We first met up with Alan Bennett at the 2002 Horrorfind convention, he shared a room with the folks at Castle Blood, and was one of our first encounters with the now standard, Stalk Around.... we had no idea at the time that this would be the haunters first year at running his own attraction.

While we waited for Alan to become available (it was opening night) we chatted with Mrs. Bennett who was working the ticket booth. We could not help but notice several of the actors walking around dressed in medieval clothing to match the castle facade, all made courtesy of her sister... We also met Alan's nephew... a charming young lad about waist high who asked us "You know you're gonna die, right?" We explained that no, we did NOT know that and he assured us we would...

Alan broke free from his place within the house for a few minutes and graced us with a walk thru of the attraction, and we could definitely see the potential of the haunter... his cast was enthusiastic and quite a bit of money and effort had gone into the props thought the "newness" of everthing was a minor detractor from the atmosphere.

Upon entering the building, one of your first encounters is a labratory scene, everyone brought into the room before a table where we would be addressed by one of the energetic actors. Several props would be utilized, including spraying the crowd with "blood" as the sawing of flesh does not go neatly behind that white curtain, but we were disappointed that the "Bad Baby" prop resting on the floor in the background would not be utilized, we had only seen the prop in trade mags, never used in any of the haunts.