TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) — Students waited in line in front of Malone Hall on Friday night as the building was transformed into a haunted house.
The haunted house, hosted by the Department of Art and Design, invited students to walk through a series of four themed rooms. 35 student volunteers dressed in costumes and put on their best performances to frighten attendees.
Assistant Administrator of Art and Design Malory Magrath said the haunted house was entirely student-led.
“We let everybody vote on the ideas we came up with,” Magrath said. “We let everyone share any ideas they had. We wanted the students to have as much fun with it as they could.”
According to Magrath, the haunted house took six weeks to plan. Magrath also says that decorating Malone Hall took over a day to decorate.
The four rooms were clown, cabin, doll and morgue themed. Some said the morgue room was the scariest.
“I felt like I was in a horror movie,” said Aniyah Washington, an early childhood education major who is from Niceville, Florida. “They were covered in blood and all they did was smile at me. It also felt like they were trying to grab me, it was super creepy.”
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“To me, the morgue room is probably the scariest,” Macgrath said. “There’s a lot of action going on right in front of your face.”
Emmerick Hughes, a native from Goshen, Alabama, was one of the first people to go through the haunted house. Hughes said he has been a big fan of haunted houses for quite some time.
He shared what the most memorable moment of his experience was.
“In one of the rooms, I saw a lady twist her head around,” Hughes said. “It was great, I loved it. It was super weird having a ton of people crawl around on the floor trying to grab me too.”
After surviving the haunted house, attendees could feast on Halloween themed refreshments provided by the department of art and design. Participants also had the option to visit each room twice.
For those who missed the haunted house, the art and design department plans to hold another one next October. To learn when details are announced, readers can visit @troy_art_and_design on Instagram.
