Highlands Haunted House 11: Guides, Actors, Special FX!

October is almost here and Halloween is fast approaching! To get everyone in the "spirit" and to continue this special tradition here at Highlands, we spent several weeks putting together our annual Highlands Haunted House. This year marked our 11th event and it was a banger! Student Council ran the Highlands Haunted House 11 for 1 whole week right before Halloween. Each Student Council member got to chose their role as either an Actor, Special FX or Guide. Guests were grouped into fours in the order of either Dwarf, Barbarian, Elf, or Wizard characters. The way ahead was dark and thankfully our Guides were clever enough to bring "torches" to help guide their groups safely through the haunt. Each character was called upon to use their special abilities in order to conquer each challenge presented to the group until they ultimately found themselves face to face with Varag the Terrible! Now trapped, the group had to use everything they had in order to slay the foul beast and his dark minions. Huge thanks to our amazing Actors, Guides, and Special FX crew for making our haunt interactive, interesting, and oh so memorable! We can still hear all of your screams til this day hahahahahahahahaha… Elvin Yao, Service Committee

Highlands Haunted House 10 Groups: Guides, Actors, Special Effects

To keep the Highlands tradition for Halloween, we hosted our annual 3d blacklight haunted attraction - Highlands Haunted House 10 “The Escape From Azkaban!” For a whole week straight, we had student council members run the haunted house with the help of some very talented friends! Thanks to everyone involved, HHH10 was a huge success and made so many unforgettable memories for both the guests and us, the actors!  Each Student Council member was assigned a role as either Guides, Actors or Special Effects. The experience all started outside at the Ticket Booth where students were put into groups of four and paired a wizard Guide!  First stop in the journey was the infamous Diagon Alley, full of wonder and magic in every corner!  While in the Weasley’s Wizard Whizzes shop, guests were arrested by the agents from the Ministry of Magic for “Improper Use of Magic”... with that they all earned a one way trip to the legendary and awful Prison of Azkaban!!!  Thank goodness that each of our guides are smart and skilled, that each group was able to escape with their lives and quite a story to tell in the end.  We hope you enjoyed this year’s haunted attraction and we hope also hear your screams again next year!  Bwahahahahahaha…. Sammi, Assembly Committee