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- August 23, 2011
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The very idea of ghosts gives me heebie jeebies that would freak out an actual ghost.
That was a weird sentence.
Maybe I should say, “The very idea of ghosts gives my heebie jeebies the heebie jeebies.”
The very idea of ghosts gives me heebie jeebies that would give a penguin the chills.
You get the picture and that picture is this: [shudder]
The worst part is that I’m very good at scaring myself. I’ll walk into my basement and say to myself, “What if the Blair Witch is down here?”
Or I’ll be sitting in my living room alone and say to myself, “What if a little girl ghost walks in here all, ‘ MIIIIIIILK?’”
Or I’ll see an old paintbrush on a shelf in the basement and I’ll say to myself, “Wouldn’t it be weird if I came down here tomorrow and that paintbrush was on the ground?”
If I ever find that old paintbrush on the ground, I will run screaming all the way to Ireland.
There’s a big old house for sale in my neighborhood and the rumored reason that it is for sale so often is because it is haunted. When I told my husband this, he asked, “Ooooh. How much do they want for it?” And I said, “One hundred billion dollars. We can’t afford it. Bummer.”
If you love being scared and you love the idea of ghosts or just plan to visit the ScareHouse this year, this is the giveaway for you!
What: Two tickets to the ScareHouse’s Meet the Ghost Hunters event.
Meet the stars from two of the county’s top-rated paranormal TV shows: Ghost Hunters and Ghost Hunters International. Steve Gonsalves, Dave Tango, Kris Williams and Amy Bruni will be meeting fans, signing autographs, and posing for photos during two VIP events. Only a limited number of tickets will be sold for each 2-hour, private event at Olive Or Twist.
Your ticket includes:
- Socializing with Steve, Tango, Kris, and Amy
- Two hours of hot hors d’oeuvres and delicious desserts
- Free soft drinks (cash bar available)
- One RIP admission to The ScareHouse good for any night of operation on or before 10/30/11. This is a $30 value!
This is video from last year’s event:
When: Saturday, October 1st. The winner will choose between the 1-3 p.m. event or the 4-6 p.m. event.
Value: The tickets sell for $80 each and the RIP ticket is worth $30, therefore this giveaway is valued at $220!
If you don’t win: You can buy tickets here! $80 gets you the meet and greet, food, and an RIP admission to the ScareHouse. The event sells out every year.
To Enter: Leave a comment! One comment per valid email address. You have until Thursday at noon to enter at which time Random.org will select the winning comment number. If your comment goes to spam, scream your head off and run all the way to Ireland.
Don’t do that. Relax. I’ll periodically pull them from spam.
So you have something to say, tell me what the most fun you ever had being scared was.
For me, it was probably the time I was 13 or so and I watched Tremors for the first time with my best friend in her dark bedroom late one night. We screamed our guts out.
Graboids are scary shit.
P.S. I hope Tango’s real name is Tango and I hope he has a brother named Bravo and a sister named Delta.
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Ali
August 23, 2011 11:36 am
Best time being scared.. I was at the USS Nightmare (does that thing even exist still?) at station square.. I’ve been afraid of Michael Myers from Halloween since I can remember and my lovely friends decided to tell that to the Michael Myers haunting the ship that very bit of information so of course he chased me the whole way through the dang thing. I’ve never gotten through a haunted house faster. Slide at the end though! Fun stuff.
SysCruncher
August 23, 2011 11:37 am
When I was in high school I went to a haunted farm, and ended up becoming part of the show. Don’t know how or why, but I did have a blast scaring the crap out of people since I ended up in costume and makeup.
bluzdude
August 23, 2011 11:37 am
Even better… Tango is a middle child, with an older sib named Whiskey and a younger sib named Foxtrot.
DQ me from the drawing, but I still want to play…
Most fun being scared was in Jr High when I first saw Jaws (when it was new) in a theater. My younger brother had already seen it and was sitting beside me:
Brother: This is when the head comes out… this is when the head comes out…
Me: Whatdya tellin’ me for? Stop…
[Head comes out]
Me: [flies 3 feet out of my seat anyway]
The classics…
Jagoff
August 23, 2011 11:48 am
Ok, can’t say I was scared, but I went to Cedar Point last year with some friends for their Halloween thing. One of their haunted houses ended with you walking through a hallway that has about 50 baby dolls nailed to the wall, peeing. It was hilarious.
