All characters wear masks, many of them double masks rooms where creatures used to reach out and grab you have been closed off like Dracula’s tomb hand sanitizer stations are located throughout the building - in addition to the Plague Doctor’s scrubbing duties. Everyone must stay 6 feet apart, except for household groups. Tickets are sold every half-hour and in limited quantities. ![]() No ghouls breathing down your neck, no crowded lines, no touching whatsoever. In the process, Nightmare on 13th has gone from an in-your-face scary place to an in-your-face-from-a-distance scary place. “If there’s an outbreak that gets traced to here we might have to quarantine for 14 days and sanitize, right? So we’re trying our best to do all the governor has asked and everything else we can think of so we can continue to provide entertainment for folks and keep everyone safe.” “Gut-wrenching,” is how he describes wading through the uncertainty of the spring and summer. Mike’s nightmare was that the pandemic wouldn’t let him open his Nightmare at all. But in a business that depends on doing big volume on essentially seven weekends a year - the last part of September, all of October, and a couple of Friday the 13ths - you can’t give up many more than that. Haunted houses were not considered essential. ![]() He was all set to open the doors for the first time in 2020 this past March on Friday the 13th - always a good day for doing business in the haunted house world.īut on March 12, the rapidly spreading coronavirus pandemic shut down all businesses not considered essential. If you think COVID-19 scared the daylights out of you, put yourself in Mike Henrie’s shoes. There is of course no bubonic plague flooding the Earth in the year 2020 - at least not that we know of yet - but there is a virus going around, and the Plague Doctor, wearing a beak-like mask just like they did in the 1600s when the Black Death was sweeping the planet, is doing his best to keep that from spreading - with the added bonus of ensuring that the haunted house known as Nightmare on 13th stays open. This high-quality look is perfect for creeping your friends out at costume parties and nice enough to be worn for homemade horror movies and music videos.SALT LAKE CITY - There’s a character called the Plague Doctor who comes through every 20 minutes to sanitize all the surfaces that people touch. While the horrors of the plague might be concentrated down to a ghostly whisper on Europe's shores, you can bring history to life this Halloween. Pair it with a staff and a lantern to make this plague doctor come to life! (Unfortunately, it doesn't include any medical prowess or ways to dodge the common cold. ![]() It's completed with a brimmed hat and a white mask with a long beak. It's peppered with details such as a cross necklace, a black hood, and a pair of black gloves. The robe has a capelet layered around the shoulders and gold-tone buttons down the front. This high-quality costume brings the paintings of the black plague to living, breathing life. That's why this plague doctor costume is still enough to send shivers down our spines. While the black plague might have happened half a thousand years ago, memories of the disease are alive and well. ![]() Modern tourists at plague sites sometimes capture souls that are still sticking around, waiting for a cure. People hear crying in the old houses where people once perished of the disease. In Poveglia, Italy people still report a sense of being watched and a feeling of hands scratching at them as soon as they step foot onto the island that, incidentally, was used as an inhumane quarantine. Europe is still feeling the effects of the sickness that decimated the population in waves more than 600 years ago. The plague was so intensely serious that for the rest of the time, people didn't even call it by its full name.
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