RECAP:  This is the perfect place for a haunted attraction!  Stepping inside to the greeting of, "Welcome to your new home, you'll be staying forever!" begins the journey that explores a spooky living room, frightening funeral parlor in search of a body for the casket, spider web-covered passage, paranormal maze of stacked chairs, electric shock room, poisonous toxic dump, and a crazed insane asylum, where the resident nurse proudly displays a handful of syringes!  Advancement into a Doctor's office finds a strange medical assistant proclaiming, "You'll look great in my trophy case!"  Meanwhile, caged "guinea pigs," being utilized as experimental subjects, viciously growl while encircling groups, trapping them inside!  Elusion onto a staircase discovers a pair of young, ghostly girls perched atop the landing, beckoning the way upstairs into an abandoned library, and through dark corridors into a schoolroom, where a small boy wearing a dunce cap is punished, and forced to repeatedly write on a blackboard, "I will not stab Johnny in the eye with my pencil!"  Then, while staring into a closet containing only a single desk, he alarmingly shouts, "He's coming!" as the door mysteriously slams shut on its own!

From here, it's onto a suitcase surprise, shrinking hallway, a lethal torture chamber, an electrician's nightmare of severed and tangled wires, and a bedroom full of shenanigans including assailants clawing at your legs from beneath the beds that elicits a persistent fiend, who follows you through the remainder of the house promising, "I'll be under your bed at 3 AM tonight when you get home!"  A brief respite courtesy of a false finish soon gives way to a final, unexpected scare, and the conclusion of A True American Haunt!

ANALYSIS:  This first-year attraction does a great job permitting characters to set up each scene's scare.  Actors give it their all to provide the best experience possible, and the final engagement leaves a lasting impression suggesting there's even more to come once you leave the haunt and return home!  Doctor's experiments and schoolroom are among the most memorable settings, as is the paranormal array of stacked chairs.  Soundtrack is mostly absent throughout, and would significantly compliment the adventure, not to mention aid in the creation of a spookier environment!  A few animatronics would have a similar impact on the overall event, and fit well into the legend of ghost sightings at the house. 

Cost of admission is $20 and challenging Escape Rooms are also offered for only $3 each, or $10 for all 4.  Concessions are also available, so be sure to grab yourself a snack, or enjoy a hotdog for only a dollar while waiting in line.

Built in 1828, The Clarence E. Miller Building served Fairfield County, Ohio as an Infirmary and home to the poor and elderly for more than 150 years.  Many reportedly died inside, and on the west hill adjacent to the structure rests a large "Pauper's Cemetery!"  Capitalizing on its reputation of actually being haunted, Habitat for Humanity launched A True American Haunt - Birth of a Nightmare as an annual fundraiser geared toward building revitalization and restoration, a gallery for local artists, and the creation of homes for veterans.  Please lend your support to this non-profit event by paying them a visit this Halloween season for some festive entertainment all benefiting a really good cause!