Josh
August 23, 2011 11:53 am
Best time being scared would be a corn maze I did…totally freaked me out kept running around circles…but still good stuff
Shari
August 23, 2011 11:57 am
When I was about 10 we were watching a dracula movie and he jumped out at a woman and I screamed and threw my dish of ice cream in my own face. We all got a good laugh out of that one.
ErinPatricia
August 23, 2011 11:59 am
wandering through a supposedly haunted cemetery around my house in high school. We didnt see anything, but our adrenaline was skyhigh so every. noise. we. heard. was a big bad ghost.
BrieCS
August 23, 2011 12:12 pm
When I was a kid in 4-H, my family would do big hayrides on our farm and we would do the most epic planning for hauntings. We had people in harnesses hanging from trees, riding through a field on a horse with a giant sword as the headless horseman… It was awesome!
Katie
August 23, 2011 12:13 pm
Oh hands down the time I was too young but went to see Blair Witch Project anyway…I don’t think I slept for a week.
Amy
August 23, 2011 12:29 pm
Funny thing is, I love Ghost Hunters and ghost stories and hunting for ghosts. I DO NOT LIKE haunted houses. The kind that jump out and say boo! Or chase you with a chainsaw. But I would love to go to this event and meet some of my favorites from my favorite show! I would donate the tickets into the Scarehouse to someone who loves to be chased by a chainsaw!
My brother in law gets the win for scaring me the most and ALMOST making me pee my pants. We were driving, in the dark, through an area that has an old cemetary. Stupid me was telling the ghost stories that I’ve heard about the cemetary. My brother in law, who was sitting behind me, reaches out of his window and slams his hand onto my window. I still can’t drive through that area without freaking out.
Beth
August 23, 2011 12:30 pm
I love being scared, but my favorite memory being scared was going to see a Freddy/Jason movie with a friend before school started when I was an RA. I returned to my completely empty dormitory and it was just soooo spooky.
If I won these tickets, I might become my mom’s favorite daughter. So I’m hoping to pull this out.
Rich D
August 23, 2011 12:33 pm
I’m convinced my house is haunted. In addition to the weird stuff that happens to me, for example, I had a about 5 bills folded in half and set them on the counter when I emptied my pockets. I went into the kitchen later and each individual bill corner was folded over. I was alone and they weren’t like that when I put them there. We had a contractor working in our house, he was sitting on the floor, drinking coffee when our beagle ran into the room, sat on his lap and started shaking. He then heard someone coming up the steps, but when he walked down the hallway, no one was there and the dog wouldn’t leave his side the rest of the day.
JennyMoon
August 23, 2011 12:36 pm
I wouldn’t say it was fun but the time I forced myself to watch The Ring because I wanted to know what the heck it was about. Bad idea.
HollyT
August 23, 2011 12:42 pm
The only time I had fun being scared was the first year they opened Fright Nights at Kennywood. Went with my mom. Big mistake. She kept telling the scary people my name. One decided to follow me the entire way through the haunt, saying my name over and over, telling me he wanted me, etc. I could not quit laughing. I had tears from laughing so hard. it was the only time I wasn’t freaked out in a haunted house. I completely lost all attention to what was trying to scare me
KR
August 23, 2011 12:48 pm
Visiting creepy cemeteries with friends in college.
Steph M
August 23, 2011 12:51 pm
When I went to Penn State, the theater students would split up into three groups and each group would set up their own “haunted house.” One was in the old student health building, one was in the theater building and one was in a forensics building. Sadly, I only heard about them when I was a senior (I guess I was living under a rock) but I went to all of them that year and they scared the crap out of me and my friends. The one night it was just me and my boyfriend and we walked through the forensics house alone (usually the groups were 10-15 people) so the people just terrorized us the whole time since they had no one else to scare.
red pen mama
August 23, 2011 12:55 pm
People have fun being scared? Because I’m a little more like Ginny. I would’ve been Ginny x 10 in the Scarehouse last year. Don’t like it. And the karma boomerang on that is that I now have a 4-year-old who is scared of the dark, and frankly I see her point. Not helpful.
