In the first month since the dungeon opened, 15 people have fainted and another four have vomited, apparently due to fear. Visitors to the medieval dungeon are greeted by fake blood and life-size models of victims on the rack. Guides demonstrate how prisoners used to have their tongues ripped out.
Sue Kemp, general manager of Warwick Castle, said: “Our first month has certainly proved that the castle dungeon isn’t for the fainthearted or those of a delicate constitution.” An official commented: “If there are many more incidents like these then the dungeon will have to be toned down.”
Sorry if the blog goes quiet – were off there NOW!
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heard about that this morning. X
Sounds great, but I’m already scared by the live actors in Madame Tussaud’s and the Dungeon, so nothing will bring me in that one! I’ll watch from the distance as peole come out looking really pale.
i wanna go see itt…:evil:
yeah actually thinking about it i cried my eyes out in the haunted tower when the first put actors in it and i was 15 at the time!
Sound great, I’m in!!
Parapsychologists might blame infrasound or EMF for the strange feelings, might just be haunted! (or sick).
Either way, i’ll add it to a future itinerery!!
XX
Can I bringz med kit?
Corr, I’d like to go and see that! I love scary things.
Haha, I just read that out to my mum and her reaction was priceless. =D
Bless.
Oh its really good! If anyones done the Passage of Terror in Blackpool too that scared me! lol
Frequent horror films watchers probably will not dislike it either I guess. I myself dont feel a need to go there. Read enough about it here and there and visualized quite simply. These methods … just let them creep upon yourself by picturing them done to yourself .. live them … and feel …. how surreal reality may seem ..
Wow, tell us what its like : ) x
Excellent… I want to go now. The last time I was that freaked out was walking through the underground catacombs in Paris. Napoleon saw the ones in Rome and true to his notorious complex, decided he wanted Paris to have an underground ossiary that was bigger, longer and darker. So he had his flunkys dig up every cemetry within 100 miles of Paris to provide the ‘building blocks’.
The result was the 3 miles of dank dimly lit dripping tunnel I went down just after opening time. It’s about 2 thirds of a mile before you get to the bones, and the corridor is flanked with pitch dark open doorways leading to who knows what. I was the first tourist down (I didn’t see anyone go down ahead of me) and just as my nerves were suitably jangled and I reached the bit with the bones in, I saw a ghostly figure in uniform through the dank cold mist, in the middle distance, surrounded by bones slumped in a chair.
I nearly pissed myself.
It turned out to be the museum guard! But even once I’d got used to that, and started walking past human remains stacked up on both sides of a long corridor five foot deep five foot high, it gradually dawned on me after an hour’s steady walking that there was still no end in sight and I’d spent the best part of 2 hours in a damp claustrophobic subterranean corridor walking past endless musty dead people. I started to panic and literally sprinted the remaining mile as fast as I could. It was like one of those running through syrup nightmares where you just can’t seem to escape the creepy haunted house and you wake up in a cold sweat! Now that’s a great place for freaking people out. I want to go back soon
Just to give you some idea, that’s 2 and a third miles of this…
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3006/3143186727_7b91fe12e4.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/Paris_catacombes.jpg
http://www.greatwhatsit.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/catacombs-of-paris.jpg
Having been to Warwick Castle recently, i’m very dubious that any of their exhibits are scary enough that they should be changed… People are just being silly…
Was looking at the warick castle site and its actually set up by the same people that did the london dungeons. I think it siad for £45 you caan have a 3 course meal there by candle light veggie option too and then when its dark they take you round the dungeons. Evening lasts from 7.30 -11. Sounds good but I think i’d still rather see enigma again more.
Now I have been there and done the whole dungeon thing and have to say the scariest bit of it is parting an additional £7 for it on top of the entry.
It NOT that scary at all and think the lack of aircon and enclosed spaces was the reason for the fainting and being sick.
Im pretty easy to scare and was not even rattled.
cheers
Rob
I’ve been in the dungeons of WC and they did nothing for me. Interesting… yes! Scarey… no. I guess some people are just highly strung… or at least ought to be, maybe IN the dungeons lol
I went to WC at the weekend. i had such a good time apart from the dungeons. it was awful. to start a waste of money. nothing was of much interest unless you like fake sets and a silly story that has nothing to do with anything. also the actors kept jumping out at you what made you scream and got really annoying after a while. not that your scared of the actual place just being booed when you don’t expect it