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SPOOKY HOUSE READY TO TERRIFY.


Byline: Daily News

PALMDALE - A chain saw-toting pig man, bloodthirsty blood·thirst·y  
adj.
1. Eager to shed blood.

2. Characterized by great carnage.



blood
 clowns and dozens of other assorted ghouls and creatures inhabit a haunted house that will be put on this weekend by local teenagers.

With creepy corridors and fights filling a Palmdale front yard, this will be the eighth haunted house created by Nigel Collins, an Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties.  student.

``It's just a very twisted haunted house. It's a lot of gore, a lot of good scares, a lot of fun actually,'' said Collins.

Highland High School Highland High School or Highlands High School may refer to:

In the United States:
  • Highland High School (Gilbert, Arizona)
  • Highland High School (Bakersfield, California)
  • Highland High School (Palmdale, California)
 students and graduates make up most of the costumed cast. Some of the material was donated by a movie ranch, including two wooden tunnels through which visitors will walk.

Collins' 2004 haunted house was part of his senior project when he was graduating from Highland High School.

``We've been getting bigger and scarier every year,'' Collins said.

The house will be open from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. today, Sunday and Monday at 1621 Berkshire Drive, south of the Antelope Valley Mall The Antelope Valley Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Palmdale, California.

Opened in September, 1990, its buildings take up around 1 million square feet (90,000 m²). Its physical main building, parking lots, and ring road businesses encompass an area a bit less than 0.
.

Admission is $5, and a portion of the ticket price will go to Lancaster-based Catalyst Foundation to aid people with AIDS The People With AIDS (PWA) Self-Empowerment Movement was a movement of those diagnosed with AIDS and grew out of San Francisco. The PWA Self-Empowerment Movement believes that those diagnosed as having AIDS should "take charge of their own life, illness, and care, and to minimize  or who are HIV-positive.

The house is recommended for visitors age 13 and older.

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(1 -- color) A ghoulish ghoul  
n.
1. One who delights in the revolting, morbid, or loathsome.

2. A grave robber.

3. An evil spirit or demon in Muslim folklore believed to plunder graves and feed on corpses.
 creature reaches its talons toward the Palmdale haunted house's creator, Nigel Collins, a student at Antelope Valley College.

(2 -- color) Costumed Highland High School students stand in a creepy lineup, including a pig man wielding a chain saw, center, and a menacing clown, left.

Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer
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Date:Oct 29, 2005
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