be one of the monsters in a haunted house

This had always been one of my goals! Last year I started volunteering at a very popular haunted trail in CT for the month of October. I don’t get paid, but I still love it. You get to dress up and scare people, and you make great friends with the people that work with you!

I started working at a haunted house this year. I play a possessed little girl and it is amazingly fun. Plus, I get $6.50 an hour!

I work in a haunted house every year and love it! It’s much more fun than being in the movies or on TV, you can see the audience response right away. It’s great fun!

it’s almost october again and i still have no clue how you’d go about this. volunteer? apply? where?

This could have been fun, but I volunteered at a haunted house that was partially outside (kind of a haunted house in a haunted forest deal). I thought it would be a lot of fun, but I ended up being one of the ghouls outside. I think what really made it disappointing was that it was cold and muddy. People who came through seemed to be frostbitten and frustrated, and as a result weren’t really all of that into it. Maybe if I would have gotten to be an indoor person this would have been more exciting. I just remember feeling lame and cold.

Unpaid, of course. My job was to stand unnoticed in the corner and then let out an occasional ear-piercing shriek. The whole thing was really cheesy, it wasn’t even trying to be sophisticated or look real.

But it was damn fun! You would think people would point to the cardboard coffins and the obviously fake styrofoam skulls and laugh, but people really wanna be scared, so they play along. It seemed like we were all playing our roles—the audience was acting as much as I was!