ARCHIVE FEATURE: In unLiving Color (BC Haunted House)

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Trinity Novak, 10, of Bay City hugs a stuffed bunny in one of the many hallways while watching visitors move to another room at the Masonic Temple during the opening of Night at the Temple, located at the corner of 6th Street and Madison Avenue in Bay City. Novak sang the nursery rhyme "Ring around the Rosie" as people walked by in an attempt to creep them out. "Scaring people is kind of fun," Novak said. "If they are with their best friends or family, it's funny because then they stand behind each other. It's so hard not to laugh because I love to smile."



Mike Mundy, 16, of Bay City stands in a green-lit room through peeping through the hole in a box as visitors walk through the tour of the Masonic Temple during the opening of Night at the Temple, located at the corner of 6th Street and Madison Avenue in Bay City. "It's very creepy," he said, "but more creepy for them to see walking through."



Molly Hill, 17, of Bay City lays across the floor acting as if she died during a haunted tour at the Masonic Temple during the opening of Night at the Temple, located at the corner of 6th Street and Madison Avenue in Bay City. The haunted tours are open Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 30. The cost is $10 for adults and $6 for students with IDs and seniors. "I get to mess around with people. So yeah, it's fun," Hill laughed.



Paige Weishuhn, 16, of Bay City cringes as she sprays black paint onto her 18-year-old sister Casey's cheek in preparation for her first night scaring visitors as a statue in one of the many hallways of the Masonic Temple, located at the corner of 6th Street and Madison Avenue in Bay City, during Night at the Temple, an educational attraction in which viewers tour the facility and hear ghost stories from local history of the Bay area. Some of the stories are real, some are fake. It is the visitor's job to decipher which is which. "The makeup is irritating, dirty, wet, sticky, goopy, but fun," said Casey Weishuhn, a third-year volunteer. "You'll try to scare people, but then you see your friends come through, and it's just hard not to break character. I guess I'd describe it as a happy chaos."



Joe Novak, 17, of Bay City stares as visitors pass by a stairwell at the Masonic Temple during the opening of Night at the Temple, located at the corner of 6th Street and Madison Avenue in Bay City. Novak dressed in all black with a black painted face and contacts giving the illusion that his pupils are crossed out and smaller than usual. The haunted tours are open Fridays and Saturdays through Oct. 30. The cost is $10 for adults and $6 for students with IDs and seniors.