Comments on: Photos of people being terrified in a spook house

By: Terry Border

Terry Border — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:44:00 +0000

Talking to a friend yesterday, and he came up with the idea of selling these photos to the people after they leave the place, like theme parks do when they take pics of you riding a roller coaster.

By: tziup

tziup — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 16:39:00 +0000

In case he was talking about the area south of Toronto/Lake Ontario: suburbia with really long commutes to Toronto is more like it. Thousands of people as far away as St. Catharines commute to Toronto.

By: mat catastrophe

mat catastrophe — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:54:00 +0000

This is almost as full of win as Cliff Yablonski Hates You. And that’s a lot of win.

By: Jardine

Jardine — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 13:29:00 +0000

Ah, yeah, it’s bad, as is most of southern Ontario once you leave the Toronto area.

lolwut? Is southern Ontario some kind of Mad Max world to you with bands of roving crazies?

By: noah django

noah django — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 11:11:00 +0000

a buddy emailed me the flickr link earlier today. of the many reactions I captured, this is probably my favorite

By: naam

naam — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 07:56:00 +0000

Yeah, what’s with all the huddle-trains! Is this customary in scare-places amongst humans?

Incredibly entertaining photostream, al those little stories, I can’t look away. Utter terror, and still giddy for it. People are weird.

By: Rootboy

Rootboy — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 05:15:00 +0000

I remember going to one of these things when I was about 15, I think on the Jersey Shore somewhere, and laughing my ass off through the whole thing – I thought it was great. Plus there were like 3 terrified girls, completel strangers, who grabbed onto my shirt they were so scared. I tell you, when I was 15 it was the best night of my life.

By: Godfree

Godfree — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:12:00 +0000

Those are a scream! Wonderful, primal expressions going on. I loved the hide-behind-the-girlfriend angle, but I think it’s just that whoever’s behind clutches whoever’s in front.

By: blueelm

blueelm — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:53:00 +0000

OMG those are priceless!

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:51:00 +0000

Ah, yeah, it’s bad, as is most of southern Ontario once you leave the Toronto area. But I will still maintain that Niagara Falls, NY is worse :)

By: tziup

tziup — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:48:00 +0000

Talking about downtown Niagara Falls, ON, not Clifton Hill (tourist area). Walked there at night and was asked by sleazy middle-aged Americans if I wanted to “have fun” and was warned by others that I shouldn’t be walking there.

Kind of sad, really. They are trying to revive it but there isn’t much of an economy there.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:41:00 +0000

As a Buffalo local – Niagara Falls ON may be a bit of a shit-hole, but it’s 10x better than right across the border in NY. It’s very Times Square/generic tourist spot, which are never particularly scary places to be, unless it’s the banality that’s scaring you.

Of course, if you venture away from the falls itself and the tourist trap streets, then yeah, it’s bad – still not as bad as Niagara Falls NY, though :)

Also, on the weekends especially a large percentage of people in the Clifton Hill area are 19 & 20 year olds from Buffalo who cross the border to go to the bars there (drinking age is 19) – so a pretty embarrassing crowd, and I wouldn’t be surprised if many of the people in these photos are from that group :)

There’s a great haunted house at Universal Studios in Burbank; it uses all of the Universal movie monsters and quite elaborate sets including a mad scientist’s lair with working jacob’s ladders and so on.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:19:00 +0000

Wow, that slideshow is genuinely epic. They should be playing it outside the venue, right next to the ticket booth, a la Splash Mountain!

Whatever everyone’s looking at, it’s hugely successful. There are some seriously pants-soiling reactions included here. I may keep this slideshow running all day long!

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:13:00 +0000

Man, they’re doing the Lord’s work here. This is great, great stuff. I used to run a spook house outside of San Diego for a dozen years or so, and our (mostly kidding) motto was “Bring ‘em in laughing, send ‘em out crying.” Ahhh… I miss it so. Can’t wait till my kids grow up enough to get bored with the trick-or-treating and want to help Daddy scare other kids instead!

Picture # 0038 would make one hell of a boy band.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:37:00 +0000

There is trend in these photos of young men using their lady friends as shields as they freak out.

Maybe they grew up watching this.

By: Thax

Thax — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:26:00 +0000

There is trend in these photos of young men using their lady friends as shields as they freak out. Nice chivalry, guys.

By: Tyler Atnip

Tyler Atnip — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:15:00 +0000

I want to see what exactly they’re being scared of because they’re all apparently viewing the same thing!

By: Darwindr

Darwindr — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:56:00 +0000

According to reddit commentators, they were walking down a pitch-black hall (following little red LED lights as mentioned above) and were suddenly startled by what appeared to be an out of control car about to run them over with bright headlights and a loud, sudden horn.

Enough to scare just about anyone, I’d say!

By: e smith

e smith — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:48:00 +0000

the photos where interesting.. the comments on the flickr stream where well beyond idiotic. Lot of racist, homophobic stuff.

By: TimmoWarner

TimmoWarner — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:12:00 +0000

Watching this in full screen slide show mode increased the entertainment value immensely!

Thanks!

By: Navin_Johnson

Navin_Johnson — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:05:00 +0000

I find it kind of dull but for some reason girls really like to get into it and will scream and cling to the nearest available guy so it’s kinda fun overall ;-).

What I love about these photos though, is that they show every kind of person looking terrified, from little girls to tattooed muscle shirt doods and jocks.

By: mtdna

mtdna — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:55:00 +0000

A lot of them look suspiciously like they’re having orgasms…

By: tziup

tziup — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:21:00 +0000

At Nightmares you walk in total darkness and are told to “follow the red light.” There are sudden sounds, blasts of air and skeletons lit for a split second. They are probably not looking at anything.

I find it kind of dull but for some reason girls really like to get into it and will scream and cling to the nearest available guy so it’s kinda fun overall ;-).

@JPW: Downtown Niagara Falls, ON isn’t any better; downright scary late at night to be honest. (Nightmares is in Clifton Hill, as are pretty much all of the touristy establishments).

By: JPW

JPW — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:57:00 +0000

Cory: Are you sure this photo wasn’t simply taken on the deserted streets of Niagara Falls, USA? You know, the bulk of the downtown core upon which the NYC-based landowners have gone vegetative. In more ways than one.

By: Timothy Krause

Timothy Krause — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:39:00 +0000

One can imagine the men screaming, “We’re looking into an alternative universe in which heteronormativity is recognized as just another gender construction! NOOOOOOO!!!!”

a dark maze populated by bored locals with night-vision scopes who whisper menacingly in your ear or touch you unexpectedly.

I LOL’d heartily at this, much thanks!

By: SamSam

SamSam — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:39:00 +0000

Oh, my: this is now my favorite all-time photo. Human centipede..?

By: Frank Diekman

Frank Diekman — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:34:00 +0000

It’s like Scoobie Doo in real life. I imagine that after each photo was taken, these people started running such that they were always in the center of the camera frame and the same background kept scrolling past them.

By: bcsizemo

bcsizemo — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:30:00 +0000

I’m not sure if it’s bad that I’ve already seen these….on 4chan as a reaction image to /fit/’s meme of “curling in the squat rack.”

*sigh* I need to spend less time on the internets.

By: Layne

Layne — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:25:00 +0000

Agreed – endlessly entertaining.
I wonder what the scare really was at this point of the house. Aside from something with a bright strobe to capture people… https://secure.flickr.com/photos/nightmaresfearfactory/6035860218/in/photostreamGawd. Fear is poking these people in the brain and inviting us to cackle at their involuntary reactions.

By: Bobdotcom

Bobdotcom — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:22:00 +0000

I’d love to know what they’re looking at.