When you go to a haunted house, it may seem like you’re being funny by trying to scare the actors or jump out at them when you go through a second time, but guess what? ITS NOT FUNNY.
You pay us to scare you. It is your choice to go, so don’t fucking go through if you’re going to ignore the rules and get too close to the actors as a ‘joke’.
These bruises happened because over the course of 4 hours, several people ignored the instructions that CLEARLY stated that they were to wait in the front room until told otherwise. Rather than listen, they ran into the next room and slammed into me- effectively throwing me into the wall. This didn’t only happen once. It happened ten times at LEAST.
Then we had this asshole who thought that once I ‘died’ for the haunt, he could pretend to kick me to see if I’d moved. I, being used to people abusing me- jumped back and slammed my head into the concrete wall.
YOU ARE NOT FUNNY BY BEING RUDE AT A HAUNTED HOUSE. WE ARE PAID ACTORS THAT YOU CHOOSE TO COME AND SEE PERFORM. YOU PAY US TO SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF YOU, SO DONT HIT US WHEN WE DO
I feel that this is relevant considering it is October and more Haunted Houses are opening up. I know it seems funny to scare the ‘monsters’ but all you do is hurt real people. So stop.
It’s not even October but I’m still spreading this
SIGNAL BOOOOOOOOSSSSSTTTTT!!!!!!! Now
Yeah…your director may want to consider reblocking
We don’t have a director? Or blocking??? It’s a haunted house bro, not a play
Reblogging for relevance-
I work at a Haunted House every October, and have been for the past few years. Our house in particular is staffed by Volunteer workers who are either earning credits for Graduation, or people who know the Family that owns the haunted attraction. In our City, we’re one of two Haunted Houses, so while we open in late September, we tend to get incredibly busy during the month of October and often work from 6pm until 2, 3am on weekends.
We do not get paid to help out. Due to our location, we get a lot of drunk guys coming through, and a lot of ‘funny’ teenagers. In my several years working there, I’ve seen Actors get grabbed and thrown, stomped on, kicked, bitten, everything. A lot of the Actors at this attraction are young teenagers, Middle and Secondary School students, so this kind of abuse is terrifying and potentially emotionally scarring.
There’s a position half-way through the house we call ‘Psych Ward’, and it’s essentially a jump scare. The scare is a corner-room, boxed in with walls and broken windows, that the Actor pops out of and shouts and taunts the people going through. October, 2012, a couple were going through the Psych Ward corner and the scare went off as per usual. The girlfriend of this couple got very startled but laughed it off and continued on. The boyfriend, however, back-tracked and went up to the broken window and punched the Actor in the face for scaring his girlfriend. The Actor, who I’m going to call Tracy, had a black eye for a good two weeks solid and the couple had to be escorted out of the house and were banned from the property. Ever since we’ve ruled that Veteran Actors (someone who’s been there for 3+ years) are the only ones allowed in this particular Scaring Spot.
He paid to get scared and then got violent when we delivered.
There are so many stories I can tell of ignorant customers banging back on scares and injuring the Actors inside, grabbing props from the actors and hurting them with it, destroying props because they thought it would be ‘funny’.
I just want to raise awareness that the ACTORS ARE STILL PEOPLE. We’re instructed to get the best kind of scare out of you, sometimes with no pay at all (like this particular attraction), so please respect our work.
We wouldn’t come to your job, mock you, and push you around trying to be ‘funny’. Don’t come to our job and do that to us!
I literally cannot believe people are angry over this post saying “don’t fucking beat up actors”
I work at a haunted hayride and a guy tried to dropkick me in the chest and knee me in the face because he thought it was funny.
I got in trouble for breaking character to tell him to fucking stop.
Ive been hit so many times this season it has left cuts and bruises. Back in 2015 I was fucking choked and dragged behind a wagon because a lady was drunk and her son had to pry her hands off me because IM NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH YOU OR FIGHT BACK.
Most recently, a customer groped my breasts and twisted my fucking nipples. Apparently, she did it to AT LEAST twenty other actors.
THAT IS SEXUAL ASSAULT YOU ASSHOLES. ITS NOT OKAY.
Most recently a customer fucking kicked me and sent me to the goddamned hospital.
WHEN YOU GO TO A HAUNTED HAYRIDE / HAUNTED HOUSE, REMEMBER YOU LITERALLY PAID US TO SCARE YOU.
THE ACTORS ARE REAL PEOPLE.
DO NOT FUCKING HIT US.
Why the fuck would you even do this holy shit
Hey guys i know this is out of theme but that comment from @witchcryptid was me and my old url. I plan on working this job again this year if at all possible, so here’s an added psa:
If your family or friend(s) force you into a haunting, be upfront as best you can and tell actors as they come up “please do not scare me i am too anxious / scared”and9.99/10 times we will listen and leave you alone. just communicate with us even though we most often cannot communicate back.
We may be playing monsters, but we are NOT monsters.
Also, please remember to keep your hands off of us during your haunting, and also please try to step in or speak up if you see people trying to touch us, assault us, or talking about planning to touch or hurt a staff member.
We cannot do anything and will most likely get in legal trouble for touching you in defense.
Thank you and have a spooky fall
I…I feel really upset that this has to be a reminder ._.
I mean they should know you’re…justacting.
jesus christ…
I don’t even do haunted houses (I’m one of those aforementioned anxious people) but boosting the signal because this is seriously not cool.
Hey guys it’s that time!!
You paid for a ticket which means you consented to be scared!
As an ex haunt monster please for fucks sake if you KNOW your reflex is to strike when scared DO NOT GO TO THESE.
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I accidentally punched an actor during a haunted maze because he popped out of the ceiling 5 inches from my face, and I immediately yelled out sorry and felt so fucking bad. I haven’t been to a haunted house or maze since because I now know I have a punching reflex.
