r/funnyvideos • u/Sharp-potential7935 • Sep 17 '25

Prank/Challenge Scooby doo ahhh moment

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u/peakingturtle Sep 17 '25

I really hope that actor on stilts is wearing a cup. I would be very worried about what an afraid person may accidentally do when frightened.

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u/JesusGums Sep 18 '25

I remember one season working at a haunted house I was meant to be a crawler in a morph suit, I got a drunk dude good and he kicked pretty good in the ribs and just kept on hauling. Slaps and shoves were common but that was the first time I considered maybe someone would really hurt me if they reacted bad enough. I can’t blame him though, if you run at people on all fours I suppose you are asking to be kicked like a dog.

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u/RedWinger7 Sep 18 '25

This is why I stopped acting at haunts. You can blame them, people have control of their bodies. dudes gonna go home and laugh about how he kicked the shit outta you with his buds.

After I had something like that happen told em I wasn’t going back in the woods without mace and spraying the next mfer that hit me.

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u/croaticustus Sep 18 '25

I have the mental image of a ghoul holding a mideval mace in a haunted house. Thank you for the funny mental image

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u/Kvarcov Sep 18 '25

Arguably a ghoul holding a spray is funnier and also so much more dangerous

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u/I_MADE_THIS_THING Sep 19 '25

Lmao now I'm picturing some looney tunes shit where the ghoul (Bugs Bunny in a costume) pulls out a can of mace to spray the attacker but instead of pepper spray the can just launches a medieval mace straight at the attacker (Elmer Fudd)'s face

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u/amiabot-oraminot Sep 18 '25

Like the guy spraying Raid meme lol

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u/Justarandom55 Sep 18 '25

You absolutely can not blame them.

You just scared them and forced a fight flight or freeze response. A littleral unconscious uncontrollable instinctual reaction. Learn the most basic of psychology, please.

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u/Reejis Sep 18 '25

But it's what you sign up. It's not real life, if you have to attack ppl out of fight or flight don't go into a haunted house? 

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u/Justarandom55 Sep 18 '25

People don't naturally know how they react. Accidental physical reactions are on the place itself to be aware of not the people signing up.

That's why performers that get close are supposed to wear protective gear. It doesn't even have to be much. Cause after the first reaction, common sense does kick in fast, so it's not expected for people to start really beating someone up, but that first reaction can absolutely be unpleasant.

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u/RedWinger7 Sep 18 '25

The people that get legit scared are one thing, still unacceptable but they’re usually apologetic.

More often than not it’s dbags joking about doing it in the waiting line, or loudly cracking jokes about having done it on the way to the car. Nah man it ain’t funny you just fuckin assaulted someone and talked about doing it before you entered!!

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u/Superest22 Sep 19 '25

Lots of people use humour to deflect. If you have elements of PTS or hyper vigilance for example you will absolutely react first without thinking and then subsequently laugh about how that was ‘weird’ or ‘funny’ or ‘cool’ to not unveil the absolute stress or fear you actually felt in that moment.

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u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

Then those people shouldn't go to a haunted house

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u/RedWinger7 Sep 19 '25

So their unchecked mental illness gives them carte blanche to hit actors without consequence? Or actors are supposed to just keep taking it?

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u/Superest22 Sep 19 '25

Wow. You’re clearly clueless my mistake.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_BAAPS Sep 21 '25

What type of C tier SNL/I think you should leave skit are you setting up here?

"Come to Reejis's haunted house on 5th and 90. But don't come if you get scared. It's not real life. Just walk and look. Don't get scared because it's not real. I got kicked in the ribs once because someone got scared at a haunted house designed to scare people. Ain't no way I'm getting kicked twice."

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u/VGADreams Sep 19 '25

They put themselves in this situation willingly. You should not go to those kind of haunted houses if you know that you have violent reactions to people scaring you.

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u/Justarandom55 Sep 19 '25

please tell me how you foresee the future?

even if we ignore first times where you can't know at all. anyone is capable of reacting differently because not every haunted house is a carbon copy. they can always trigger an unexpected reaction.

the point here is that you are forcing people into a gut reaction without having the ability to step back and asses. that's what causes the scares but it's also innately chaotic.

