For people who like
to scare people
- Address:
-
116 N. Chicago Avenue
Joliet, IL
60436
United States
- Tickets:
- $19
- Website:
- http://www.abysshaunts.com
- About:
- ABYSS Haunts is located in a 100+ year old building, that is rumored to be actually haunted! Be drawn into the Shock maze, experience the dark arts gallery. Careful now, this art doesn't touch your soul, it consumes it! Do you think that's funny? Do I amuse you? What am I? Like a clown to you? Our clowns find macabre things amusing. You won't like their sense of humor. Laugh that off. Does your future look bright? ABYSS will fix that! Put your fate in the hands of our alien technicians, and enter the Vortex of Time and Space. There's no telling where, or when, it will take you. Come and lay waste to your soul before the voluptuous and ancient queen of the Vampyra, and prostrate yourself before the centuries old power of the Prince of Vampyres. Is your soul strong enough to resist the masters call?
- History:
- At the end of the Great War, Joliet was the destination of many immigrants looking to find their fortune in the land of opportunity of the Roaring 20's. It was also the destination of a great and ancient evil, embodied in the person of one Nickolai Deahvilich ("Little Nicky, son of the Devil").
Deahvilich was a small unassuming man. To see him, one would have never guessed that his was the apprentice to the frighteningly powerful Grigori Yefmovich Rasputin, destroyer of the Russian Empire and High Master of Dark Arts. Deahvilich had mastered all there was to know of evil power and soon exceeded even his master. The enemies of Rasputin could only destoy him with the use of the occult, and lost their souls in the bargain, but Deahvilich was far too powerful to be stopped. Hunted by both the Bolsheviks, and those loyal to the czar, Deahvilich escapes to the new world to continue his horrific experiments.
In the Joliet of the Roaring 20's, there were many opportunities for one of Deahvilich's black talents. The beautiful Rialto Theatre was being built, and Deahvilich found an opportunity to hide in the catacomblike bowels of the adjoining building and continue his dark work. There, he abducted immigrant workers that no one would ever miss. Slowly, he tortured them, consuming not only their bodies, but their very souls, and then walling them up in his lair.
It was years before the authorities stumbled on the horror in the depths of the building, but the evil that was Deahvilich was too powerful and clever to be caught. He had used the very building itself to focus his evil with the tortured souls of his victims. The deep recesses of the building were walled up in an attempt to contain the evil.
Years passed.
Decades passed.
The ABYSS of evil was forgotten, until now...
a portal, accidentilly revealed, unleashs a horror so unspeakable, it is known only as... the ABYSS