2017's Haunt (Day)

2017: La Llorona

2017 was a landmark year for Haunted Hill: I was asked to participate in my first haunted house. The theme explored the legend of La Llorona and drew heavily on the prevalence of Catholicism in Mexican culture. The opening room featured a child’s funeral coupled with an altar riddled with crosses and postmortem photographs of children. From there, the haunt transitioned into a child’s room filled with creepy dolls and a bassinet housing the corpse of a dead infant. After a maze of tattered tarps, where scare-actors dressed as scary dolls stalked patrons, the haunt concluded with a barren room inhabited by two demonic monks and La Llorona herself, who was positioned to resemble Our Lady of Guadalupe with a halo of bones and a mound of skulls. Presented here are images of the haunt by day (always less atmospheric than their nighttime counterparts, but the best means to reveal detail).