The official title was PSO, short for Park Security Officer, but they were known as the Red Bozos. In the mid-Twentieth Century heyday of the Midlands Amusement Park they guided lost children back to their parents, kept rowdy teens from causing trouble and made babies giggle with their silly antics.
But somewhere beneath the rainbow lights and gleeful faces, beyond the squeals and squawks of excitement and the sticky fragrance of popcorn, cotton candy and funnel cake, darkness was weaving a horrifying magic of its own.
Flash forward to modern day. Shut down in the late 1970s, Midlands is overgrown, or so it would appear: swallowed whole by a dense ring of hilltop woods left there to keep the unsightly decaying park from being an eyesore to the owners of expensive new homes built around it. But is it truly gone?
Hardly.
Times change, people not so much. A group of curious young men and women decide to check the place out. The stuff of cliche horror? Perhaps, and of course in the tradition of such tales the "kids" dare each other into it despite knowing full well how such things tend to turn out.
But what lies in wait for them on the other side of that old security fence is terrifyingly unpredictable. As you read, don't make bets on the outcome. It won't be what you think.
Language
English
Pages
91
Format
Kindle Edition
It's Only Funny If You Laugh: The Haunting of the Midlands Amusement Park
The official title was PSO, short for Park Security Officer, but they were known as the Red Bozos. In the mid-Twentieth Century heyday of the Midlands Amusement Park they guided lost children back to their parents, kept rowdy teens from causing trouble and made babies giggle with their silly antics.
But somewhere beneath the rainbow lights and gleeful faces, beyond the squeals and squawks of excitement and the sticky fragrance of popcorn, cotton candy and funnel cake, darkness was weaving a horrifying magic of its own.
Flash forward to modern day. Shut down in the late 1970s, Midlands is overgrown, or so it would appear: swallowed whole by a dense ring of hilltop woods left there to keep the unsightly decaying park from being an eyesore to the owners of expensive new homes built around it. But is it truly gone?
Hardly.
Times change, people not so much. A group of curious young men and women decide to check the place out. The stuff of cliche horror? Perhaps, and of course in the tradition of such tales the "kids" dare each other into it despite knowing full well how such things tend to turn out.
But what lies in wait for them on the other side of that old security fence is terrifyingly unpredictable. As you read, don't make bets on the outcome. It won't be what you think.