Louisville, KY

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Saturday night I finally made it to the Waverly Hills Sanitarium’s Haunted House. They had a good crowd and the weather was perfect to stand in line. The air was cool enough for a sweater or jacket and the sky had an eerie pink tint while there was some thunder and lightning. Luckily it never started to rain, but it gave Waverly a great spooky ambiance from the outside.

We stood in line for about an hour and then went in with a group of eight people. The actual haunted house was fairly typical with scary scenes with butchered bodies and various characters popping out at you from nooks and crannies. Jason and Freddy made an appearance, as well as a fiend who chases you out of the building with a chainsaw. Rooms varied from being almost pitch black to strobe lights and fog. There was also a big spinning tunnel that you walked through that was very disorienting but a lot of fun. Walking through the haunted house took about 15 minutes.

To be honest I had a good time, but I am not sure that the $20 price of admission was worth what ended up to be a fairly standard haunted house. The $2 parking fee goes to the Crusade for Children. There was certainly no feeling that the ghosts and spirits that supposed haunt Waverly Hills were there. In fact I am sure any real ghosts probably leave when the haunted house is going on.

Waverly Hills does offer a two, four, and eight-hour tour during the rest of the year, and I would think that this may be a better way to spend your money if you are really looking for a supernatural experience.

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