Terms & Conditions - 13th Floor Haunted House Chicago (2024)

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What are the rules for the 13th floor in Chicago? ›

While inside the haunt, no food, drinks, bottles, recording devices, flash photography, or flashlights are allowed. Bring a clear bag! To limit the touching of personal items, only clear bags not exceeding 4.5”x6.

Escape the 13th Floor is a fully interactive and immersive experience that takes place at Chicago's Legendary 13th Floor Haunted House. Up to 12 participants will enter the room, and they have one hour to escape. Clues and riddles hidden throughout the room provide the tools necessary to meet this objective.

Along your way through the haunted house, you'll run into hanging pigs, a mirror maze, claustrophobic nightmares, giant werewolves, large animatronics and more. (Pro tip: watch out for the crocodile). To go through the entire haunted house it takes about 40 minutes, and a lot of guts.

Early tall-building designers, fearing a fire on the 13th floor, or fearing tenants' superstitions about the rumor, decided to omit having a 13th floor listed on their elevator numbering. This practice became commonplace, and eventually found its way into American mainstream culture and building design.

While the real estate industry has omitted the 13th floor for years for both superstitious and economic reasons — hotel travelers and condo buyers often eschew 13th-level units, lowering their value — the practice has received pushback from municipalities.

Q: Will the actors touch us, or can we touch the actors? A: No. Actors will not touch you.

The 13th Floor is a very intense experience. That intensity, however, didn't necessarily translate to fear as well as we would have hoped. Although the cast brought their A game, there were areas that were notable for their lack of cast or an over-reliance on animatronics.

How long does it take to go through? Approximately 45-60 Minutes for the Nightmare attraction and 15-25 minutes for the Institute of Terror.

The Alabama location allows only guests 21 and older. The tour lasts from eight to ten hours, but no guest has made it all the way through. McKamey originally did not allow safewords for the tour, but has since reportedly allowed them, so guests have the option of ending the tour immediately.

Featured on Netflix's “Haunters: Art of the Scare” and on an episode of “Dark Tourist,” McKamey Manor is a see-to-believe type of attraction. The Summertown, Tenn. horror house is so extreme, no one has ever successfully completed the experience.

What haunted house pays you to finish? ›

The twisted brainchild of Navy vet Russ McKamey, McKamey Manor in Summertown, TN and Huntsville, AL is likely the scariest haunted house on planet Earth.

Disclaimer: Staff will not touch guests, however, this interactive experience will require that guests use their hands to guide their way, walk, duck, step over, and squeeze through some strange spaces.

No. Although the 13th number is considered unlucky as per western superstition, there is no such belief in vaastu shastra that buying a flat on 13th floor is unlucky. Although flats beyond the 4th floor are considered to be devoid of the water element.

Number 13 is often considered synonymous with bad luck. Almost all the hotels across the world have omitted rooms with number 13, considering this aspect in mind. Not only the rooms, the hotels even go a step forward to omit the entire floor, with the number 13.

When hotels first became popular in the 1920s, many people thought the number 13 was unlucky. As a result, instead of designating their 13th floor as such, hotels just ignored it. Their 13th floor would be labelled as the 14th, and their 14th floor would be labelled as the 15th.

Fears over the number 13 have led hotels, buildings, and elevator manufacturers to skip the 13th floor. Hotels in cities big and small have seemingly picked up on a longtime superstition. They'll skip over the not-so-lucky number 13 and go straight from floor 12 to floor 14.

Many older buildings don't have a 13th floor because of superstition. Since many people consider the number unlucky, they won't want to live or work on the 13th floor, and landlords and developers will often skip the floor as they know it will be harder to sell and rent apartments on the floor.