'Nine Lives' Haunted House Successful

Boo! It’s the season of Halloween, and you can be expecting many houses around the Cartersville area to be covered in decorations to show their holiday spirit. Halloween time comes with the opening of many attractions, mainly haunted houses. 

This past weekend, on Oct. 28, ’s C.A.T.S. program held a spooky tour of their own, Nine Lives.

“There is something scary around every turn!” was how Mrs. Marks, the Drama teacher at Woodland, described the house. 

The haunted house started with a tricky room where you met the guide who would lead you through the thrilling trail. From here it would lead through many rooms, including a room full of carnivorous cannibals, psychotic clowns, a black Christmas, the notorious Bloody Mary, and many other areas that could scare you witless. After a group would finish their tour, comments about how scary the haunted house was made the workers feel like they did an amazing job. 

Cattabrie Wigley, a sophomore at Woodland, went through Nine lives, and said, “I didn’t think it would be as creepy as it was, because it was in the PAC, but as soon as people started calling my name, I freaked out.”

Cattabrie was asked by the tour guide what her name was, and then the guide screamed it through the whole path. This allowed many of the actors to call her name as she went through the countless quarters, making the experience even more horrific for her.

As an actor in Nine Lives, Emily Fitzner, a sophomore at Woodland, had an amazing experience.

“It was so cool seeing the PAC changed into something scary,” she said. “It was something new, but at the same time, very awesome."

When asked to describe her part, Fitzner replied, “I was a creepy girl in the black Christmas scene. I would look back and chuckle at one of the other actors who was pretending to be dead and giggle.”

As you can see, there were some very ghastly areas in the haunted house that, along with the skill of the actors, made the haunted house even more terrifying.

How did Woodland achieve such a grand task of scaring so many people? Students within the Drama department at Woodland pitched in on Friday to not only set up, but some even worked in the haunted house as well. Students, such as Hayden Anderson, Emily Roberts, Clayton Ries and Hannah Wehunt all helped splatter fake blood, position fog machines and black lights, and many other tasks that helped transform the Performing Arts Center into a terrifying tour of terror.

After many hours of helpful work after school, Nine Lives was ready for an early opening at 8:30 p.m. About 250 people came out to be scared silly.

This high attendance allowed more than one thousand dollars to be earned for the Drama department at Woodland. Due to the high amount of funds garnered, Nine Lives will hopefully become an annual event here at Woodland.

Hope to see you next year!