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OF "THE LOCAL SHOW." >> WHEN IT COMES TO HALLOWEEN, KANSAS CITY'S WEST BOTTOM'S
COULD ARGUABLY BE DESCRIBED AS "SCARE CENTRAL" IN OUR METRO. >> HOME TO FOUR HAUNTED HOUSES
INCLUDING ONE OF THE LARGEST IN THE COUNTRY, THEY ARE BIG BUSINESS FOR FULL MOON
PRODUCTIONS, WHICH RUNS THESE SCREAM FACTORIES. >> AND ACCORDING TO "FORBES
MAGAZINE" THEY GENERATE $2 MILLION IN REVENUE IN THE 30 WORKING DAYS LEADING UP TO
HALLOWEEN, SELLING TICKETS AT $25 A POP. >> PRODUCER SANDY WOODSON SHOWS
US MORE ABOUT THE FAMILY COMPANY THAT GOT ITS START, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, FOUR DECADES AGO DOING
SUMMER THEATER IN THE LAKE OF THE OZARKS AND WAS SIMPLY LOOKING FOR SOMETHING ELSE TO DO
FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR TO HELP PAY THE BILLS.
>> I WAS FIVE OR SIX YEARS OLD AND I'M 39. >> THIS IS MY FIRST TIME HERE.
>> MY 15-YEAR-OLD LOVED IT, I BROUGHT HIM DOWN FOR THE FIRST TIME THREE YEARS AGO.
>> IT'S REALLY SCARY, LIKE REALLY. I GOT SCARED FIVE TIMES.
>> I THINK THE TRUE ELEMENT OF THE SCARE REALLY CAME FROM MY UNCLE, WHO IS THE CURRENT
PRESIDENT OF FULL MOON PRODUCTIONS AND I THINK IT WAS HIS RELISH IN SCARING PEOPLE, IT
WAS A FAMILY HOBBY BUT HE LED THEM DOWN FROM LIVE THEATER TO THE HALLOWEEN ATTRACTION.
IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT FULL MOON PRODUCTIONS, IT'S VERY THEATRICAL, MUCH MORE
THAN THE HAUNTING, THE GHOST ELEMENT VERSUS GORE OR SHOCK. WHAT WE DO IS WE STUDY THE
PSYCHOLOGY OF FEAR, WE LOOK INTO PHOBIAS AND PHOBIAS CAN CHANGE ACROSS THE COUNTRY EVEN BY
REGION. YOU GO AROUND A CORNER A CERTAIN DIRECTION FOR A REASON.
EVERYTHING IS PUT IN PLACE TO REALLY WORK WITH LIGHTS AND DARK, IT TOUCHES ALL OF YOUR
SENSES. EVERY ONE'S FEAR IS DIFFERENTLY. ONE RUNS RIGHT, ONE GOES LEFT,
ONE FALLS ON THE FLOOR, RUNS THEIR MOTHER OVER, LEAVE THEIR FRIEND, EVERY ONE REACTS
DIFFERENTLY AND WITH THAT COMPUTER PROGRAMMING WE HAVE TO TAKE THE BEST AVERAGE AND SO IS
IT A FIVE SECOND SPLIT FROM HERE TO HERE AND WE ARE CONSTANTLY MONITORING THAT WITH OUR
CAMERAS, IS THAT ANIMATRONIC POPPING WHEN IT'S SUPPOSED TO, IS THE SOUND HAPPENING WHEN IT'S
SUPPOSED TO. HERE THE PLUS COMES IN THE FORM OF SCREAMS, THAT'S YOUR
APPLAUSE. BUT WHAT PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE IS SCARING IS NOT EASY, IT HAS TO
DO THE FACT YOU DO YOUR PERFORMANCE MULTIPLE, MULTIPLE TIMES IN A NIGHT, IT'S JUST NOT
ONE PERFORMANCE, YOU HAVE TO HAVE THAT SAME IMPACT AT 7:00 P.M. AS YOU DO 1:00 A.M.
