Thread: Ripley's Haunted Adventure - Myrtle Beach

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This isn't my vid, but I just snagged it for a reference, I might make one tomorrow when I go back out there...

I finally went to Ripley's Haunted Adventure tonight (Tuesday) in Myrtle Beach, SC. I rate it pretty high on the likability scale for a number of reasons. I really loved the atmosphere they created. In the que lines there were wanted posters and general stories about the haunt printed on the old-fashion post paper from the wild-west days...The elevator that takes guests the three stories upward was very well made and an excellent touch...old and rusty complete with screeching sound effects and all...There weren't too many actors manning the attraction (5-6 total I kept track of) Based on other YouTube videos I saw, not all the effects were in commission, however, the scariest thing about the entire haunted house was all of the darkness throughout the 3 floors! My favorite room was the circle room that was completely dark and had a whispering soundtrack playing...it sounded like actors were literally in my ear. We would've kept walking around in circles in complete darkness had a kid in our group not found the door that triggered the lights to come on only to reveal a room of lost people crouched over feeling the walls for the EXIT!!! I also like how they kept the groups small so it was more of a personalized experience...our group was 10 people total including my party of 3. Overall I give this attraction a 5 out of 5 skulls...if you are in the area check it out...

I would love to hear about how the other Ripley's Haunts compare...(Gatlinburg, San Antonio...) I wanted to try the one in Tennessee back in January but I was with a church group that wasn't havin it!!!

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been to the one In San Antonio. It was, goodness, probaly 6 years ago! I can't rember much but there was this one room where you walk by a cage with this monster thing in it. the monster is diging through the insides of a corpse on the ground and than the monster sees you and throws the guts againts the cage any you get wet with warm blod! really all it was, was a maniquine with a hole in the chest than I guess there was a faint red light in it to make the water look red. So than your not really getting wet from fake blood but just wamred water. it was a really great effect. however I heard that they got rid of that part. There was also a room that was FILLED with bodie bags hanging from the celling and it was just a strobe that would randomly light up the room. You had push through these tightly packed bodie bags and some of them would move and squirmed! I loved it! I will have to go back since I havn't been there in such a long time. The haunt is also located in a Real haunted buliding! Its directly across from the Alamo which means that it's on the battle gorunds where hundred of people died.

We went to the one in Gatlinburg and it was awesome, you enter a caged trolley that shook and rattle its way up to the third floor. The best scares once again is whats not there and what you hear and think thats there (I need to duplicate this in my maze). There was this dark corridor and above you was what appear (it was too dark to tell) a large metal box with noise makers in it shaking and making freaky noises.....it made you duck, very scary, never knew what it was.

The Ripley's in Gatlinburg definately kicks butt. It is Ripley's original Haunted House and the actors inside have some of the best makeup I have ever seen. Real movie caliber stuff. There is another Haunt in town, The Mysterious Mansion, that bills itself as the "#1 Haunt in Gatlinburg" and boy what a joke. They had one actor on duty and when we came out he was out front smoking and trying to pick up girls.

Definately Ripley's all the way.

Originally Posted by GDfreak

been to the one In San Antonio. It was, goodness, probaly 6 years ago! I can't rember much but there was this one room where you walk by a cage with this monster thing in it. the monster is diging through the insides of a corpse on the ground and than the monster sees you and throws the guts againts the cage any you get wet with warm blod! really all it was, was a maniquine with a hole in the chest than I guess there was a faint red light in it to make the water look red. So than your not really getting wet from fake blood but just wamred water. it was a really great effect. however I heard that they got rid of that part. There was also a room that was FILLED with bodie bags hanging from the celling and it was just a strobe that would randomly light up the room. You had push through these tightly packed bodie bags and some of them would move and squirmed! I loved it! I will have to go back since I havn't been there in such a long time. The haunt is also located in a Real haunted buliding! Its directly across from the Alamo which means that it's on the battle gorunds where hundred of people died.

Ours in Myrtle Beach was supposedly in a "truly haunted building" as well...They had the Carolina Ghost Hunters come and "prove" the place was really haunted. I think because it seems that all of the haunts Ripley's have built are billed as "truly haunted" it may just be part of the story line, but the one at the beach still had the guy behind the bars digging in the body cavity who splashed us with warm water too. It also had the body bags too...um, I agree with a previous post...it was more scary when we couldn't see what was in the pitch black and they also had the inflatable walls that squeezed you...VERY SCARY!!!