To all the actors out there, I apologize on behalf of the accidental punchers. I’m so fucking sorry. And to everyone who punches actors on purpose, GO TO FUCKING HELL.
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stickers! comics! prints! tote bags!! all available for one week only till i close up shop again in preparation for conventions! go check it out!! (reblogs are super appreciated!)
a haunted house for katie (+ a bonus version i’m hoping to try riso printing soon)! this is the last illustration for haunts, and i finalized and ordered the books today! i’m super excited to get them! tip jar|patreon
it’s the final day to get a copy of haunts! 50+ pages of haunted house art, enamel pins, prints, stickers, etc etc! the kickstarter ends at noon est tomorrow (wednesday april 27)!
the last stretch goal is 30k, and if we hit that i’ll go sleep in a haunted house, do some ghost hunting, and make a comic about it. we’re only a little over 4k away at this point, so i believe it’s possible!! if you think that’d be cool, too, maybe share this around so i can do it!
the seance tier for the haunts kickstarter gets a special ghostly riso print, which i finished drawing today! i think it’s pretty neat. super excited to get these printed!
there’s only one week left to grab your copy of HAUNTS, my 50+ page haunted house artbook, on kickstarter!
the initial goal has been reached, but there’s still one stretch goal left: if the campaign hits $69k, i will go spend the night in an actual haunted house (possibly the lizzie borden house!), do some ghost hunter-y activities, and make a comic about it!! i would love to be able to do this, so go grab a copy of the book if you’d like, and tell your friends to get one, too!
a haunted portrait commission for @librarianpigeon! i’ve got a couple slots for this kind of commission open this month, so hit me up via email if you want one (and don’t forget to back my haunted house artbook on kickstarter!)
Comic Book Review: Forbidden Worlds Vol. 15 edited by Richard E. Hughes
Forbidden Worlds started as a horror anthology comic book series from American Comics Group in 1951. In 1955, it ran foul of new restrictions on horror in comics, but soon retooled as “stories of strange adventure” which conformed with the Comics Code and kept being published until 1967. This volume reprints #89 (August…
Urban legends of Madrid: The ghost of the naughty priest.
Sandwiched between two unremarkable appartament buildings, the last chalet standing in number 124 of Madrid’s Calle de Ayala (named after the writer Abelardo López de Ayala) hides an unedifying story behind its pretty façade, now painted in a discreet grey instead of its original yellow. For decades, as the legend goes, workers of what had become an office building were terrified by strange noises, laments, and the lights of the chalet ramdonly going on and off during the evening.
Number 124 (like other buildings in the same street) had been decades before a brothel, where a priest (other versions claiming he was a bishop) died suddenly while in company of one or several girls. Apparently it’s his ghost the one to blame for all the above mentioned nuisances, even if there are also rumours about two or three prostitutes dead in strange circunstances.
Photo F. Moreno. In that site there’s also mention to number 126, which seems to have been also host of a similar phenomenon. Not the naughty priest thing, but instead noises coming from a pub which has been closed for years.
If there’s a spot in Madrid charged with a somber backstory which could made it the perfect magnet for ghosts, then probably the Plaza Mayor is the place to be for human ghosts. And probably ghost birds too, given the story of the equestrian monument that presides it (there are no mention about ghost birds, though, which I find disappointing). This “main square” has seen auto-da-fés, executions, bullfights and three fires (1631, 1672 and 1790) with multiple victims. It’s not strange then that rumours about mysterious aparitions (inside or outside the buildings surrounding the square) abound.
Plaza Mayor’s “official” ghost is Cirilo, who apparently was executed there during the 17th Century. He’s not as popular as Ataúlfo or the ghosts of the Palace of Linares, but he has his little space in the city’s extended list of spectral inhabitants. Cirilo’s favourite activity is to equally scare tourists and madrileños. For the ghost, the fact that his victims are present at the square at certain hours of the night is reason enough. Cirilo and other unnamed ghosts are said to visit the housings nearby. Perhaps they hang near one of the square’s secondary entrances, in past times called Hell’s Alley (Callejón del Infierno, in Spanish). Thus named in remembrance of the 1672 fire. Since 1854, the street bears the somewhat less intriguing name of Arco del Triunfo (Triomphal Arch).
And what about the birds? Philip III’s statue, a masterwork by Gianbologna and Pietro Tacca, was, during centuries, a mortal trap for them. This was unintentional: the horse’s mouth had been left slightly open, so sparrows and other little birds were often trapped inside. Only in the 20th century, when after the proclamation of the Second Republic someone throw a little bomb against the statue and damaged it, was this discovered. When the monument was restored the house’s mouth was carefully sealed, so no other bird had to suffer the same fate again.
Urban legends of Madrid: Goyito, the ghost in the skyscrapper.
Inaugurated in 1930, the Telefónica Building (seen in the background) was Spain’s first skyscrappers and one of the first in Europe. Taking inspiration in New York’s architecture, a Spanish baroque touch was added in the main façade and ornaments. It had been conceived as the siege of Spain’s national telephone company; from there, Hemingway, Dos Passos or Saint-Exupéry send their reports of the Spanish Civil War. It’s not strange that the skyscrapper was a target of bombings, which, in the words of his architect Ignacio de Cárdenas, only scratched the colossus’ skin. The colossushad lived somber moments before, like for example the suicide of Ana Cubillo, one of the Telephone Company’s workers, who jumped to her death from floor 7th in 1934.
And then you have Goyito, the building’s ghost. During years, there had been rumours about workers of the company meeting him. But information about Goyito is quite contradictory. Is our ghost a little boy or an elder gentleman (with monocle!)? Does he appears in floor 9 or floor 13? Or in both of them? It remains unclear.
