Haunted Mansion Back This Year
Halloween is just around the corner, and in the Hudson Valley the craze surrounds pumpkin picking and other typical Halloween activities, including the haunted houses. Just a little over 20 minutes from the Marist College campus is Kevin McCurdy’s Haunted Mansion. This mansion has been scaring people for 42 years. Brave and daring people across the Hudson Valley line up to go through the Haunted Mansion, while others are found sitting outside waiting for their friends and family to exit the building. The mansion located in Wappingers Falls, which held their opening night on Sept. 29, provides people with an adrenaline rushing experience leading up to the beloved holiday of Halloween. The mansion is open every weekend as of now until Halloween from 7 p.m. until 11 p.m. at night up until the Friday and Saturday of Halloween, and from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. on Sundays. As you stand outside of the haunted mansion, you can hear the ear-piercing screams coming from the patrons inside being scared by the events and spectacles occurring inside.
Hunter Fauci decided to go to this haunted house with his friends and had only good things to say about the mansion. “I thought the jump scares were really thought out and they really caught me off guard,” Fauci said. Fauci also admitted that although he is not a big fan of haunted houses, he enjoyed this one as much as he could. He believed that the entire mansion was very well planned out and put together.
Matt Marquis, similar to Fauci, is not a big fan of haunted houses, but he felt as though Kevin McCurdy’s Haunted Mansion was a haunted house that did a very good job. “The actors really completed the experience for me. Their makeup, costumes, and acting made the experience genuinely frightening for me,” Marquis said.
Both Fauci and Marquis were reluctant to go to the Haunted Mansion, but after going through it they felt as though it was an overall enjoyable activity for a Saturday night in October. “It really got me in the mood for Halloween and the Halloween season,” Fauci said.
Within the Hudson Valley there are an abundance of Halloween related activities to do in the weeks leading up to the holiday, and McCurdy’s Haunted Mansion is a local and well put together haunted house available for Hudson Valley residents. McCurdy’s Haunted Mansion is also providing Halloween fun for children who might be a little too young to go into a haunted house. On Oct. 8, Kevin McCurdy’s Haunted Mansion will host a Kid’s Day from 12 p.m. until 3 p.m.. At this event, kids are allowed to go trick-or-treating within the mansion without the scare-factor and people jumping out at them.
Kevin McCurdy’s Haunted Mansion has been around for 42 years providing both entertainment and scares to the Hudson Valley residents, and it is sure to stick around, generating screams and fun for years to come.
