Borley Haunted Mansion

[MoonLight]

You know what would be cool? Is to have a Lakeside Amusement Park built in real life! And it would have bloody bunny suits, merry go round with that music...lol that would be awesome.

http://www.lakesideamusementpark.com/ Your wish has been granted... Since 1908! It also has a big wooden rollar coaster like the one Heather [spoiler]almost gets splattered on[/spoiler] and a carousel that's been around since the park opened in 1908! The biggest kick? The fact that the real Lakeside Amusement Park also features a large tower, referred to as the Tower of Jewels. Kudos to my buddy Galen for finding out this stuff.

Actually, when you first enter the bloody dining room, when the guy stops speaking, you can examine the wall that has "help" written on the wall. Heather questions what really happened in the dining room, like, if it was a suicide, then how'd all the blood get there; also, in the library, with the man in the chair, after the guy stops talking, Heather can examine the body that's dangling from the ceiling. Heather will discover that it's a real dead body, not a fake. So this means that Danny is the one in the chair.

Boy howdy, that was a mouthful.

Problem with that is, we don't know whether or not the narrator is referring to the puppet or the man as Danny... The narration here could be supernatural, and not part of the 'normal' tour you would get in Normal Lakeside Amusement Park.

WTF?! There was a real Amusement park?! They've based a ton of real life things in the game.

But it's in Colorado.

[Purramid_Head]

It's not based on a real amusement park, that's just a concidence. I use to live by lakeside and I have been there more than once on their dime days. And yes I could not stop thinkig about SH3 eveytime I went.

It has nothing to do with Silent Hill and nothing in the park is Shish, there's not even a haunted mansion.

I mentioned this park in another thread, again is has nothing to do with SH.

[MoonLight]

That's too bad. They need to make one.

[Amon Din]

It's not based on a real amusement park, that's just a concidence. I use to live by lakeside and I have been there more than once on their dime days. And yes I could not stop thinkig about SH3 eveytime I went.

It has nothing to do with Silent Hill and nothing in the park is Shish, there's not even a haunted mansion.

I mentioned this park in another thread, again is has nothing to do with SH.

Hm. Seems a little too close to be just a coincidence, yeah? No, no... Too similar. My guess is that when scouting locations for the game (they send people over to take pictures and make the environments as realistic as possible) they probably stumbled across it. And since it's one of the oldest amusement parks in the country (Old = Scary? Right? :p) they probably decided to use it as an inspiration. I'll post some links to some pics of the park, too. Why, even the font for the sign used in the game is the same! No, no... Not just a mere coincidence. Konami probably just wanted to find a small-town amusement park to base it off of.


Links to pics:

Since I was unable to find any pics of Silent Hill 3's Lakeside Amusement Park sign, I can't post for comparison. However, I will post this , and you can compare it if you play the game or find pics of your own.


http://www.apartment206.com/Pix/Lakeside/Lakeside.jpg
(Notice how the font for Lakeside is exactly the same as the font used in-game)

Other pics:

http://www.lakesideamusementpark.com/Rides/skootanite.jpg

http://www.lakesideamusementpark.com/Rides/lakeside_hurrican_neon_dark.jpg

http://www.lakesideamusementpark.com/Rides/labyrinthe.jpg

They also have an antique carousel, but I can't find any damn pictures of it. *grumble, grumble*

Sure, there a possiblity that it's just a coincidence. But all signs point to the notion that it isn't. Either way, it's neat.

[Purramid_Head]

I'mpretty sure it is, because CO is like not even close to ME. And the lake (Sloan's lake) it's by is not anything compared to toluca, it's man made and filthy.

Lakeside has been there for along time, both in SH and in CO, so yes you can see the time age well.

[Amon Din]

It's not really the fact that it's not in Maine, it's more about the possibility location scouts found out about the place and used it as a model. It might not be an exact resemblance, but I feel pretty certain that it (the real Lakeside) was the game version's 'raison d'etre', if you will. When you visited, did you visit at night? Most of the pics resembling Silent Hill's Lakeside were taken at night (and we all know how different an amusement park can seem at night), so that could be why it didn't seem like Silent Hill at the time. Maybe...?

