(3) Creepy AMUSEMENT PARK Horror Stories

[Music] I was 7 years old when my family went on holiday to gr Canaria during this holiday we visited a rather large water park just outside of the Puerto Rico not referring to the Caribbean island it's the name of a holiday Resort situated on the Southwest coast of the grand Canaria Island the water park was massive four sections with about five slides per area so everyone seemed to be having fun but I was very young at the time and mainly kept to the smaller kid slides and the shallow wave pools sometimes venturing to the medium

slide with my father but after a while my parents wanted to go on the biggest slides the park had to offer and they left me and my younger brother in the care of my uncle who was with my cousin in the kids pool I tell him that I'm going to the medium slides again which were within viewing distance from where he was he allowed it and off I went after a while I headed back to the kids pool to where our loungers were to check up with my uncle and to see if my parents had

returned yet but when I got back I couldn't find anyone me being only seven at the time I began to panic a little bit while going off in the direction of the big slides to find my parents after a while of walking about probably looking very distressed a chubby Englishman comes up to me I'm Scottish so I can tell and he asked me if I was all right he seemed nice at first and offered to help me look for my parents but I knew all about stranger danger and I wasn't allowed to talk to him

so I just walked off still looking for my parents a few minutes later I see the man again in hindsight he was probably following me he approaches me again and offers to get me some popcorn and a drink while I waited for my parents to which again I say no as my mother told me to never accept anything from strangers under any circumstances at this point I see a lifeguard and I walk over to him for help after speaking with him and telling him that I had to find my parents the man appears again and

begins telling the Lifeguard that he was a family friend and that he would take me back to where we were the Lifeguard could tell by the look on my face that this man was lying and then asks do you know know this guy to which I tell him no the Lifeguard then offers to walk me back to where I had last seen my family which I obviously take him up on as by now I'm a bit creeped out we eventually find my parents by the sunbeds I could tell that my mother was very upset the

Lifeguard explained to my parents what happened and that he'll keep a lookout for that guy so he doesn't bother me again I don't remember much after this years later when I was old enough to understand my mom told me why she was so upset when they didn't know where I was other than the obvious concern that her son was gone earlier that year in Portugal there was a disappearance of a girl that really hit the UK hard I'm sure most of you know what I'm referring to many people were afraid of going abroad on holiday

looking back I sometimes think about how I could have been the second kid to go missing that year when two of my friends and I were juniors in college back in 2018 we decided to sneak into a place called Playland Park in Ry New York one of my friends grew up in Rye and had done this many times before so while I was a bit nervous about getting getting arrested for trespassing I felt a bit reassured that the park wasn't very well monitored at night it was around 1:00 a.m. and we drove and parked our

car next to a large fence and attempted to scale it it was rather difficult and required us to step onto each other's hands to get over which gave me intense anxiety about how the three of us were going to get back over the fence on the way out after both of my friends got over the fence I attempted to chicken out and just Wai in the car but after a bit of peer pressure I caved in and after several minutes of struggling I managed to make it over the fence on my own and we began

walking while lighting up a joint it was Pitch Black at this point and almost all the lights in the park were off we approached the water Flume ride which went up about 100 to 150 ft and then dropped into to a steep slope along the side of the ride was a staircase for technicians and employees which my friends decided to climb for a better View at this point I chickened out and decided to stay at the bottom out of a fear of heights as they climbed the stairs I looked out across the park and noticed

something very strange we weren't alone several hundred ft from us was a pond with what appeared to be a small boat or raft inside and about four or so people riding it with flashlights attached to their heads what was even stranger was the fact that there were two dark figures swimming in the pond looking for something beneath the water I could barely make out the Silhouettes of these figures but after a few minutes I noticed that they could see us and began mobilizing the boat in our Direction I frantically started to whisper scream to my

friends who were now all the way at the top of the water ride and could barely hear me at this point the boat had reached land and the small lights on their helmets were now heading in our Direction fast my friends finally raced down the stairs and we began sprinting as fast as we could down the boardwalk that was dimly lit then back toward the way we came as we sprinted down the long straight Boardwalk I realized that we were completely visible now and began to accept the reality that we might be caught and arrested

we rounded the corner got back to the fence and climbed over safely hopping into our car and dipping out [Applause] immediately I couldn't believe that we weren't caught as the figures who were chasing after us were no more than a few hundred F feet away when they initially spotted us to this day I still wonder why the hell there were people swimming around in a pond at an amusement park at 1:30 in the morning my friend told me that kids had drowned in that pond before making me wonder if they were searching for a body

