solid five.
Because there were so many people, I rarely felt that alone or confused. It was very much a limitless line of people going through.
Also, I didn't mention it, but every event ended with people cutting you up with fake chainsaws. When I didn't flinch at the hayride fake chainsaws I think the actor took it as a challenge so he hit me with his phony chainsaw pretty hard and started pushing me with it pretty intense to make it feel more like he was going for my arm / back and attempting to cut it off. It's a unique feeling to have vibrating cold metal being sawed into you, but that was how they ended the hayride. You would think they would have different grand endings, but nope, they didn't every Attraction someone would attempt to kill you with a fake chainsaw.
Although I have to say the chainsaws worked on some because every so often while standing in line, you'd see a customer screaming or running away as people would chase them with chainsaws.
I guess it's a fight-or-flight response to some peopy. Someone pushes you into a wall and starts hitting you with even a fake chainsaw. I could see how some people panic, but to me, this is what I paid for, so they better be bringing some elements of intensity.
I think the issue is that I am in BDSM. I have had flame lit on my body, and I have been suspended in the air and I have had people balance live daggers on my throat I have had a katana shave my inner thighs. Nothing here was close. Everyday extreme stuff, I have done and seen make anything in this haunted house just a bit of silly fun.
Heck, as far as beatings go, I have been handcuffed to a ladder as someone beat me a bit, so in some ways, I would say if you live an intense life as I do, this will not match real life, but it does create atmosphere and time a mental break from the mundane everyday.
Yet because the illusion and maintaining the atmosphere matters of the four hunts I have been to this year.
PenhurstasylumField of screams, MD Field of screams, PA Eastern State Penn Penhurst Asylum was the most immersive and had innovative experiences that transported me into another world most frequently and I recommend people try that if you want a truly unique Halloween themed experience.