My success in overcoming my scaredy-cat ways was thanks, in part, to two Universal Orlando creatives whose job it is to impart this torment on unsuspecting guests like me: Lora Sauls and Charles Gray. I navigated all 10 haunted houses and five outdoor scare zones at Universal that night, and save for a scratchy throat from screaming, I survived - dare I say, I actually enjoyed myself enough to go back for a second go-around a couple weeks later. I was beginning my walk through the haunted house inspired by Netflix's " The Haunting of Hill House" at Universal Studios Florida's Halloween Horror Nights, and there was no turning back.
Suddenly, the interior of the home glowed an ominous red and I jumped as a man shone his flashlight in my face. The lights inside the house were flickering and I could hear glass shattering as the windows broke one by one. Like many scary stories, this one started on a dark and stormy night.