Scare Week - House Of Horrors

Although it’s not an actual haunted location, for continuity sake in keeping with the Scare Week videos we’re sharing this week, I thought it might be as good an idea to add it to the blog regardless.

The House Of Horrors is a scare maze which was located in The Forum in Waterford City. It had a home in a much smaller building in a less accessible location for years but The Forum meant it could be expanded and the lighting effects already present in what is essentially a music venue could be utilised to full affect. The whole production is put together to raise money for a local youth charity so it’s good to see something like this prove to be so worthwhile.

The maze itself is quite intense and we didn’t even experience the full effects. For something that’s not permanent I was impressed and although I didn’t get as many frights as my female companions because I was holding the camera which had night vision, I still got that they had the life scared out of them.

Do places like this take away from actual haunted locations? It was asked of us during Scare Week however I don’t believe so. Our programme existed primarily as an entertainment piece. We were visiting locations alleged to be haunted, getting information on them and generally trying to give the listeners to radio programme a better sense of what they were listening to.