I Googled any articles I could find but to no avail my friends and I are still totally puzzled by this experience can't really come to a logical explanation just thinking about it now still gives me the [Music] chills this happened in the summer of 2008 toward the end of my eighth grade year my parents started me in school a bit early so by this time I was 13 years old as a side I wouldn't hit puberty until I was well into high school so I was one of the smallest out of my classmates the point

is there was no way anyone could have mistaken me for an adult the eighth grade trip this year was to visit the nearest amusement park Six Flags Great America for the first part of the visit I was in a group of about six students several rides later my group wanted to stop to go get something to eat and just relax and chill out for a while while but since this was the first year that I came here where I was actually tall enough to ride the roller coasters that was the only thing that I was

interested in doing so myself and my friend Kevin branched off from the group so we could just ride the roller coasters for the rest of the visit we gotten a few rides before getting in line for the Raging Bull for a second time by this time it was getting late and the lines were long but there was still enough time for a couple more rides unfortunately I hadn't considered how big of an issue my motion sickness was going to be whenever I got off a roller coaster I would have this feeling of vertigo that only

got worse with each ride I would take at first it would begin to go away after a few minutes and would be completely gone by the time I was boarding the next coaster but each time it would take longer and longer to go away so we were in line for the Raging Bull again and I was already starting to feel nauseous even before getting on I still didn't want to check it out so I got on anyway hoping that any of my nausea would go away as it had earlier unfortunately that wasn't the case the

moment I stepped off my world was spinning and I had the worst nausea induced headache combination I've ever felt in my life in contrast Kevin said that he would get back in line and ride the Raging Bull one last time before Six Flags closed at that time there was only 15 minutes before closing this time however I told Kevin that there was no way I was riding again I told him that he could go on and that I would be waiting for him outside the ride he said he didn't want to ride alone but saw

that I wasn't going to change my mind so he got in line while I waited at the bench right outside the entrance in retrospect I should have tried waiting in line with him instead of splitting up but I truly felt that I couldn't stand without falling over so I sat on the bench and he would be taking his last ride without me 10 minutes passed while I was sitting on this bench trying to recuperate my eyes were closed and I was trying to relax so I could only hear the people and music around me it

was then that I realized someone was saying hello over and over again once I became aware of it I realized that I had been hearing it for a while and had just been tuning it out with every other noise I was hearing my next thought was I wish whoever that person is calling would answer already until I realized that there wasn't anyone around except for myself and the person calling finally it occurred to me that the person was calling to me I turned and saw a woman who I had never seen before four standing in

the Raging Bull line she looked like a perfectly normal woman in her 30s and had a friendly smile on her face back then I was always very polite and even a people pleaser to a certain extent despite how horrible I was feeling the first thing I did was apologize for not answering sooner telling her that I didn't know that she was calling out to me don't worry about it sweetheart what's your name I told her my first name without giving it much thought she then said wow that's a lovely name which I thought was odd

because I have a very ordinary and boring name she did not tell me hers though I wouldn't get a chance to ask because right away she asked me if I wanted to ride on the Raging Bull with her I simply and politely told her that I didn't and hoped that she would leave it at that as I was still feeling miserable you should come with me I can't I'm not feeling well that's why I'm here waiting for my friend oh come on you'll be fine she insisted sorry I really shouldn't I'll probably puke on the

ride she basically ignored what I said all the while still smiling oh don't worry about it just come on already at this point her tone was still playful sorry I'm waiting for my friend he'll be back soon if I get on he won't know where I am he can wait for you here don't worry it's no big deal it'll make you feel better I told her that Kevin wouldn't stick around here because he might have assumed that I had gone back to the bus or to the bathroom not even paying attention to my concerns she

just said again I said it will be fine now come on finally I was beginning to think that this was weird why was this random woman so adamant about me going on this ride with her I couldn't understand it since nothing I said had persuaded her to leave me alone I just reminded her that Six Flags was closing anyway so there was no point by now there must have been less than 5 minutes until closing time I knew that by the time we got to the ride they wouldn't be letting anyone else on that's when

