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Hello! I would like to thank you for coming to the plantation this year. My cousin runs this annual event.
I did some post research on google for the reaction on the Haunted Plantation. I had to message you because your group of friends seems to be seasoned haunted house goers. I appreciate the honest critiques from you guys.
In defense to some of the things that weren't met to expectations:
-From 9:30-11pm on Friday, there was an emergency in the last building of the plantation. We had monsters switched around and out of their places. We also had to shut down that last building for about and hour.
-We were expecting 30 scarers to show up on the Friday night, but 12 of them called last minute and couldn't come. So our monsters that came worked double to try to compensate for the loss of others.
-Sometimes a group ahead could be hesitant to move on because they were too scared, so they end up combining with the group behind making it much harder for our monsters to scare anyone.
-We had so many of our volunteers punched, kicked, pushed, and many had things thrown at them which made things tough, too.
-2 of our 3 chainsaws were malfunctioning. We were suppose to have a chainsaw monster float around the middle of the plantation.
-On Saturday's run we had 26 of 30 volunteers show up and we were all pumped up for the night. All three chainsaws were up and running. We had no injuries except for the people that fell down as they were walking through. The line was more organized and we had a lot more guides to try and split the clumps of people up. A lot of groups got the grade A scare that they paid for on Saturday.
Overall, we had close to 20 people go to the hospital, nearly 20% could not finish all the way through, and loads of people lost their belonging due to fear! People would literally lose their shoes and say "Forget it!"
We learn from our mistakes and we will be back next year for the "Haunted Plantation III" "Three times as scary!"
The very first year we worked on a very small budget and mostly donated things, and we still got top recognition. This year we worked with a larger budget and ordered top-of-the-line prosthetics. Next year our budget will put us over the edge because we are going to HIRE scarers. That means this event will now be organized and pro!
Thank you so much for your respect in haunted houses and I hope you look out for us next year! Keep in touch:
Tell your friends about this!
p.s. I was the Clown.