Haunted House at Moravian College

In honor of Halloween, one of our dorms on campus created a haunted house this Halloweekend. The rumor is that three male students “disappeared”  in the pit of the freshman dorm, Hassler. Students today are no longer allowed to live there, and the floor is locked all year. However, they open it up once a year on Halloween to bring the scares.

Hassler is actually only part of the building. Most of our dorms are two connected buildings; Rau-Hassler is the full dorm. There were six open floors total, three per building. Some floors were dimly lit with spider webs and masked students. Others were completely dark, with garbage bags and streamers hanging from the ceilings.

I went with two of my girlfriends, Marissa and Steph. We had invited several guys to tag along, but they flat out refused, claiming it was lame. (I think they were just too scared. But whatever.)

At first, we were the only ones there. The first three floors in Rau weren’t too terrifying. There were a lot of students jumping out from dark doorways and loud noises behind us. We were mostly just annoyed that we couldn’t see anything.

But when we got to the second floor of Hassler, things took a turn for the scarier. A student covered in fake blood opened the door for us, which hadn’t happened on the other floors. We all went to step in… and there was a clown in the middle of the hall. The most terrifying clown I’ve ever seen. He just stood there, staring at us.

Naturally, we kind of freaked out.  The poor kid begged us to go in, but I couldn’t convince my friends to go and I didn’t want to go alone. Thankfully, a large group came by and Marissa and Steph agreed to go, as long as we got to hide behind the others. This floor was by far the scariest; every time I looked behind me I saw that clown. Terrifying!

But other than that one floor, it wasn’t all that great. A few students playing dead and some strobe lights set the mood, but the scary stopped there. Marissa said, “I was so afraid when I saw that clown… I wouldn’t have gone if that other group hadn’t gone before us. But the other parts weren’t that scary. Just claustrophobic.”

We were probably better off spending the $40 and going to a real haunted house. But I’m glad I went. In all my three years at this school, I never had a chance to go tour haunted Rau-Hassler. Too bad it was a disappointment. Ah, well. At least I got it out of my system.

Have you ever been to a haunted house? What did you do this Halloween to give yourself a scare? Moravian students, did you guys go to the haunted dorm? What did you think?