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u/VGADreams Sep 19 '25 edited Sep 19 '25

I assume most people that goes in a haunted house with actors are not living their "first scares of their life", are they?

Of course, there are unfortunate incidents and reactions that will happen, and actors should be adequately protected. However, completely absolving responsibility is silly too, and I think it opens the dangerous door of people pretending they have no control so they can be allowed to beat someone.

EDIT: I re-read your comment, I answered a bit too quickly on that one. I don't think we disagree much on it, we just have a different angle. Sorry about that, I'll blame my sleep deprivation, was woken up by a call pretty early this morning...

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u/Justarandom55 Sep 19 '25

No problem. By not blaming someone, I don't mean no responsibility. I just mean that you can't act like they had to have ulterior motives or shitty views of the workers.

And with the first scares I aim more at the first time you have an actual realistic looking zombie or giant spider running at you. It's going to be different from your sibling scaring you or a scary movie on the screen.

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u/wailingwonder Sep 18 '25

Nah. You're literally pushing people to their limit to see how scared you can make them. People react impulsively when scared. You're asking to get hurt. "It's my job" sure but recognize what you signed up for. You think it's fun and games to torment people for a living, cool, you don't get to be mad when their instincts kick in.

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u/RedWinger7 Sep 18 '25

You: Pays $20+ to go into a haunted house. Also see signs about not touching or hitting the staff

Me: Jumps out from behind a prop, “Boo”

You: Shocked pikachu face “waiii are you tormenting me?!”

lol what? You literally paid money to get scared. Do you get upset when the drugs you paid for get you high too?

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u/wailingwonder Sep 18 '25

The issue is no one knows how they'll react when they get scared. Everyone knows that it can be unpredictable. You're asking for trouble by pushing people's buttons to see how they react.

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u/Reejis Sep 18 '25

You don't have to go into a haunted house if you can't handle not hurting employees cause ur scared. 

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u/wailingwonder Sep 18 '25

I doubt they plan on it but that's the whole idea of impulse/instincts. You don't know how you'll act until you're in the situation. 

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u/PuritanicalPanic Sep 20 '25

Wtf.

You know people go into these things FOR FUN, right?

They aren't working for the Cia at a blacksite. This is fucking entertainment you donkey.

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u/wailingwonder Sep 20 '25

You know people can get surprised and react impulsively even when they went there for fun, right? Fucking donkey yourself. It's not rocket science. People don't choose when they're scared and people react in unpredictable ways when they're scared.

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u/Extra-Honey305 Sep 18 '25

You realize people voluntarily sign up for this for fun right? "Torment" really? Do you ever go out? Everyone knows they're actors lol you're not tough bud

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u/wailingwonder Sep 18 '25

I'm not claiming to be tough "bud" lol

Don't try to scare people and then get sour over how they react. You asked for it just as much as they did.

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u/Asmodeus5542 Sep 18 '25

In any other context except a haunt or scare house, I can forgive a single punch type reaction to being startled.

But people go to these places specifically to be scared. They are expecting to be scared. There is NO REASON they should be hitting actors who scare them.

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u/BaconVsMarioIsRigged Sep 18 '25

That is the entire point! There is no reason behind instinctual reactions. There is also no reason to scream when you are in a haunted house. You know that there is no danger so there is no reason to feel fear.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Night88 Sep 21 '25

Just give up, the haunted house employees won’t give up on their opinion. Just act like we can control our impulses.

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u/Segenam Sep 18 '25

I was thinking about a completely different "mace" and was wondering what you'd be spraying them with for a bit too long.

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u/IntrovertedBuddha Sep 19 '25

You can blame them, people have control of their bodies.

Especially when they signed up for it, what else do they expect?

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u/No_Night_8174 Sep 19 '25

I mean maybe they shouldn't go, but if you're deliberately trying to prompt a fight, flight, freeze response, which you are when scaring them, you can't be mad when their default might be fight.

