Credit to Claire Locke

Jeff and Tyler’s haunted garage opens each Halloween season free of charge to the public as a way to bring the community together.

You’re walking in a dark hallway, the smell of blood creeping into your nose with your friend cowering behind you for protection, when all of a sudden…..BOO a skeleton jumps out from around the corner. Some people like to go trick or treating for Halloween or watch scary movies, but some people love to get to be in one. With the love of Halloween, scary movie fans have made all sorts of haunted houses for people of all ages to enjoy. Most haunted attractions have themes such as zombies, toxins, clowns, scarecrows and many horror movie themes.

“As somebody that works at one, at this specific one, I think they work at them because they have fun scaring people one, and then also people enjoy being scared by other people,’’ Brandon Kaiman, who works at Jeff and Tyler’s Haunted Garage, said.

But sometimes haunted attractions have their prices. Some people might have sensitivity to flashing lights, get hurt, or pass out.

‘’We actually had a group of girls last year get stuck in the beginning because you can’t turn around,’’ Kaiman said. ‘’They walked in, and we scream and we shout when people walk in and they were stuck in the hallway, and they would not continue walking through and we let them out after like five minutes.’’

Sometimes people have to trick or treat with their younger siblings but instead want to do a haunted house on Halloween night. Some haunted houses such as Jeff and Tyler’s Haunted Garage, have an animatronic night for kids.

“They also have a night where there are no actors, and it’s just the animatronics and everything,’’ Kaiman said, ‘’So, younger people can go do them if they don’t want to get as scared.’’

Most people go to have a fun time with friends, to see what others created, and to feel the thrill of being jump scared.

“I feel like it kind of challenges you a little bit and gives you a little bit of excitement,” senior Kris Stelcer said.