There are eight major haunted houses in Omaha. ‘Nightmare on Q Street’ has added a controversial element to their attraction: Phobia.
“Phobia is the top secret attraction that everyone is talking about,” owner Shaun Rosen said. “I can tell you that you have to literally face your fears, you do sign a waiver because it’s so intense.”
In Phobia you are required to eat something, drink something and do something.
“It changes up every half hour, so what I tell you now could be different than when you come down,” Rosen said.
Besides scaring people, there’s another aspect of Phobia that makes it special.
“We’re the only money back haunt in the entire midwest,” Rosen said.
If you make it through, you get your money back. But most people, like Scott Tilton, don’t make it.
“The first challenge was the easiest one,” Tilton said. “It was eating something, real chewy, real griss-ly.”
It was the drinking challenge that stopped Tilton.
“Yeah they give you a taste test of what’s in the glass,” Tilton said. “It was really spicy, really hot. But then it had some chunks…”
So far only 35 out of about 1,000 people have made it through Phobia. Keeping it exclusive is something important to Rosen.
“We just constantly think of ways to kind of ‘up the aunty’ if you will,” Rosen said. “We just introduce ideas that nobody else has done.”
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