she said I work here so it's fine I didn't see what that had to do with anything could employees ride after closing I don't know but I did notice that she wasn't wearing any kind of uniform to identify her as an employee she was just wearing regular street clothes she must have noticed how I was looking at her because she quickly changed her story okay I don't work here but I I do have a lot of friends that work here again I didn't see what this had to do with anything would her and I be

able to ride after closing just because she had some friends who worked there and why did she even mention that she worked there when she really didn't Something Fishy was going on here I then asked why don't you just ride with your friends because I was still very confused as to why she was asking me when she apparently had a lot of friends around who would be off of work soon her smile widened well you're special and I want to go with you that just made me feel more confused and uncomfortable I kept trying to

explain why I didn't want to get on repeating my reasons again trying to be as polite as possible because I didn't like rejecting people or hurting their feelings I was still hoping that she would just take no for an answer and leave me alone she continued to ignore my protests and just kept asking me to go with her saying that it was no big deal and that she didn't want to go with anyone but me after a while she finally said is that your friend it was to my relief that I saw Kevin coming out

of the exit I headed toward him quickly but then stopped and turned to wave goodbye to the woman it still seemed rude to me just to walk away from someone who had been talking to me for several minutes even if she was being annoying when I turned to her and saw her face it was the first time that I genuinely felt afraid during this encounter this entire time she had been smiling acting very nice and friendly but now she was staring at me completely infuriated almost enraged I was the kind of kid who never liked

upsetting people or getting into trouble so I had never seen anyone look at me like that before it was a look of pure hatred on her face that made me feel like if I had been any closer to her she might have attacked me I was so anxious about it that I went over to Kevin before he reached me and left with him quickly because I was worried that she would leave the line and chase after us thank God she didn't but also I feel like she was a bit too smart to attack me on

public public the thing is the line leading up to the Raging Bull was very long and most of it was hidden from outside view since it was approaching closing time the line would have been mostly deserted so if I had gone with her it would have been just me and her completely isolated the only people I told were my parents once I explained the situation my mom said that if I had gone with her I wouldn't have made it to the Rock cried it wasn't until my mom said this that it finally dawned on me

the woman was not actually interested in riding the roller coaster at all my dad gave me another speech about how I was never supposed to go anywhere alone with someone I didn't know well and that in public I should always travel with someone else he pointed out that even if I was with another kid it was still dangerous my parents did tell me that they were glad that I had the sense enough not to go anywhere with her my main thought about the matter back then and even now is that the reason I didn't go

was just because I was sick and I didn't want to inconvenience my friend or teachers by getting on the ride so close to closing time without them knowing where I was I didn't not go because I was suspicious of her it's scared to think of how trusting I was of this woman right up until I saw how murderous she looked when she saw that she had lost over the years my mind went back and forth between assuming that she was some kind of predator and giving her the benefit of the doubt especially when I was

younger I really wanted to believe that maybe she truly did just want to go on the Raging Bull with me but being an adult now I can't give her the benefit of the doubt anymore what wholesome explanation is there for a 30 plus year-old adult asking some prepubescent child sitting by themselves to go anywhere with them alone does anyone remember those giant indoor playgrounds from back in the day you'd beg your parents to be taken into these magical places of vast pit balls convoluted tunnels and slides that hurt your ass all the way down together

with friends you'd pretend to be brave explorers embarking on quests through the Maze of vibrantly colored plastic or you'd play hide-and seek as you excitedly hurried through jungle gyms balanced over tight ropes zipped around on track lines and barreled head first down tunnel slides the place from my childhood was called Adventure Land just writing its name sends a wave of nostalgia through me followed closely by a chill it was located in a shopping plaza 20 minutes from my house from the outside it looked a bit run down save for the colorful block letters that adorned

its entrance once inside a kid could get lost in its awing environment for hours maybe even days if their parents left let them I'll never forget those tunnel slides those few seconds of Darkness never failed to Thrill me where it didn't matter if your eyes were opened or closed it all looked the same to every kid a mutual Blackness seen by all who dared to plunge into its abysmal mouth I had a LoveHate relationship with one particular slide I remember standing at the top of it with baited breath the slide would go down four stories

which was taller than my damn house and dump its contents on ground level of the playscape four stories of Darkness a red plastic tube with no lights no windows nothing to grip as you helplessly slid down it sometimes I would linger at the top a certain fear rooting me imp place I would let kids go in front of me and listen to their whoops fade then I'd anxiously look at the other end of the slide part of me wondering what would happen if the kid somehow got lost in the tunnel never to be seen again

