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Elias

I am a Chicago area resident and I’m pretty sure this was the haunted house attraction that I went to when I visited my uncle in New Jersey circa 1981-82. 

Can someone familiar with the brigantine castle verify my memory of the storyline that a visitor was to experience?  This is what I remember…

The ticket master behind the barred window made us wait a few minutes (3 I think) to keep a gap between groups, then shortly after entering a crazy lady grabbed us and pulled us by hand hurriedly dragging us to a main chamber where we waited a minute with other guests.  Then a female actor seemed to come out of a painting on the wall and made a speech and let us all go through the walkthrough.  

A few minutes down a dark corridor and a huge actor playing the part of some kind of “mute deranged lunatic mutant” grabbed us and pretended to attack or choke my mom (maybe had a fake knife prop too) and I think he tried the same gag with each of us.  We calmed down and tried asking him “which way” to go next and after a bit he pointed his thumb in the direction we were to go.

A lot of my memory is vague after that but I do also remember after a walking through some more dark scary stuff we ended up on an upper floor where someone like a “hotel valet” asked us (as if to take our “bags”), asked my mom “children please”.  And another “guide” explained the tour of the upper floors and said something funny to the effect of “ if you find yourself in “trouble” then feel free to cry out with a sound like “help!” and a member of our staff will be along shortly to pick up your remains.”   I thought that line was hilarious.

We followed a crowd of more tourists through narrow passages that had glass lit up floors with gory stuff like fake dead bodies etc and that’s about all I remember, other than some vague “furry” things that seemed to stick out of walls.

 Can anyone confirm this stuff was part of the adventure?