Sarah's Haunted House Rappeling Adventure

Remember when we launched this show, how Sarah told you she would do anything for a good story? Well, if the alligators and boa constrictors and roller derby stunts didn't prove that to you, this next piece sure will, as she not only goes back stage at a haunted house, but becomes a part of one and rappels off the side of a three-story building.

"These are the Towers and the Towers are haunted.  So enter if you dare, dare if you will..."

Ok, so I don't have much of a future in scaring people.

But to understand how I got here, you have to go back here.  Where I had the bird-brained idea to go backstage at a haunted house, completely ignoring the fact that I am quite possibly the biggest chicken there is.

And the folks at the Centre County Public Safety Training Center Haunted House agreed to give us a tour.

This is probably a bad time to mention that I'm afraid of the dark, right?

"Rose! Do the spider!," said one performer.

"This is why you can't scare me when we go from room to room, because I'm a wuss.  You even said do the spider and I still get scared," said Sarah.

"I'm waiting for this to actually be real and for him to scare the crap out of me. Oooookay," said Sarah.

"You're not supposed to look," said one performer.

"Ew! No! I'm not...no!" said Sarah.

"You've got to," he said.

"I'll touch this one. Ok, ew! No, no, no, no, no, no, no! I'm not touching worms," said Sarah.

Perhaps I would have reconsidered the whole worm thing knowing the alternative.  You see, they also offered me a one-night role in this haunted house as a spider.  What they failed to mention was just how high up this itsy bitsy spider would be.

"You know where you're getting dropped from, right?," said one performer.

"I'm about to find out," said Sarah.

"Fourth story," he said.

"Oh great," said Sarah.

And he wasn't kidding.  Now's also probably a really bad time to mention that I'm afraid of heights too, huh?

The good news here is, this rope is made to hold 600 pounds, and my riggers are professional EMS workers, so if I did, say plummet down to the ground, it wouldn't take them long to get to the scene.

"Aren't you normally supposed to talk people down from the ledge...not off of it?," said Sarah?

Once I got my priorities straight...

"Safety first. Scares second. Peeing your pants third," said Sarah.

It was time to rappel off the side of a three story building.

From there, it was a cake walk, or spider walk, as you might say.

"Take your hands away from the rope and walk," said Mark.

But I wouldn't be walking as much as I'd be dropping.  The goal here, was for the spider to drop in front of people as they exited the haunted house for one final scare.

"Scare" being the operative word.

Because let's be honest, with a laugh like this? It really didn't work out so well.