Over 160,000 chickened out. This year, he said, he hopes to attract 70,000 masochists before the dread subsides. Visit Nightmares Fear Factory, Niagara Falls scariest Haunted House Attraction. Updated 9:39 AM ET, Mon NEW YORK - Its a sweltering spring day in New York City, but Dana Aber stands on the Times Square-42 Street subway platform in a heavy leather jacket. "I knew it was going to be a success, because the city didn't have a haunted house," Mr. "Nightmare: New York's Most Horrifying Haunted House" followed last year and drew about 20,000 visitors. He created "Halloween Adventure Haunted House" in 2004, and soon after formed Psycho Clan with the producer Chip Meyrelles ("Bug"). According to the haunted house’s website, the Cataract Coffin Factory, once owned by businessman Abraham Mortimer, was plagued by local hoodlums who would taunt Mortimer nightly that is, until.
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1 and 2: aquaphobia (fear of water or drowning enacted by Juliette Fitzgerald, above) and coulrophobia (fear of clowns). 6) and another subway special, claustrophobia (No. A few come as no surprise, like musophobia (fear of mice and rats, No. Then a team led by the theater director Timothy Haskell put together houses based on the top 13 anxieties. The phobias were chosen by a production company, Psycho Clan, based on a poll of 3,500 New Yorkers. Gothams grown-upsonly haunted house, Nightmare: Face Your Fear. Ticket buyers are asked (ordered, actually) to snake through a maze of 13 rooms, each devoted to one phobia. In this haunted house, with locations in all five boroughs, there are no garden-variety ghosts or chainsaw-wielding monsters.
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Feeling disoriented, being home alone and being buried alive are fears New Yorkers are waiting in line - and paying - to confront at "Nightmare: Face Your Fear."