Phobia
Plantation is located in Jackson, Georgia near one of the major truck
stops. It is not the easiest place to
locate when you get into the area. When
we did find it the building was nondescript and we would not have recognized it
as a haunt if we had not been looking for one.
When
you purchase your tickets at the window you will sign a waiver. Though they express to you some of the
reasons why you are signing it, they are not entirely forthcoming about
it. They state that animals are some of
the reasons, however that would not be our opinion on why you need a waiver
there. They do have a few snakes, and
those are not having a waiver level impact upon you. What we found that the waiver kept us from
being able to do anything about was the section where you crawl over a hard surface,
covered with food and gel filled gummy toys.
This particular segment made it impossible for us to move on to any
other events that night as the food and gelatinous materials were ground into
our clothes, especially the knees of our pants. After that particular section
we were so into fight mode instead of flight mode that we did not enjoy
anything else. Let us clarify what that
means. The goal of a haunted house is to
take advantage of your fight or flight response to stress and adrenaline. They want to make you fearful so that your
body initiates the flight response which makes you want to run or avoid your
fear, the counterpoint to that is that they really do not want your fight
response to come into play too much because it has results which can include
punching, kicking, fighting, and disconnection from the experience.
Another
of our pet peeves is the frequent inclusion and misuse of black plastic. We understand when individuals who do
backyard haunts use black plastic to create walls, but if you have a building
and are covering the walls with black plastic it makes no sense. It is possible to have black plastic used
well, however it is rare in our opinions.
This particular haunt had a lot of black plastic within a building and
we could not understand why.
Their
final element was meant to be a claustrophobia room, however we were so into
fight mode and therefore distrusting of them at that point that we refused to
enter it because of how sketchy it appeared. We found an opening in the hanging
walls and just walked out at that point.
Due to
our ruined clothing and the sketchy nature of portions of the event, combined
with the cost of the attraction in relation to what we experienced, we rated
Phobia Plantation with 1 severed head out of a possible five. We did not feel that the attraction was a
good use of our time or money for the experience that we had. We're sure that there are people out there
who probably had good experiences with this location and we would love to hear
all sides of the story. If you have a
haunt experience anywhere that you would like to share please contact us either
through the comments section of a post or through the messaging feature on our
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