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Dare to explore madness

October 12, 2009

Noelle Fujii

During October, haunted houses are all over Fremont. The Halls of Madness, hosted by the Loob Family, has been around for 12 years. WHS sophmore Kaitlin Loob, runs this place with her family and also helps to collect cans for charity.Loob’s father got the idea for the haunted house when he was a kid. He was inspired by monsters and creepy movies. He also loved to scare people. The Loob family charges $3.00 and two canned food donations or $5.00 with no food donations to go through the haunted house. The money they make goes towards the haunted house to repair things such as screws, wood, fog juice and props. The cans they collect go to the charity S.A.V.E.

This haunted house is popular and the amount of people that come ranges from night to night. They are usually busy on Halloween.

“Lets just say eight years and younger cannot attend. We had adults wet their pants, and one even passed out. Some are too afraid to even take 10 steps.” Loob said.

It takes about one month to set up starting from around the last week in September. The whole family is involved and they also have volunteers help to set up the haunted house and work in it. Every year they would add new props and change things up a bit, such as the interior and exterior decorations.

The haunted house opens on the 23rd, 24th, 30th, 31st dark-11 pm, and on October 25th from dark-10pm. The Hall of Madness is located in the Glenmoor neighborhood and for more information visit their website at hallsofmadness.net.

 

 

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