before these thoughts could manifest into reality I would catch the kid emerging unscathed with a wide grin on his face it's safe a voice inside my head said a voice that would become more clear As I Grew Older the voice of reason see nothing to be afraid of but sometimes that voice is wrong sometimes a kid's gut feeling isn't just his imagination getting the best of him when every hair on your body feels like needles on a pine tree you just know something doesn't feel right grown-ups won't believe you why would they you're just a

kid your input is irrelevant that's why when the grown-ups including my parents never believed me when I told them that my sister had been kidnapped by the man who lived in the tunnels of Adventure Land after all I was just a kid a kid whose sister had gone missing there were always those dumb rumors that spread throughout town during a time before text messaging and social media stories were swapped on concrete Stoops like Pokemon cards or outside convenience stores where $5 was enough to buy a day worth of candy they spoke of some sick wedging

razors in the cracks of the tunnel slides an unsuspecting kid would go down the slide and come out with a gash the size of the Mississippi River down their back I'd always wonder how someone could possibly put a razor blade in there with the slides being so slippery and all other rumors and included people hiding in the ball pits if a lone child got too close they would grab them drag them up and take them through some secret trap door at the bottom of the pit how many kids have they taken I would ask with

fearful eyes oh hundreds my friends would reply nonchalantly and we go back to trading Pokémon cards I always took these rumors with a grain of salt were they true probably not could they be true H possibly it was enough for me to play at Adventure Land with caution I would take extra time crawling through the tunnels where that someone could be hiding around the corner waiting to grab me Emily my younger sister was not as careful as I was she was naive and vulner able I'm the one who introduced Emily to the wonders of Adventure

Land I proudly showed her how to use the track lines and tipped her off on the arcade games that would give you the most tickets I also led her through the tunnels and down the tunnel slides including the one that was four stories tall I couldn't show her any fear so without hesitation I plummeted down the slide I heard her Giggles until about halfway down then I heard nothing for a few seconds everything went dark I was alone I thought about the hidden razor blades before I could panic I emerged into the safety of the

light I sighed in relief and looked up at the smiling face of my sister I waved cheerfully see there's nothing to be afraid of I couldn't bear to scare her with rumors that weren't proven to be true I couldn't tell her to watch out for razor blades in the slides or kidnappers in the bll pit or used needles in the tunnels if you saw the way that she looked up at me you would understand it was like I was her hero the night before her disappearance I had a terrible dream I was at adventur land

standing before the giant playscape the arcade behind me was silent I was alone there was a gripping pressure on my chest that same inexplicable fear I felt in those few seconds inside the red tunnel slide resurfaced only this time it was prolonged and torturous my eyes wandered up through one of the tunnels there in one of the Fishbowl Windows was a man his ugly face was twisted in a sneer as he looked down at me with morbid pleasure with a long crooked finger he beckoned me over and my body began to move toward him climbing

up and up and up until I woke up my bed was soaked with sweat I would see the man's gleeful face every time I closed my eyes only now it was more contorted I shuddered and tried to find sleep again I knew the bad news was coming seconds before the phone rang my mother answered it and I began screaming together we drove to adventur land to find my sister the cops were already there they kept a close watch on the people who came and went like overheard several grown-ups talking about that day and this is

what I was able to piece together Emily was at a birthday party for one of her classmates when it was time to go into one of the side rooms for pizza and Cake my dad one of the chaperon did a quick headcount he noticed that my sister was missing after waiting impatiently for some time he started calling her name through the slides she did not come out out several of the kids went in to go find her and when they turned up empty-handed hit the fan my dad began freaking out at one of the supervisors

and demanded a search party for Emily the police were called they too couldn't find anything grown-ups began to tell stories about an abduction where a kid was taken into the bathroom their head was shaved and they were snuck out under this quick disguise the same thing must have happened to Emily they said it was at this time an all points bulletin went out for my sister I must have swept through that playscape a dozen times looking for Emily I knew it was pointless she had been taken by the man I saw in my dreams the

man who lived in the tunnels I just knew it but who would believe me Adventure Land closed its doors for good a few days later when the cops asked for surveillance footage of the property the owner shamefully admitted that no cameras were installed when the building was inspected more closely it turned out that adventur land had several glaring safety violations Emily's tomb of plastic had been sealed the next day I knew that she was still in there somewhere whether or not she was alive was a different question my parents were too preoccupied with Emily's disappearance

