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A Thin Line Between Roasting People Alive and Entertaining Them.

I gave in to my friends' persuasion to visit California's Great America entertainment Park, Santa Clara CA. There are quite a lot of amazing forms of entertainment from game arcades, aerial cable cars, merry go rounds, high speed rollercoasters to horror and scray experience zones. I know the last on the list, "horror and scary" have absolutely awakened your curiousity, so that I am not alone.

How should horror be a form of entertainment? Well, in the same park there is a ride that takes "entertainees" through a completely dark, cave like tunnel where they see akeletons, demons, ghosts and creatures, moving and speaking, threatening to pull them by their ears. I assume that the screaming and shrinking reaction of the riders is the point of that entertainment. Of course, all of that is just art creativity blended with robotic and computer technology which is the central business of California, aka Silicon Valley. I was not able to capture the horror scenes on video or picture, but it would be very interesting to see.

The question that remains though, is that why do people need to pay for evil "ghosty" experiences when that is what they would run away from in real life? I hope there is no hidden agenda...and conspiracy...as has been hinted...

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