Yer like a group of guys are really gonna clutch onto each other? This some staged shit guys
I love this thread!
I've been there and it's quite real. This was early 2000s but I assume it's the same. Before you start you're told to hang on to each other and that if things get too intense to scream out "Nightmares" and they'll come get you.
You walk in and it's completely pitch black with just a little trail of lights on the floor to guide you. There is a guy in there with you that taunts you, grabs your leg, springs a few traps (I won't give them away but they are pretty good scares), etc. I remember at various points along the path having to crawl on your hands and knees to get through small openings, again in pitch black darkness, clinging to your group, with this guy harassing the shit out of you.
Then things get quiet and it seems like you're done when you hear a honking horn, a pair of headlights come on, and then this jeep flys right at you. It's not a video or illusion, its a real looking jeep chasis (smaller than the real thing but still big enough) and it seems like it stops inches from you. You can't help but react. That's when they take the picture.
When you do get out they give you a little card that says "I survived Nightmares"
I still have it somewhere. Luckily for me they weren't taking pictures back then I don't think, so my goofy scare face isn't on the internets.