2000 – NETHERWORLD Haunted House – Year 4
2000 – Year Four of NETHERWORLD Haunted House!
Our main theme in 2000 was Primeval, a storyline based on time travel and prehistoric creatures. It was quite a challenge for the artists and crew of NETHERWORLD to come up with dinosaurs, man eating plants, massive spiders, beast men, saurian warriors and all manner of ancient evils to populate the world of PRIMEVAL, with most of the props and creatures being made completely custom for the event. This year also had NETHERWORLD”s second exploration into wild visual effects seen through ChromaDepth glasses called the EXTREME 3D Haunted Mansion, and for the first time an additional haunt was constructed and run off site at another location several miles away. This event was known as BLOODFEAST, and featured a guided tour of a replica medieval torture chamber complete with extremely gory props and very twisted scares. The year 2000 was a very successful one but the difficultly in running two different locations made the season crazier than most! In the years to come as NETHERWORLD grew larger and took more square footage in the Georgia Antique Center the decision was made to keep everything in only ONE location!
Hurled through time and space by a madman! Lost on A Prehistoric Island swallowed by the Pacific Ocean eons ago! Hunted by Saurian Warriors and Primal Vampires!
And now things are about to get bad!
Deep below this savage land, an even greater horror has awakened! Find your way to its spawning grounds and you may survive…
The Wight Fragments:
These are the fragments of the text found on the seabed last month. Carved into black basalt with what appears to have been an obsidian hand tool, they were dredged from pacific sediments dating back at least 500 thousand years. Any theory you could advance would be greatly appreciated, since one does not expect to find the English language, let alone a narrative purportedly written by one of our colleagues, carved onto ancient tablets buried long before known language existed.
Note: M-12 has confirmed that Professor Wight has been missing for several months, last seen in the state of Georgia USA, indulging in one of his favorite hobbies while on Holiday…. Visiting “haunted houses”. As if there were not enough dusty old castles to explore in England!
Best of Luck!
Colonial Veckworth MAJESTIC-12
Tablets 1-3
(Drawings of prehistoric animals and copies of runic symbols, all signed D.E. Wight)
Tablet 4
(A bas relief of an Octopus/Humanoid Figure battling a lizard like warrior)
Tablet #7
(Carved in English) … that a race of bipedal Saurians built a vast civilization is incredible! But as I walk among the ruins of lost Lemuria, I can see it has already fallen, claimed by the jungle. Primitive humans and even less evolved primates are common, and very aggressive! The Fauna is antediluvian, prehistoric, yet evolved into forms unknown in the fossil record. If I can evade the Morlocks I will enter the caves tomorrow. D. E. Wight
Tablet #8
(Crude sketch of a huge worm like thing, with a scale measuring 75 ft.) A new Phylum? I cannot even tell if it is animal or plant! But I am sure of one thing…it is hungry! D.E. Wight
Tablet #9
…..blood drinking and nocturnal! Are they Hyperborians? Fine boned and pale, yet possessing enormous strength and speed! If remnants of this race survived this could well explain the Vampire myths found worldwide. But even they fear what lurks even deeper..The Umbilicus Noctum,… the Fount of Aboth,… and the dwellers in darkness who guard it! This is what my patron wants me to find I think. D.E. Wight
Tablet #10
At last I have deduced Colber’s plan! Even now his Vortex pulls me but I must resist! These are secrets man was not meant to know! Better I feed myself to The Crawler than give him the Philosophers Stone! D.E. Wight
Tablet #11
They Live!
Experience a BRAIN BENDING adventure in 3-D Technology! Walls move, floors crawl, you won’t believe your Eyes! The special ChromaDepth glasses TWIST reality in ways you cannot imagine! Explore an old mansion filled with Spectral Inhabitants and A Graveyard of Grotesque Ghouls!
The Terror Surrounds You!
“The Dead have returned to torture the Living… to gulp down their blood and feast on their flesh!”
In 1982, a wall in the catacombs of Glamis Castle in Scotland was removed during restoration and renovation. Sealed behind it was a horrific torture chamber, complete with the mummified remains of its final victims. When the chamber was purchased by a wealthy businessman in 1994, it was moved to the United States and displayed in his wine cellar to amuse guests at his Halloween Party.
What occurred on that night will shock you, disgust you and might even kill you!
Because Tonight It Happens Again!
The following Transcription was recorded by the local 911 system on October 31st, 1994. In addition to crashes, screams, and muffled sobs, a strange chant was heard in the background. The following text was translated from Latin….
“We are the Dead…You of the living have the Great Secret hidden within your muscles and sinew… the Secret of life! Give us the Secret…so we may live again! Give us the Secret or we will tear it from your flesh! Your weak succulent flesh! We will open you like a book and rip the mysteries from your steaming guts! We are the dead and will feast as in days of old! Feast on your blood and suck out your eyes…. gulp down your fat and gorge on your liver…We are the Dead!……Give Us the Secret!….”
REVIEWS FROM 2000
“A triple bill of blood-curdling thrills.”
– atlanta.citysearch.com
“Nationally recognized after just four years in existence.”
– atlanta.citysearch.com
“Scare-licious.”
– AJC
“Tingles the spine.”
– Gwinnett Daily Post
“The people in charge of the Netherworld Haunted House probably need some serious psychiatric help and medication—but Halloween will definitely be a little more frightening and surreal until they do.”
– The Technique
“Netherworld 2000—it’s smarter than the average scare.”
– The Technique
“A huge self-guided maze that frightens at every turn.”
– Southern Voice
“No headstone is left unturned to scare the living daylights out of you.”
– Southern Voice
“Hands-down the most original and exciting haunted house experience in Atlanta.”
– Forsyth County News
“The creations are top notch…they breathe and move in animatronic amazement.”
– Forsyth County News
“The scares are genuine.”
– Forsyth County News
“Serious goose-bump potential.”
– Forsyth County News
“The most effective use of 3-D I have seen to date.”
– Forsyth County News
“A really wild experience.”
– Forsyth County News
“When you come out, you can’t help but smile. The Netherworld is a great Halloween experience.”
– Forsyth County News
“In case you haven’t heard, Netherworld Haunted House is the place to be this Halloween! It takes the Halloween spirit to an entirely new level with the granddaddy of all spook houses.”
– Gwinnett Loaf
“Guaranteed to have you screaming and begging for more.”
– Gwinnett Loaf
“Atlanta’s premiere haunted house.”
– Creative Loafing
“One of the most spectacular haunts nationwide.”
– What’s Up Atlanta
Netherworld named the Feature Attraction of The Observer’s “Best Places to Go to Have the Bejesus Scared Out of You”
“35 minutes of pure terror.”
– INsite
“What a scream!”
– Gazette Magazine