Informative Essay: The Nightmare Factory

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My 29 year old brother was born on october 31.(we still can’t decide whether he is a trick or a treat) . He was born with a disorder called asperger's which is a form of autism. He was also born with an obsession for haunted houses. Every halloween he begged my mom to let us go to the nightmare factory set up by the salem oregon deaf school. The nightmare factory is a very popular haunted house that thousands of people from all over the country travel to oregon to experience the thrill. To some people, standing in line for 2 to three hours straight just for a 5 minute experience for the nightmare of your life, it’s worth it. The detail is so amazing in the factory but scary to. Theres over 20 rooms. The deaf, dressed as clowns, are downright creepy. They don't know the definition of PERSONAL SPACE. They will creep up behind you in line and …show more content…

I mean you will find a bloody abraham lincoln following you or a zombie butcher chasing you with a butcher knife. People and things will pop out at you at every turn. Some of the rooms include a child's nursury(very creepy!), Frankensteins laboratory, coffin room, kitchen with blood covered knives. Abby Luschei A news reporter for the statesman journal interviews Ed roberts, the founder of the Nightmare Factory. "When I started (Nightmare Factory), I had no idea that it would go on for 30 years and be as big as it is now," Roberts explained. WOW! Can you believe 30 YEARS????? My fear of haunted houses has a ton to do with how your body goes into overdrive when you stand up to an unpleasant (or for this situation, down right terrifying) circumstance. At the point when a wicked zombie swinging a hatchet swerves into you in a spooky house, increases Your heart rate and you're breathing shoots up like a skyrocket;shooting more oxygen to your cerebrum. “In the mind, the amygdala's first and predominant enthusiastic reaction is

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