I know people grieve in their own way, but this is just bizarre... plus they are charging $3 to get in!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqNbv7qa3-ghttp://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/lo...ttraction.html
A grieving Rialto mother, whose two young boys were killed in a house fire earlier this year, has turned that now-vacant scene of tragedy into a haunted house for Halloween.
Many onlookers said it was "creepy" and "bad taste." But the Rialto fire department and police department expressed a different opinion, they said it had been red-tagged, and it was "unsafe", and Friday night, they shut it down.
"This is the way I'm coping with the loss of my two kids," said Viviana "Dulce" Delgado, 27. "We used to do Halloween every year. Costumes, candy and fun."
On May 29, Mario Cisneros, 5, and his 3-year-old brother, David Cisneros, were overcome by smoke in the burning house where 11 family members once lived.
They were found unconscious, along with their puppy. They were taken to the hospital, but they didn't make it. The puppy died, too.
The family worked for a week, turning the front yard of the charred home into what looked like any of a million Halloween attractions. But, to those who know the heart-breaking history of this location, it took-on a much different appearance.
Delgado, who said she was extremely disappointed by the fire department's action, had been inviting visitors in to walk the halls where her sons once gasped for air. There were classic Halloween decorations all around, including skeletons and tombstones. But, also, there were children's toys, and photographs.
As curious onlookers expressed dismay and even repugnance at the scene, Delgado said she was paying tribute to her lost boys, and the Halloweens past when they had so much fun. "My kids would have loved this." she said. "There's nothing I can do to bring them back. This is something I need to do."
Here is the write up on the Dreamin' Demon:
http://www.dreamindemon.com/2009/10/...ado/#more-8507
RIALTO, California – On May 29, Mario Cisneros, 5, and his 3-year-old brother, David Cisneros, where at home with their grandmother, grandfather and a 1-year-old cousin when a fire broke out. As they were crawling behind their grandmother to escape the flames, the two boys got lost and ended up in a bathroom. That is where firefighters found them, along with a puppy. All three died. Now the grieving mother, Viviana Delgado, wants to honor the two boys by celebrating Halloween (Halloween reviews) like they did in the past. She opened up the now vacant home as a haunted house attraction. Now you and your family can take a tour through the home and even re-enact the two boy’s last moments by crawling down the hallway into the bathroom where they succumbed to the heat and smoke.
Guys, I am a morbid sumbitch – and I have no idea whatsoever how I would handle the loss of any of my many, many kids across this planet. But Jesus Fucking Christ this is just in really, really bad taste. I can understand honoring the boys on Halloween, but to turn the inside of the home they died into some kind of attraction? If you watch the video, keep an eye out for the 33 second mark when it looks like, among the spooky decorations they added, they have what looks like a young boy crawling on the floor.
But just when I think the story couldn’t get any creepier, I find out that they even adorned the front yard with two tombstones to represent the two boys and then the video shows a horrifying picture that is almost in just as bad taste as this haunted house and just as offensive to my senses.
Anyway, my condolences to the family over the loss of the two boys. Kind of cool that they stuck together like that even though I cannot imagine how scared they must have been. Hopefully their deaths were as painless as possible. Also, grief can do some strange things to people. I am sure we have all seen it, or been through it. I was even on the fence about this one – even though I thought it was in poor taste – until I read they were charging $3 to get in. Then it all just felt very, very wrong.
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