COLUMBIA, S.C. — You often know what you’re getting whenever you pull right into a automobile wash: The cleaning soap, the excessive stress rinse, the tire shine, the terrifying monsters lined in faux blood scaring the life out of you.
Effectively, possibly that final one is a bit exterior the norm. But it surely’s simply one of many stuff you would possibly encounter if you happen to enterprise out to 1 firm’s Midlands automobile wash areas on sure nights this Halloween season.
Hurricane Specific Wash, which has six areas throughout the Columbia, S.C, space, is popping its automobile washes into what’s being referred to as the Haunted Hurricane on choose nights. Flyers for the occasion encourage residents to “Expertise the Haunted Storm” throughout the spooky season.
October usually brings a plethora of spooky experiences, however now clients additionally acquired an opportunity to get scared by some costumed ghouls and get your automobile squeaky clear on the identical time.
“It’s a good way for a buyer to sort of check out our automobile wash and see all of the options and the way clear your automobile can really get at our automobile wash, with the perfect gear within the enterprise,” Hurricane advertising director Melissa Broom mentioned. “However with this you can even expertise a bit little bit of enjoyable after hours, at nighttime, and undergo and have a spooky expertise.”
Broom mentioned Hurricane purchased 1000’s of {dollars} in costumes, faux blood, fog machines and different Halloween equipment for the workers that’s working the haunted evenings.
The Haunted Hurricane expertise will begin the second clients pull onto the automobile wash lot, Broom mentioned, with costumed characters offering thrills to these ready within the queue. Hurricane amenities are the kind the place clients stay of their automobile because it rolls via the wash tunnel itself, and Broom mentioned there can be costumed ghouls and goblins inside that tunnel who will “come out at totally different locations” to supply some scares because the automobile is getting washed.
Automotive wash technician Ben Noles, who works on the Augusta Highway Hurricane location, mentioned he’ll possible work at one of many firm’s haunted automobile wash experiences a number of nights in October and added that he hoped to be one of many characters “within the tunnel” scaring clients.
“I feel it will likely be an awesome expertise for folks,” Noles mentioned. “It’s distinctive.”