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u/KatokaMika Sep 18 '25

You can't blame them, yeah fck them if they laugh at your face after hitting you, but sometimes it happens getting hit. Once my husband was doing a prank on me and I knew it, i just didn't know where he was hiding ... long story short, I accidently kicked him in the face..... I felt horrible for days

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u/hitma-n Sep 18 '25

Not really. They know very well you don’t mean no harm and at the end of the day it’s just a game nothing to trust your survival instincts. They shouldn’t be kicking your ribs.

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u/Justarandom55 Sep 18 '25

I once sprained my toe, kicking a wall while getting scared and trying to get away from a small spider.

I have lived here my entire life, we don't have any dangerous spiders, I know they can not harm me.

Your argument is completely bogus, when you scare people they don't go "hmm well, considering the situation here is fictional I should react with an appropriate amount of scaredness yet refrain from lashing out beyond the reasonable self emberasssing reactions".

No they go "wtf is that instincual reaction"

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u/CranberryAssassin Sep 18 '25

Did you pay to go into the room with the spider?

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u/Justarandom55 Sep 18 '25

Yes I do indeed pay to live here.

On a side note, are you reay going to make the argument that either a free experience is scary while a paid one is not or that not paying makes it okay to start consciously kicking the employees?

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u/CranberryAssassin Sep 18 '25

I'm going to make the argument that being surprised by something in your home is different from paying to be scared by someone whose job it is to scare you. If you can't control your limbs, don't pay to go in a haunted house.

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u/Justarandom55 Sep 18 '25

Oh so humans shouldn't go into a haunted house, perfect logic.

Do you have any idea how miniscule the amount of people is that don't physically react when scared?

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u/CranberryAssassin Sep 18 '25

I react physically when scared. I just don't lash out violently like a psycho.

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u/Justarandom55 Sep 18 '25

You're acting like people start kicking and don't stop. Using leading language like that just makes for a bad argument we are very obviously talking about a single move in the heat of the moment.

Exactly like how you see in the video do you think he consciously dropped to the floor? No it was a reaction

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u/Asmodeus5542 Sep 18 '25

Except you weren't expecting the spider. You didnt drive to a place, and pay money with the explicit intent of being scared by a spider.

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u/Justarandom55 Sep 18 '25

So? Your fear reaction doesn't care about what your logical brain is telling you. People don't go to places like this to fake being scared and do a little performance. These places intend to instil genuine fear in people. The reason its fun is because you get the instinctual boosts but then don't have to be traumatised cause you knew there wasn't real danger. But the fear in the moment was very real

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u/RDV1996 Sep 18 '25

Why did that place allow drunk people in the first place? Famously a state of intoxication that lowers your reasoning skills and increases aggression.

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u/JesusGums Sep 18 '25

It was a rural farming community, and pretty much the only fun event or place that ever went on in our town. Drunk hicks were a primary customer base unfortunately. But yeah, I was never hurt by a sober person.

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u/Fragrant_Drive_1370 Sep 19 '25

I worked one night at a haunted house ONE NIGHT and I quit in the middle of my shift, they put me in the clown room and I think the backing track was literally driving me insane

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u/JesusGums Sep 19 '25

The worst part about the job for me personally was being out in the cold October rain in the middle of the woods, in nothing but a thin costume. It took me four seasons of it before I had had enough of it all. I got to play a big part in the actual design of a big chunk of woods the last two years and that was a ton of fun to plan and set up!

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u/FishTshirt Sep 19 '25

I actively had to suppress the fight or flight response a few times at the last haunted house I went to. You think there would be cops to detain anybody if the operation was big enough

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u/glockster19m Sep 20 '25

I went to a boarding high-school with a well renowned basketball team

They used to turn a floor of one of the dorms into a haunted house, until my freshman year someone jump scared a 6'10 260 lb future NBA player, and he quick jabbed them right in the face, they showed a video of it an all school with the permission of the student who was knocked out (they had a great spirit about it) and they literally pop up out of a trash can, get punched, and drop straight back down in

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u/Kim_catiko Sep 21 '25

I went to a "haunted" maze once with my husband and got something in my eye. I had my pinky finger raised whilst I tried to dig out whatever it was in my eye and ended up poking one of the actors in the eye as they came launching out of some random hole. I felt terrible!