to notice that I had taken a long bike ride my mission was to find my sister and bring her back the outside of Adventure Land looked more dilapitated than usual I went around the back looking for a way inside there was a door with a small wooden window above the handle I picked up a rock and broke the glass the security alarm didn't go off and I let myself in I crept through the building until I came into the main room the playground looked like the skeleton of some massive exotic Beast the only light source

came from the front side windows giving the room an eerie Amber glow I approached one of the tunnels of the Beast and stood there timidly it was Pitch Black I dug through my backpack and fished out the flashlight I brought with me I snapped it on and cast The Beam of light around the playscape my flashlight bounced from one Fishbowl window to the next looking for that sneering face from my nightmare when they all seemed clear I shined my light into the tunnel I then reached into my pocket my hand gripping around the cold handle

of my pocket knife I started having second thoughts what if the man was still here waiting for me sure I had my knife with me but would it be enough to take on a full grown man maybe if I hit him in the jugular I didn't know exactly where the jugular was but my friend swore if he ever got hit there you were as good as dead what if I missed it would take him 3 seconds to overpower me and unzip my guts what if this guy wasn't even human as if to answer my question

a chuckle came from deep within the darkness [Laughter] my heart leaped into my throat I waited for a minute listening intently for footsteps or in this case someone shuffling through the tunnels the place was as quiet as an empty Cathedral I thought of Emily her radiating innocent smile the way she looked at me I felt an invigorating urge of Bravery wash over me I climbed into that damn tunnel flashlight in one hand pocket knife in the other I crawled through the tunnels cautiously I had spent enough time there to know where I was going but

that didn't change the fact of how terrifying the darkness was with each turn my bravery faded more and more a new feeling was taking its place I was going to die in there after crawling through the Maze of Tunnels for some time hearing nothing but my short rapid breaths and thundering heart rate I came to a strange sight someone had burned a hole in the plastic surface of the tunnel but it didn't stop there the hole kept going through the adjacent wall and into the building's cavity it looked like something straight out of one of

those Prison Break movies that played on TV he took Emily into there I thought with a dull sense of Rage I audaciously climbed through the hole and ventured Beyond the Wall I passed the pink toughs of wall insulation that resembled cotton candy the plumbing pipes hummed silently overhead as I crawled on all fours the air here was heavy and had a wet basement smell to it the tunnel finally opened up into a small concrete room there was a dirty mattress in one corner with scattered articles of clothing on top of it several yellow newspapers and

envelopes were strewn all over the floor along with a few cans of beer and baked beans I picked up a random envelope it was simply addressed to a person named Mr Robert gray no address no sender information a sickening thought entered my head someone had been living here was his name Robert Gray with shaking hands I opened the envelope and withdrew the enclosed paper there was a message written on it and what appeared to be blood see nothing to be afraid of I got the hell out of there during my frantic Escape I thought I

heard something chasing me I turned my head once I was back inside the tunnels and I could have sworn I saw a pair of orange eyes floating toward me and they appeared to be gaining on me there was no time to think I scrambled through the twisting tubes of plastic I didn't dare cast the light behind me whatever was chasing me it was definitely not human I had only one option if I was going to survive that option was coming up fast the four story tunnel slide without any hesitation I dove head first down it

and closed my eyes and waited to be cut to Ribbons by dozens of razors before I knew it I plopped Down On Solid Ground I sprang to my feet and booked it toward the exit my pursuer wasn't behind me anymore but I sure as hell wasn't taking any chances I didn't slow down until I was on my bike and at least a half a mile away from it Venture Land I kept looking over my shoulder the rest of the way home for those glowing orange eyes but I made it home safely my parents didn't even

notice that I was gone and were unaware that they had almost lost another child that day I kept my encounter at Adventure Land to myself for all these years no one would believe me at the time I was just a stupid kid with an imagination that had been tainted by the Abduction of my younger sister but even As I Grew Older I would just be seen as a damaged kid with a traumatizing past my word meant nothing I kept tabs on that old building Adventure Land used to be in it became a Habachi restaurant after

that they held a fundraiser there and the chef put cyanide in one of the dishes poisoning a dozen people eight of them died it then became a house of worship some faulty wiring caused a fire to break out during one of the servfaces 14 people died today it stands as a daycare center for children no incidents have occurred yet there's always a reason to be afraid [Music]