Personalized Haunted House Lets Visitors Choose Their Own Frights

CHICAGO, IL—Explaining that the experience was far more terrifying when visitors were able to tailor their own scares, officials at Chicago’s Terror House announced Friday that their new personalized haunted house would let guests choose their own frights. “We’ve created a unique and terrifying experience for every guest by allowing them to select the exact things that will frighten them the most,” said lead designer Adam Pasternak, adding that visitors would be given a questionnaire at the entrance of the house and then led through a series of rooms containing only the most unsettling imagery and sounds based on their own personal fears. “We want everyone to have a fun and frightening time, so we’ve created personalized scares based on everything from phobias to personal traumas. For example, if you have a fear of clowns or spiders, we’ll make sure you see plenty of those things. Or if you hate snakes or needles, we’ll make sure they’re all over the place. We want our guests to leave here completely terrified of whatever they chose.” Pasternak added that while most people are scared of spiders, snakes, needles, clowns, and other things in the house, there is one visitor who is terrified by everything. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://thecrookedwheel.com/2022/08/15/personalized-haunted-house-lets-visitors-choose-their-own-frights/