Haunted Houses are Cool.

Okay, so if you know anything about me, you will be very aware that I am completely OBSESSED with going to haunted houses. There are plenty of haunted houses to choose from in Utah; they’re literally everywhere. Here are a few of my favorites:

Photo Courtesy of Nightmare on 13th

1: Nightmare on 13th

2: Fear Factory

3: This Is The Place Haunted Village

(This one isn’t really scary, I just find it really fun for some reason.)

Sadly, I all of the haunted houses I’ve been to are hands off. This means that the actors can’t touch you, and you can’t touch them. However, there are many, many, many haunted houses where you can get hands on, and I bet you can guess what that means: they can pull you away from your group, throw things at you, grab you, and do many other crazy things. I know that that sounds sketchy as hell, but I’m actually getting bored of the normal ones. Luckily, you can choose if you want hands on or hands off in most of them. Here are a few that I plan to go to this year:

1: Castle of Chaos

(It has “five levels of fear”, and most people chicken out when they get to the top two.)

2: The Haunted Forest

3: Haunted Circus

There is a haunted house though, that I will NEVER EVER be going to. That my friends, is Asylum 49, the sketchiest of them all. I have some friends who are going this weekend, and really I hope that they don’t die. There’s no choice of whether you want hands on or hands off, you just go in and they can do whatever they want to do to you, and IT IS BRUTAL. Shortly after buying your ticket, you walk up to the front of the haunted house where (if you are unlucky enough) people will surround you and take quite a few people away from your group. If you are extremely unlucky, you be the person taken away; they will put a bag over your head and take you to a random room and strap you down to a bed. Then, the “crazies” will “work on you” with actual medical equipment. They can’t actually hurt you, but they can get up to about a centimeter away from you with a chainsaw or some other scary thing. Then, the people in your group will have to walk through the hospital, alone, to come and find you. If they can’t, nobody will be sent from the staff to go and look for you, and you will just have to stay in the haunted house until it closes. And the worst part is: they can pull you back in once you are outside. So ya, that’s why I’m never going in there, and if you are brave enough to try it out, I wish you good luck. Also, make sure you tell me how it was afterwords :p.

Photo Courtesy of Asylum 49

-Allie

DON'T MESS WITH OUIJA BOARDS

Here's what one looks like.
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Okay, so everybody knows what a ouija board is right? It’s pretty simple: people use them to try and contact the dead. Sounds harmless? It’s really not, as things have gone horribly wrong when people are dumb enough to actually try them out. Most people believe that it is impossible to contact the dead, so they think “Hey, no harm can come from this, so why the hell not?” Well, let me tell you something:

People have had to have full blown exorcisms performed on them after playing with ouija boards. It is my personal belief (and many others) that any spirit, bad or good, can use a ouija board to channel themselves into anyone in the room. I know that I probably sound crazy to you, but hey, after spending hours upon hours of reading stories and doing background research, I have come tho the conclusion that that can actually happen. Some other things that can and will happen include people going into comas, having burns and scratch marks all over their body, and many other things that I don’t really want to explain. I know it’s a bit graphic, and quite frankly I’m freaking myself out right now. If you still  don’t believe me, there are pictures and videos all over the internet, but I won’t attach any for obvious reasons (I’m actually too scared to look them up myself). 

So, playing with a ouija board IS NOT a game. I have a friend that was telling me about how her friends were getting together to play with a ouija board that weekend, but she wasn’t going to. I told her that she was very, very, very smart, and then told her to try and talk her friends out of it. Even though something bad may not happen every time, you never want to take that chance. I mean, come on, they aren’t being made anymore for a reason… You can only buy them from eBay or Amazon or another company like that. 

Please never try out a ouija board just to look like a badass, because I don’t think that trying to look cool in front of your friends is worth getting possessed. But, if you really want to, don't come crying to me when things go bad. Not gonna lie, when I was a young, stupid sixth grader, I really wanted to play with one, but luckily my mom wouldn’t let me (shout out to my mom). Point is, don’t do it; it’s bad. 

If you want to read more stories about the horrors of ouija boards, click here.

P.S: Even though I just said that ouija boards are bad, I’m still really excited for the movie Ouija to come out on Friday. Comment down below if you're pumped for that as well. :) I may end up doing a review of that movie, so stay tuned. 

Ta-Ta For Now, 

Allie

How to Survive Watching a Horror Movie

Disclaimer: Okay, so I know that this post isn’t necessarily about a conspiracy theory, but if you would kindly look at my title you will see that it clearly says, “Conspiracy Theories and Such”. So, this is the “and such” part I was talking about, and I hope that you’re not too upset that I will be writing about something other than a conspiracy theory. PS: be prepared for more of these in the future. :)

Without further adieu: HOW TO SURVIVE WATCHING A HORROR MOVIE

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Tip #1: DO NOT WATCH HORROR MOVIES ALONE.

    If you wish to watch a horror movie, I would highly suggest a companion to watch it with. I will usually watch them with my friends Teia, Jade, and Claire, but if you are for some reason so antisocial that you have no friends, I would suggest buying a pet because A: they’re cuddly and warm and great for hugging when you get scared, and B: will protect you from all of the scary stuff that you think is in your house afterwards. For example, I decided to watch The Conjuring last weekend by myself, and the only reason I didn’t run out of my room screaming was because I had my three kittens with me. I may have almost squeezed the life out of them, but hey, at least I didn’t have nightmares.

Tip #2: HAVE A LARGE SUPPLY OF BLANKETS READY.

    I know that sticking your head under a blanket while watching a horror movie is a bit cliché, but trust me, it works. I’ve saved myself from becoming mentally scarred just by doing this. Also, they're warm and cozy and just make you feel generally more comforted. If you are still scared after cocooning yourself with blankets, mute your TV right before the scariest parts. The best way to tell that a scary part is coming is to notice any sudden changes in the background music; that’s a pretty good indicator that a jump scare is about to occur. 

Tip #3: TELL YOURSELF HOW STUPID THE CHARACTERS ARE.

For example, if the characters are playing a sketchy game of hide and seek, just start talking about how stupid the characters are, i.e. “Why are you doing this? You know that something bad is going to happen…” or “WHY ARE YOU WALKING TOWARDS THE NOISE IN THE ATTIC? HOW STUPID CAN YOU BE?!” I honestly don’t know why this helps, it just does. I’m going to get a little off topic now, but am I the only one that feels like that there is a hide and seek scene in EVERY SINGLE HORROR MOVIE?! Like in the Conjuring, as soon as the family moves into the house, the kids decide to play a variation of hide and seek called hide and clap. Hide and clap is especially sketchy because first of all, the seeker is BLINDFOLDED. How is someone okay with looking for somebody in an unfamiliar house while blindfolded? Second of all, the hiders have to clap to indicate their locations to the seeker. And obviously, if you are  aware that you are watching a horror movie, you would assume that someone other than the kids hiding will clap, and naturally, the seeker will go after that clap as opposed to the others. During this part of the movie, I was constantly telling myself that the characters were stupid for wanting to play this game in the first place, and doing so made the jump scare at the end of the scene slightly less freaky because I anticipated it.

So, those are my top three tips for surviving a horror movie. Hopefully they will help you out, and will prevent you from having to walk around your house with a tennis racket afterwords. 

See you later, 
          Allie