30 Times Haunted House Actors Broke Character

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30 Times Haunted House Actors Broke Character

Haunted house actors might be seasoned professionals, but there are still times when they break character. In fact, one such performer shared on Reddit that she once popped out at a couple walking through a haunted house effectively enough that the guy immediately ran off, leaving his girlfriend behind. The abandoned girlfriend was so upset that the actor stopped with the scary stuff and walked her outside and smoked a cigarette with her while she broke up with her boyfriend in the parking lot. 

Other haunted house performers went on to share the times they broke character, including the time a guy actually got scared shitless.

Trust_me_lm_stupid 4y ago e not me, but my friends and I were walking through and there was this girl with make up to look like she had a slit throat and just sat there and said do you wanna play and he responded with nah I'm not ticklish she said it again and he said with quite a bit of force and said Look woman... I AM NOT IN THE MOOD FOR KICKBALL! and she broke out laughing. 179 ...
Lis_9 4y ago When I was little (maybe 6 years old) my siblings and I came in a horror house. For some reason my parents didn't came in with us, even though the oldest one was 9 and the youngest was 5 (great parenting here, I know). My brothers and I came out of the house but my little sister stayed inside crying and terrified. So, the monster from the lagoon took her hand and took her outside the house and gave her to my mother. It was really weird. 82 ...
4y ago Not me but, I was with my cousin (he's easily spooked by everything). One of the workers jumped out & screamed to scare us. I pretty much never get spooked, I just enjoy the time & laugh, but my cousin screamed like a five year old girl, grabbed my arm, & yelled, I'LL SMACK YOU!!!!! & the worker burst out laughing, barely able to form a single sentence. 64 ...
eccehobo1 4y ago A friend of mine caused a lady to break character. Near the end of a local haunted mill a woman in demonic type makeup jumps out of a pentagram/summoning circle thing. Shrieks I will teach the meaning of true pain! and my buddy just goes Lady, I've been married for 20 years, you ain't got shit. She burst out laughing, gave him a hug and told him to get the fuck out. 398 ...
oiraves 2d ago I was the guest but a scare actor I guess must have had an odd vantage point because he leaps around the corner to scare me and is head level with the bottom of my chest and in full normal ass voice goes, 'holy shit you're big' 325 Reply Share ...
Voidtoform 2d ago when I was a little kid like 7 idk, i had a little fake knife that like sunk into the sheath so it looked like you where being stabbed, but the thing looked real, like shiny blade and whatnot. My parents took me to a haunted house and didn't know i brought it, and a guy jumped out to scare me and I pulled the knife on him and he got real serious and backed off like sorry bro, sorry... My mom was horrified and took the knife right away and showed him it was fake, but
da1nonlyoska 2d ago Participant here, I was at the IT escape room or SAW in Vegas, I can't remember which one. At one point, you're in this barn looking setting and one of the actors pops in with a chainsaw (I think, he was behind me so I didn't see very well what he was holding) to scare you. I was crawling in all fours at that point to get through a tunnel. When the door swung open and the guy came in screaming, I just decided to twerk at him while on all fours telling him I'm so scared
meatpit 2d ago Again, not an actor, but I'm pretty proud about getting them to break. Went to one and they had us crawling on our hands and knees as they walked beside us telling us to repent and yelling what is your sin? I said bigamy? They stared at me for a half beat and came back with that's awfully big of you to admit Which I thought was hilarious Share 99 Reply ...
middyandterror e 2d ago e I wasn't the actor, but I was so scared and so uptight during a Glencoe Massacre experience, one of the actors broke character to mutter to me For God's, relax 82 Reply Share ...
jacktheknife1180 2d ago Happened the other night. Getting close to closing we tend to get a little extra weird and silly with guests. I'm in a scare zone outside with about five of us and this couple comes with their little 4 year old looking daughter. We tend not to scare the little ones unless we can tell they're really into it, but the parents go say hi. And the little one growls and roars in her own monster style. We all then scream and jump away as if we are the ones getting scared. Some of us fall on
gonecamel 2d ago My partner was set up as doll and would be lifeless until suddenly she wasn't and it'd scare the shit out of people. One big burly dude who wanted to show how unafraid he was of the whole haunted house walked in and smacked her with all his force across the face. She opened her eyes and started screaming at him and he lost his shit because he thought she was a prop. Don't touch the actors, so also don't touch the props- they could be actors. 91 Share Reply ...
USSanon 2d ago While my fam was in a haunted house, one person broke character to ask me for my mother's name, then proceeded to go to the end of our line and call out her name over and over, freaking her out. + Share 194 Reply ...
Jane_Doughnut_ 2d ago e I was the participant not the actor, but a Jack the Ripper actor scared me so bad I collapsed on the ground, it was so bad that the actor apologised to me after lol 90 Reply Share ...
Downtown_Ad3986 в 3y ago I was working at a haunted house in downtown San Diego, California. I played the role of a zombie bride. We had a couple come through the haunted house and did not expect me to jump out from my hiding spot. When I scared them the dude threw his girlfriend at me and ran like a wimp. I felt so bad for the girl I broke character, took a smoke break and walked her outside. They ended up breaking up in the parking lot. That poor girl was scared out her mind and ill never forget