>> UNFORTUNATELY FOR YOU, YOU ARE GOING TO HELL. >> THE EDGE OF HELL IS
CONSIDERED THE OLDEST IN THE COUNTRY, THE VERY FIRST ONE, RIGHT HERE IN KANSAS CITY.
IN ITS NAME ITSELF, MY GREAT GRANDFATHER WAS A PASTOR SO SOMETIMES PEOPLE ARE A LITTLE
SURPRISED BY THAT AND IT REALLY IS ABOUT THAT EVERY DAY YOU MAKE CHOICES AND IF YOU DECIDE YOU
WANT TO LIVE ON THE EDGE, THEN YOU ENCOUNTER THESE SORTS OF DEMONS, SO THERE IS SOME
BIBLICAL PLAY. THE OTHER HOUSES ARE DIFFERENT. WHEN THE BEAST WAS BORN IN 1991,
IT WAS A SHAKE UP, THE FACT THAT WE HAD CREATED WHAT THEY TERM AN OPEN FORMAT, AND IT'S WHERE THE
GUARDRAILS WENT AWAY AND WE LET PEOPLE ACTUALLY BE INSIDE THE SCENE AND PEOPLE WERE IN THERE
10 MINUTES AND SOME PEOPLE WERE IN THERE A HOUR AND 10 MINUTES. AND IN 2007 WE OPENED THE
CHAMBERS AND THE MACALB. IT HAS BEEN PROVEN IT IS A TRUE HAUNTED HOUSE? PLEASE FORGIVE
ME, I WAS NAPPING. >> THE MACALM IS A HAUNTED 1939 MOVIE THEATER, YOU BECOME THE
VICTIM IN THE SET. 100% OF THE CHAMBERS OF EDGAR ALAN POE GO TO THE DREAM
FACTORY. THERE ARE HUNDRED OF PEOPLE DOWN HERE THAT ARE VOLUNTEERING FOR
THE DREAM FACTORY. >> I LOVE SCARING PEOPLE AND IT'S FOR A GOOD CAUSE, I ENJOY
HELPING OUT. >> THAT'S A GREAT THING FOR KIDS IN KANSAS CITY THAT ARE IN GREAT
NEED, WHAT GREATER WHAT I TO DONATE MONEY, MAKE SURE THE DREAM FACTORY MAKES MONEY, COME
DOWN AND DO IT. >> MY FAVORITE PART OF EVERYTHING IS THE FACT THAT WE
CREATE MEMORIES HERE, AND IT'S ALL DIFFERENT AGES, FROM A 30TH BIRTHDAY PARTY OR WE HAD A
GRANDMA, IT WAS HER 90TH AND SHE WAS BRINGING ALL HER GRANDCHILDREN HERE.
YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE HOW MANY PEOPLE SAY WE HAD OUR FIRST DATE THERE AND WE'VE BEEN MARRIED ALL
THESE YEARS. THIS IS A KANSAS CITY TRADITION AND THERE ARE LOTS OF SCREAMS
BUT IT'S FOLLOWED BY TONS OF LAUGHTER. >> AND BY THE WAY, ONE OF THE
ATTRACTIONS ON THE EDGE OF HELL HAS JUST SLITHERED ITS WAY INTO THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD
RECORDS. >> MEDUSA, THE 25-FOOT-2-INCH- LONG PYTHON COILED INSIDE THE
CAVERNOUS 38-YEAR-OLD HAUNTED HOUSE HAS JUST BEEN NAMED THE LONGEST SNAKE EVER IN CAPTIVITY.
>> "LIKE" US ON FACEBOOK AND YOU CAN WIN A PAIR OF PASSES TO THE "EDGE OF HELL" OR ONE OF THE
OTHER HAUNTED HOUSES OF YOUR CHOICE.