This year's haunted house has been postponed. Email us if you would like to be a sponsor, have a venue we can use or are a non-profit organization looking for a great fund raising opportunity. Special thanks to the Catawba County Fire, Safety and Building Inspectors offices, the Maiden Volunteer Fire Department and the production crew for going out of their way to assist us. Look for us next year! We look forward to scaring you. |
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The once lively old dairy farm on Prison Camp Road in Catawba County now stands eerily vacant. The numerous barns and machine sheds sit cobwebbed and silent after forty years like a deserted ghost town. Not even the crow from a rooster can be heard. The towering grain silos surrounding the area still stand tall and firm as if guarding a dark secret. The abandoned slaughterhouse, now overgrown with weeds, had indeed seen it's share of bloodshed. Built shortly after the turn of the century, Prison Camp Farm was considered a workhouse for rehabilitating prisoners held at the local compound just down the road. More than six dozen inmates at a time would tend to planting and harvesting the cornfields, milking the cows, and of course slaughtering the bulls while the warden and his guards kept an armed and watchful eye. It all seemed like an excellent plan. Until... It was during the harvest season when dozens of people all over the county began to disappear. Although the inmates were always accounted for, suspicion turned to the farm. On Halloween night several locals reported they could hear blood-curdling screams coming from the confines of the feed shed. When daylight broke, officers discovered a mass jailbreak at the prison. A search party surrounded Prison Camp Farm only to find it completely deserted as if a curse had befallen the property. To this day, not a single living soul has been found. For over forty years hundreds of people in the area continue to disappear without a trace. And at night blood-curdling screams are still reported in the vicinity of the old dairy farm. Are you brave enough to venture into the dark shadows of the slaughterhouse? Are homicidal convicts still roaming the fields? Could it be the demented old housekeeper? Are the bodies of the missing hidden somewhere on the grounds? At times like this you've got to wonder - what is really stored in those huge silos? |
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