Back in those days, I had a “show no mercy” attitude. TEREBUS: The victims (laughs]! There is nothing better than seeing full-grown adults on their hands and knees, screaming like little girls! One of the most memorable was a 300- or 400-pound woman. We were living the dream by sharing our nightmare!įANG: Tell us about any memorable “victims” of the house of Erebus… That’s where a very important rule came into play-stay an arm’s length away from customers-because all the actors want to get in your face and give it everything they’ve got!īack then there were no conventions, seminars, actor training or any type of education that could help somebody in the haunted-attraction business. Most of the time, I don’t believe it was malicious, but rather the customer overreacting, enacting the fight-or-flight response we all have built into our human nature. Every year, we had an actor or two get a broken nose from being punched. I don’t think the public was ready for our type of scare, compared to the other haunts. In the earlier days-that’s going back 33 years-it was like the Wild West. We then figured out Erebus was in our name, and turned this into a full-time career for both of us. TEREBUS: No, it was our brainchild after 20 years of growth and expansion. Many earlier haunted attractions were based on movie characters, and a number of haunts still use them to this day.įANG: Was Erebus your first stab at launching an attraction? I do believe that the two obsessions go hand in hand, because one inspires the other. I had to beg my parents to let me stay up to watch those. Saturday afternoons, there was a local horror host named Sir Graves Ghastly with his own program, and there were two on late Friday nights, The Ghoul and Creature Feature. TEREBUS: I love horror movies! There wasn’t cable TV back then, so you had to wait for the shows to come on. To my disappointment, we never found them, but that didn’t discourage us from continuing to look.įANG: Were you a horror-film fan as well? Did the two obsessions go hand in hand? Over the next few years, my friends and I became obsessed with finding the biggest and baddest haunted houses out there. Unfortunately, it didn’t meet the expectations we had built up in our minds. One of my older siblings took me to a local charity’s haunted house that we’d heard great things about. We chatted up Ed Terebus about his beastly baby…įANGORIA: When did you first stumble into a haunted house? Which one was it and where? Tell us about that experience.ĮD TEREBUS: My first experience was at age 14 or 15. Erebus-cited as the longest walk-through haunt by the Guinness people from 2005-09-was erected at the turn of the millennium in 2000, and every year gets bigger, badder and more bloodcurdling. When in Michigan, drop into the city of Pontiac and follow the screams to the doorstep of Erebus, a towering and emotionally draining four-story haunted house run by brothers Ed and Jim Terebus, who have devoted their lives to demolishing your central nervous system.Įrebus employs state-of-the-art special FX to serve the brothers’ unwavering devotion to terrifying their customers-a go-for-the-throat aesthetic they’ve been nurturing since they started dabbling in the haunted-attraction business in the early 1980s.
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