SOULS OF THE FORSAKEN BEGAN AS A SMALL YARD HAUNT IN 2005. WE ARE
LOCATED IN PLAINFIELD ILLINOIS. THE FRONT YARD WAS DECORATED WITH
ONE JASON AND ONE FREDDY (WELL REALLY ONLY JASON AND FREDDY'S HEAD.) THE KIDS LOVED IT TAKING PICTURES WITH THE CRAZED KILLER, EVEN IN THE RAIN. WOW PEOPLE REALLY LOVE HALLOWEEN. THE NEXT YEAR WE ADDED TOMBSTONES, FOG AND A COUPLE MORE PROPS. AGAIN THE PEOPLE CAME OUT TO SEE IT. WE EVENTUALLY ADDED A WALK THROUGH TENT AND A LAB SCENE IN THE GARAGE. EACH YEAR MORE AND MORE PEOPLE WERE COMING EACH YEAR WE WERE GETTING BIGGER AND BETTER. ONE YEAR WE WENT TO A SHOW IN CHICAGO CALLED TRANSWORLD (IF YOU HAVE BEEN THERE YOU KNOW WHAT A CANDY LAND OF HAUNTED PROPS YOU WILL FIND). THAT'S ALL IT TOOK FOR US TO GO CRAZY WITH OUR HOME HAUNT.

WE HAVE GROWN OVER THE MANY YEARS AND NOW INCLUDE A YARD SCENE A GARAGE SCENE AND A HAUNTED HOUSE IN THE BACKYARD. YES A HAUNTED HOUSE IN THE BACKYARD. IT'S FILLED WITH LIVE ACTORS AND SOME DEAD ONES TOO. PNEUMATIC PROPS ARE SCARING VICTIMS EVERYWHERE AND THE DETAIL IS AMAZING. OUR VISITORS ARE LOVINGLY CALLED VICTIMS BECAUSE ONCE YOU STEP INTO OUR HAUNTED WORLD THAT'S WHAT YOU BECOME. SOME EVEN SURVIVE TO TELL THE TALE OF HORROR TO THEIR FRIEND'S AND FAMILY. IT TAKES MONTHS TO GET READY A MONTH TO TAKE DOWN AND A YEAR TO COME UP WITH THE DESIGNS LAYOUT AND PROPS NEEDED TO MAKE THIS ATTRACTION HAPPEN. THE OWNER IS NAMED DAN. HE BUILDS ALL HIS SETS, MAKES HIS OWN PNEUMATIC PROPS AND WITH THE HELP OF ME HIS WIFE TAMMIE AND CHILDREN DAN J.R. AND DYLAN HE IS ABLE TO PULL OFF A AMAZING SHOW EACH YEAR.

IN 2009 WE HAD 7 BUILDINGS THAT HOUSED OUR HAUNTED HOUSE. THEY WERE BUILT PRIOR TO THE HAUNT OPENING IN OCTOBER AND TOOK 3 MONTHS TO PREPARE. THEN ANOTHER MONTH TO TAKE DOWN AND PACK AWAY. WE HAD OVER 2000 VICTIMS COME TO SEE OUR ATTRACTION. WE HAD LIVE ACTORS AND SOME DEAD ONES TOO. WE ALSO HAD PNEUMATICS ALONG WITH STATIC PROPS. THE ROOMS WERE VERY HIGHLY DETAILED WITH REAL WALLS PUT UP. WE INCLUDED A SECRET PASSAGEWAY THRU THE BOOKCASE IN THE PARLOR WHICH LEAD YOU TO THE KITCHEN. THE KITCHEN HAD 2 ACTORS ONE TO DISTRACT YOU AS HE CHOPPED UP HIS BODY PARTS AND THE OTHER ACTOR TO COME OUT OF "NOWHERE" WITH A CHAINSAW. THE ONLY WAY OUT OF THE KITCHEN WAS TO GO THRU THE REFRIGERATOR DOWN A LONG DARK HALLWAY WHICH LEAD YOU TO THE PIPE ROOM AND CREMATORIUM. THIS ROOM HAD PIPES ON THE WALL WHICH HAD SCENTED FOG COMING OUT OF THEM. AN AIR BLASTER DID THE SCARE HERE. THEN AT THE END TWO CREMATORIUM DOORS THAT OPENED AND YOU HAD TO CRAWL THRU THE FIRE TO GET OUT AND ESCAPE THE MADNESS OF OUR HAUNT.

THE MADNESS ACTUALLY BEGAN WHEN YOU ARRIVED AND WAS TRANSFORMED INTO FEELING LIKE YOU WERE IN A SPOOKY GRAVEYARD WITH ZOMBIES TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE YARD AND JUMPING UP AT YOU. SCARY MUSIC AND FOG ALONG WITH LOTS AND LOTS OF STATIC PROPS MADE UP THIS AREA. YOU THEN TRAVELED TO THE GARAGE TO SEE THE FRANKENSTEIN DISPLAY WHICH HAD MANY FRIGHTS TO SEE. THE KIDS REALLY ENJOYED THIS AREA NOT TOO INTENSE FOR THEM. THE BACKYARD STARTED WITH THE BODY BAG ROOM COMPLETE WITH HANGING BODY BAGS AND AN ACTOR TO HELP BRING OUT THE SCARES AND THEN A DROP DOWN PANEL THAT YOU WERE NOT EXPECTING. THIS NEXT ROOM WAS THE SWAMP ROOM AND HAD TREES GALORE. A BUILDING WITHIN A BUILDING IN THIS ROOM. AN OLD SHACK WAS SEEN HERE WITH A A FRONT PORCH AND A GRANNY IN HER ROCKING CHAIR HELPED TO MAKE THE SCENE. A HIDDEN ACTOR AMONG THE TREES WAS A SURE FIRE SCARE HERE. OUT THRU THE SCREEN DOOR TO SEE OUR ELECTRIC CHAIR PROP"JOLT". HE WAS A HIT AND MADE MANY PEOPLE SCREAM AND RUN RIGHT OUT THAT ROOM. THE NEXT ROOM WAS THE PARLOR AND THIS WAS VERY DETAILED , EVEN HAD A WORKING OLD TIME RADIO AND TV. THE ACTOR IN HERE SET OFF THE PNEUMATIC PROP IN THE COFFIN AND HAD TO LET YOU OUT THRU THE PASSAGEWAY WHEN SHE WAS GOOD AND READY. (MOST PEOPLE WERE BEGGING TO GET OUT). THIS LEAD YOU TO THE KITCHEN AS SO ON AS DESCRIBED ABOVE...

WE HAD A GREAT TIME SCARING OUR VICTIMS I MEAN GUESTS, AND HOPE YOU WILL BE ONE NEXT YEAR......