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Middle Schooler Spends his own Money to Create Elaborate Haunted HouseWhile most middle school kids are probably saving up money for the newest video game, Elliot Arnold of California was saving up for something much scarier. The 7th grader was hoarding birthday money and working odd jobs to fund an elaborate haunted house. One that he built almost entirely on his own. The attraction is called the Deathly Attempt and is located in a suburb of Los Angeles called Woodland Hills.  According to Elliot’s website, the idea of a haunted house was born from pandemic boredom. Like most people he formulated a plan. Unlike most people he meticulously executed that plan, and created a multi-room haunted maze at his home. He even employed his little sister to be one of the actors. After all, this was a haunted house "created and operated by a teenager, to scare everyone." (Image Credit: KTLA)#hauntedhouse

Hamster in a Haunted HouseTikToker Homura Ham has a herd of photogenic and cooperative hamsters that go on delightfully colorful adventures for our amusement. They are cute and inquisitive and ready for anything. Homura Ham is quite impressive, too, for building all these miniature sets for hamster enrichment and for variously-themed videos. In this one, a hamster explores a tiny haunted house, from the clothesline to the attic, accompanied by the song "Spooky Scary Skeletons." He pays no attention to the flying witches and ghosts that abound. That's a brave hamster!

A 1906 Horror Film: La Maison EnsorceléeHere's a fun throwback to the early days of cinema, when horror was all about showing off special effects to make the supernatural look real -to the audience of the day, at any rate. La Maison Ensorcelée (The House of Ghosts) from French director Segundo de Chomón may well be the earliest haunted house movie. A group of explorers, or home invaders, find a house full of paranormal activity in the form of moving objects, apparitions, and other unexplained shenanigans. The people do not flee in terror, and inexplicably trust the haunting spirits to serve them a formal meal. They even attempt to sleep over, which is another mistake. Take a hint: get out! Of course, the original film wasn't in color. That was added to make it more enjoyable for us 115 years later. You can imagine how a theater audience who'd never seen stop motion or double exposure effects would have reacted. #horror #vintage #specialeffects #stopmotion #hauntedhouse #movie

The Conjuring House: Home That Inspired "The Conjuring" Horror Movie Sold for $1.5 MillionThe haunted house that became the inspiration for the 2013 movie “The Conjuring” just scared up $1.5 million in sales. The 18th century Burrillville home was once the home of the family whose experience in the 70s made it into the storyline of the film. It was not where the movie was shot, but various horror-related activities are still being hosted there by its previous owners, Cory and Jennifer Heinzen.The couple sold the house to Jacqueline Nunez of WonderGroup LLC. Nunez and the Heinzens jointly announced the purchase on Facebook. She said she planned to continue the nightly paranormal investigations, day tours, and live streamed events that the Heinzens have conducted during their tenure. From The Boston Globe:... one of the conditions that the Heinzens set was that the new owner not live in the house year-round, “because the energy is so powerful,” Nuñez told the Globe later. “They put it in there as protection for the buyer.”Images: Barry Chin/Boston Globe#hauntedhouse #TheConjuring #horrormovies #ConjuringHouse #paranormal

Forget Haunted House! Go to the Underground Haunted Cave In Lewisburg InsteadThe Haunted Cave in Lewisburg, Ohio, is 3,564 feet (1,114 m) long and 80 feet underground. The limestone cave also has something really spooky: 30,000 live bats!The cave once held the world record for longest haunted house (back in 2010), though that title has since been taken over by other haunted house attractions. Regardless, the Haunted Cave remains popular with Halloween visitors, and was named the Best Haunted Attraction in the United States in 2018 by USA Today's Reader's Choice poll.Not interested in scares? The Lewisburg Historical Society runs a historic wagon tour that explains the history of the limestone mine, with a good chance of seeing the bats.#hauntedhouse #hauntedcave #cave #worldrecord #bat #Ohio