If you want to go to a fun haunted house this Halloween, but don’t want to pay an arm and leg and wait in a long line just to get in, I recommend the Labyrinth of Lost Souls in Beach Park, Illinois. It is a small, out-of-the-way place set up on a miniature golf course off of Sheridan Road. The place is just fantastic, you don’t walk through it, you participate in it. No trip through it is the same. Every time you go in you take a different route through it!
It starts out as a usual haunted house by going into a dark maze, but where it is different from other haunted houses is that the characters you encounter greet each person differently. They know you’re expecting something to come at you, they don’t do anything. They will get you when you least expect it. Now, this sounds like the same thing they do at other haunted houses. However, on top of this while you are traveling through the Labyrinth you’ll definitely find yourself going around in circles and find out that you are possibly being followed. That’s the thrill! When you think there is no one there, the next moment you’re running from a creep chasing you.
After you finally escape you again find yourself trapped and the only way out is to find the keys to open the doors. Unfortunately, they are hidden, and you must find the first key to open the first door to get the other key and so forth. Have no fear, there is help for you to get the keys. A seemingly friendly ghoul will be there to help you if you are unable to find it. One word of caution- don’t take your time on this because your friendly helper might turn on you! If you make it through, there are possibly still some perils left. Or are there? It all depends on how alert you are and where you are.
If you want to go Haunted house hopping, come out to Lake County and see the Labyrinth of Lost Souls, which is only $8.00 per person. There is no waiting in line and afterward you can play miniature golf and have a snack there too.
To get to the Labyrinth of Lost Souls take 94 North to 41 and keep going until you get to Washington and then go east until you get to Green Bay Rd. Go north until you get to Sunset Rd and go east until you hit Sheridan Rd. Then, go north and you will see it on your right with a yellow sign by the big Golf O Ramma neon sign. Enter at your own peril!