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Here's the thing with haunted houses: No matter how loud and surprising they may be, they're not really terrifying because you know you're going to hurt you. The zombies will not actually eat your brains, the ghouls are just mirror and light tricks, and the guy with the chainsaw is just some actor who wishes he had his SAG card. Or at least, that's how it's supposed to be.
But the scares at one haunted house got a little too real last weekend after one guy shows up for a spooky time and wound up getting stabbed with a real goddamn knife, the Tennessean carryforwards.
James Yochim was last night at Madison, Tennessee's Nightmare-an annual Halloween carnival full of games, haunted houses, and escape rooms. The 29-year-old and his friends were hanging around one of the haunted houses when he was a Nashville Nightmare employee approached them with a knife.
The stranger handed Yochim's friend what she thought was a prop Yochim with it. "Keep in mind, we'd be chased by chainsaws, holding other weapons," said Yochim told the Tennessean. The woman took the knife and did what she was told, not knowing it was not part of the carnival act at all-the knife was real, and she accidentally drove straight through Yochim's arm.
"As she pulled back, she was a victim of the knife," The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department later wrote in a report about the incident.
"Everything got really black," Yochim remembers, according to the Tennessean. At that point, he and his friends started to lose it, naturally, since he was bleeding profusely and all. But the stranger who had pulled the horrifying prank also got pretty upset, too.
"The thing I remember is the guy who gave [the knife] "Oh, I did not know my knife was that sharp. I did not know. I'm so sorry. "" Then the guy reportedly grabbed the knife back and disappeared.
Yochim was raced to the hospital where he was given nine stitches. Police quickly opened an investigation into who the stranger was and how he got the knife through the carnival's security in the first place. According to a statement from Nashville Nightmare, the company believes that it has been involved and has taken place in the past.
As terrifying as the ordeal was, Yochim is expected to make a full recovery, and the guy looks surprisingly chill about the whole thing. He does not have any hard feelings against the friend who stabbed him.
"No one wants to stab their friend," he told the Tennessean. "I've been stabbed and I still can not imagine what it's like to accidentally hurt your friend."
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