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Chip Ables and partners in crime Brandon Crumley and Terry Crumley have transformed a corner of Eastgate Town Center into a horrific Clown Town, open now through Halloween.
Ables said the clowns, some in straightjackets, have been “locked away” since 2006, so this year’s event is Clown Town, The Return.
“It’s our full intention to make sure that you get good and scared,” Ables said.
Scary duo Chip and Leigh Anne Ables orchestrate the Clown Town haunted house at Eastgate Town Center, open Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights until Halloween.
Ables said the clown theme for his haunted house is a natural one.
“It just seems like people are really scared of clowns,” Ables said. “Maybe they’re just a little too happy.”
Ables and his team use public records to acquire props from homes all over the country that have been tied to gory evils, like reports of poltergeists or rambling killers. Most recently he got a little girl’s baby doll and a bed from a Connecticut home involved in a murder.
“People always find that to be extra creepy,” he said. “Everybody’s always kind of paranoid.”
Ables said he’s been giving people the willies since he was a boy, hiding around the corner from his buddies.
“It’s a joy just to be able to go in there and scare people,” he said. “It’s a treat just to see people go out of their own personality.”
Ables said there’s also a photo booth where guests can have their pictures taken before chilling chroma key backgrounds.
Ables will donate a portion of the Clown Town proceeds to the Make-A-Wish Foundation to support his wife’s best friend’s son who has brain cancer.
“He’s just full of life,” he said. “It just makes people all around him love him.”
Ables and the Crumleys work in the contracting and landscaping business, and Ables is co-owner of Smith Painting. He said running a haunted house is a diversion he looks forward to in the slow season.
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