Okay, this one time at Mother-Daughter camp (when I was 12 and with my mother), I had a lot of fun being scared during a game of murder in a dark cabin. Mostly because I was the murderer and I was determined to kill everyone.
Wow. I sound twisted. Awesome!
Rachel
August 23, 2011 12:56 pm
My scariest memory is watching Carrie one Halloween night when my mom had to leave to pick up my brother from his football game… I insisted on going with her, because I was too afraid to be home alone… saddest part, I was 18 at the time
Pittsburgh Tom
August 23, 2011 1:12 pm
I have a lot of fun with ‘scary’ things like horror movies & haunted houses, mainly cause those type of things don’t scare me. I’m too much of a skeptic. If I was in a horror movie, I’d be the guy not running from Jason because I’d think he was just a friend playing a prank.
So me actually having fun AND being scared? Probably had to do with me riding on a low-budget carnival ride where my dying was actually a possibility.
PG Wodehouse
August 23, 2011 1:13 pm
Redrum
Melanie
August 23, 2011 1:19 pm
For some reason my roommate and I decided to watch scary movies one night while we were working and living on a wildlife refuge. Once the last one was over we looked around the big house we were staying in by ourselves and thought it would be a good idea to walk to the headquarters to hangout with the law enforcement people. It seemed like a good idea to walking down the deserted road in the dark when we left the house, but by the time we got to the building we were laughing like crazy. We skipped the scary movies after that night.
Danielle
August 23, 2011 1:19 pm
When I was in Jr. High we thought it would be fun to watch The Blair Witch Project and then go for a walk in the woods. Well, I was too busy flirting with my new boyfriend (and likewise for him flirting with me) we ended up getting lost in the woods. Panicked, we started screaming for our friends and trying our hardest to find any sign of light (we thought we were still close to the house). We ran into a stray dog (scared the crap out of us), it started snowing, and we seriously thought we were going to freeze to death. Then, when we were starting to loose hope (two hours later) we were walking really quietly to see if we could hear traffic or anything, and heard rustling in the trees. We stopped and tried to figure out where it was coming from. It was pitch black and we couldn’t see anything. Then, a body fell out of the tree and scared the hell out of us. We were screaming until we realize the body was moaning in pain and we recognized it. It was our friend Andy, trying to scare us, but he fell out of the tree and broke his arm. haha While we screamed at first it was one of the funniest things ever, afterwards!
Pete
August 23, 2011 1:20 pm
I wouldn’t say this “Scared” me, but it did freak me out.
When I first got married, we rented an old house. My wife’s daughter was about 6 at the time. I was in the living room and my wife was putting her daughter to bed upstairs. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a young blonde girl go into the bathroom, turn on the light and close the door.
I yelled, “Kerri! What are you doing down here? You’re supposed to be upstairs getting ready for bed.”
My wife yelled from upstairs, “Who are you talking to?”
“Kerri, she just went into the downstairs bathroom”
“Kerri’s right here with me”
I ran over to the bathroom. The door was closed, I opened the door and the light was on and the toilet was flushing.
True story . . .
AngryMongo
August 23, 2011 1:23 pm
First time I ever rode the demon drop at Cedar Point. It was like a boxey, elevator version of the PIT Fall. Except that you rode in a car up to the top, slid out over the edge, waited, waited, peed a little, waited some more, and then you drop, sliding down a track which left you on your back at the end.
I was working there at the time and we used to joke with the ride op crew about how much money they collect on a daily basis.
“Enough to go drinking every night.”
Geo Miller
August 23, 2011 1:32 pm
I get the creeps every time I walk past dad’s office (which was not always a part of our house). One night they went on vacation so I setup a camera. Not much happened, but about ten minutes in there was a loud clap noise that I have not been able to explain. My brothers were just as creeped out as well, considering other things that happened in the past… such as the ceiling fan turning on by itself. To this day the room frightens me so I keep the door shut when possible.
Amy
August 23, 2011 1:32 pm
Best scare was the entire time during my ghost hunt at mansfield state penitentiary. Do ghosts exist? You betcha! Had my hair pulled, heard lots of unexplainable noises, and almost peed my pants seeing dark shadows move where there weren’t any people. Can’t wait to do it all over again!
