Hell House...Sweet!(?)

I was flipping through the pages of one of my favorite magazines, Time Out New York, when I noticed the blurb about Hell House, a haunted house, in DUMBO. I didn't really read the blurb, but later suggested to someone that we should go see it. Well, it's good that your humble blogger loves research! Hell Houses were invented by evangelical Christians in the 70's (most likely our favorite Reverend, Jerry Falwell). They graphically depict "acts of sin" that would get a person sent to hell. These acts of sin? Pre-marital sex, abortion, homosexuality, drug use, alcohol use, etc. A major criticism of these Hell Houses is that they deceive people into thinking they are normal haunted houses when in fact they exist for the soul purpose (sorry, really bad pun) of converting people to fundamentalist Christianity.

I have no interesting thoughts or bits of trivia to add to this. This is more of a public service announcement. Watch out!