Residents of Sims, McClintock and Wade Hampton dress as ghouls, ghosts and goblins for the Carolina Women’s Community Halloween event
With high winds and an eerie chill, Monday night was the perfect night for the Carolina Women’s Community to host their first haunted house in the basement of Wade Hampton.
The event was free for all students who scanned their CarolinaCard before being assigned to a group with which to enter the haunted house.
Residents of Sims, Wade Hampton and McClintock residence halls led the groups down into the cobweb-clad basement where there were four rooms, each with a different theme, like a surgery room and a clown room.
Fourth-year foreign exchange finance student Nidhi Jassal said that the surgery room was her favorite.
“It looked like Resident Evil IV and was done pretty cool,” she said.
The attraction combined flickering lights and students crawling across the floor to scare the tour groups.
First-year political science student Natalie Hageman, a Wade Hampton resident, helped turn the basement into a Halloween attraction.
“We had to prepare weeks in advance,” she said. “Around when school started, we came up with the idea because we knew that no other residence hall and done something like this—plus we have a basement. Lots of people helped out with decorating or acting.”
With the haunted house being a good start to the week, students expressed their excitement for Halloween.
“My favorite part of Halloween is dressing up,” Jassal said. “You get to act like someone else for that night and we don’t get to do that so much in France.”