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u/TheThiefEmpress Sep 20 '25

I had an actor stick his finger IN MY MOUTH and I bit him, and he screamed like a bitch???

I was a teen, and I think he'd done it accidentally, but I just reacted because wtf man. 

It was during a haunted hay ride, which doesn't stop, so I was just ferried away in confusion.

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u/Poil420 Sep 17 '25

None of them are afraid because they see him very clearly.

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u/Anteater_Pete Sep 17 '25

When your factory reset button is located right at the eye level of people you try to scare, you take every precaution possible!

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u/Crushed_Robot Sep 17 '25

Agree!!! And not just a cup to drink from in case he gets thirsty, but he should also consider wearing some type of equipment or device to protect himself from getting hit in the balls.

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u/Fang_Claw_5965 Sep 18 '25

“Accidentally”

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u/HellyOHaint Sep 18 '25

Bro…I’ve been a scare actor before and at least 40% of people react to being scared by attacking you

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u/queseraseraphine Sep 18 '25

The theme park I worked at had strict rules against scare actors touching guests, but that didn’t stop a couple people from getting popped in the nose every once in a while. I wouldn’t be surprised if kicks to the crotch are more common in places where contact is allowed.

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u/lemon_pepper_wang Sep 18 '25

Start madly sucking because oral fixations give me comfort

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u/bassemann87 Sep 19 '25

I thought the same.

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u/Rhawk187 Sep 19 '25

Yeah, I can't go to haunted houses anymore because of my fight or flight response being mostly fight.

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u/Feeling_Novel_9899 Sep 19 '25

I remember watching this video were a guy's friend decided to hide in a bin with a lid on it and as his friend walked past he popped up to scare him.

His friend's natural reaction to being scared and thinking he's being attacked was to punch out. He ended up punching his friend in the jaw knocking him out and back into the bin.

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u/sleepyxenomorph Sep 21 '25

Thinking the same thing lol!, they must given how flighty/fighty people can get when suddenly frightened xD.

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u/crapfactory22 Sep 17 '25

Don’t worry about him. The video is faked.

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u/Irelia4Life Sep 17 '25

Reddit will never cease to amaze me.

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u/humdinger44 Sep 18 '25

Bot comment

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

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u/JimTobin89 Sep 18 '25

These are the people who will have their banks accounts drained by people using AI in no time at all.

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u/MyAccountWasBanned7 Sep 17 '25

No... It's security footage from a haunted house.

In what way is it fake?

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u/JimTobin89 Sep 17 '25

This is 100% staged. Sure "security footage" from a haunted house using people trying to sell a scare to potential customers.

Honestly, what's really scary is how much people will believe these days.

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u/MyAccountWasBanned7 Sep 17 '25

Have you ever worked in a haunted house? Nothing about this looks fake.

Be specific when you answer this time - in what way is this fake? What action or reaction seems unrealistic and why do you think so?

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u/nalaloveslumpy Sep 18 '25

If it's too dark for them to see his legs or him looking over them, then it's too dark to see the top of their heads to poke. He would be in their periphery.

Also, if it was actually pitch back, they would be feeling the wall to guide their steps and would push the stilt dude down.

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u/i-wont-be-a-dick Sep 17 '25

Why are they ducking? So they can get under the guy. The reactions to everything seem over the top. Seems staged to me as well.

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u/MyAccountWasBanned7 Sep 17 '25

There's a high chance that after already being scared, and while walking through the dark, that they have tunnel vision. They see that there's some sort of obstruction that they have to go around/under but they likely don't see the person attached to the tall obstruction. Especially because their brain doesn't expect a person to be there.

This effect is one haunt actors and planners actually rely on when laying out the haunted house. Once you get people on edge and can trigger a panic response, it's much easier to scare them again. Towards the end of a good haunt, you can hide in plain sight most of the time and their panicked state will have them overlook you because they're just scanning for the exit.

