Haunted House & Food Drive

Schedule

Fri Oct 28 2022 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm

Location

Desoto Asylum | Needles, CA

Desoto Asylum is a FREE intense haunted house experience like nothing else in the tri-state area! We’re part of Haunts Against Hunger, we’re collecting nonperishable food items for those in need this holiday season.
This will be our 15th annual haunted house & food drive. At Desoto Asylum we strive to find new ways to scare our guests and to make our haunted house a believable and enjoyable experience for everyone. We completely change the layout and design every year and work starts months before opening. We put lots of hard work and soul into making Desoto Asylum and hope you will come out and see what we have created.
Join us October 28th, 29th, & 31st in Needles California from 6:00pm - 9:00pm.
We’re collecting nonperishable food items for those in need this holiday season. Last year we collected over 1100 pounds of food, enough to feed 300 families! Help us set a new record this year, please Like, Comment, Share, and invite friends to help us get more exposure so we can have our biggest year yet.
*Food item is not required for entry. Please check the dates, people can’t eat dated food.
Some Reviews From Past Years:
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“Tonight was my first time at the Asylum, and it was not a disappointment! They did an amazing job and I came out here from Vegas just for it!” - Fredrik
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They did an AMAZING job! we were jumping and screaming the whole time!! well worth the drive and we will be back again next year! - Robert
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Best haunted house I've ever been to. For the past 3 Halloweens, we've come here and it's never the same. Always changing it up, which makes it perfect. - Michelle
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The Story Of Desoto Asylum...
Even small towns need medical services, so a hospital for the mentally insane wasn’t unusual. Desoto Asylum was typical—nurses administered medicine and restrained patients if they became agitated or dangerous. A doctor was in charge of treating patients and determining when—or if—they could ever return to society.
According to a registration log that was uncovered years after the catastrophe, there were 23 patients admitted at Desoto Asylum and a staff of 8. Under normal circumstances, nothing ever went wrong.
But, in the fall of 1966 residents of Needles began to go missing. Their mangled bodies found by authorities inside Desoto Asylum. Unable to figure out how the patients where escaping the residence panicked and boarded up Desoto Asylum with all the patients and staff still inside, the strong brick structure acting as a prison.
In the weeks that followed, things began to change inside Desoto Asylum. The doctors and nurses ignored the patients in their frantic attempt to save themselves.
Atticus Ravenswood was one of the higher-functioning patients, who’d been committed to Desoto Asylum in 1964 after killing his family with a pitchfork and using their dead bodies for experiments involving electrical cords and blue cheese dressing. When Atticus was no longer subdued by debilitating amounts of brain-numbing sedatives, he overheard the staff planning to escape and leave the patients to die.
Unrestricted by the bounds of human decency, Atticus unleashed years of pent-up rage against the frightened staff and began committing revolting horrors on their live bodies. With the help of other patients, Atticus turned the tables on the former nurses and doctors, drugged them, and subjected them to his own twisted and painful experiments.
Years passed before anyone escaped. Her name was Nurse Betty, and her story was found scribbled in the margins of a book. Most of the entries are smeared with blood. One of them reads: October, 1966. He is coming for us one by one, and I can hear them screaming from the padded cells, can smell the burning flesh each time the lights flicker. I know it is the electric chair. He calls it “shock therapy” but he and the girls are punishing us. I beg Tracy and Holly to remember how well I treated them as patients, but now as Atticus’s nurses, they are brainwashed to enjoy his dreadful experiments. I’m afraid to guess what he’s doing with the dead bodies this time.
Today, hardly anyone remembers the horrors of Desoto Asylum. During the day, it’s vacant, eerie, crumbling brick structure hardly seems worthy of notoriety. But at night, when the smell of burning flesh permeates the air in a putrid dark cloud, thrill seekers looking for innocent fun are in for the shock of a lifetime.

Where is it happening?

Desoto Asylum, 1924 Desoto St,Needles,CA,United States

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Host or Publisher Desoto Asylum

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