You can’t miss the Mortuary. It’s the elegant, white house with the cemetery for a backyard. The house is old with an eerie green glow, and something about it made it whisper, “Come play.”

“We wanted to do a great job in a short amount of time,” Trampus Hock, the manager of the Mortuary said. “We were in the process of renovating this 126 year old building, to keep the classical structure and haunting décor, and we still had to prepare for this year. I think we did a fantastic job.”

The line to get inside was wrapped around the house. You could hear the screams of the people trapped within the Mortuary, making the people awaiting their fate gasp in fright.

“This is my first time coming and I’m completely petrified,” Samantha Graci, a general studies freshmen, said.

Petrifying – now that’s an understatement. Your heart pounds, your knees buckle and then you’re forced to run. Every corner of every room was filled with something terrifying; a dark figure dragging its body across the floor, a room where the feeling of claustrophobia and suffocation set in or a man in the cow-skull mask pinning you up against the wall. You will be scared stiff. And just when you think it’s all over, you hear the chainsaws.

Erica Colbenson can be reached at [email protected].