Slideshow: Inside Hallowen Park's Haunted House
October 31, 1976

Inside Hallowen Park's Haunted House

HAI control system updated to provide new horrifying automation features.
October 31, 1976
What's for Dinner?
Choose Your Poison
Dick Cranium
Living (or Dying) Room
TV Technology
Ouija
Helpful How-To Book
How's Your Memory?
Next Patient
Paging Doctor Death
The Doctor Will See You
Embalming Room
Help Yourself
Hey!
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October 31, 1976

As visitors approach the kitchen a motion detector triggers the door to open (accompanied by a creaky noise, of course). “We timed it so it’s the first person in the group [of visitors] who gets the biggest scare,” Lehman says.

Once in the kitchen a clue leads visitors to pick up the tea kettle and put it into the sink. There’s only one place in the sink where the kettle fits and putting it there triggers the refrigerator to open.

It’s hard to miss that 10-31-76 written on the fridge – even though everything is pitch dark in the exhibit. Visitors are expected to remember that date.

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