Basement of the Dead Haunted House
Basement of the Dead
Top 13 Haunted House in America! -Hauntworld.com
In the late 1920’s, Walker Laundry opened at 42 West New York St. and became Aurora’s largest laundry Company. Around 1945 Imus Kilya was working there as maintenance engineer. His son Al came to work as his assistant in 1960. Heat for the building and steam for the presses was supplied by a coal fired boiler installed when the building was built. Al and Imus continually complained that it needed to be replaced, but management wouldn’t spend the money. In 1964 the boiler exploded maiming and scalding Al and Imus. They never returned to work and rumor was they had vowed to get even.
Under the streets and building were sewer lines and tunnels well known to Al and Imus. A year or so after the explosion people from the laundry started to disappear and body parts were found in the river near the drainage pipes. Al and Imus were suspected but never found. The laundry eventually closed and the basement was never used again. Businesses have come and gone but nobody stays. Basement Of The Dead is proof that Al & Imus still exist and have made this basement their home.. The mutilation and horror you will witness is so shocking, you’ll wish you never entered.
SO COME WALK THE BASEMENT OF AL & IMUS KILYA. IF YOU’VE GOT THE GUTS!
SHATTERED 3D
WORLD’S FIRST AND ONLY 3D FLASHLIGHT HAUNT! TAKING 3D TO A WHOLE NEW DIMENSION!
Shattered, the smashing clown, lost all sense of being human the day his famous sledgehammer trick malfunctioned, killing his wife and partner. He knew it had to have been the roadies fault for setting up the trick incorrectly or the pressure he felt from the crowd to do one more stupid trick! The hate and pain devoured his soul. Evil was all that remained. He went through the crowd like a hammer goes through a skull. When his rampage was over, 30 audience members and 15 workers found their final resting places in a puddle of their own blood. That was the last night Shattered the smashing clown was ever seen.
Rumor has it that the clown took refuge down in the darkest depths of an old building at 42 W. New York St. The locals call the building the Basement of the Dead. The story goes on to say that Shattered spent his time in exile praying to demons and learning to spread his evil across dimensions. His vivid nightmares are now becoming part of his resurrected circus. The rumor also says that all the souls he took that night followed him down there. They are keeping the smashing clown company.
Now, the circus tent is reopened! Can you hear the pipe organ in the distance? Shattered the smashing clown is longing to make you scream again. The show must go on! Come see SHATTERED Circus, The World’s Best 3D Nightmare.”
Open Fridays-Sundays in September 2023, and Wednesdays-Sundays in October 2023! Opening weekend is September 22-24th!
NEW SPECIAL EVENT – Wednesdays (Oct. 11, 18 & 25th) – “Night’s of Isolation” where you and your friends get 1 Glowstick to make it through the abandoned underworld with DARKNESS, NO ACTORS, FULL ANIMATRONICS and whatever evil awaits. Will You Survive?? WEDNESDAY’S ONLY! (Oct. 11, 18, and 25th). TRY THIS NEW EXPERIENCE, IT’S FUN!
Open Nov. 3rd and 4th, 2023 for a SPECIAL LIGHTS OUT EVENT!
Basement of the Dead is such a great Haunt it has been a part of our family tradition for the past 6 or 7 years; right along with Halloween decorations, pumpkin carving, and watching Halloween classics both family friendly (Hocus Pocus, Nightmare before Christmas, Halloweentown) and horror (Halloween, Jeepers Creepers, Silence of the Lambs, Strangers). Basement takes the phrase, “things that go bump in the night” and uses it to their full advantage with great costumes and actors, fantastic sets, and perfect use of lighting and noise to disorient the thrill seeker. In fact, Basement is the only Haunt I’ve ever been to that gives you the same feeling as watching a great horror/thriller film all alone at night in a dark and unfamiliar house—that feeling of someone always watching and following you, yet you don’t see them until it’s too late. The originality and care they put into this attraction is phenomenal, and they achieve this terrifying experience WITHOUT the need of “waivers/contracts” in order to use physical torture tactics to scare you. If you only have the time and money for one Haunt this Halloween, no other location even comes close to giving you more than your money’s worth than Basement of the Dead.