I took my daughter to Galey Farms Corn Maze tonight. We also went through their haunted house. It was all kind of fun, but I found out one thing that scared me….
Haunted houses are designed to invoke your “fight or flight” instinct. That is the primitive part of your brain that decides whether you should run away to safety, or stay and fight the threat. When the goulie shouts and jumps out at you, most people seem to have an instinctual reaction to run away. That is, people jump and move away.
Maybe it was because I was with my daughter, but the goulie shouted and jumped at me, I almost hit him…. Was I scared? I could have broken his nose….