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Saturday, February 22, 2025

Chaguaramas Military Museum hosts Halloween haunted house

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Chaguaramas Military Museum

Chaguaramas Military Museum

A lot of emo­tion has been evoked on the com­pound of the Ch­aguara­mas Mil­i­tary Mu­se­um this year.

In April, af­ter a fire de­stroyed the li­brary and liv­ing quar­ters there, many peo­ple were filled with sor­row and re­gret.

Then in Au­gust, both pan­ic and joy were felt af­ter Kathy Ann Ed­wards de­liv­ered her daugh­ter’s ba­by boy at the mu­se­um.

And now, mem­bers of Dream Life Events want to evoke fear and then ap­pre­ci­a­tion with their lat­est project at the his­toric site – a haunt­ed house for Hal­loween – an idea they got from the two ma­jor in­ci­dents that hap­pened ear­li­er this year.

“You all cov­ered the news with miss Kathy Ann de­liv­er­ing the child here, right, those are as­so­ciates of us... we came to share in the cel­e­bra­tion and we heard of the dis­as­ter with part of the mu­se­um be­ing burnt, caught fire and I was like, let we do a char­i­ty event fund rais­er for the mu­se­um,” or­gan­is­er Rod­gri­co Cabiria said.

He and the two oth­er or­gan­is­ers, An­tho­ny Berke­ley and Jovun Thomas, came up with a three-day haunt­ed house event that start­ed yes­ter­day.

From 7 pm, pa­trons will get a chance to ex­pe­ri­ence the hor­ror for a fee of $100.

To­day, there will al­so be a Hal­loween par­ty and pro­ceeds from the bar will go to the mu­se­um.

“Every­thing that we used in the mu­se­um to de­sign the haunt­ed house came from tick­et sales ... to pay the ac­tors,” Berke­ley said.

He said they got the in­spi­ra­tion for the de­sign from YouTube and from oth­er haunt­ed hous­es.

Un­for­tu­nate­ly, the in­clement weath­er gave those tasked with scar­ing peo­ple a fright, af­ter many peo­ple called to can­cel and for re­im­burse­ment. But they used the mon­ey to put to­geth­er the sold-out event.

How­ev­er, they made al­ter­na­tive plans for those peo­ple who just can’t make it.

“Well, we have some shad­ed ar­eas, the bar as well, so if we get some rain we could still func­tion as nor­mal. How­ev­er, for those who live in cer­tain ar­eas where may have flood­ing and who re­al­ly can­not make it, we try­ing our best to work with the mu­se­um to have a grace day, which is Mon­day...we don’t want them to feel their tick­et went to waste,” Thomas said.

Thomas, Cabiria and Berke­ley promised pa­trons that they can ex­pect the un­ex­pect­ed if they at­tend the haunt­ed house.

For this haunt­ed house, they said they hired un­em­ployed ac­tors and have spe­cial ac­com­mo­da­tions for dis­abled peo­ple who may want to at­tend.

“Our job is to scare you,” they said.

The group plans to ap­proach care­tak­ers of oth­er de­te­ri­o­rat­ing his­tor­i­cal sites with event ideas in the hope of help­ing them with re­pair work as well.


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