Cale
August 23, 2011 1:43 pm
When I was 6, we lived in a haunted house. Late one night, I woke up and walked out into our upstairs hallway to go to the bathroom to get a drink. I found my Mom and Dad standing stairing up at the door way that lead to the attic.
Standing very still and listening, we all clearly heard a typewriter click-clacking away in the attic. The typewriter would clack until it reached the end of the row and then it would reset with a zip-ding!
My Father, deciding to investigate, started to open the door to go up to the attic when the door was forced shut from the inside. Each time he pushed on it, the door pushed back with equal or greater force. With one final push my Dad threw his weight behind it and the door slammed in and opened onto an empty stairwell. The typewriter fell silent and the house was still.
We all slept with the lights on for the rest of the night.
Mark S
August 23, 2011 1:43 pm
If I told you what scared me, I’d be revealing weakness to you…weakness that could be used against me. What’s the fun in that? :-)
Lauren
August 23, 2011 1:44 pm
Possibly the most scared I’ve been is last night. My 3 y/o told me that someone talks to her when she’s in her room by herself. Freaked my shit out for sure!
Justin P. Sorrentino
August 23, 2011 1:46 pm
Last year for my 30th birthday my wife and I went to see the sights in Boston. We stayed at the Omni Parker House on the most haunted floor. The first night we were there I woke up at 3am and saw a woman dressed in an old fashioned dress reading a book right in front of my bed standing up. About three seconds after my eyes adjusted and I could actually confirm I wasn’t sleeping she slowly turned to me, smiled and just slowly vanished. It was more like a de-pixelation (if that’s even a word). I immediately jumped up in bed and just sat there thinking about what I saw. After I came back down to earth I grabbed my phone and did research on the hotel only to find out that a famous 19th century actress was living on that floor of the hotel and died in one of the rooms which now I assume was mine. Pretty creepy but completely awesome at the same time. At least she smiled!
PensFan024
August 23, 2011 1:50 pm
When I was growing up I had a creek in my backyard. We would always walk down stream until we got to a long tunnel that went under the Municipal building. When I was about 10 or so we finally decided to walk through the darkness. When we got to the other side a friend of mind jumped right into the deep water at the end. Later that day we found out she had peed herself. That was the most fun I had ever had being scared.
Carren
August 23, 2011 1:52 pm
We went to an amusement park when I was about 10 years old, and we went on some ride, don’t even remember which one, but it was one of those two seater tram carts, my mom was sitting next to me…as we sit and our little cart is about to enter the curtain to take us into the actual ride, I was so convinced that it was going to be scary, that I started screaming before we hit the curtain, which freaked out my mom, and she started screaming because she didn’t know why I was screaming! Good times…
Burgh Bird
August 23, 2011 2:02 pm
8th grade. Birthday sleepover party. 12 girls in sleeping bags watching “Nightmare On Elm Street”. Near the end of the movie, the scariest part, the power goes out. 12 girls scream bloody murder.
I am not kidding you right now….in the middle of that story, I had to jump off the couch because it felt like someone had grabbed one end of it and started shaking it. What the freak was that?!?
OK, I just read it was an earthquake. That makes me feel better. But yeah, talk about being freaked out.
Betty
August 23, 2011 2:15 pm
July Ghost hunt at the Stanley Hotel -TWo groups of 6, both had communication with spirt/s using “spirit radio”, then Hear answers that suggested that Lord DFunraven was communicating, using his regulas name. A mag flashlight was in each group. Amazing how it would turn on to answer questions . Toward the end of the hunt, huge flash of light in the hall, had all asking “did someone take a flash picture?: NO. Later on the digital recorder, you hear a loud click, then the flash. No click was heard at the time.
Over all top xperience!
Lindsay
August 23, 2011 2:30 pm
I used to live across the street from a cemetery and would sometimes go for walks along its streets in the evenings. One night, I stayed out a little too long and it got dark. I was hurrying back home, when a coyote howled in the distance. Then another coyote ran from behind some tombstones about 20 yards away. I have never run so fast!
Noelle
August 23, 2011 2:34 pm
I was living in an apartment building in Washington DC that was built in the 1910s and I watched a diaphanous bride in a 1920s wedding dress float gracefully from one end of my hallway to the other and right through the back wall. It never scared me, or felt ghost-like, it was more like an image of a happy moment trapped in-between realms of time.
hello haha narf
August 23, 2011 3:00 pm
i don’t find it fun to be scared. not at all! if i win, i’m giving these to a friend who would enjoy it.
