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well we oviosly have some iaginative minds going around. round of applause to those we have whatched way to many investigative movies. but all round. a good story. well done

1. I don't know when it got built. It was the 2nd Haunted House at the park though. Somewhere near where the Musik Express (yes Musik not Music) there was an earlier one.

2. I can remember the Viking - I think he got removed in the late eighties. As I dont think it got taken down during the open season my guess is that he got damaged in winter or perhaps Hurricane Gloria??

3. I was actually there the day of the auction (a rather dreary rainy day) but can't tell you who bought it. I can suggest that they may have bought it and then discovered that its not movable. It was a cinderblock building underneath its facade and as the ride went it was largely a conveyor system and electrical track consisting of a single guide track throughout the ride.

4. The rides were all sold integral (except the carousel which had had its original horses/animals sold separately a number of years before. Thats not to say that the purchasers may have paid their 1000 took what they wanted and left the rest.

5. If the ride was shut down for Halloween land then perhaps the purchaers took away the track and it was no longer able to run. Perhaps Motts would comment on whether there was steel track throughout the building. From the perspective of this picture the Reptile was completely off/away from any tracking and the car in the background is stopped where the electrical track would have begun (the conveyor was mechanical only).

6. When I said the cars were painted over I meant that the old pictures had become faded and needed to be redone. Fresh coats of paint of a single color were applied and the characters redrawn. However, the characters may not have ended up on their original cars! The artists probably painted a car over and then used the car behind it as the model for one they were working on. This might explain how Darth Vader got on the cars. When they got to the last car all the other cars would have been painted over already and they would not have had a model to look at - whereas locating a Darth Vader model would have been easy.

Other trivia that might be of interest to you - the cemetary scene used to have tombstones that had printed on them the names of various park employees. Mostly management and ride maintenance people

If he is still living a great source of historical information about the park could be obtained from a man named Jerry Combs. He was a park employee who started there as a ride op in I think the 1950s. He had gone away and come back to the park many times. When he was away from the park he was with traveling carnivals. He knows an awful lot about amusement park rides and his employment at the park probably predated the existence of the House Of Horrors. He tends towards having a suspicous (of other people) nature so he would probably be on his guard when you first talked to him. However, I don't know if he is still around. By now he would be at least 70.

LOVE is in the air.

I am speech less.

Hey!!! I've seen pictures of spiral staircases being in prisons.

A cute little heart. Maybe the workers came down here to make love.

Its ashame that things like these are left to waste away. This could be one of the few that are left. You never know it could be worth something.

Sweet!!! Looks like a time traveling machine. Take me to 1776 please.

It looks like an old school toilet. That's awesome.

This old equipment is so cool. I am entralled by old things. Its so interesting to look at how things have changed.

This pic is wonderful! Looking at it gives you the feeling of being there.

Beautiful its gorgeous!

The stained glass is so beautiful. It looks sort of like a peacock.

Poor chimney don't look down. Its amazing that its still up there. Great Picture!

The angle makes this picture awesome. And it looks like there are stains on the floor. It could it be water or blood or rust.