Scott City Screams
	Published 10/30/2006 Garden City Telegram

	By KRISTEN WAGGENER
	kwaggener@gctelegram.com

	Huddled together in a group, they ran out the exit laughing nervously and sometimes
	screaming. And one by one, they regained their composure and realized, "Man, that was
	great."

	Visitors Saturday to Scott City's haunted house, "Main Street Massacre," walked
	through a room filled with possessed children watching a broken TV. They witnessed a
	haunted surgical room in progress and ran into crazy clowns waiting around the corner.

	They walked through a dark maze before being chased out the exit by a mad man with

a chainsaw.

And for those waiting outside, a man, dressed in black with only a white mask peered

his head out the door in anticipation of the souls waiting to be scared.

"I think we scared them just enough," said Dale Staab, president of the Scott County Partners for Youth Council, Inc., one of the organizations co-sponsoring the haunted house, which was open Friday and Saturday.

Groups young and old walked through the multiple-room building in hopes of being scared.

"It was pretty freaky," Gabe Acosta, Scott City, said.

"It was fun," Tina Methenuie, Scott City, said. "You've just got to

remember that someone's trying to scare you the whole time."

Scare people and have fun was exactly what the Partners for Youth,

Lacy Long, executive director for the Scott City Chamber of Commerce, plays a demented doctor as Gayla Nickel, of the Scott Recreation Commission, portrays the unwitting patient in the hospital room of the Massacre on Main Street spookhouse Saturday night in Scott City.

Scott City Chamber of Commerce and Scott Recreation Commission were trying to do.

	"One of our goals was to help keep kids out of trouble," Staab said.

	Staab and 40 other volunteers dressed in costume and donated their time to help raise funds for the three sponsoring organizations.
	Staab guessed that at the end of the night Saturday, the haunted house had seen more than 300 visitors, some repeat visitors from the night before. According to the Scott County Chamber of Commerce, the haunted house raised $1,350 for the benefiting organizations, enough that Staab said they already are planning for next year. "The community support has been unbelievable," Staab said. "It's truly been a community event."
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