Spooky World Benefits from Lancaster Native Scaring Customers

The rush of dressing up and scaring crowds keeps Bruce Millet coming back to play a Spooky World haunt each year.

“I get paid to threaten to kill people,” said Millet, a 48-year-old Lancaster native. Millet has followed Spooky World New England through numerous location and owner changes during the past 16 years in order to keep feeling the thrill. He’s dressed up as dozens of different characters, like Leatherface from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and even designed several of his own scary characters.

Spooky World opened its October season Friday night in Litchfield, N.H. Most recently, Millet has been playing “Lobo,” short for Louis Bonham, a character Millet spent a lot of time and creative energy dreaming up.

Lobo is a zombie-like man with white skin and bulging eyes, whom Millet said was mentally and physically abused his whole life. Every Thursday through Sunday night in October, Millet said he has no trouble getting into “Lobo” mode. “I get really pissed off when I think about the character,” said Millet. Working at Spooky World each October is the perfect outlet for Millet, a self-described “frustrated actor.”

Millet takes vacation days from his fulltime job as the building supervisor for Lincoln- Sudbury Regional High School every Thursday and Friday so he can devote all his energy to haunting Spooky World spectators. He earns up to $150 a night.

Millet is a professional haunt, a person who works at Spooky World and roams around scaring crowds of people. Other haunts man any of seven haunted houses, or chase crowds on the midway, where carnival rides and food vendors set up. Spooky World is not for the squeamish, Millet said. Many haunted houses and theme parks pass out glow sticks or glow necklaces to people who want to keep haunts at arms length, but that is not an option at Spooky World.

Haunts chase people around with fake axes and chainsaws, and tend to get pretty close. Millet said he would recommend Spooky World to….

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Courtesy of: Sentinel and Enterprise by Emily Devlin