more on the Haunted Courthouse

Now that I checked in with Iowa Base about Haunted Courthouse memories, here’s what my mother had to say. I had forgotten this part of it:

“We were just talking about the Shueyville Haunted Courthouse – I didn’t want to go in so I sat in the car and this costumed zombie came over to the car and started hassling me. He wouldn’t leave. They were so committed to a complete experience.”

Now that’s a serious haunted house! Hassling people who linger in the vicinity.

They only did it for a year or two, back around 1981-82. I’ve still never seen a better one, and I’m talking about a tiny little town in Iowa.

And then my parents went to the 2004 Iowa Democratic Caucuses there. If it were me, it would have been hard to keep a straight face. Was the Kerry section in the werewolf room and Howard Dean next to where the bloody butchers’ knives used to be? Or vice versa?