Nightmare at Beaver Lake

Danny got me to go with him to Nightmare at Beaver Lake, the most extravagantly extensive haunted house type of thing I've ever experienced or frankly heard of.  Some of it was in fact too scary for me.  How about that?  A lot of it is just outside in the woods around the lake, with scary things coming out of the shadows; cemetery ghosts, horses, undead children.  In addition they have built multiple and various frightening little shacks that contain serious scariness, like, one is a torture chamber thing with six awful little cells containing real people apparently in various states of dismemberment, and a psycho guy wandering through with an ax moaning, "They do not know the gift I give!  Without pain there is no love!" -- That was very scary.  Another had this really disturbing kitchen scene where a psycho housewife had chopped everyone up to cook them and was horrified by what she had done.


The whole thing is a major event, with hundreds of actors.  Everything is done by volunteers, mostly local teenagers - it started as a project to creatively engage young people in a charitable project. It's run by the Rotary Club, which funnels the proceeds to (other) community service projects.  The fact that it's just down the hill from Kari and Danny's house is a major stroke of luck for Danny; he loves campy horror of all kinds.  The night before last night, he went by himself.