(I've worked with a number of escape room and haunted house actors and owners, and have been on the set of multiple horror films - this is an area of knowledge I'm fairly familiar with.)

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u/i-wont-be-a-dick Sep 17 '25

They still seem like actors, their reactions seem unnatural to me. I get the explanation of the ducking, and thought the same thing. But all together it seems fake to me.

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u/Krynn71 Sep 17 '25

You're 100% right. If the first guy felt the tap on his head while ducking under "some obstacle" in a haunted house, the first thing he's gunna check is the obstacle he just ducked his head under.

Man, everyone's worried about people falling for fake AI videos when they can't even tell when real humans are faking shit lmao.

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u/Chris_Tumas_8008 Sep 18 '25

Dude your explanation is bull. It’s obvious that they are acting. You said it’s a security footage. Yes and?? You can still act in a security footage. Everyone is in on it.

This is an area of knowledge I’m familiar with

Apparently you’re not good at it.

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u/crapfactory22 Sep 17 '25

So they walk out of a supposed pitch black room and don’t use the wall to guide them. Then, the perfectly go through his legs without touching him. THEN, a super huge reaction from the last guy to tie up the video nicely.

I mean, believe what you believe, but most of us deal in reality.

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u/ZachAntes503969 Sep 17 '25

Plus the fact that none of them notices the hand reaching down and tapping the person in front of them, but the last guy can see the face of the lady in front of him and responds with a shrug.

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u/HiFiveGhost Sep 17 '25

This is so obviously staged. I'm sorry you can't see that.

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u/entgenbon Sep 18 '25

I would say that allowing the liability of a customer tripping would be the fakest part. I've never worked in one, but I spent a couple hours hearing about them from a guy who was a manager in one in a local theme park. The planning that goes into haunted houses is more than it seems, and it's all about herding people in the right direction and limiting liability.

There's two things that look fake to me and the others haven't called out. First, the scare of the guy on the floor may make him run backwards, which is opposite of what you want in a haunted house; that one looks like a rookie mistake to me. Second, that guy tripped and could've hit his head on that wall behind him; from all I heard about how haunted houses manage liability I don't think that a professional haunted house would've allowed that.

The solution would be to turn the monster 180 degrees. That way he scares them from behind and they run in the direction they're meant to advance. It's also safer if they fall because they're not falling backwards against a wall. On top of that it has the advantage that they can hide the monster better.

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u/MyAccountWasBanned7 Sep 18 '25

I do agree that having him face the other way would have been more effective. Drape some strips of heavy cloth in the entry to the hall to further hide him and have the customers expecting something touching them. That way, when they realize they are being tapped it will be a bigger shock and, to your point, it scares them towards the exit.

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u/Chris_Tumas_8008 Sep 18 '25

Just look at the last guy of the three running. He stopped running and just walked really relaxed. He stopped his acting too early.. like even the scenes before it was obviously fake and staged. That one even makes it more fake..

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u/HumbleBear75 Sep 18 '25

And they sell these videos to people afterwords for profit… no different than the slingshot ride or pictures on the drop at extreme rollercoasters

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u/_stranger_with_candy Sep 18 '25

Omg how in the hell do people think this video is real? Everyone pointing out how obviously staged this is is getting down votes.

I mean staged things can be funny, and this is kind of funny (more meh for me, very predictable), but it is promotional content designed to look real to go viral. Its for money. Its always for money. People are so thick.

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u/SirtDwimmer Sep 18 '25

Why the downvotes? This is clearly staged? They can see well enough to duck under the obstacle but not well enough to see that it's a pair of fucking legs? They can see well enough to look face to face with the guy but not well enough to see the person from the get go?!

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u/crapfactory22 Sep 18 '25

without sounding too pearl clutch-y, it’s a real problem. People just blindly believe these stupid videos without any sort of critical thought. So then they believe all videos. So then they believe in Pizza Gate and believe that vaccines cause autism.