By Blake Dykes

While some people spend their Friday nights at the football game, seeing a movie, or simply hanging out at home, others are busy giving people a scare.

The Culbertson Mansion, an actual haunted house, is located in downtown New Albany. In addition to touring the mansion, visitors can also go through the “haunted” building in the back, open during all  weekends of October In this house, actors and actresses are lurking around, waiting for the right moment to make people jump.

When people are going through these haunted houses they tend to forget the actors are people, just like them. As a matter of fact, many of these “monsters” are shockingly young children or teenagers.

Freshman Madeline Harrison volunteers as an actor at the Culbertson Mansion. Harrison said her favorite part about working there is scaring little kids.

“When people are really scared, I laugh silently and act creepier,” she said.

Junior Christina Sleight said the same as Harrison. When people act scared she also laughs and scares them more.

However, not everyone gets quite as scared as others.

Culbertson Mansion workers said older people sometimes ignore them, and teenage boys also tend to act tough.

Freshman Krysteena Metacalf said when people act tough or like they are not scared she tries harder to scare them. On the other hand, Sleight ignores them.

Although the actors and actresses enjoy their job, it is a bit of a commitment.

Workers at the Culbertson mansion are required to come two hours early to get makeup and costumes on.

Besides getting there early and the amount of time they have to sacrifice, working here is all volunteer work.Most actors and actresses volunteer because they enjoy scaring people.

Metacalf has been coming to the Culbertson Mansion for 14 years, basically her whole life.

“My mom worked here, and would bring me, I enjoyed it and keep doing it,” said Metacalf.