WOW!! Wisconsin we have a new World Class Haunt. I live in the fox valley and travel a lot with my job. I make a point of visiting haunts all around the country every year. A colleague from Milwaukee called to tell me about the Dark Side haunt. My wife and I drove the nearly 3 hours to get to the middle of nowhere. Boy was it worth the trip. The setting is perfect. The abandoned mine theme for the haunted house portion of the event is great and the detail is wonderful. The house is not your normal room scene after scene but more like an adventure through a mine or cave which gives the actors unique access to the guests. The second part of this haunt is the hay ride. I know many people don’t go to hay rides because they can be lame. (It is hard to get a scare on a wagon full of people) Not so at the Dark Side. The wagon is not a hay wagon at all. It has seats like a theater, a soundtrack that matches what is going on in the scene, and special effects you might find in a Disney Theatre. They use the known location of their guests on the wagon to execute some great pyrotechnics. The third phase of the haunt is a trail through a pitch black pine forest. Again their attention to detail in the scenes is great and the actors use this unique environment to scare the crap out of you. We had several people in our wagon load that would not go through the pine forest after they heard the screams coming from the darkness. Even if you duck out at this point you have already got your monies worth. The final phase of this incredible adventure is a trail through the corn. What they lack in props here is made up for in scares by the actors. The three young girls behind us nearly ran us down screaming in an effort to escape the relentless attacks. The closest haunt I have seen to this, is one of the huge east coast haunts called Bates Motel just outside of Philly. And even they don’t have the pine forest trail. And you would pay $60.00 to see all three of their haunts on a Fri. or Sat. night. The woman in the store told me the two guys who created all of this have already begun work on next year’s attractions, I cannot wait!