Over the month of October I've been working at a local haunted attraction called Stalker Farms, while I was planning to do a weekly journal talking about the fun stuff that's been happening there...that kinda went out the window with things getting rather busy.

So here's a journal talking about the best stories that happened. Over at the haunt I was working the larger of the two haunted attractions called "Field of Screams". It's pretty much a acre and a half cornfield with a very long trail guests have to go through. Inside the field is the infamous Slasher family as well as Doctor McFalin who's doing various experiments.

I played Grassy Slasher, a being who resided in a greenhouse. I pretty much wore a ghillie suit (For those of you that don't know, it's a camoflauge suit which allows one to blend in with the field.) and caused a whole lot of choas and paranoia in and out of the greenhouse.

The greenhouse was pretty simple, it had several switchbacks and had several tables which would rattle up and down (Pretty effective in scaring) and a barrel prop which had a figure pop out. The middle section of the house had various camo netting, string and bats/snakes/spiders hanging down. I would usually scare in the middle and quickly run out of the greenhouse for another scare.

I truly lost count how many people I've sent to the ground or into the corn, most of the time it happened at my outdoor scare...but I've also had a good amount of people drop inside the greenhouse.

Now one thing I do have a accurate count on is I made six people pee their pants. The very first one was absolutely priceless due to how it went down. I was waiting outside and I heard this couple going through the house saying "Tickle Tickle!" several times. I waited for the scare and got them both, and I said in my monster voice. "TICKLE TICKLE!"...to which the woman in the couple replied. "More like "Tinkle Tinkle!"".

My favorite scare in the greenhouse easily went to one where I had to deal with a D-Bag, as with any haunt we deal with plenty of them. Now since my section is in the second half of the field I normally don't deal with as many as line entertainment or the first half do...but I still get them. (Case in point, on the first Saturday a group tore down a couple walls in the greenhouse.)

What happened was I was waiting inside the greenhouse for the first scare, and I hear this group comming in and one of them saying. "I think there's a guy in a ghillie suit in here, let's ruin his scare!". In my mind, my inner Bon Qui Qui/Shanay-nay went. "OH HELL NAW" *Z-finger snap*. I simply wait for them to come by, they're all distracted by the jumping tables and the barrel prop. The leader of the group (The one who spoke) comes in the view near the barrel, I pop out from corner in my usual t-bone scare and snarl....and the dude just falls flat on his ass and conks his head on the barrel! Never has a scare left me so satisfied.

I've also had some great tag-team scares with my friends who are right before my scene, the scene before me is the dog handler/Fluffy scene. Which involves my friend Derrick playing the dog handler who's very loud and in your face...and the dog "Fluffy" (The role of Fluffy is played by several guys.) Due to the ghillie suit I've been mistaken for Fluffy a couple times before, so I've taken advantage of that anytime I'm in that scene when I go to and from my break. I just get on all fours and deliver a whole lot of terrifying confusion.

A great scare was Fluffy was on the left side of the path, and I was on the right. Fluffy get's his scare on a group, and then I pop out...to which the leader of the group scream. "WAIT...THERE"S TWO OF THEM?!" The group then hauled ass in a zig-zag.

Another great scare was with Derrick and I, Derrick was doing his usual bit of intimadating on this father and his three boys. The boys are freaked out and the Father and one kid manage to slip out, I go all Fluffy on them and the boy freaks out. They're about to enter the greenhouse but the Dad realizes that the other two boys are still cornered by Derrick. So the Dad has to go over and rescue his kids, though I think he was a twisted dad since he only rescued one at a time. Naturally I'm just waiting and go Fluffy on the kids when they run by. Once the dad has all his kids they quickly dash into the Greenhouse, thinking that was over...until Derrick screams "GET'EM BOY!!!" I go charging into the greenhouse and I see the boys huddling together and getting smaller and smaller.
Meanwhile the dad is just laughing his head off.

I've also had some great moments chasing/following groups out of the greenhouse and towards McFalin's tent. The two best happened on Halloween. The first one was one of those "Name scares" where I hear someones name and use it to freak them out.

The name was "Jessica" and I screamed it to the women I thought it was, she screamed back and I started the usual tormenting and such. She kept freaking out and eventually said "I'M NOT JESSICA!", to which I reply "THEN WHY ARE YOU REPLYING WHEN I CALL YOU THAT?" A guy behind me quickly says. "Jessica's over here." I turn around and see Jessica who's clinging to the guy who replied and looks pretty freaked out. Without missing a beat I scream "WHY ARE YOU CONFUSING THAT WOMAN, JESSICA?!" The group laughs and Jessica just screams and tries to hide from me.

The second moment was I was following a group and freaking out the girl in the back with her friend/boyfriend. She tried making a lame comeback to me, so I simply told her I was going to send Jed Slasher (One of the chainsaw guys) on her. She asked who he was and the chainsaws went off in the distance at the perfect time, I told her he has the chainsaw and she immediatly started shaking her head and went. "No!nononono! Please no! WHY?!" I quickly pointed to her friend who was wearing a Santa hat. "BECAUSE HE'S WEARING A CHRISMAS HAT!" The girl turns to her friend and screams. "WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME?!" I was certain she was going to slug him, though none the less I knew I just ruined that guys night.

As for the best scare of the season, that happened on Halloween as well. Early in the night something went wrong with the pumps for the tables and barrel animatronics, it sent out a nasty smell which forced me to work outside until it was fixed. I decided to work in the Fluffy scene since I've gotten great scares there, since it was the last night and we were all going all out...I decided to try something. In the scene there's a small doghouse with a light inside, for the whole month I was wondering if anyone could fit inside it.

I gave it a try and opa! I was able to squeeze inside the door and fit compleatly inside the dog house! It surprised the heck outta' Derrick and Keenen (The guy playing Fluffy that night) as well as myself. The question now was would I be able to scare from there? Due to the size of the door, I could only quickly pop out my head. It would take a little longer to crawl out. The next group came by, I popped my head out barking, growling, snarling etc. as I crawled out. The people in front screamed and ran, and since I had to crawl out on my side I was looking straight at the rest of the group.

There was one woman who saw me crawling out and stopped, her eyes got wide as dinner plates and she slowly stepped back. I knew she was the one since she was giving a total look of fear. I started crawling out towards her, and she moved back a bit quicker. Once my feet got through the door I did a full on Fluffy charge, barking, snapping and growling as loud as I could. She flat out screamed and bolted backwards, naturally Derrick heard the commotion and chased her as well. Thankfully no other groups were comming by since this was the absolutle oppisite of "Scaring forward". I swear we tramuatized that women since it took her a while to go forward through the scene.

Overall, I had a blast working the haunt. It was a really successful year, and we ended up breaking last years record of making people crap their pants. Last year three people lost it, and this year we had five crap themselves. (One day we had two people crap at the same time, and it was their anniversary which made things more dementedly hilarious. Also, on Halloween we had a guy crap his pants while waiting in line.)

Convention Updates

Oh yes, as I mentioned in a earlier journal this job would be helping me earn money for AC and possibly FC. I can now say that I have a very good chance of attending FC for the very first time. All I need is a confirmation from my parents and I'll be good to go! :D