FERGUS – If you’re looking for creepy, if you’re looking for gore, if you want to be frightened by things that go bump in the night, look no further than the Fergus House of Horrors.
Evan Jeurgenson, with help from his parents and extended family, is putting the finishing touches on his haunted house, which promises to be scarier than last year’s effort, his first.
Jeurgenson wasn’t always a fan of Halloween. Candy yes, but he didn’t like being scared.
“As a little, little kid I was terrified of it. “But eventually a switch flipped for me and now I love it,” he said as he offered a personal tour of the house.
“Since I was 13 I’ve been making haunted houses in the garage. And now, I had the props, I had the house and I have the passion for it.”
The old farmhouse at 6854 Beatty Line North looks like the backdrop for a scary movie, and indeed it was for a few weeks this summer.
Jeurgenson said some scenes from the movie I am Death, now in post-production, were filmed there.
The house belonged to his grandfather, who rented it to a long-term tenant.
When his grandfather died the house passed to Jeurgenson’s father and uncle and the tenant moved out.
“We had no idea the house was in such bad shape,” Jeurgenson said. “But it’s a great haunted house.”
There are seven rooms for visitors to walk through, plus a haunted doll forest outside.
This scene is one of the creepy displays in the house.
Each room has its own theme, so if you enjoy freaky clowns, dolls hanging from trees, spiders everywhere, and a few gross-out characters having surgery, this is the place for you.
Jeurgenson has been working on it through the summer, shopping Facebook Marketplace for decor and sorting out the logistics to ensure he has enough batteries, extension cords, lights and other special effects.
If the fog and flashing lights and eerie music don’t make your skin crawl, there are scare actors on scene to finish the job.
“And we have speakers outside playing a heartbeat,” he said.
Tickets are $20 per person and are booked in 15-minute increments, which should keep traffic flowing and still allow everyone enough time to take it all in.
Last year he donated 10 per cent of proceeds to Sensational Elora and he will do the same this year.
The Fergus House of Horrors is open over four weekends: Oct. 10/11, 17/18, 24/25/26 and Oct. 31.
For more information and to book a time, visit fergushouseofhorrors.hytix.com.
