Volunteer Fire Department’s Annual House Of Carnage Haunted Attraction Opens Oct. 2

I'll never forget my first and only visit to the House of Carnage in Randlett, Oklahoma. When I was in high school, my friends could easily convince me to visit a haunted house or scream park any weekend in October. And out of all the ones we visited, the House of Carnage stands out as the creepiest and the most well put together.

House of Carnage is an annual fundraiser hosted by the Randlett Volunteer Fire Department. This year's haunted house will open for spooky season on Friday, Oct. 2, and will be open every Friday and Saturday in October. Doors open at 7 p.m. and tickets will stop being sold at midnight each night. Tickets are $20 and includes a hamburger or hot dog, plus a drink.

Randlett House of Carnage

The first and last time I visited the House of Carnage was October 2010 during my senior year of high school. I'm personally not a fan of haunted houses or scream parks. I'm more of a Great Pumpkin type of Halloween celebrator. But my friends dragged me to almost every haunted house in southwest Oklahoma that October.

Although I never saw much inside the haunted houses except the back of my friends' letterman jackets, I do distinctly remember a lot about the House of Carnage. First, I was excited that our ticket entry came with a meal, especially since we weren't going into the haunted house until midnight.

Once midnight struck and it was our timeslot to go in the haunted house, I was instantly made uneasy when I saw the hay ride we had to take to travel through the country to the haunted house. My boyfriend at the time told me it's because they don't want people to know where the house is.

Bright full moon shining over dark trees

At first, I didn't mind the hay ride. It was beautiful autumn night with a full moon. However, every now and then, we'd make a stop and we'd be spooked by some of the volunteers. Some of them would even get on the hayride with us and just sit there and stare at us as we made our way to the haunted house.

Once we arrived at the haunted house, we were ushered to the front porch and they sent us in the house in small groups. My group of four got to go in together, and our first stop was a little room with a creepy old man who told us a frightening story about the house. Once we were sent on our way, everything went black for me because I didn't remove my face from the back of my boyfriend's letterman jacket until we were out of the house.

I darted back for the hayride, but as I'm sprinting, I turn around and see all of the creepy characters come out of the house. I truly felt like a final girl. As I sat in the hayride waiting to be taken back to our car, the characters came around trying to spook us dying to leave. And again, some of them joined us on the hayride back to the fire department.

grayscale photography of person wearing clown mask

For more information about Randlett Volunteer Fire Department's House of Carnage, follow the haunted house's official Facebook page.

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