Frightening Accident at St. Louis Haunted House

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http://abcnews.go.co...-haunted-house/

A frightening accident at a St Louis-area haunted house left a 17-year-old girl hospitalized.

It happened at Creepyworld, a popular Halloween attraction in Fenton, Mo., that bills itself as “America’s biggest and scariest Screampark.” According to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department, the girl was working as an actress in the haunted town last Thursday night, when she somehow got a noose that was being used as a prop wrapped around her neck.

“The noose was hanging over a bathtub, Sheriff’s Department Capt. Ron Arnhart said. “For whatever reason, her head wound up in the noose and it looked like she lost her footing and slipped off the edge of the tub.”

A co-worker who makes rounds to check on employees found the teenager, whose name has not been released, unconscious and hanging.

“She’s been moved out of the Intensive Care Unit, and her medical condition is improving,” Arnhart said. “Our investigation is ongoing, but at this point we believe it was a terrible accident.”

[Creed Bratton]

That's sad to hear! Hope she ends up fully recovering!

[HTCO]

That's horrible. I think the idea of real actors using a nuse in there performance is extremely dangerous. My prayers and thoughts go out to the poor girl and her family.

[standbyme]

A strong noose gives me the creeps...no one could ever get me to put one around my neck even if I were standing on the ground...I have too good of an imagination of what could even remotely happen.

Here is a news story from about 2 weeks ago...truly tragic:

http://www.portorchardindependent.com/news/132840108.html

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More detailed info:

http://www.ksdk.com/...-noose-incident

[standbyme]

Glad to hear she is out of intensive care!

[Shaggy]

You know, in general, haunted houses never truly scared me. (Although the *ending* of the one at Indiana Beach gave me a thrill) I just don't frighten from people jumping out, screaming, or fake bloody body parts etc.

However, the thing about a haunted house that DOES scare me is the possibility of things going wrong - namely fire. Haunted Houses are NOTORIOUS for fires and disaterous outcomes due to them. So when I have gone through them in the past I always stayed concered with where the exits were.

Shaggy

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Update: Ex-haunted house worker files suit

She was in a coma for three days, claims that she doesn't remember the incident, and "is now plagued by headaches, confusion and heart flutters". The family says that she also sometimes gets lost coming home.

http://www.nydailyne...ticle-1.1184981

http://www.columbiat...ker-files-suit/

[Tanna]

You know, in general, haunted houses never truly scared me. (Although the *ending* of the one at Indiana Beach gave me a thrill) I just don't frighten from people jumping out, screaming, or fake bloody body parts etc.

However, the thing about a haunted house that DOES scare me is the possibility of things going wrong - namely fire. Haunted Houses are NOTORIOUS for fires and disaterous outcomes due to them. So when I have gone through them in the past I always stayed concered with where the exits were.

Shaggy

I've noticed all the exit signs, too, when I go through.

The only Haunted House fire I can recall is the Haunted Castle at Six Flags Great Adventure, which was shoddily built from trailers and made of shoddy materials, had only two live monsters, hard to find exits, and so much fencing and rigging it was difficult for the two monsters to save the patrons.

There's a lot of exits in KI's Haunts. I've seen them. Plus, the houses have enough monsters in them to help show the way out, I suspect plenty of flashlights, too. The monsters are not segregated from the patrons, nor the exits.

I am always aware of my surroundings in the houses, because I don't want to be a jinx and say that there will never be a cause for emergency egress. I just feel more confident that in KI, if there is an emergency egress, the patrons have a better chance of safety