Students had a chance to take a two-tiered tour of terror Thursday evening Oct. 21, aptly named The Slaughterhouse in Singles.
Residential Living, the group that organized the haunted house, transformed typically quiet Lovelace Hall into a menagerie of the maleficent.
The first two floors of the hall were used for the slaughterhouse, which was run entirely by student volunteers who dressed up in their most ghastly garb. Their primary job was to do everything they could to scare the students touring the slaughterhouse.
Groups of five students or less were allowed in the slaughterhouse at a time. The tour guides, dressed in classic black and white striped prisoner attire, took each group into the lobby of Lovelace to assure students they may become terrified, but no harm would come to them.
After the short safety precaution, the guide opened up the door, and the trip began.
The hallowed halls were populated by shambling zombies, mad scientists bringing the dead back to life, creepy singing girls reminiscent of the Grady twins from “The Shining,” an eerie room occupied by TV static and a mad man, grisly ghouls and everything else that goes bump in the night.
The volunteers working the slaughterhouse may not have been able to touch the students going through the slaughterhouse, but that certainly didn’t stop zombies, monsters and clowns from jumping out from every dark corner trying to put a good fright in anybody who passed by them.
Freshman television arts major Michelle Rice dressed as a zombie for the slaughterhouse.
“We had a group of girls just stuck in the middle of our room because they were so scared,” Rice said. “They just wouldn’t move.”
After the tour, students were able to ease whatever fears they may have had with a nice cup of hot chocolate and a bag of popcorn, free for anyone brave enough to make their way through The Slaughterhouse in Singles.
This annual tradition continues to bring fright and delight to campus.
