KENT HALl BASEMENT OF TERROR

Students returned for another year of frights at the “Return to the Basement” haunted house located in the Kent Hall basement Friday and Saturday nights.  

Christian Miller, associate director of Kent Hall, said that 314 students signed into the haunted house with a total of 361 students going through, includes those that went more than once. After going through the haunted house, students were able to review the event. Overall, it got a 4.92 star rating out of five stars. 

“My favorite feedback I heard was that they didn’t expect it to be very scary but then after going through it they had to call their friends and tell them to come down and do it with them because they wanted to see their friends get scared because it was so good,” he said. 

 This year’s haunted house included a corn maze, a doll room, the doctor’s room, an asylum and the grave room.  Along with plenty of creepy hallways and even a dead end room. All the rooms were equipped with resident advisors in costumes, as the actors. 

“I think the students want big events like this on campus that are well put together and that really provide a way for them to get out of their room and hang out with friends and what can make this even better,” Miller said. “Seeing your friends get scared to death!” 

The Kent Hall haunted house was started a few years ago by previous associate director, Kris Boardman. Miller said that he promised him he “would not let this tradition die” and would continue to every year that he can and constantly make it better. 

“What I would like to see improve it would just have to be getting the layout figured out and really getting more props and costumes so that we can provide a more terrifying haunted house in the future,” Miller said. “But each year we are buying more and more supplies which is helping us in the future years as the props and many of the costumes can be reused or modified in some way.”