Scream-A-Geddon Horror Theme Park in Dade City is heightening the horror, thanks to glow necklaces.

  • Scream-A-Geddon was scary to begin with
  • Now visitors can heighten their experience with glow necklaces
  • The necklaces signal that the guest wants to be really, truly scared

If you agree to wear one of their glow necklaces, you are agreeing to be touched, removed from your group and held in the haunt.

Which haunts?

Blackpool Prison is brand new, and available for the glow necklace treatment. There’s an active prison riot, and only the craziest inmates have survived.

Worst of all is a gang leader named ‘Tank.’

Tank and his buddies are roaming through the prison.There are bodies of less-fortunate inmates hanging in the mess hall, skinned human flesh on the dentist's office wall – you get the picture.

And if you're wearing a glow necklace, the inmates can put you in a prison cell alone, and they can also make you crawl through cell wall holes take get back to the main path.

Why… why would anyone agree to this?

"I like to get scared,” said Robert Rea. “It's all for the thrill."

Rea, a fearless Port Richey man, went all out at Scream-A-Geddon. We caught up with Rea and his buddy, Logan Weatherford, after they exited the other glow necklace haunt, known as "Infected."

It's a quasi-quarantined, roaming zombie indoor and outdoor cordoned-off scare parameter.

By addition to the labyrinth of white biohazard tents, you will see an old run-down farmhouse.

There are bodies in camouflage on stakes, and bodies in camouflage roaming about eating on the staked-up bodies.

There is a tall tower to the left of the farmhouse shooting fire into the air every few minutes. Is it a distress call, or is it warning signal?

It's one of many unknowns.

"You don't know if the bodies on the stakes are going to move," explained a wide-eyed Weatherford. "You don't know who's going to do what. It's wild, it's absolutely wild."

For Weatherford, the glow necklace payoff isn't just the extra fear – it's the anticipation of the extra fear.

"It was the anxiety,” added Weatherford. “Not really like being touched because they don't go to crazy heights. But it was more like the anxiety, expecting what's going to happen.”

This is all part of a well-conceived Tableau of Terror, according to Scream-A-Geddon's General Manager Adam Sala.

"Haunted houses are just interactive theater,” said Sala. “It's costumes, it's actors, it's make up, some music, special-effects."

The result? Real fear. Big screams.

Really big fearful screams.

"For us, instead of applause we get screams- that's what kind of pays us off," said Sala.