Thread: Favorite SCARE

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I've noticed all of the "what-is/are-your-favorites" recently on the forum and I would like to add to it... So I ask...

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SCARE??

Or favorite time you've been scared.

It can be at a Haunt or a good prank but it has to have been done to you!
It could have made you laugh, cry, cry and laugh later or made you need a change of pants.
Enjoy!!!

My favorite scare if all time was at a haunt in Idaho. The I had been through the haunted theater and as I came out and thought to myself, "yea, pretty decent haunt." I passed a person dressed as a bush and all they had to do was move their hand toward me... I ran screaming like a little girl!

It was fantastic! I have since incorporated it into haunts I have been a part of.

Originally Posted by DorkQuixote

a person dressed as a bush

Funny, I was going to say the exact same thing.....

My favorite scare was when I worked for a company in Maryland, and they had us working in cubicles. We had drop ceilings in the office, and I screwed in an eye hook that was above where someone would stand if they were talking to me when I was sitting at my desk, and a second eye hook over the edge/corner of one of my cubicle walls. I took a rubber spider and tied some fishing line around it, then threaded the line through the eye hooks and to a paper clip hook that stuck in the wall. During Octobers, we had Halloween decorations all over the place, so no one ever noticed the spider on the ceiling.

When people would come to talk to the guys in my area, and they were near the spider, I would slowly unhook the paper clip, and let the spider drop down until it was just even with their eyes, but behind them. When they were talking, or when they would turn to leave, there would be that spider and it would scare the heck out of them.

I would love to say it was my idea, but I stole it from a t-shirt store in Daytona Beach called The Shirt Shack. They have two old bath tubs out on the floor where they toss all the shirts they mess up or have on clearance, and people will go digging through them. When they do, the airbrush artists drop those spiders down on the people going through the shirts and they'll fly up and run about like someone's set them on fire. It's hillarious.

Bruzilla I am definitely going to use that!!!!

Ha! I'm easily startled/scared...I always check down the hall when leaving my bedroom or the hall bath, because there is usually some sinister family member hiding in the shadows waiting to scare me!
Another great scare for me was when I was a teen, and a neighbor dressed as an old man and sat in a chair in his yard. He looked like a prop completely! He would wait for people to get close enough, then stir slightly and then jump up and chase them. It was GREAT!

I don't scare/startle easily and I can't think of anything specific that actually scared me in a haunt... However what does creep me out in a haunted house is when they have someone who you pass and then silently starts following you... I think it's a very effective scare than people just jumping out and trying to surprise you, and it's too bad more places don't do that. The people jumping out or making loud noises/banging on the walls don't scare me. I usually just find them annoying especially when the actors just bang on the walls over and over.

When I go to a haunted house with friends they always argue about who will be in front in the group, they don't want to be the first one. I always volunteer to be first, I like to be first because the actors always focus on the first person in the group so you get more interaction. Plus I hate to be the last one, when I'm the last in the group I always feel like someone is following me even if they're not and have to keep checking over my shoulder... If I'm first I know who is behind me(my friends).

I did think of one thing that scared me but it was not a prank or haunt. I was watching PSI Factor (sci-fi/paranormal show) late at night one night, I don't remember the details but there were some sort of creepy creatures with glowing red eyes involved. I turned all the lights off and got up to go to bed. As I walked through the dining room, I suddenly saw two glowing red eyes staring at me from under the desk! It really freaked me out! I went and turned on the light quickly, and then looked under the desk more closely...there was the surge protector from my computer, with two red lights indicating it was turned on.