Fright Night

I haven't watched a scary movie in over a decade and I don't like anything startling or gruesome. So, when one of our friends mentioned that for her birthday she wanted to go to the Terror Behind the Walls haunted house at the Eastern State Penitentiary last night, I was not at all thrilled.

Years ago as a writer I had to do a story where I ranked all the haunted houses going on one October in the Phoenix Metro area and that was a trying task to say the least. I haven't set foot in a haunted house since. Terror Behind the Walls is ranked one of the top scariest in the country so I felt like I had to brace myself for this evening.

Thankfully, we had been through the Eastern State Penitentiary a few months back on a daytime guided tour with A. and S. which gave me a general sense of what to expect. I was still pretty anxious about entering the gates, but John held my hand through the entire thing so aside from letting out a few yelps due to scary actors spooking me, I was OK. Granted, I also looked down the majority of the time or squinted as to not take too much of the visuals in, but it ended up being fun and something I can say that I did. Once will definitely be enough, though.