Jinxletron 3d ago Not an actor but a participant - we (a group of late 30s women) were running from this massive tall actor weilding a chainsaw. I went straight into panic mode and now know that chainsaws are not for me. We ended up huddled in a corner like deer in the headlights. Не eventually lowered the chainsaw and muttered quietly you're supposed to run out the exit. We were like BUT WHEEEERE WE DON'T SEE IT. Не gave us a pitying look and pointed. We ran. + Reply Share 5K ...
SweetPickleCravings e 4y ago e Edited 4y ago - Not a haunted house worker, but a worker hanging from above the tunnel I was coming out of tried to jump scare me, missed, and yelled holy f**k you're short! + 131 ...
ChuckNorrisAteMySock 3y ago Only worked in one for one day (it was a volunteer gig at a corn maze). There was a younger kid who got lost in the maze; could tell he was doing his best to be brave, but I remember him saying something like I know you're there but please don't scare me as he walked past. So I took my mask off and showed him towards the exit. + 227 ...
Polyfuckery 4y ago . Some asshole with his friends to impress were literally forcing terrified children through the maze. The little boy's eyes were all whites and the little girl looked like she was going to vomit and was hyperventilating. I walked alongside and pointed out all of the silly props and introduced them to the less scary actors and my coworker ran ahead and called out to the rooms to stand down before we entered. + 188 ...
nowhereman136 Зу ago My mom use to work at a haunted house. She loved to tell the story where someone came in with a baby, my mom screamed give me the baby and they did. They handed my mom, who was in full costume and makeup, a live baby and then ran away. Nothing like that happened at the haunted houses I worked at + 145 ...
butterflydeflect . 2d ago . I was playing a Samara/The Ring-type character and emerging from my well and some guy grabbed my hair in his fist and yanked really hard. I think he thought it was a wig - i lost it and told him to get the fuck out of my section. + 893 Reply Share ...
wakeywakeybigmistaky 2d ago Narrow indoor maze draped with lots of loose fabrics, faux spiderweb etc hanging from the ceilings. Very VERY dark. Guy decides it's too dark for him and decides to illuminate his path with a LIGHTER. There was only so many zombie grunts I could muster before telling him to put it the fuck away before he killed everyone there. 258 Reply Share ...
FilthyMublood 3d ago I scared the literal shit out of a guy. My room smelled like human feces for at least 20 minutes (luckily he was able to contain it all in his pants). People kept coming in and complaining, I was so embarrassed, I was worried they would think I did it so I broke character a lot during those 20 minutes to explain what happened. + Reply Share 4K ...
MattiasCrowe 2d ago On a trial walk through I scared one of our bosses and she said you grabbed my boob I immediately took off my gas mask and started apologizing. Couldn't see shit in that gas mask + Share 1.6K Reply ...
kjexclamation 2d ago Was walking around the lobby/parking lot in a show for all ages where we were zombies. Little kids were given wands that, if waved at us, signaled that we would turn away and shamble after someone else. My friend shambles up to a little boy, probably 4 years old, who apparently doesn't have a wand but instead just begins viscerally and repeatedly flipping us off for all he can manage. Non stop just finger after finger after finger, both hands. All of us had to stumble away laughing, both because we got the hint and trying not
Strict_Alps_97 2d ago . I work at a haunted cornmaze. Countless crazy stories. One that I always laugh at is when I jumped out to scare a father and his son, they both fell to the ground and when they hit the ground one of them ripped a giant fart. All three of us couldn't control the laughter. 3.6K Reply Share ...
cannedcream 4y ago So I was stationed in a small room just off to the side of a long hallway with a strobe light at the end. It made it hard for guests to see down towards me, but very easy for me to see them. So one evening a group of a five teens come through; four girls with one guy leading them. Just as they enter the hall, the guy turns around to talk with them. Having just been handed a golden ticket here, I sneak up right behind this guy. The girls all go stone silent and
KamuiBatosai 4y ago I (M) was playing a grim reaper statue that comes to life and lowers my (fake) scyth blade infront of guests from behind. This college age girl walks up to me and, convinsed I was just a statue or a prop, grabs my parts to prove to her friends it was safe. I looked at her slowly and asked So do you take me to dinner now or... that was the best scream we got all night. + 835 ...
4y ago Edited 4y ago was an actor at a haunted house years ago. We had separate rooms connected by hallways for guests to walk through (like, there was a murder room, a haunted house room, a circus themed room, and a zombie room). I worked in the zombie room, and played a zombie. The room was made up to look like a living room of a house that had been broken into by zombies-- furniture toppled over, lamps laying on the floor, the door hanging off the hinges, a broken window, blood everywhere, and a half-eaten body lying
Klown1327 4y ago Edited 4y ago One night this couple comes in with a 3-4 year old girl. She is throwing a huge fit, kicking, screaming, crying, the whole 9 yards, she doesnt wanna go in. Now, a logical human being would see this and say, well guess we dont go but not these two fuckos. They keep trying to force little girl to go through the house, but she wont budge. This is causing a bit of a scene as well as backing up the line. Myself and one or two other monsters tell them look, you gotta either
dragon_aeb 4y ago Source of the broken character. So it was my first semester of college, and some roommates and I decided to go to this place called the Haunted Mill. There's a section where you leave one building and cross through a field to get to another. So my roommates and I have just left the building, and out of the long grass runs this scary dude with a chainsaw. My friends scream, but I process fear a little differently. So instead of screaming, I instead say Are you here to warn of the dangers of drug use? And

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