By GARRETT SAGER
Hays Post

With Halloween weekend comes ghoulish good times, and Fort Hays State University’s Sternberg Museum of Natural History will be adding some fright to your weekend with the Haunted Museum.

The Haunted Museum will last 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday and is open to the public with a $5 entry fee. Ian Trevethan, Sternberg Museum Outreach Coordinator emphasized this is not an event for little kids.

“If we are going to do a haunted house … we’re going to do it right,” Trevethan said. “We’ve had kids in the past half to stop halfway through because they could not handle it.”

Because of the depth of spookiness involved in the Haunted Museum, the age recommendation is for ages 13 and older.

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“We are going to utilize what we have, we have dinosaurs, we have skeletons, we all ready have spooky sounds, and all the lights will be off,” Trevethan said.

This year’s Haunted Museum is different from last year’s, which was the second most successful Haunted Museum in the history of the event according to Trevethan.

“Last year, I got a lot of feedback and most of it was positive, but some critiques were that it was not that scary,” Trevethan said.

Last year Trevethan said they went with an over arching theme of “Gotham” based of the DC Comics life of Batman.

“If you really weren’t a nerd, you just really didn’t get it so we had to change it,” Trevethan said.

This year, Trevethan left it in the hands of the four FHSU student groups to decided their own themes.

“Every theme is different,” Trevethan said. “I’ve heard American Horror Story Freak Show, Walking Dead and Five Nights at Freddy’s — so its more than just your typical zombies.”

The FHSU student groups participating are the FHSU Biology Club, Halo, Circle K International, and US4U. Each group has 15 representatives helping out with the Haunted Museum.

“The idea was to let the students get involved more,” Trevethan said.

The Haunted Museum will be the scariest its been, he added.

“With the route, we feel we can give the people the experiences that they want in a haunted house,” Trevehan said. “Almost every floor that is used is used to its entirety.”

After the tour is completed, people will be able to vote for which FHSU student group had the scariest stop on the tour.

For those with medical conditions, strobe lights and fog machines will also be in use.