[Purramid_Head]

I visited both, night & day. I remember riding the little train that goes around the whole park at night, but I also remmebr laughing my ass off at my mom being scared by the fun house in day.

[Amon Din]

I visited both, night & day. I remember riding the little train that goes around the whole park at night, but I also remmebr laughing my ass off at my mom being scared by the fun house in day.

LOL Funhouse's are always a little scary... I love old amusement parks myself, especially the old 'Mom and Pop'-types. I find it amazing that independent companies can still thrive in this day and age. (Like Lakeside Amusement Park, for example) ^_^

[Jaded]

Problem with that is, we don't know whether or not the narrator is referring to the puppet or the man as Danny... The narration here could be supernatural, and not part of the 'normal' tour you would get in Normal Lakeside Amusement Park.

If you examine the guy in the chair after examining the hanging corpse, Heather says something like "I guess the Narrator was talking about the guy in this chair".

[k0n0k0]

I remember when me and my bro played SH3 for the first time and we got to this scene. WOW! we just jumped in the sofa non-stop! Our hearts were beating a lot we were so scary! Specially in the Danny part we just almost got a heart attack!

[Amon Din]

I have to admit I was completely tense playing through Borley the first time; I kept imagining that something terrible was going to happen or there'd be some incredible bossfight. But the red light that chases you at the end was pretty intense, especially on Extreme X mode.

[Floodclaw]

I hated the red light. I makes me extremely tense. That, and it kills you even when invincibility is turned on.

[Amon Din]

I hated the red light. I makes me extremely tense. That, and it kills you even when invincibility is turned on.

Invincibility...? H-how do you do that?

[Floodclaw]

It is a secret that you will never find out about. But yes, I uncovered an infinite health code.

[Amon Din]

It is a secret that you will never find out about. But yes, I uncovered an infinite health code.

>_< I- I must KNOW!!!

[Floodclaw]

If you REALLY must know, send me a PM. I warn you this: You may not be able to do it yourself though.

[Jaded]

@Floodclaw; just tell her you used AR or Codebreaker. That's what I use. You're right, though; invincibility can only keep you alive for a moment if you stand in the red light.

[Floodclaw]

@Floodclaw; just tell her you used AR or Codebreaker. That's what I use. You're right, though; invincibility can only keep you alive for a moment if you stand in the red light.

Aww.......why spoil the secret? (PS: I did use an Action Replay yes. It is too much fun not to though xD)

[Commander_Kahn]

I hated the red light. I makes me extremely tense. That, and it kills you even when invincibility is turned on.

Yeah, that part makes me nervous as soon as I leave the creaky room. I'm always afraid of running into a wall, and thus leading to my demise.

[Amon Din]

There was a haunted house attraction at the Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township (NJ). On May 11, 1984, eight people were killed when the house caught fire (possibly due to faulty wiring, though the actual cause of the fire was never determined. Some believe an unidentified youth that was observed playing with a lighter he had in his pocket was the culprit, but evidence was sketchy). The haunted house was a walk-through attraction, just like Borley Haunted Mansion.

I've spoken with some of the employees of the park, and most tell me that the haunted house was located in the vicinity of where the bumper cars now stand. Apparently the area is a hotspot of bizarre activity, including (but not limited to) strange screaming voices that seem to change direction when investigated, faint agonized screams, bumper cars that drive themselves (often when the power is disconnected from the ride itself), a female voice that pleads with people while they're using the stalls in the women's restroom near the ride, (no one is ever seen when investigated) and hands emerging from the bumper car ride's floor. (Two employees told me the same thing; multiple sets of hands appear at once, seeming to materialize through the floor, linger for a few seconds, then slowly descend back into the floor)

Needless to say, I was creeped out by these disturbing stories. And one more interesting and particularly Silent Hill-ish statement from the Wikipedia article on the tragedy:

Firefighters from 11 surrounding communities responded, and the fire was declared under control at 7:45 p.m. The park remained open during the fire, and closed at 8 p.m., two hours early. No one realized that lives had been lost until later that night, when firefighters searching one of the burnt-out trailers discovered the bodies, thought at first to be mannequins.



P. S. Here is a link to the wikipedia article on the incident; it mentions nothing on the reputed haunting's, of course. These were gained from personal interviews with park staff.

Haunted House Of Six Flags Incident