BUT, my friend in atlanta is on a paranormal investigative team. she was at waverly hills sanatorium in kentucky recently for an investigation. she posted her evidence here:
http://paranormalgeorgia.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/waverly-evidence-part-1/#comment-10
#damncreepy
Burgh Bird
August 23, 2011 3:02 pm
You gotta admit thought, the scariest part and yet the most ridiculous part of haunted houses are the chainsaws…..in your head, you know there are no chains on them, but even the largest manly men are reduced to girlie screaming….
chicken
August 23, 2011 3:27 pm
Actually my best time being scared was in Ireland…so I wanted to run all the way from Ireland back to Pittsburgh. :-/
We were touring the grounds of a castle and we were in one of the old out buildings – I was taking a picture of a spinning wheel, and on the camera appeared a glowing human(ish) shape. I ran out and tripped over a chicken. Appropriate.
RJQ
August 23, 2011 3:32 pm
OMG Ghost Hunters! Love them.
While feeding the barn animals (cats and horses and dogs, ohmy!) my cousin and I would hear someone talking and walking around in the upstairs of the barn. There was never anyone there! Also saw strange shadows in the lighting that was hard to explain.
Kristin
August 23, 2011 3:38 pm
The most recent being scared was that tremor and it definitely wasn’t fun.
I agree wholeheartedly with your P.S.
Mike
August 23, 2011 3:44 pm
Friends of the family lived down the street and the father really enjoyed turning his garage into a freak-out for the neighborhood children during Halloween.
He did a severe number on me as a child, what with the hand inside the candy bowl trick. I was not happy! I think he also pretended to chop his hand off once.
But it did break me into that sort of thing from an early age, and I became fairly fascinated with the whole haunted house gig. Mostly though, I can now appreciate a good scare or gross out.
Kathy
August 23, 2011 3:47 pm
If my name was Tango, I’d get two dogs and name them Whisky and Foxtrot.
I never have fun getting scared. I think I’ve mentioned my Ice Age 2 screaming fit before, when the kids all turned and looked all, What the Effie Foxtrot?
I would say when I was 13 and watching Carrie at 1 am when I was babysitting.
Kelly starr
August 23, 2011 3:52 pm
When I was a teenager my brothers bestfriend use to stay with us all the time. But one night he had went out with other friends and we got a phone call from him late that night wanting talk to my brother ….later that morning we got the news that he had died that night, his phone call was a hour after the accident.
Stacey
August 23, 2011 3:56 pm
Definitely a ghost hunt at the Whaley House in San Diego. We recorded some EVP’s that noone heard live. It was creepy!
Cheryl P
August 23, 2011 3:59 pm
I know you live here in the twp…. there are probably alot of houses here that are haunted!!
BTW -Tango’s name is Dave
spoon
August 23, 2011 4:18 pm
does playing softball with @burghbaby count? That was pretty damn scary.
Besides that I would have to say parking in the middle of the Gudgeonville Bridge. you could hear the horse walking across and the feet of the dead man hitting the roof of your car.
facie
August 23, 2011 4:29 pm
Haunted house in North Park back in ’97 or ’98. Some guy with a fake chainsaw kept chasing me. It was fun, scary, and creepy!
HeatherB
August 23, 2011 6:31 pm
I’m ridiculously afraid of the Pinhead character. I was walking through a haunted maze in 1995 and got separated from my friends. Somehow I rounded a corner and walked right into someone’s chest (I’m only 5’2″.) I looked up and when I realized it was Pinhead I freaked out and started running. I swear I lost him and slammed right back into him. I turned around and faced the corn stalks and started to cry hysterically. I must have been REALLY pathetic because in a normal boy voice, Pinhead said, “Dude, are you ok? I’m like, a real dude under here.” Yeah, it didn’t help.
Stacie
August 23, 2011 6:55 pm
The last time the Haunted Boat was in town during Halloween, I went with a few friends even though I don’t usually do haunted houses, I didn’t want to chicken out. We went around this corner everything was pitch black the guys were in front and someone jumped out scaring the hell out of my guy friends they screamed so loud and ran so fast I nearly wet myself from laughing so hard! It was the best time.