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Nightmare's Come to Beaver Lake Starting Tonight

The Sammamish Rotary Club's popular haunt helps set the mood for Halloween.

The Sammamish Rotary Club’s annual Nightmare at begins frightening visitors in the park tonight at 7 p.m., marking the beginning of a week and a half’s worth of scares leading up to Halloween.

The popular event starts with a walk through the pitch-black woods. Spooky noises call out from the dark as you slowly make your way along. Soon, you come face to face with your greatest fears, and then strange creatures and twisted souls jump out and confront you.

Eventually you’ll make your way through a series of chilling rooms, each one the scene of a different horror. People will scream and cry out for help, and not everyone may make it.

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The harrowing trek culminates in a true house of terror, where a variety of frights wait around every shadowy corner. You’ll twist and turn your way through and hopefully come out the other side safe and sound, and maybe ready for another go.

The Nightmare at Beaver Lake has grown to become the Sammamish Rotary Club’s biggest fundraiser and its most unique event.

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“It is our largest fund raiser for the year,” said Dellann Elliot, public relations director for the Sammamish Rotary Club.

The haunt typically brings in tens of thousand of dollars every year, money the Sammamish Rotary Club uses to help finance scholarships, local charity programs and Rotary’s international efforts, like fighting polio.

Elliot says that the Sammamish Rotary Club loves putting on the haunt every year because the highly popular event brings in a lot of funding while helping Rotary reach out to people who might not be familiar with the club.

“We love it,” Elliot said. “It is a ton of work; it is a ton of fun.”

Because the Sammamish Rotary Club wants the Nightmare at Beaver Lake to appeal to as many visitors as possible, the event features two slightly different shows. The first hour of each night is dedicated to the “family scare,” which is a slightly toned down version of the “full scare,” which runs the remainder of the evening.

This year’s event will feature a special guest as well, actor C.J. Graham, who played Jason in the Friday the 13th horror movies. Check the schedule for availability.

The Nightmare at Beaver Lake is a joint project between the Sammamish Rotary Club and Scare productions.

“It’s a great partnership that we have with them,” Elliot said.

The haunt is also put together with the help of hundreds of volunteers, many of them local teens. Or at least, that’s what I think they are under all of that blood…

For more information on the Nightmare at Beaver Lake check out the event’s web site. Schedule, parking and ticket information is readily available.

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